"The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold...The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes."
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"Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created."
"One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul."
"Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul."
"Love is the Song of the Soul singing to God."
"Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life."
"The soul of the world is nourished by people's Happiness."
"Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it"
"The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul."
"Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world."
"Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul."
"Your soul isn't in your body; your body is in your soul!"
"If I know what's true in my heart and my soul, then what people say can't shape that."
"Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within."
"Spirituality dawns when individuality vanishes. When our ego becomes aware of something that is higher than it - the individual Spirit, or Soul; then spirituality dawns."
"It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls."
"This is what is sad when one contemplates human life, that so many live out their lives in quiet lostness...they live, as it were, away from themselves and vanish like shadows. Their immortal souls are blown away, and they are not disquieted by the question of its immortality, because they are already disintegrated before they die."
"Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving."
"True religion is not talk, or doctrines, or theories, nor is it sectarianism. It is the relation between soul and God. Religion does not consist in erecting temples, or building churches, or attending public worship. It is not to be found in books, or in words, or in lectures, or in organizations. Religion consists in realization. We must realize God, feel God, see God, talk to God. That is religion."
"Every soul becomes gold when touched by the Beloved."