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"It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes on from one thought to another, he must necessarily reject the first. But no error can lead to truth. The soul passing through its different stages goes from truth to truth, and each stage is true; it goes from lower truth to higher truth."
"The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. God is within us. He is the Soul of our souls. See Him in your own soul. That is practical religion. That is freedom."
"All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul."
"I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious", and so forth."
"In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings."
"May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls-and, above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship."
"Him I call a Mahatma (great soul) whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he is a Duratma (wicked soul). Let us unite our wills in continued prayer for their good."
"The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other."
"Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change."
"Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute."
"There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul."
"The church is the gym of the soul."
"Without the church it's like having a boat without the rudder. You think you can do it on your own and this may sound pedestrian or trite but I'll equate it to this: all my life I've been involved with exercise but no matter how much - and I know a great deal about the body - you need help. You need a trainer. You need to go to a gym and you need to have the expertise and the guidance of someone else. You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and what the church is. The church is the gym of the soul."
"You cannot train yourself. I feel the same way about Christianity and about what the church is: The church is the gym of the soul."
"It's good for the soul to hear yourself as others hear you, and next time maybe, just maybe, you will not talk so much, so loudly, so brilliantly, so charmingly, so utterly shamelessly foolishly."
"A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior, sensitive soul."
"I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most."
"Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul."
"What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit's cry may be wilder But it has no soul."
"Forge in the smithy of your soul."
