"They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence."
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"Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more."
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"How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!"
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"The Universal Soul, as it is called, has an interest in the stacking of hay, the foddering of cattle, and the draining of peat-meadows."
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"The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these things at once and the same time."
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"She who saves a single soul, saves the universe."
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"It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other."
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"(...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul."
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"I’ve often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it’s not where they’re gonna find their sense of completion. Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself, until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself. My soul is not contained within the limits of my body, my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul."
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"Virtue is the health of the soul."
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"I call that man awake who, with conscious knowledge and understanding, can perceive the deep unreasoning powers in his soul, his whole innermost strength, desire and weakness, and knows how to reckon with himself."
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"...and gradually his face assumed the expressions which are so often found among rich people - the expressions of discontent, of sickliness, of displeasure, of idleness, of lovelessness. Slowly the soul sickness of the rich crept over him."
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"Segregation...not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually...It scars the soul...It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than...''You are not equal to...'"
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"The dome of thought, the palace of the soul."
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"No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe."
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"Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!"
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"The face is the soul of the body."
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"Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire."
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"The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly."
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"Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God."
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