"If you want an enemy, the soul (nafs) is sufficient. If you want advice, death is sufficient."
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"Love is when the soul starts to sing and the flowers of your life bloom on their own."
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"After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven."
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"Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell."
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"Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare."
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"Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes."
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"Intuition is the whisper of the soul."
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"It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul."
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"What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room."
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"It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler."
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"We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul."
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"The child has a different relation to his environment from ours... the child absorbs it. The things he sees are not just remembered; they form part of his soul. He incarnates in himself all in the world about him that his eyes see and his ears hear."
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"As the mother's womb holds us for ten months, making us ready, not for the womb itself, but for life, just so, through our lives, we are making ourselves ready for another birth...Therefore look forward without fear to that appointed hour- the last hour of the body, but not of the soul...That day, which you fear as being the end of all things, is the birthday of your eternity."
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"Surely there can be no greater joy than that of saving souls."
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"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."
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"Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof."
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"Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul."
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"The landscape affects the human psyche - the soul, the body and the innermost contemplations - like music. Every time you feel nature deeper you resonate better with her, finding new elements of balance and freedom."
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"Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul."
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"The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another."
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