"The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God."
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"It all begins when the soul would have its way with you."
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"Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact."
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"Souls are not saved in bundles."
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"Excite the soul, and the weather and the town and your condition in the world all disappear; the world itself loses its solidity, nothing remains but the soul and the Divine Presence in which it lives."
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"For true worship, only God and the human soul are necessary. It does not depend upon times, or seasons, or occasions. Anywhere and at any time God and person in the bush may meet."
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"The soul is not ruled by time and space. The soul is infinite. It blends with the One in infinity."
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"When we practice dying, we are learning to identify less with Ego and more with Soul"
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"Curiosity is the thirst of the soul."
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"A witch ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest ... because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her."
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"She had spent all her life in feeling miserable; this misery was her native element; its fluctuations, its varying depths, alone save her the impression of moving and living. What bothers me is that a sense of misery, and nothing else, is not enough to make a permanent soul. My enormous and morose Mademoiselle is all right on earth but impossible in eternity."
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"The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure."
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"A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death."
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"A good book is the purest essence of a human soul."
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"Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant and insoluble problem. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison."
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"If you need to visualize the soul, think of it as a cross between a wolf howl, a photon and a dribble of dark molasses. But what it really is, as near as I can tell, is a packet of information. It's a program, a piece of hyperspatial software designed explicitly to interface with the Mystery. Not a mystery, mind you - the Mystery. The one that can never be solved."
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"This is the kind of situation that can tear people apart. It tears at the fabric of your soul and can certainly tear at your marriage and ours has gotten only stronger."
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"In some place in my soul, in a very hidden corner, I am a fanatical Jew. I am very much astonished to discover myself as such in spite of all efforts to be unprejudiced and impartial. What can I do against it at my age?"
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"God created men to test the souls of women."
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"Wander at will, Day after day,-- Wander away, Wandering still-- Soul that canst soar! Body may slumber: Body shall cumber Soul-flight no more."
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