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"The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine."
"The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence."
"Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge."
"Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?"
"Appreciation is the legal tender that all souls enjoy."
"All the things that have ever deeply possessed your soul have been but hints of it, tantalizing glimpses, promises never quite fulfilled, echoes that died away just as they caught your ear. But if it should really become manifest - if there ever came an echo that did not die away but swelled into the sound itself - you would know it. Beyond all possibility of doubt you would say 'Here at last is the thing I was made for.'"
"Any action done with beauty and purity, and in complete harmony of body, mind and soul, is Art."
"There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear."
"As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life."
"Everything on earth is being continuously transformed, because the earth is alive . and it has a soul. We are part of that soul, so we rarely recognize that it is working for us."
"Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives."
"Don't think about what you've left behind... everything is written in the Soul of the World, and there it will stay forever."
"When we both experienced the love that consumes, we shared in the Absolute. The Absolute shows each of us who we really are; it is an enormous web of cause and effect, where every small gesture made by one person affects the life of someone else. This morning, that slice of the Absolute was still very much alive in my soul. I was seeing not only you but everything there is in the world, unlimited by space or time."
"A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress."
"Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul."
"Geometry draws the soul towards truth."
"Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know."
"To cognize the Divine Essence - this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth!"
"The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul."
"Humans have a soul which is their real higher self; a Divine, Mighty, Being."
