"I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppled masonry, and time one livid final flame."
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"She tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing."
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"Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen."
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"Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames."
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"Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame."
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"Use whatever challenge comes into your life as a kind of fuel for the flame of consciousness. That is done through surrender to what is. Some people may need more of that than others. If you choose presence in your daily life you may not need the drastic challenges."
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"Every human being should keep alive within them the sacred flame of madness, but should behave as a normal person."
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"Our flame is taking the normal depleted uranium - the 99.3 percent that's cheap as heck, and there's a pile of it sitting in Paducah, Kentucky that's enough to power the United States for hundreds and hundreds of years. You're taking that and you are converting it to plutonium - and then you're burning that."
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"My poor life This shawl Frayed on strongboxes full of gold I roll along with Dream And smoke And the only flame in the universe"
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"I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e., from some other person."
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"A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement."
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"There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it."
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"For liberalism is a delicate thing. It encompasses so much -- constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of worship, civil rights, free trade -- that we think of it as timeless and universal. But liberalism came into being in a real place and time, like a flame it has wavered in various eras, and it can be snuffed out."
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"Kindle in thy heart the flame of love."
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"Flowers open every night across the sky, a breathing peace, and sudden flame catching."
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"I want to say words that flame as I say them, but I keep quiet and don't try to make both words fit in one mouthful."
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"The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time, life, and death. Can God be outside the Whole? If he exists, necessarily he confounds himself with this Whole...Thus Divinity in Judaism is contained in the exaltation of the entity represented by the Race - passionnel entity, eternal flame, it is the Divine essence. It must be preserved and perpetuated, therefore the idea of pure and impure was created."
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"Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame."
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"What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell."
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"Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life."
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