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"The witness is always in the here and now and it lives in each instant of living. To be in the witness is to listen with a still heart, with a waiting, open soul, without clinging, without opinions."
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"Genuine asceticism for finding one's own soul and for the good of humanity is worthy of reverence."
"History is the siren song of the soul."
"There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be."
"If he failed the first time he took his driver's licence test, it was mainly because he started an argument with the examiner in an ill-timed effort to prove that nothing could be more humiliating to a rational creature than being required to encourage the development of a base conditional reflex by stopping at a red light when there was not an earthly soul around, heeled or wheeled. He was more circumspect the next time, and passed."
"All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might have been assuaged only by our actually imbibing and assimilating every particle of each other's soul and flesh; but there we were, unable even to mate as slum children would have so easily found an opportunity to do so."
"my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame"
"Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little."
"The soul is known by it's acts."
"Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life."
"(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born."
"I considered the British as our natural enemies, and as the only nation on earth who wished us ill from the bottom of their souls. And I am satisfied that were our continent to be swallowed up by the ocean, Great Britain would be in a bonfire from one end to the other."
"If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh."
"Stardom is no longer the fuel of my soul. It is the deeper aspects of life that nurture me. And I realise I am very blessed."
"Witness and stand back from Nature, that is the first step to the soul's freedom."
"War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations."
"I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted several times a day, like a Hare Krishna mantra, to encourage penetration into the soul: Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which, if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again, or perhaps any twig with any property that we would care to call consciousness."
"Worry drains the mind of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul"
"The body cannot be the soul."
