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"We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE."
"Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house."
"This body is a tent which for a space Does the pure soul with kingly presence grace; When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher, Death, Strikes it, and moves to a new halting-place."
"The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them."
"The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world. Either we have hope within us, or we don’t. It is a dimension of the soul It’s not essentially dependent upon some particular observation of the world or estimate of the situation. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."
"If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark."
"What in your life is calling you, When all the noise is silenced, The meetings adjourned... The lists laid aside, And the Wild Iris blooms By itself In the dark forest... What still pulls on your soul?"
"One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul."
"How frequent, how constant ought we to be, like Christ Jesus our example, in doing good, especially to the souls of men and especially to the household of faith (yea, even to our enemies), when we remember that this is our seed time, of which every minute is precious, and that as our sowing is, so shall be our eternal harvest."
"Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul."
"Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it."
"It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale."
"My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole."
"Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a kind of interior androgyny, a hermaphroditism of the soul. The sodomite had been a temporary aberration; the homosexual was now a species."
"...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul."
"Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul."
"Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions."
"Memory is the scribe of the soul."
"On a certain day shall every soul come to plead for itself, and every soul shall be repaid according to its deeds; and they shall not be wronged."
"Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!"
