"What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion."
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"I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing."
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"The writer is the engineer of the human soul."
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"As a body everyone is single, as a soul never."
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"The soul does not grow by addition but by subtraction."
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"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."
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"The only initiation which I advocate and which I look for with all the ardor of my Soul, is that by which we are able to enter into the Heart of God within us, and there make an Indissoluble Marriage, which makes us the Friend and Spouse of the Repairer … there is no other way to arrive at this Holy Initiation than for us to delve more and more into the depth of our Soul and to not let go of the prize until we have succeeded in liberating its lively and vivifying origin."
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"You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go."
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"The Bible is to your soul what bread is to your body. You need it daily. One good meal does not suffice for a lifetime."
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"Say as you think and speak it from your souls."
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"Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed."
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"When the Negro learns what manner of man he is spiritually, he will wake up all over. He will stop playing white even on the stage. He will rise in the majesty of his own soul."
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"Whatever the soul knows how to seek, it cannot fail to obtain."
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"It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul."
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"I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!"
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"But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!"
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"The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity."
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"The point is to strip down, get protestant, then even more naked. Walk over scorched bricks to find your own soul. Your heart a searching dog in the rubble."
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"How can the dead be truly dead when they still live in the souls of those who are left behind?"
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"When you suppress your true feelings or follow a path that isn’t really yours, you aren’t living your authentic self. Your soul made a plan for this life before you incarnated, and that plan is your true life purpose. Acting in line with your life purpose is one way to live in the light, another step on the path toward expanded consciousness."
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