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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
Soul

"Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That's what we're doing and we're using our incarnations as teaching devices."

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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
Soul

"And then the witness, if you go down into the witness, that has the spiritual being. Down there, in your soul, you'll get far more love than you ever got out there."

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Vincent de Paul Saint, Priest
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"Would that God, Monsieur, had rendered us worthy of spending our lives, as Our Lord did, for the salvation of those poor souls so far removed from all assistance."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In fact you're lucky if you just get your soul and yourselves through and intact."

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"Sometimes love burns so hot in your veins that it consumes all rational thought. You become a walking shell that can no longer function without your significant other whispering into your soul, telling your heart to beat."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Soul

"It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Soul

"Then with no throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"The gratification of curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction. Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy, however otherwise insipid, by which it may be quenched."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"There are occasions on which it is noble to dare to stand alone. To be pious among infidels, to be disinterested in a time of general venality, to lead a life of virtue and reason in the midst of sensualists, is a proof of a mind intent on nobler things than the praise or blame of men, of a soul fixed in the contemplation of the highest good, and superiour to the tyranny of custom and example."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
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"In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast."

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Virchand Gandhi Social Reformer
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"According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due to Karmic bondage. As the soul progresses in its morality and spirituality it gets certain powers which may look miraculous."

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Virchand Gandhi Social Reformer
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"On the higher plane the soul is sexless, and those who wish to rise higher than the physical plane must eliminate the idea of sex."

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Virchand Gandhi Social Reformer
Soul

"The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain."

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Virchand Gandhi Social Reformer
Soul

"The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution."

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