"I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life."
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"Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul"
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"The boy reached through to the Soul of the World, and saw that it was part of the Soul of God. And he saw that the Soul of God was his own soul. And that he, a boy, could perform miracles."
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"If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only."
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"You came so that you could learn about your dreams," said the old woman. "And dreams are the language of God. When he speaks in our language, I can interpret what he has said. But if he speaks in the language of the soul, it is only you who can understand."
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"No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul"
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"For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes."
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"No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul"
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"The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily."
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"Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt."
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"Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain."
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"Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned."
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"Neither will the horse be adjudged to be generous, that is sumptuously adorned, but the horse whose nature is illustrious; nor is the man worthy who possesses great wealth, but he whose soul is generous."
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"He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national."
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"Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other."
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"Souls are dangerous things to carry straight through all the spilt saltpetre of this world."
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"The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart."
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"As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you."
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"Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary aspects of your being came from you. But maybe if you just believed that they were on loan to you from some unimaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life to be passed along when you're finished ... it starts to change everything."
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"It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainment."
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