"If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul."
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"I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance, Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought."
"The body is the womb of the soul, a begging bowl for spirit."
"She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium."
"All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light."
"If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken."
"The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable."
"It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one."
"My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it."
"We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth."
"Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature-you are no better than your offender. But if you manifest spiritual strength you are blessed, and the power of your righteous behavior will also help the other person to overcome his misunderstanding."
"The soul of man is immortal and imperishable."
"Music is a spiritual doorway its power comes from the fact that it plugs directly into the soul, unlike a lot of visual art or textual information that has to go through the more filtering processes of the brain."
"To elevate the soul, poetry is necessary."
"truth outlives pain, as the soul does life."
"I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows."
"But, tears were not the things to find their way to Mr. Bumble's soul; his heart was waterproof."
"They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death."
"The kirtana of Madhava has an almost magnetic influence. The mind and heart get totally attracted, then drawn into the inside world where one can meet the soul of the universe. Tune in and you will have a deeply rewarding, spiritual experience."
"The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul"