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"You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul."
"Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life."
"The Russian soul is a dark place."
"The philosopher's soul dwells in his head, the poet's soul is in his heart; the singer's soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body."
"A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul."
"I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself."
"With the power of soul, anything is possible."
"Your soul is the whole world."
"One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul."
"Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force."
"Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body."
"I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening."
"The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things."
"Art sweeps the everyday dust from your soul."
"As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are."
"The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?"
"You had to fight to get into the womb. Not only you but many souls rushed to enter, and the ones that won are you, and you and I. It was not an easy victory."
"The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence."
"If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself."