"False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil."
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"Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down and makes it corporeal, accepting as true whatever the body certifies."
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"The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves."
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"But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light."
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"This scripture [Romans 13:1-6] is wrested from the scope of God's Spirit, and the nature of the place, and cannot truly be interpreted to mean that the power of the civil magistrate may be exercised in spiritual or soul matters."
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"All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue."
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"The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery."
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"Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate."
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"The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game."
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"Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls."
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"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."
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"I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars."
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"Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive."
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"Nothing can nourish the SOUL but LIGHT."
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"Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face."
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"Looking at my life I see that only Love Has been my soul’s companion From deep inside My soul cries out: Do not wait, surrender For the sake of Love."
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"Actually, your soul and mine are the same. We appear and disappear with each other."
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"Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul."
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"Some artists want your money so they can buy Range Rovers and diamond bracelets, but I don't care about that kind of stuff. I want your soul."
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"I don't want the 5 dollars in your pocket, I want your soul"
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