"Purity of soul and impurity of body can go together."
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"Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart."
"With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound."
"But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again."
"The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul."
"I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it."
"Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits."
"Love, the supreme musician, is always playing in our souls"
"What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs."
"I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next."
"The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses."
"I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing."
"But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!"
"Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?"
"Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind."
"If you put everything, your heart and soul into a campaign, it might take you a while to come around to the realization that, you know, another person has won."
"We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul."
"But if for the physical life it is necessary to have the child exposed to the vivifying forces of nature, it is also necessary for his psychical life to place the soul of the child in contact with creation."
"A soul is but the last bubble of a long fermentation in the world."
"To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls."