Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Statesman, Founder of Republic
"[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years."
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Veils
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Omar Khayyam
Poet, Mathematician, Astronomer
"There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see."
Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"Virtue has a veil, vice a mask."
Ram Dass
Spiritual Teacher, Author
"The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being."
Virginia Woolf
Novelist
"A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age."
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"All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost."
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"Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn."
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"Fear the pleading prayer of a wronged one, for there is no veil between it and Allah."
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"Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet."
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"People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere."
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"Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil."
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"Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey."
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"In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal."
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"Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God."
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"Take that veil from off of your eyes, look into the future of realize."
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"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."
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"Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them."
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"The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul."
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"There is a veil between the Supermind above and the lower Prakriti below - the veil of ingrained formations. This veil may completely withdraw or be partially withdrawn. Thus even if there is some little opening, with the contact of Light from above the lower nature will get slowly changed."
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"Clouds signify the veil of the Most High."
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"When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was."
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"Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately."
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"I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane."
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"The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades."
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"Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside."
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