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A soul is the spiritual part of a human being

• The spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal. Oxford Dictionary
• Soul, in religion and philosophy, the immaterial aspect or essence of a human being, that which confers individuality and humanity, often considered to be synonymous with the mind or the self. In theology, the soul is further defined as that part of the individual which partakes of divinity and often is considered to survive the death of the body. Encyclopaedia Britannica
• The spiritual part of a person that some people believe continues to exist in some form after their body has died, or the part of a person that is not physical and experiences deep feelings and emotions. Cambridge Dictionary
• The spiritual part of a person that is believed to give life to the body and in many religions is believed to live forever. Merriam Webster
• The principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part. Dictionary.com
• The word Atman (Soul) means the breath of life. Atman is the principle of man’s life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind or intellect. Radhakrishnan
• God,  The body,  The mind,  Body, mind, soul connection,  Transcending the ego

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Your soul is that which gives you being

• Though the soul is not a thing, it is our beingness, that which gives us being. So its presence and absence are visible. Its presence manifests in being awake, attentive, energetic, alive. It is the spark of life. It is absent or dampened when we lack vitality, elan, energy. It is the true self we are seeking in all our explorations, and yet it is not somewhere “out there” but right here now, underneath the false roles we’re always casting ourselves in. Gabrielle Roth
• The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Joseph Campbell
• What is soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light up a room. Ray Charles
• Each individual life is a world by itself, suspending within the realm of possibilities; while the soul is ever its center of gravitation. James Lendall Basford
• The soul is your inner-most being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence. Eckhart Tolle
• Your soul doesn’t care what it does for a living – and when your life is over, neither will you. Your soul cares only about what you’re being while you’re doing whatever you’re doing. It is a state of beingness the soul is after, not a state of doingness. Neale Donald Walsch
• Our soul, our true self, is the most mysterious, essential, and magical dimension of our being. In fact, it is not a separate reality, as traditional Western thought views it, but the cohesive force that unites our body, heart, and mind. It is not a ghost trapped somehow in the physical machinery of our body but the very essence of our being. Gabrielle Roth
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Your soul is the innermost essence of who you are

• The soul is the truth of who we are. Marianne Williamson
• It is not that we have a soul, but that we are a soul. Rachel Naomi Remen
• Our soul, our true self, is the most mysterious, essential, and magical dimension of our being. In fact, it is not a separate reality, as traditional Western thought views it, but the cohesive force that unites our body, heart, and mind. It is not a ghost trapped somehow in the physical machinery of our body but the very essence of our being. Gabrielle Roth
• The authentic self is soul made visible. Sarah Ban Breathnach
• Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are. José Saramago
• The illusion is we are only physical. Vanna Bonta
• You must always learn to see yourself as a great advancing soul. Wallace D. Wattles
• My soul is the essence of who I am. I am a spiritual being. The being I am is Love. That’s why, when I’m being that, I find my greatest joy. I am God and God is Love. I am an aspect of divinity, experiencing my Self. Neale Donald Walsch
• You are a beautiful soul hidden by the trench coat of the ego. Mike Dolan
• Your true essence is your soul, which is external and exists in an ocean of love. Patricia Ord
• If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. Cassandra Clare
• Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds Of high resolve; on fancy’s boldest wing. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. Rhonda Byrne
• Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own. Plato
• Soul shadows you everywhere. Terri Guillemets
• The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. Joe Hill
• Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul. John C. Maxwell
• your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it’s really thinkin’ except you. Alice Childress
• A soul is considered to be something at our core that is single, independent, and unchanging. Narada Tera
• The word Atman (Soul) means the “breath of life”. Atman is the principle of man’s life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind or intellect. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Atman (soul) means ‘eternal self’. The atman refers to the real self beyond ego or false self. It is often referred to as ‘spirit’ or ‘soul’ and indicates our true self or essence which underlies our existence. Professor Gavin Flood
• At the end of your life, you will know that nothing you have done will matter – only who you have been while you have done it. Have you been happy? Have you been kind? Have you been gracious? Have you been compassionate and considerate of others? And most of all, have you been loving? You will see that it is who you have been, not what you have done, that matters to the soul. And you will see that it is your soul, after all, that is Who You Are. Neale Donald Walsch
• Because everything we say and do is the length and shadow of our own souls, our influence is determined by the quality of our being. Dale E. Turner
• We see that the soul is the deepest and the most vital part of the person as a whole. It is often treated as the person, and we actually do this when we talk about “saving our soul. Dallas Willard
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You are a soul, not a body

• You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily. Walter M. Miller Jr
• See yourself as a soul with a body, rather than a body with a soul. Wayne Dyer
• You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. S. Lewis
• I’m not a body with a soul, I’m a soul that has a visible part called the body. Paulo Coelho
• All mysteries of human experience that are eliminated when we understand that we are a great deal more than our body and when you look very deeply at who and what the soul really is, who and what God really is. Neale Donald Walsch
• As you become multi-sensory, you begin to see yourself as a soul first and a personality second. You begin to experience yourself as more than a body and more than a mind. and the circumstances around you as meaningful and designed for your spiritual growth. Gary Zukav
• I am not my body. My body is nothing without me. Tom Stoppard
• I began by being perplexed about my body; and I ended by being anxious about my soul. In short, I wished to know what I was. Adolphe Monod
• It can be shown that an incorporeal and reasonable being has life in itself independently of the body… then it is beyond a doubt bodies are only of secondary importance and arise from time to time to meet the varying conditions of reasonable creatures. Those who require bodies are clothed with them, and contrariwise, when fallen souls have lifted themselves up to better things their bodies are once more annihilated. They are ever vanishing and ever reappearing.Origen
• Souls are poured from one into another of different kinds of bodies of the world. Jesus Christ in Gnostic Gospels: Pistis Sophia
• The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body. Giordano Bruno
• I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes. Anaïs Nin
• My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecilic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul. Robert E. Howard
• Never tell a child, said George Macdonald, you have a soul. Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body. The body is but the temporary clothing of the soul… H.F.A
• One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I’ll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other. Lord Byron
• Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on. RuPaul
• Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse. Marcus Aurelius
• We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience. George Harrison
• You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. Epictetus
• Your soul isn’t in your body; your body is in your soul! Alan Watts
• The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman (soul) who is the real perceiver, the real enjoyer, the being in the body who is working the body by means of the internal organ or the mind. Swami Vivekananda
• Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body is only an inert instrument. And the Atman (soul) within is your real nature. Swami Vivekananda
• The body,-that is dust; the soul,-it is a bud of eternity. Nathaniel Culverwell
• The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body. Giordano Bruno
• In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body. Barbara De Angelis

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The soul is the highest part of you

• For the power of the Holy Ghost seizes the very highest and purest, the spark of the soul, and carries it up in the flame of love… The soul-spark is conveyed aloft into its source and is absorbed into God and is identified with God and is the spiritual light of God. There is in the soul something which is above the soul, Divine, simple, a pure nothing; rather nameless than named, unknown than known… It is absolute and free from all names and all forms, just as God is free and absolute in Himself. It is higher than knowledge, higher than love, higher than grace. For in these there is still distinction. In this power God doth blossom and flourish with all his Godhead and the spirit flourisheth in God. Meister Eckhart
• The finest thing under the sun and moon is the human soul. I marvel at the small miracles of kindness that pass between humans, I marvel at the growth of conscience, at the persistence of reason in the face of all superstition or despair. I marvel at human endurance. Anne Rice
• What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility. Johann Kaspar Lavater
• Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. René Descartes
• With what astonishment and veneration may we look into our own souls, where there are such hidden stores of virtue and knowledge, such inexhaustible sources of perfection. We know not yet what we shall be, nor will it ever enter into the heart to conceive the glory that will be always in reserve for it. Joseph Addison
• You are a Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs. Ruben Darío
• Stand upon the Atman (soul), then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world. Swami Vivekananda
• Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionalities or arbitrary man- made rules that are not founded on principle. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• No one can give a definition of the soul. But we know what it feels like. The soul is the sense of something higher than ourselves, something that stirs in us thoughts, hopes, and aspirations which go out to the world of goodness, truth and beauty. The soul is a burning desire to breathe in this world of light and never to lose it–to remain children of light. Albert Schweitzer
• Humans have a soul which is their real higher self; a Divine, Mighty, Being. Edward Bach
• Whatever we call it – mind, character, soul – we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that animates us. Susanna Kaysen
• The soul at its highest is found like God. Meister Eckhart

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You are a soul having a human experience

• In this world, a spiritual being, the atman (soul), has a human experience rather than a human being having a spiritual experience. Professor Gavin Flood
• The soul—your soul—knows all there is to know all the time. There’s nothing hidden to it, nothing unknown. Yet knowing is not enough. The soul seeks to experience. You can know yourself to be generous, but unless you do something which displays generosity, you have nothing but a concept. You can know yourself to be kind, but unless you do someone a kindness, you have nothing but an idea about yourself. It is your soul’s only desire to turn its grandest concept about itself into its greatest experience. Neale Donald Walsch
• We are spiritual beings having an earthly experience. Susan L. Taylor
• In creating “something else” – namely the realm of the relative – we have produced an environment in which we may choose to be God, rather than simply be told that we are God, in which we may experience our Godness as an act of creation, rather than conceptualisation, in which the little candle in the sun – the littlest soul – can know itself as the light. Neale Donald Walsch
• It is the purpose of your soul to announce and declare, to be and to express, to experience and to fulfil Who You Really Are. And who is that? Whoever you say you are! Your life lived is your declaration. Your choices define you. Every act is an act of self-definition. Neale Donald Walsch
• The soul has come to the physical realm to have a direct experience of itself as an “individuation of divinity. Neale Donald Walsch

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The soul is of great worth and importance and should be treasured and revered

• Each of us comes into this world separately, one by one. This is not an accident. I think it’s the Lord’s way of reminding us of the infinite worth of each soul. Dwan J. Young
• The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Souls are God’s jewels. Thomas Traherne
• Each soul has its own note to sing in the divine chorus and no voice is more important than another. Prem Prakash
• Every single human soul has more meaning and value than the whole of history. Nikolai Berdyaev
• Everyone has his vanity, and each one’s vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul. Fernando Pessoa
• Go and try to save a soul, and you will see how well it is worth saving, how capable it is of the most complete salvation. Not by pondering about it, nor by talking of it, but by saving it, you learn its preciousness. Phillips Brooks
• How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. Oscar Wilde
• Let us duly learn to prize and value our Souls: Is the body such a valuable piece, what then is the Soul? The body is but a husk of shell, the Soul is the kernel; the body is but the cask, the Soul is the precious liquor contained in it; the body is but the cabinet, the Soul is the jewel; the body is but the dwelling, the Soul the inhabitant. Wellins Calcott
• Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own. Plato
• Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit. George Eliot
• One thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep within her there was something better than what everyone else could see. Myla Goldberg
• The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself. Simone Weil
• The soul of the slave, the soul of the little man, is as dear to me as the soul of the great. A. D. Gordon
• The price tag that you put on your soul will determine the people and circumstances in which you find yourself. Shannon L. Alder
• Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. Mary McLeod Bethune
• The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. Daniel Defoe
• Few see beyond the outward appearance And recognize the true worth of a human soul. When they do, miracles occur. Thomas S. Monson
• My soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds. John Flavel
• The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam. John Flavel
• The one thing in the world of value is the active soul. Kathy Eldon
• All the riches of the world are not of sufficient value to redeem one perishing soul. Ellen G. White
• How precious are the souls of men! Joseph Smith, Jr.
• The treasure within,  Reverence

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The soul is not from this world of form

• Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life’s Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting. And cometh from afar. William Wordsworth
• All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. Rumi
• Part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to laws of space and time. Carl Jung
• The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time. Marsilio Ficino
• The soul on earth is an immortal guest. Hannah More
• Your soul is not from the world of form; this explains why the world of form cannot fully satisfy your soul. Sampo Kaasila
• All souls were created in the beginning and are finding their way back to where they came. Edgar Cayce
• My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there. Rumi
• The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it. Muhammad Iqbal
• I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time. Carl Jung

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… for the soul is formless (immaterial)

• A soul. A soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No. Stephen Vincent Benet
• Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter. Swami Vivekananda
• Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. Rhonda Byrne
• Souls (or minds) are thought of as purely non-physical, they can’t be weighed, split in half, heated or cooled, they lack mass, electric charge and so on…but how could they possibly have a cause and effect relationship with bodies that are said to have these, and only these physical properties? Austin Dacey
• What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. What is the soul? It is immaterial. Thomas Hood
• Your soul is not from the world of form; this explains why the world of form cannot fully satisfy your soul. Sampo Kaasila
• The soul is not a physical entity, but instead refers to everything about us that is not physical–our values, memories, identity, sense of humor. Since the soul represents the parts of the human being that are not physical, it cannot get sick, it cannot die, it cannot disappear. In short, the soul is immortal. Rabbi Harold Kushner
• The soul is not bound by the Laws of the material universe. Pulkit Mathur
• But if prophets down the millenniums spake with truth, man is essentially of incorporeal nature. Man is only temporarily allied with sense perception. Parmahansa Yogananda
• Ninety-nine per cent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. Buckminster Fuller

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The soul is an unknowable mystery …

• For it is unknown what is the real nature of the soul, whether it be born with the bodily frame or be infused at the moment of birth, whether it perishes along with us, when death separates the soul and body, or whether it visits the shades of Pluto and bottomless pits, or enters by divine appointment into other animals. Lucretius
• And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again. Robert Browning
• Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is. Voltaire
• The final mystery is oneself… Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul. Oscar Wilde
• The secret and the sacred are sisters. When the secret is not respected, the sacred vanishes. Consequently, reflection should not shine too severe or aggressive a light on the world of the soul. John O’Donohue
• Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don’t know much more about soul than he did. John Templeton
• We are spirits clad in veils. Christopher P. Cranch
• What the soul knows is often unknown to the man who has a soul. We are infinitely more than we think. Khalil Gibran
• Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Everyone can see [the sun’s] body, but no one can see its soul—not that you could see the soul of any other creature, living or dying. Nevertheless, there are good grounds for believing that we are in fact held in the embrace of some such thing though it is totally below the level of our bodily senses, and is perceptible by reason alone. Plato
• What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking. Voltaire
• Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul. Rumi
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… especially the soul of another

• What can you ever really know of other people’s souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him. S. Lewis
• Your soul is an inner something that is another you and hardly anybody knows what it’s really thinkin’ except you. Alice Childress

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The soul is beyond words and concepts

• As for the theorists and thinkers, and the scholastic theologians, with their talk about the soul and its properties, none of them have grasped the Reality; such speculation can never grasp it. Ibn ‘Arabi
• As the Godhead is nameless, and all naming is alien to Him, so also the soul is nameless ; for it is here the same as God. Eckhart
• Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common. Oswald Spengler

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The soul is divine

• Whatever we are, whatever we may have done, there is in each of us an inalienable Self that is divine. Eknath Easwaran
• Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own. Plato
• You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was. Anthon St. Maarten
• Each soul is divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within, by controlling nature; external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or philosophy – by one, or more, and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, rituals or books, are but secondary details. Swami Vivekananda
• We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Souls are unique, individualised portions of the ultimate reality, of the unbounded or divine awareness that God IS. Peter Wilberg
• Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Centre, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Thomas Raymond Kelly
• All men’s souls are immortal, but those of the righteous are both immortal and divine. Socrates
• O little souls! as pure as white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul of mine! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World’s Soul into all of us. Terence McKenna
• The spirit is akin to, or even identical with, the divine Spirit that is the Ground of all being. Aldous Huxley
• To cognize the Divine Essence – this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth! Pythagoras
• Each one of us is Divine. We’ve come from a great Divine source. We are each of us a spark of the Divine. That spark could not demonstrate itself at the dense, physical level, so it reflects itself at the soul level. Benjamin Crème
• We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains. Tom Robbins

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The soul contains great power

• The living soul of man, once conscious of its power, cannot be quelled. Horace Mann
• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand Foch
• Trust in thine own untried capacity As thou wouldst trust in God himself. Thy soul Is but an emanation from the whole. Thou dost not dream what forces lie in thee, Vast and unfathomed as the grandest sea. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it, let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room. Ray Charles
• Everyday we add to our knowledge of the power of Atman (soul) and we shall keep on doing so. Mahatma Gandhi
• Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even. Muhammad Ali
• The soul, in its power, is present in some way in the entire universe. Giordano Bruno
• Creating authentic power means aligning your personality with your soul. Gary Zukav
• The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions. Mahatma Gandhi
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The soul is pure consciousness …

• And for me anyway, consciousness is three components: a personal component which for lack of a better word we can call the soul. A collective component which is more archetypal and a deeper level, and then a universal domain of consciousness. Deepak Chopra
• Atman (the soul) is an eternal, omnipresent, inherently active essence that is identified as I-consciousness. PT Raju
• In the Soul is the awaking of Consciousness: Consciousness sets itself up as Reason, awaking at one bound to the sense of its rationality: and this Reason by its activity emancipates itself to objectivity and the consciousness of its intelligent unity. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• The soul is your inner-most being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence. Eckhart Tolle
• Maya is a cosmic hypnosis that veils the Singular Reality and imposes the suggestions of manifestation. The cosmic consciousness of the One Perceiver, experiencing these transformations of maya, becomes correspondingly individualized as many souls. The soul, experiencing and interacting with the workings and manifestations of cosmic maya, has its own identity, or avidya, individual delusion, and thereby becomes the body-identified ego. Like its essence, Spirit, the soul is ever pure and unchanged. But when expressing outwardly, it is subject to the laws, or principles, of manifestation. Attuned to the divine intelligence of the indwelling soul, the resultant being is pure, noble, and wise. But the more the consciousness yields to the tangled interworkings of Nature operating through the sensory mind, the more limited and deluded the ego becomes. But even if it sinks to the depths of ignorance and evil, the consciousness never loses its divine soul potential. Eventually, the inner magnetism of Spirit will cause that individualized consciousness to seek the way to ascension through the choice of right action that links it to the uplifting divine power inherent in Nature’s laws. Paramahansa Yogananda
• The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing. Radhakrishnan
• The Self is the witness, beyond all attributes, beyond action. It can be directly realized as pure Consciousness and infinite bliss. Its appearance as an individual soul is caused by the delusion of our understanding, and has no reality. By -its very nature, this appearance is unreal. When our delusion has been removed, it ceases to exist. Adi Shankara
• The soul is a living, dynamic part of each person. It exists as consciousness and therefore must be found in consciousness. Deepak Chopra
• There is no soul; there is only consciousness, the highest thing man ever has! Mehmet Murat Ildan
• Our souls being a part of this immense ocean of consciousness therefore remain unbounded by the conditions of matter. Their very essence is freedom. Pulkit Mathur
• The soul is the principle of life, and it’s also something much closer to our own awareness and consciousness of our existence because fundamentally for Plotinus what we are is souls, we’re not intellects. Peter Adamson
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… pure awareness

• Soul is the fundamental feeling character of awareness. Souls are unique, individualised portions of the ultimate reality, of the unbounded or divine awareness that God IS. Peter Wilberg
• You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. You must know what you are feeling. If you don’t know what you are feeling, you will create unconsciously. If you are unconscious of an aspect of yourself; if it operates outside your field of awareness, that aspect has power over you. Gary Zukav
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The soul is a perceiver

• He who sees that all actions are performed in their entirety by Prakriti alone, and not by the Self (soul), is indeed a beholder of truth. The Bhagavad Gita XIII:29
• The true seer perceives his soul as the silent witness, aloof from the body—the microcosm created by the cosmic vibratory force, Prakriti or Mother Nature. She alone is the performer of all physical and mental activities. The soul is actionless, the reflection of the transcendental, nonvibrational God the Father beyond creation. Paramahansa Yogananda
• No, my soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence. Antonio Machado
• It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• The seer (soul) is the absolute knower.  Yogasutra
• Within itself the soul sees all things more truly than as they exist in different things outside itself. And the more it goes out unto other things in order to know them, the more it enters into itself in order to know itself. Nicholas of Cusa
• The soul is the perceiver and the revealer of truth. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds. Han Suyin
• The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty. Nikos Kazantzakis
• My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence. Antonio Machado
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The soul is unique

• The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost. Arthur Schopenhauer
• It is only to the individual that a soul is given. Albert Einstein
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The soul is complete

• Each soul on earth is complete unto itself. Mark Nepo
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The soul is a sanctuary

• Deep within us all there is an amazing inner sanctuary of the soul, a holy place, a Divine Centre, a speaking voice, to which we may continuously return. Eternity is at our hearts, pressing upon our time-torn lives, warming us with intimations of an astounding destiny, calling us home unto itself. Thomas Raymond Kelly

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The soul is vast …

• Soul is a vast realm, a gigantic world, whose immensity challenges all measurement and the mighty reach of gravity. James Lendall Basford

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… with unfathomable depth

• There are depths to the human soul that should not be fathomed. Ann Rinaldi
• The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. William Wordsworth
• The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth. Victor Hugo
• The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul! Henry Ward Beecher
• We rarely find a depth by looking inside of ourselves for it. Depth is found in what we can learn from the people and things around us. Everyone, everything, has a story, Gia. When you learn those stories, you learn experiences that fill you up, that expand your understanding. You add layers to your soul. Kasie West
• I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Langston Hughes
• Within the human soul lie depths as deep As ever slept within the ocean’s breast, And heights that rise beyond the breaker’s crest In the vain wish to pass their narrow bound. Martha Lavinia Hoffman

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The soul is infinite …

• The Soul appears to be finite because of ignorance. When ignorance is destroyed the Self which does not admit of any multiplicity truly reveals itself by itself: like the Sun when the clouds pass away. Adi Shankara
• The soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite. Stefan Zweig
• The soul of man is infinite in what it covets. Ben Jonson
• The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed center. Hartley Coleridge
• There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself–Finite infinity. Emily Dickinson
• There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past. Henry Ward Beecher
• There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul. Victor Hugo
• We are like droplets of water in an ocean of consciousness; individual to an extent, but those droplets together make up the ocean — without the droplets there is no ocean. It is the same with this infinite energy mind we call creation/god. We are not part of that infinity — we are that infinity if we open ourselves up to reconnect with it. Wherever you stand in infinity, you are at the center of infinity. So everything that exists is everything that exists. I am everything that exists; and so are you — the more you realize that, the more you open up to the full infinity of who you are. David Icke
• Doesn’t it seem to you,” asked Madame Bovary, “that the mind moves more freely in the presence of that boundless expanse, that the sight of it elevates the soul and gives rise to thoughts of the infinite and the ideal? Gustave Flaubert
• The revealment of the infinite in the finite, which is the motive of all creation, is not seen in its perfection in the starry heavens, in the beauty of the flowers. It is in the soul of man. Rabindranath Tagore

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… and unlimited like the sky

• You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go. Heraclitus
• You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul. Heraclitus
• I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky. Shannon Hale
• The soul of man was made to walk the skies. Edward Young
• The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles. Rumi
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All souls have a hint of madness

• It is a proven fact that everyone on this earth has some bit of madness within their soul. I am no exception, and neither are you. Matthew Hunt
• No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. Aristotle
• What is madness but nobility of soul. Theodore Roethke
• Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention. Plato
• But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad. Joseph Conrad
• What is madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance? Theodore Roethke
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The soul can become coloured with its thoughts, feelings and actions

• The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. Marcus Aurelius
• The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours. William Ralph Inge
• The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these – that where a man can live, there – if he will – he can also live well. Marcus Aurelius
• You can paint your soul with any medium. Jeet Aulakh
• Your manners will depend very much upon the quality of what you frequently think on; for the soul is as it were tinged with the colour and complexion of thought. Marcus Aurelius
• A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood-pressure. Henri Matisse
• The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. Claude Debussy
• The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny … it is the light that guides your way. Heraclitus
• Every soul has a landscape that changes with the wind that sweeps the sky, with the clouds that return after its rain. George MacDonald
• Emotions are the colors of the soul. William P. Young
• The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master. Anne Sophie Swetchine
• Every action alters the soul of the doer. Oswald Spengler
• Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. Thomas Merton
• Action,  Thinking,  Emotion

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The essence of the soul is freedom

• Freedom is the oxygen of the soul. Moshe Dayan
• Liberated souls are a rare commodity in this world. They are no better; it’s just you, a little later, in the next act or in the next play. Frederick Lenz
• The Divine Plan is one of Freedom. The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul. Ernest Holmes
• The free soul is rare but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good when you are near or with them. Charles Bukowski
• Man as Atman (soul) is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition. Swami Vivekananda
• Freedom is not the goal of the human soul, but its very nature. By nature the soul is free. Lack of freedom is, therefore, a violation of the very nature of the soul. Neale Donald Walsch
• Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty. Joseph Joubert
• The inherent nature of man is ever seeking to express itself in terms of freedom, because freedom is the birthright of every living soul. Ernest Holmes
• The journey to personal freedom can only be achieved if you listen to the voice of your soul. Micheal Teal
• When you experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power… Your true Self, which is your spirit, your soul, is completely free of those things. It is immune to criticism, it is unfearful of any challenge, and it feels beneath no one. Deepak Chopra
• When, within our souls and psyches we are made aware of a safe but insistent drum beat, repeated like butterfly wings in motion, we sense the message…that our inner self has begun its search for freedom. Mary Meeker
• Our souls being a part of this immense ocean of consciousness therefore remain unbounded by the conditions of matter. Their very essence is freedom. Pulkit Mathur
• Liberty is a soul’s right to breathe. Matt Damon
• The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness. Frederick Douglass
• You do not need to seek freedom in some distant land, for it exists within your own body, heart, mind, and soul. K.S. Iyengar
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The soul us unchanging …

• There is a permanent soul, existing behind the flux of experience. Aldous Huxley
• I fell in love with his unchanging soul. Claudia Gray
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… and permanent

• You could not in your travels find the source or destination of the soul, so deeply hidden is the Logos. [But] I searched for It [and found It] within myself. That hidden Unity is beyond what is visible. All men have this capacity of knowing themselves, [for] the soul has the Logos within it, which can be known when the soul is evolved. What is within us remains the same eternally; It is the same in life and death, waking and sleeping, youth and old age; for, It has become this world, and the world must return to It. Heraclitus
• There is a permanent soul, existing behind the flux of experience. Aldous Huxley
• Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. Robert Browning
• The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change. Mata Amritanandamayi

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The soul is abundant

• Abundance is a state of mind, but when felt within our hearts; we open the door to receive the gifts of heaven. Abundance is our Soul’s natural state, and the only thing that stops its flow is our beliefs. When we accept that we are worthy of all the wonderful things in heaven and earth, we open the door for their arrival. Carolyn Greenleaf
• Abundance

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The soul is hospitable

• The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality. George Eliot
• Hospitality

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The soul can become restless

• Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun’s melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him. Hermann Hesse
• Fame lulls the fever of the soul, and makes Us feel that we have grasp’d an immortality. Joaquin Miller
• Fanaticism is the only way to put an end to the doubts that constantly trouble the human soul. Paulo Coelho
• There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul. Walter Savage Landor
• When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound. Teresa of Avila
• A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden. Somerset Maugham

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The soul can be full of longing and desire

• A man’s soul is pierced as it were with holes, and as his longings flow through each they are transmuted into something specific. Eric Hoffer
• Every age hath its own problem, and every soul its particular aspiration. Bahá’u’lláh
• God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best. Robert Collyer
• If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C. S. Lewis
• Once the soul awakens, the search begins and you can never go back. From then on, you are inflamed with a special longing that will never again let you linger in the lowlands of complacency and partial fulfillment. The eternal makes you urgent. You are loath to let compromise, or the threat of danger hold you back from striving toward the summit of fulfilment. John O’Donohue
• One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen. John O’Donohue
• The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. Bible, Proverbs 13:19
• The human soul is like a bird that is born in a cage. Nothing can deprive it of its natural longings, or obliterate the mysterious remembrance of its heritage. Epes Sargent
• The incoming may still my heart’s weeping, but only that which I send forth will still the deeper cry of my soul. Muriel Strode
• There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you? Rumi
• What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death. Saul Bellow
• Desires are central to the soul’s unfolding and should not be dismissed before giving them careful attention. Thomas Moore
• God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy. Henry Ward Beecher
• I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings. Helen Keller
• The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Albert Einstein
• If all hearts were open and all desires known — as they would be if people showed their souls — how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place! Thomas Hardy
• It would be helpful if the universe would give us one big clue, or a giant compass, if you will, pointing to the direction we should be taking. In fact, the compass is there. To find it, you need only look inside yourself to discover your soul’s purest desire, its dream for your life. Deepak Chopra
• Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. Rebecca West
• My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecilic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul. Robert E. Howard
• My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing – where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do. Phillip Brooks
• There is a yearning that is as spiritual as it is sensual. Even when it degenerates into addiction, there is something salvageable from the original impulse that can only be described as sacred. Something in the person (dare we call it a soul?) wants to be free, and it seeks its freedom any way it can. … There is a drive for transcendence that is implicit in even the most sensual of desires. Mark Epstein
• There is one great truth on this planet: whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth. Paulo Coelho
• We are desire. It is the essence of the human Soul, the secret of our existence. Absolutely nothing of human greatness is ever accomplished without it. Not a symphony has been written, a mountain climbed, an injustice fought, or a love sustained apart from desire. Desire fuels our search for the life we prize. John Elderidge
• When you believe, or are led to believe, you are unable to act upon the greatest desires of the soul, the result is mental and spiritual enslavement. Iyanla Vanzant
• Your soul’s desire are with you at birth like a hidden treasure chest of possibilities for you to discover as you grow and evolve into the person you were meant to be. Give voice to what you long for in the deepest place in your heart. Debbie Ford
• Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth. Paulo Coelho
• The desire of love, Joy: The desire of life, Peace: The desire of the soul, Heaven: The desire of God … a flame-white secret forever. William Sharp
• Attachments stir the soul, ignite the emotions. Guard what moves you, reserving that for the truth. Suhaib Webb
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… especially longing for God

• Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God. Evelyn Underhill
• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Mahatma Gandhi
• Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. James Montgomery
• God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul. Jean Paul Richter
• Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents. The soul’s inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them. Henry Ward Beecher
• Unless you have found God in your own soul, the whole world will seem meaningless to you. Rabindranath Tagore
• Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength. Aldous Huxley
• An immortal soul, from its very nature, cannot find what it needs anywhere except in God Himself. True religion begins in the heart. It is not a mere set of rules to be obeyed-an example to be copied. It is Christ coming into the heart and dwelling there. J.R. Miller

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The soul is the priestess of memory

• Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence. John O’Donohue
• Memory is the personal journalism of the soul. Richard Schickel
• I use everything that I pick up in my memory, and everything that vibrates in my soul. Eleanora Duse
• Your heart knows. Your soul remembers. Colleen Houck
• Anything worth knowing is already known and must be remembered and reclaimed by the soul. Plato
• Memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away. Oscar Wilde
• Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life. Tove Ditlevsen
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The soul never grows old

• The soul never ages. My soul dances without my feet. I am the music. Alev Oguz
• The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. Oscar Wilde
• The soul never grows old. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Ah, he murmured, “it was ever my prayer, ‘Lord, let me grow old in body, but let my soul stay young; let my voice quaver and falter, but never my hope.’ And this is how I end.” Israel Zangwill
• As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young. Henry Ward Beecher
• You are as young as you feel. If you begin to feel the warmth of your soul, there will be a youthfulness in you that no one will be able to take away from you. John O’Donohue
• At some point, sometimes in our twenties, sometimes our thirties, most often the forties. . . we begin at last to let the soul lead. The power shifts away from brickabrack and frick-frack to soulfulness. And though the soul does not assume the lead by killing off the ego, the ego is demoted, one might say, and given a different assignment in the psyche, which is essentially to submit to the concerns of the soul. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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The soul is immortal …

• All men’s souls are immortal, but those of the righteous are both immortal and divine. Socrates
• Even the lowest of the low have the Atman (Soul) inside, which never dies and never is born, immortal, without beginning or end, the all pure, omnipotent and omnipresent Atman! Swami Vivekananda
• Everything science has taught me strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal. Werner Von Braun
• Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies? Plato
• I believe … that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this. Benjamin Franklin
• If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state. John Tillotson
• No matter what happens around us, or to us, through love, our soul reaches immortality, conquering all dimensions and all destinies. Akiane Kramarik
• Talking to a peasant one day, I suggested to him the hypothesis that there might indeed be a God who governs heaven and earth, a Consciousness or Conscience of the Universe, but that even so it would not be sufficient reason to assume that the soul of every man was immortal in the traditional and concrete sense. And he replied, Then what good is God? Miguel de Unamuno
• That I may have an immortal soul, is irrelevant. That I have a mortal one, is vital. Muriel Strode
• The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it. Blaise Pascal
• The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which exists substantially, necessarily, invariably, that is to say towards God. Henri-Frederic Amiel
• The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. Plato
• The soul on earth is an immortal guest. Hannah More
• What is a day to an immortal soul! A breath, no more. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
• In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn’t it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul? Wernher von Braun
• I believe in the immortality of the soul because I have within me immortal longings. Helen Keller
• I believe that humans will not merely endure: they will prevail. They are immortal, not because they alone among creatures have an inexhaustible voice, but because they have souls, spirits capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. William Faulkner
• It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; ’tis rather an embryo state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals? Benjamin Franklin
• We are so identified with this present life and its travails that it seems to us we are mortal; but only the body is mortal. Our real self, the soul, is immortal. We may sleep for a little while in that change called death, but we can never be destroyed. We exist, and that existence is eternal. The wave comes to the shore, and then goes back to the sea; it is not lost. It becomes one with the ocean, or returns again in the form of another wave. This body has come, and it will vanish; but the soul essence within it will never cease to exist. Nothing can terminate that eternal consciousness. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Every thing here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within. When shall we awake to the sublime greatness, the perils, the accountableness, and the glorious destinies of the immortal soul? William Ellery Channing
• Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life. Our soul thinks of Immortality. Sri Chinmoy

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… eternal …

• ‘This Self [Soul] is never born nor does it ever perish; nor having come into existence will it again cease to be. It is birthless, eternal, changeless, ever-same (unaffected by the usual processes associated with time). It is not slain when the body is killed.’ (The Gita II:20)
• I have maintained this and I still maintain that I already possess all that is granted to me in eternity. For God in the fullness of his Godhead dwells eternally in his image-the soul. Meister Eckhart
• No weapon can pierce the soul; no fire can bum it; no water can moisten it; nor can any wind wither it. The soul is uncleavable [indivisible]; it cannot be burnt or wetted or dried. The soul is immutable, all-permeating, ever calm, and immovable— eternally the same. The soul is said to be imponderable, unmanifested, and unchangeable. Therefore, knowing it to be such, thou shouldst not lament! The Bhagavad Gita II:23-25
• Our self (Soul), as a form of God’s joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the life of a Soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite. Rabindranath Tagore
• The Atman (soul) alone is eternal. Hospitals will tumble down. Railroad givers will all die. This earth will be blown to pieces, suns wiped out. The Atman endures for ever. Swami Vivekananda
• The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone… Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain. Emerson quoting Katha Upanisad
• This private multidimensional self, or the soul, has… an eternal validity. It is upheld, supported, maintained by the energy, the inconceivable vitality, of All That Is. Jane Roberts
• This Self is never born nor does it ever perish; nor having come into existence will it again cease to be. It is birthless, eternal, changeless, ever-same (unaffected by the usual processes associated with time). It is not slain when the body is killed. The Bhagavad Gita II:20
• What of the souls already released from their bodies? We believe that they are overwhelmed in that vast sea of eternal light and of luminous eternity. Bernard of Clairvaux
• Without birth or death, eternal, ever-existing, free, unchangeable and beyond all conditions is this Soul of man – the real Self of Man – the Atman (soul). Swami Vivekananda
• No matter how many leaves would the tree of your soul have in front of the intense heat in the words of Time in this world, they can never shade the eternity lost inside you. Sorin Cerin
• The body,-that is dust; the soul,-it is a bud of eternity. Nathaniel Culverwell
• You weren’t put on earth to be remembered. You were put here to prepare for eternity. Rick Warren
• The wise soul feareth not death; rather she sometimes striveth for death, she goeth beyond to meet her. Yet eternity maintaineth her substance throughout time, immensity throughout space, universal form throughout motion. Giordano Bruno

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… imperishable and indestructible

• Atman, Soul or the Self, dwells in all that is perishable, yet it remains imperishable. Rama Swami
• The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. Plato
• The Bhagavad Gita emphasizes the following qualities of the Self (soul): It is unborn, though born in a body; it is eternal, though its bodily dwelling is impermanent; it is changeless, though it may experience change; it is ever the same, though in the long pathway of reincarnation which ultimately leads to God, the soul appears in countless forms; the soul is not slain when the body dies; and even when the soul returns to Spirit, it does not lose its identity, but will exist unto everlastingness. Paramahansa Yogananda
• For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath. Alice Miller
• The soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity. It is like the sun, which, to our eyes, seems to set at night; but it has in reality only gone to diffuse its light elsewhere. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The first step in getting strength is to believe that I am the Soul. Me the sword cannot cut; no instruments pierce; me the fire cannot burn; me the air cannot dry; I am the Omnipotent, I am the Omniscient. Repeat these blessed saving words of the Upanishads. Swami Vivekananda
• The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die. Justin Cronin

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The death of the body is not the death of the soul

• Ah, the souls of those that die are but sunbeams lifted higher. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Death was a beginning and not an end; it was the morning of the spirit. Tired bodies lay down to sleep and their souls wakened to the morning, rested; the first fruits of them that slept. Mary Roberts Rinehart
• Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, The mighty soul how small a body holds. John Dryden
• If you die, you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. Kurt Cobain
• I sing the progress of a deathless soul. John Donne
• Whatever it is that occurs at death, I believe it deserves to be called a miracle. The miracle, ironically, is that we don’t die. The cessation of the body is an illusion, and like a magician sweeping aside a curtain, the soul reveals what lies beyond. Deepak Chopra
• The Sanskrit word for the soul is Atman, which means the “breath of life”. The soul is the differentiating element which separates dead and dull matter from life. The soul is what exists when the body dies. Pulkit Mathur
• Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul. Juliette Adam
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The soul lives on

• He who sees his soul is more than his life does not confuse the two. Gary Zukav
• Is that all souls are for? For when we die? No. They’re for living, too. Laini Taylor
• I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence. Socrates
• Unless our souls had root in soil divine We could not bear earth’s overwhelming strife. The fiercest pain that racks this heart of mine, Convinces me of everlasting life. Stefan Zweig
• Truth outlives pain, as the soul does life. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Death is simply the soul’s change of residence. Eliza Cook
• For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided. William Batchelder Greene
• The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing. William Law
• Your soul existed before your birth, your soul will exist after your death. Peter Adamson
• Death is the Graduation of the Soul. Sylvia Browne
• We recognise that Soul is eternal; It has no beginning or ending. Therefore, when a person leaves his physical body, he continues to exist, usually on a higher plane of consciousness. Harold Klemp

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The soul is never born and never dies

• Life and death are only different names for the same fact. Both are an illusion. Beyond this lies our true nature, the Soul that is never born, which never dies, never changes and never goes or comes. Swami Vivekananda
• There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive. Isaac Bashevis Singer
• The soul never dies and the body is never really alive. Isaac Bashevis Singer

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The soul should contemplate death in order to prepare for life after it

• What if, instead of being afraid of even talking about death, we saw our lives in some ways as preparation for it. What if we were taught to ponder it and reflect on it and talk about it and enter it and rehearse it and try it on? What if, rather than being cast out and defined by some terminal category, you were identified as someone in the middle of a transformation that could deepen your soul, open your heart, and all the while-even if and particularly when you were dying-you would be supported by and be part of a community? Eve Ensler
• There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook; from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond; but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows. Henry Ward Beecher
• Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter. Marcus Aurelius
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Some believe the fate of the soul after death depends on what happens during life

• The soul’s vitality after death is proportionate to its vitality before death. Austin O’Malley
• The saddest of all failures is that of a soul, with its capabilities and possibilities, failing of life everlasting, and entering upon that night of death upon which morning never dawns. Herrick Johnson

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Some believe the soul goes to heaven or hell

• I have held and hold souls to be immortal…. Speaking as a Catholic, they do not pass from body to body, but go to paradise, purgatory or hell. Giordano Bruno
• My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness. Michelangelo
• You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin. Henry Ward Beecher
• Adversity calls forth the soul’s courage to bear unflinchingly whatever Heaven sends. Euripedes
• Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven. Anne Rice
• You must receive something of heaven into the soul, before the soul can be received into heaven. John Thornton
• Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul. Henry Ward Beecher
• Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave. Christian Nestell Bovee
• If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being. H. Auden
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Others believe the soul is reincarnated and lives many lives…

• I believe we are reincarnated. You, I, we reincarnate over and over. We live many lives, and store up much experience. Some are older souls than others and so they know more. It seems to be an intuitive gift. It is really hard-won experience. Henry Ford
• Death is the means by which dream matter changes back into the consciousness of God, releasing the soul within it for the next step in its progressive return journey to God. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Only one who denies that the soul lives on can deny reincarnation. For the rest … it must be considered. Edward Reaugh Smith
• The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal.” “It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Nothing is dead; men feign themselves dead, and endure mock funerals… and there they stand looking out of the window, sound and well, in some strange new disguise. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Reincarnation: The rebirth of a soul in another body. Oxford Dictionary
• The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body. Giordano Bruno
• When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body. Paul Gauguin
• The Celts were fearless warriors because “they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become extinct, but pass after death from one body to another… Julius Caesar
• Reincarnation is the evolution of spirit through matter. Over thousands and millions of lifetimes, the soul evolves. It comes into the light. The growth is slow. Dr. Frederick Lenz
• The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God. Annie Besant
• The souls must re-enter the absolute substance whence they have emerged. But to accomplish this, they must develop all the perfections, the germ of which is planted in them; and if they have not fulfilled this condition during one life, they must commence another, a third, and so forth, until they have acquired the condition which fits them for reunion with God. Zohar
• Reincarnation is essential to enable the soul to evolve to its Divine right. F. Goudey
• I hold that when a person dies / His soul returns again to earth; / Arrayed in some new flesh disguise / Another mother gives him birth / With sturdier limbs and brighter brain. John Masefield
• I think immortality is the passing of a soul through many lives or experiences, and such as are truly lived, used and learned, help on to the next, each growing richer, happier and higher, carrying with it only the real memories of what has gone before. Louisa May Alcott
• Maybe love at first sight isn’t what we think it is. Maybe it’s recognising a soul we loved in a past life and falling in love with them again. Kamand Kojouri
• The understanding of the self (soul) as eternal supports the idea of reincarnation in that the same eternal being can inhabit temporary bodies. Professor Gavin Flood
• The soul wears a different body in each of many lifetimes until, through reincarnation and spiritual evolution, it ascends back to Spirit. Thus you live only once as any particular person, but the soul, the eternal you, lives through numerous reincarnations, carrying with it the cumulative personality and karmic tendencies of its past existences. Paramahansa Yogananda
• My Soul lives many lives. Each life a thought, each thought a life. I am but Thought. Edwin Leibfreed
• We are individualized aspects of that oversoul, and the individualized soul – yours and mine and everyone else’s on the planet – incarnates over and over and over again in a physical body, emotional astral body and mental body. These three bodies are temporary bodies that the soul creates and uses for a given time, long or short. Benjamin Creme
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…. until the soul is evolved enough to unite with God

• At death the soul leaves the physical body. But the soul does not die. It lives on in a subtle body called the astral body. The astral body exists in the nonphysical dimension called the astral plane, which is also the world we are in during our dreams at night when we sleep. Here we continue to have experiences until we are reborn again in another physical body as a baby. Each reincarnating soul chooses a home and a family which can best fulfil its next step of learning and maturation. After many lifetimes of following dharma, the soul is fully matured in love, wisdom and knowledge of God. There is no longer a need for physical birth, for all lessons have been learned, all karmas fulfilled. That soul is then liberated, freed from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth. Evolution then continues in the more refined spiritual worlds. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Yes, we believe the soul is immortal and takes birth time and time again. Through this process, we have experiences, learn lessons and evolve spiritually. Finally we graduate from physical birth. Paramahansa Yogananda
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It is wonderful when a soul reveals itself

• In a world where everyone wears a mask, it’s a privilege to see a soul.

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Love reveals the soul

• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston
• The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul. John Welwood
• I believe that the measure of my soul is my capacity to love imperfect people. Joseph Grenny
• Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. Paulo Coelho
• Love lays bare your soul. Mary Lydon Simonsen
• The greater the man’s soul, the deeper he loves. Leonardo da Vinci
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Our dreams reveal the soul

• A dream is a microscope through which we look at the hidden occurrences in our soul. Erich Fromm
• Dreams are illustrations… from the book your soul is writing about you. Marsha Norman
• They say dreams are the windows of the soul–take a peek and you can see the inner workings, the nuts and bolts. Henry Bromel
• Dreams are whispers from your soul. Marcia Wieder
• The soul is silent. If it speaks at all it speaks in dreams. Louise Glück
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Beauty reveals the soul

• Beauty is the illumination of your soul. John O’Donohue
• Beauty is the reflection of the magic inside your soul. Vanessa Hernandez
• Nobody should be judged on their looks. Beauty is not found on the body but in the soul. Danyon Guthrie-Lewis
• The beauty of the soul is shown in the face. Tamil proverb
• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. Aristotle
• True beauty is a ray that springs from the sacred depths of the soul. Rumi
• When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple. Pythagoras
• What does my soul look like to you?’ ‘I couldn’t reduce it to words if I tried, but its beauty is unsurpassed. Lauren Kate
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Action reveals the soul

• The soul has no secret that the behavior does not reveal. Lao Tzu
• The soul is known by its acts. St Thomas Aquinas
• Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul’s weather to all who can read it. Martha Graham
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Our speech reveals the soul

• Speech is the mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he. Publilius Syrus
• The soul…is audible, not visible. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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The state of the body reveals the state of the soul

• If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul. Leonardo da Vinci
• The diverse states of the soul are always correlative with those of the body. Julien Offray de La Mettrie
• The human body is the best picture of the human soul. Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Death reveals the soul

• Death is a great revealer of what is in a man, and in its solemn shadow appear the naked lineaments of the soul. E. H. Chapin
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Art reveals the soul

• Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all. Leo Tolstoy
• Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul. George Bernard Shaw
• Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul. El Greco
• Life beats down and crushes the soul. Art reminds you that you have one. Stella Adler
• The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music. Margaret Fuller
• The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies. Kate Chopin
• You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul. George Bernard Shaw
• Art is an articulator of the soul’s uncensored purpose and deepest will. Shaun McNiff
• An artist reveals his naked soul in his work. Ayn Rand
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Our eyes reveal the soul

• And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes. John Milton
• But his eyes speak, though his lips are silent. And they prowl around me, and they envelop me, and they descend into me, into my very depths, in order to turn my soul inside out and see what is in it. ~Octave Mirbeau
• All our souls are written in our eyes. Edmond Rostand
• Everything that we think comes across in our eyes. Our eyes really are the windows to our souls. Jennifer Lawrence
• The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. Cicero
• The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard. Hosea Ballou
• The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter – in the eye. Charlotte Brontë
• Your eyes show the strength of your soul. Paulo Coelho
• We had to be able to animate them so that they felt like flesh and blood, but most importantly you had to believe that they had souls behind their eyes. Lee Unrich
• The eyes are the mirror of the soul. Yiddish Proverb
• The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze. Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
• They say that all the thoughts of all one’s incarnations are reflected in the eyes. The eyes reveal the whole story of the soul, not only of this life but of past lives. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Windows are the eyes of the soulless. Thomas Ligotti
• I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul. Max Beerbohm
• Looks can’t hide your true identity. It’s the eyes that give you away…the soul behind them. The intent. The Shadows. Vicki Pettersson
• The eyes are the window to where the soul is supposed to be. Tina Fey

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Old age sometimes reveals the soul

• Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally. Ram Dass

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The purpose of life is to allow the soul to grow and evolve …

• I count life just a stuff to try the soul’s strength on. Robert Browning
• If one wishes a life of abundance, development of the soul is of the utmost import. By fulfilling the souls potential, we celebrate the divine spirit, raise the collective consciousness and fuel the fires of transformation. Micheal Teal
• If we think of the world as the manifestation of a rational and moral principle, we must regard it as existing for the realisation of that which is best and highest, and that best and highest we can hardly conceive as anything but the training and development of immortal spirits. Edward Caird
• It would be idle to say that life is a steady progression in happiness. But it is most certain that in the natural course of things a healthy soul grows continually richer until its latest day on earth. George S. Merriam
• Let your soul be an oasis of transformation that takes your life to the next level and fulfils your dreams. Rejoice in your awakening, the future is now and love is in every breath you take. Micheal Teal
• Life is a chance to grow a soul. Powell Davies
• Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity. William Makepeace Thackeray
• Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• Man is not born perfect. He is born as a process. He has to seek and search and explore. He has to become, because his being arises only through becoming. Becoming is his being. He can only be if he is on the move. Evolution is intrinsic to man’s nature, evolution is his very soul. Osho
• Man is spiritual being — a soul, in other words — and that this soul takes on different bodies from life to life on earth to order at last to arrive at such perfect knowledge, through repeated experience, as to enable one to assume a body fit to be the dwelling-place of a Mahatma or perfected soul. Then, they say, that particular soul becomes a spiritual helper to mankind. P. Blavatsky
• Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow. Jalal Uddin Rumi
• Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God. Rumi
• Soul development should take precedence over all things. Edgar Cayce
• The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour. M. Montgomery
• The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• The soul is very clear that its purpose is evolution…it is not concerned with the achievements of the body or the development of the mind. These are all meaningless to the soul. Neale Donald Walsch
• The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. Khalil Gibran
• The soul was never put in the body…to stand still. John Webster
• The universe, vast, beautiful, magnificent, as it is, cannot content the soul, but rouses it to more majestic thoughts. The wider view it takes of what is material, the more impatient it becomes of all material bonds. The sublimer the prospects which are opened by the universe, the more the spirit is impelled to ascend to a still sublimer being. Forever it aspires towards an infinite and immutable One as the ground of all finite and mutable existences. It can rest in His Omnipotence alone as the source, centre, sustainer, determiner of all forces. William Ellery Channing
• There comes a time in the evolution of every soul when the chief concern is no longer the survival of the physical body, but the growth of the spirit; no longer the attainment of worldly success, but the realization of Self. Neale Donald Walsch
• To feel one’s faculties expanding the soul is one of life’s most sublime experiences. David McKay
• You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul. Swami Vivekananda
• Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey to be able to grow, stretch along the horizon, touch the sky. Paulo Coelho
• Your soul is all that you possess. Take it in hand and make something of it! Martin H Fischer
• The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it’s to grow the soul. Christina Baldwin
• Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul. Sivananda
• The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual. Rabindranath Tagore
• Life is just a chance to grow a soul. Powell Davies
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… to learn …

• Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time. Timothy Leary
• We are on this earth in bodies because our souls have things to learn that we could not learn in any other way. Jamie Windsong Kasper
• This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells – that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one’s spiritual Self (atman). Swami Vivekananda
• The soul is presupposed as a ready-made agent, which displays such features as its acts and utterances, from which we can learn what it is, what sort of faculties and powers it possesses — all without being aware that the act and utterance of what the soul is really invests it with that character in our conception and makes it reach a [1]higher stage of being than it explicitly had before. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave. Garth Stein
• Every moment in the earth school offers you important opportunities to learn about yourself. Those things have to do with your soul. The Earth school operates with exquisite perfection and efficiency whether you are aware of it or not. Gary Zukav
• Your soul is that part of you that existed before you were born and will continue to exist after you die. It is immortal. You are a powerful and creative compassionate and loving spirit that has entered the Earth school to learn lessons and to give gifts. Your personality is a tool of your soul. Gary Zukav
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… to move towards an awakened and enlightened state

• By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need more be said of it, at any rate those who are not content with scholarship, but strive to attain that same enlightenment? Christmas Humphreys
• Human is a suffered mind but an enlightened soul. Santosh Kalwar
• The world needs awakened souls the way a body needs healthy cells. Mark Nepo
• Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal. Mahatma Gandhi
• My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring and carried aloft on the wings of the breeze. Anne Bronte
• Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I’m not convinced that’s the case. Frederick Lenz
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Life brings the perfect circumstances for the soul to heal, grow, learn and evolve

• Every event of life is a miracle, as is life itself. Life is designed to provide your soul with the perfect tools, the perfect circumstances, the perfect conditions with which to realise and experience, announce and declare, fulfil and become Who You Really Are. Neale Donald Walsch
• Every occurrence is a true gift to help you complete your life in the ways intended for you by your soul. You exist as an extension of your soul. You do not need techniques to activate or rearrange anything. Your life will bring you into perfect contact with experiences needed for fulfillment. Operation Terra
• Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth. Marianne Williamson
• I have sent you nothing but angels and miracles. See the perfection in this moment. Your soul chose your life to create the opportunity to fulfill your soul’s agenda. You are, every moment, drawing to yourself the exact and perfect peope, places and events to experience exactly what you came to your physical body to experience. Neale Donald Walsch
• I vow to interpret every experience as a direct healing of the Goddess with my soul. Rob Brezsny
• When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul. Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most. Kelly Cutrone
• You are a powerful and creative compassionate and loving spirit that has entered the Earth school to learn lessons and to give gifts. Your personality is a tool of your soul. Gary Zukav
• You cannot, and will not, encounter a circumstance, or a single moment, that does not serve directly and immediately the need of your soul to heal. Gary Zukav
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The soul requires active attention and care

• We all seek soul. While soul is always present, it doesn’t appear in our lives automatically. Soul requires our attention and reflection. Offering our respectful regard to the soul is a way of loving it, caring for it, nurturing it. Benjamin Shield and Richard Carlson
• The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear. Daniel Defoe
• Ten times a day something happens to me like this–some strengthening throb of amazement- some good sweet empathetic ping and swell. This is the first, the wildest and the wisest thing I know: that the soul exists and is built entirely out of attentiveness. Mary Oliver
• Most men worry about their own bellies and other people’s souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people’s bellies. Yisroel Salanter
• The more that each of us tends our own soul, the more the world will prosper. Sark
• Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? Horace
• You have the need and the right to spend part of your life caring for your soul. It is not easy. You have to resist the demands of the work-oriented, often defensive, element in your psyche that measures life only in terms of output – how much you produce – not in terms of the quality of your life experiences. To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive, prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution. Jean Shinoda Bolen
• For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong, or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I’m grumpy or mad, I’ll realize that I’ve not been paying attention to my soul and I’ve not been following my best routine. Robert Fulghum
• We all seek soul. While soul is always present, it doesn’t appear in our lives automatically. Soul requires our attention and reflection. Offering our respectful regard to the soul is a way of loving it, caring for it, nurturing it. Benjamin Shield and Richard Carlson
• While everyone has a different experience of what is soulful, these experiences do have similar beginnings. We start by giving ourselves permission to be soulful, to take seriously this aspect of ourselves, our soul and our soul needs. Jean Shinoda Bolen
• We all dread a bodily paralysis and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul. Epictetus
• Care of the soul is quite different in scope from most modern notions of psychology and psychotherapy. It isn’t about curing, fixing, changing, adjusting, or making healthy, and it isn’t about some idea of perfection or even improvement. It doesn’t look to the future for an ideal, trouble-free existence. Rather, it remains patiently in the present, close to life as it presents itself day by day. Care of the soul is a sacred art. Thomas Moore
• Whether you know it or not, one of the most important relationships in your life is with your Soul. Will you be kind and loving to your Soul, or will you be harsh and difficult? Many of us unknowingly damage our Souls with our negative attitudes and actions or by simple neglect. By making the relationship with your Soul an important part of your life, however, by honoring it in your daily routine, you give your life greater meaning and substance. Use your experiences–all of them–as opportunities to nourish your Soul! Elisabeth Kuebler-Ross
• Make a little birdhouse in your soul. Linnell Flansburgh
• One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul. Henry David Thoreau
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The soul needs food to nourish it

• Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. Dorothy Day
• We human beings are spiritual beings. We have soul. We have spirit. We have mind. We have consciousness. We want fulfillment, we want happiness, we want satisfaction, we want joy. We want imagination. We want art, culture, music. Satish Kumar
• When the soul is starved for nourishment, it lets us know with feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or yearning. Menachem Mendel Schneerson
• Are you aware that your spirit needs to be fed? Did you know that your spirit would be delighted to partake in a feast of spiritual food? How about a plate full of prayer? Or maybe a few hours of succulent self-reflection. Perhaps a piping-hot selection of spiritual literature, served by the side of a lake or under a tree, would satisfy your spiritual hunger. Can you imagine feasting for a few hours on spiritually uplifting music? What about some forgiveness à la mode, topped with compassion? You cannot imagine how much your spirit would enjoy it. Lyanla Vanzant
• Primary food is more than what is on your plate. Healthy relationships, regular physical activity, a fulfilling career and a spiritual practice can fill your soul and satisfy your hunger for life. When primary food is balanced and satiating, your life feeds you, making what you eat secondary. Joshua Rosenthal
• The soul is often hungrier than the body, and no shops can sell it food. Henry Ward Beecher
• Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen to me, and eat what is good and your soul will delight in the riches fare. Isaiah 55:2
• The mind, with its emotions, is composed of ideas and impressions, and it is healthy and vital when it is continually replenished with inspiration, confidence, hope, wisdom, and understanding. No man lives long without food of the spirit. Ervin Seale
• The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. Josiah Gilbert Holland
• How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls! Henry David Thoreau
• If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul. John Greenleaf Whittier
• Other people keep our souls alive, just like food and water does with our body. Donald Miller
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The soul needs exercise and rest

• Keep your soul in exercise, lest her faculties rust for want of motion … to dwell too long in the employments of the body is both the cause and sign of a dull spirit. Wellins Calcott
• Sleep doesn’t help if it’s your soul that’s tired.
• The soul, like the body, acquires vigor by the exercise of all its faculties. In the midst of the world, in overcoming difficulties, in conquering selfishness, indolence, and fear–in all the occasions of duty, it employs, and reveals by employing, energies that render it efficient and robust–that broaden its scope, adjust its powers, and mature it with a rich experience. E. H. Chapin
• Exercise is good for your mind, body, and soul. Susie Michelle Cortright
• Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance between spirit and humility. Gary Snyder
• Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do. William James
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Look after the health of the soul

• Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives. Marcus Aurelius
• Wisdom is the health of the soul. Victor Hugo
• Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life. Joseph Joubert
• … a healthy soul grows continually richer until its latest day on earth. George S. Merriam
• Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. K.S. Iyengar
• A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body. Joseph Addison
• Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health. Saint Basil
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Develop the soul

• But if we are to expand our souls, we need to pay attention to the life all around us–the people and things and light and dark and wind and sun. If you believe that you have a soul, it’s probably more important for us to focus on developing our souls–which are immortal–than it is for us to gather more information and develop our brains. A balance would be nice, but most of us don’t work at all on our souls, except for an occasional prayer or book on a religious topic. Much of our work on our souls can be accomplished by working on our abilities to listen–not just hear, to see and understand–not just see, to feel in our depths–not just feel. Tom Walsh

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Be true to the soul

• I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy. Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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Trust the soul

• I may be lost in the underground of life, but I will trust my soul to know the passages. Muriel Strode
• But we need not fear that we can lose anything by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• So trust the process of your life unfolding, and know with certainty, through the peaks and valleys of your journey, that your soul rests safe and secure in the arms of God. Dan Millman
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Allow the soul’s song to be sung

• The song of your soul is longing to be sung. Let your own essence express itself freely. Brandon Bays
• The art of life is to make another soul vibrate with a song of joy. Edwin Leibfreed
• Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted. When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. SARK
• You need to tune your instrument, which is your body and your mind, and your soul. Abby Brammell
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Make choices that take the soul into account

• For me, there is only one question to ask when I am thinking, saying, or doing anything: “What does this have to do with the agenda of my soul? Neale Donald Walsch
• Empowered choices are “whole choices” that take your mind, body and soul into consideration. Danielle LaPorte
• Every decision that you make either moves you toward your personality, or toward your soul. Each decision you make is an answer to the question, “How do you choose to learn love?”, “How do you choose to learn authentic empowerment– through doubt and fear, or through wisdom? Gary Zukav
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Always put the soul first

• Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. Mark Twain
• We must not tamper with the organic motion of the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Soul development should take precedence over all things. Edgar Cayce
• One thing in the world, of value, is the active soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• A sure way of retaining the grace of heaven is to disregard outward appearances, and diligently to cultivate such things as foster amendment of life and fervour of soul, rather than to cultivate those qualities that seem most popular. Thomas à Kempis
• It’s worth making time to find the things that really stir your soul. That’s what makes you really feel alive. You have to say ‘no’ to other things you’re used to, and do it with all your heart. Roy T. Bennett
• Fear not of men because men must die. Mind over matter and soul before flesh. Mos Def
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Do something each day to nourish the soul

• A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny. Michel Faber
• The most important boundary you can set is the time to nourish your spirit. The few minutes a day you take to feed your soul is your strongest investment in your happiness. Do whatever it takes to inspire yourself and stay in a creative consciousness. Choose a time each day to connect with your inner being and do not compromise it. Alan Cohen
• So that I may meet the day with the knowledge to build the day I will look into my soul while it still dawn, before the morning breaketh… Walter Russell
• When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. Jean Shinoda Bolen

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Live from the soul

• The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the deeper, the broader, the more constructive may be the result. Edgar Cayce
• Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. William Hazlitt
• Live a life as a monument to your soul. Ayn Rand
• We have been sold a lifestyle, when what our soul desired was life. Oriah Dreamer
• Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place. Rumi

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Keep the channel to the soul wide open

• In the greatest confusion there is still an open channel to the soul. It may be difficult to find because by midlife it is overgrown, and some of the wildest thickets that surround it grow out of what we describe as our education. But the channel is always there, and it is our business to keep it open, to have access to the deepest part of ourselves. Saul Bellow
• Sit quietly and open up to spirit. Sharon Janis
• Healing ourselves on the spiritual level involves developing a strong connection with our soul. Shakti Gawain

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Allow the soul to emerge by letting go of the ego

• Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. Henry Van Dyke
• You are a beautiful soul hidden by the trench coat of the ego. Mike Dolan
• Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level. Gustave Flaubert
• When the ego dies, the soul awakes. Gandhi
• As I’ve gone into soul and soul-land, and I connect with my soul and my ego, and my life is colored by my soul – people can identify from their ego, which is who they thought they are. The soul, which is who they really are, if they choose that transfer to the soul, then you live in an ocean of love. Ram Dass
• I fed my ego, but not my soul. Yakov Smirnoff
• Either you’re a person wondering if you have a soul, or you’re a soul who knows that being a person isn’t real. Deepak Chopra
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Love the soul

• Everything has a soul and a body, or something like them. By the body we know the soul. But we are always ready to love the body instead of the soul. Therefore, God makes the body die continually, that we may learn to love the soul indeed. George MacDonald
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Listen to the soul

• Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. Anne Sexton
• Know how to live within yourself: there is in your soul a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they will be drowned by the noise without; daylight will drive them away; listen to their singing and be silent. Fyodor Tyutchev
• Don’t die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul. Wayne Dyer
• How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking? Mary Doria Russell
• My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony. Fernando Pessoa
• The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen… follow and honour your feelings. Neale Donald Walsch
• Bow with submission before thy soul’s dictates rather than before the world’s. Edward Counsel
• Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you. Etel Adnan
• Follow your soul. It knows the way.
• Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather than what you think, consider instead how you feel. Look to the nature of things. Feel your choices and decisions. It just might change everything. Jeffrey R. Anderson
• Let your wisdom guide you On your own personal journey by listening to your heart Your soul will be alight And let you be All that you are intended to be. Karen Hackel
• Only by glaring into the depths of ones own reflection can we find our true selves. It is here where the mirrored voices of our souls speak and can be heard. Paul Morabito
• Your soul is humming its tune. Listen well. Terri Guillemets
• To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. Deepak Chopra
• Your soul – that inner quiet space – is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction. Wayne Dyer
• By listening to your higher self, or Atman (soul), you can return to the truth that’s already inside of you and in the process change not only yourself, but the entire world, through positivity and love. Russell Simmons
• Real feelings are the language of the soul. I listen. Neale Donald Walsch
• Re-examine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul. Walt Whitman
• Communing with God is communing with our own hearts, our own best selves, not with something foreign and accidental. Saints and devotees have gone into the wilderness to find God; of course they took God with them, and the silence and detachment enabled them to hear the still, small voice of their own souls, as one hears the ticking of his own watch in the stillness of the night. John Burroughs
• If there is any point at all to life, surely it is to live out our dreams, to serve, to follow our bliss, to release the music within us, play it with joy and to share it with others? Surely we have a responsibility to finally listen to – and honor – the siren calls of our souls, which have been silenced by our egos throughout our lives? How else can we connect with our essence, the source of our calling? Lance Secretan
• The journey to personal freedom can only be achieved if you listen to the voice of your soul. Micheal Teal
• We stand, every day and every night, in the very presence of a power so incomparable as to make the senses reel. And yet, happily, this power–the intelligence behind all the marvels of the summer sky– is a benevolent one. The person who pays atention will hear, deep within his or her soul, a quiet and friendly voice saying: “This, and so much more also, is yours to share.” Vernon R. Harris
• The purpose of soul questions is to open yourself deeper and deeper until all that is left is the power and beauty you are bringing to the lives of others. Gary Zukav
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Follow the path of the soul

• I am learning to follow the spirit within me, wherever it wants to take me. Every time I check in, feeling the energy inside me and letting it direct me, I find this a wonderful way to live. When I do this, I experience joy, power, love, peace, and excitement. Shakti Gawain
• But there is something you can ‘do’. You can continually cease doing, efforting, resisting, denying or trying at all. You can continually move into pure being. Which means to follow the path of your soul – and allow authentic doing to arise from this place. It is to follow the heart felt pull and to trust that when you ‘do’ this, all answers, solutions and goals will simply fall into place. Chris Bourne
• Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Erich Fromm
• No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you, and yet at no time will you be alone, for you can never truly be alone. J.M. Harrison
• Give yourself the gift of time in coming to answers for your life…It takes time, and a lot of introspection and soul-searching, to get clear about what you really want to manifest in your life. David Emerald Womeldorff
• One should stick by one’s soul, and by nothing else. In one’s soul, one knows the truth from the untruth, and life from death. And if one betrays one’s own soul-knowledge one is the worst of traitors. H. Lawrence
• The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn’t dictate to her. H. Lawrence
• I must follow the inscrutable exhortations of my soul. Bill Watterson
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The soul contains inner wisdom

• Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey. John O’Donohue
• All souls can find the truth within. Eileen Caddy
• Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities. St. Isaac of Ninevah
• Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof. Walt Whitman
• Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. Herman Hesse
• Every day, take some time to meditate and cultivate inner quiet. Then ask yourself what I call the “soul questions”: Who am I? What do I want? What is the purpose and meaning of my life? Deepak Chopra
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The soul communicates through feelings

• Feeling is the language of the soul. If you want to know what’s true for you about something, look to how you’re feeling about it. Neale Donald Walsch
• Feelings are the language of the soul, but you must make sure you are listening to your true feelings and not some counterfeit model constructed in your mind. Neale Donald Walsch
• God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple. Chanakya
• Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul. George Carman
• People don’t ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul- satisfying emotion than a dozen facts. Robert Keith Leavitt
• Real feelings are the language of the soul. I listen. Neale Donald Walsch
• Regard your feelings as road signs to your soul. Danielle LaPorte
• The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen to your feelings, follow your feelings, honour your feelings. Neale Donald Walsch
• You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. You must know what you are feeling. If you don’t know what you are feeling, you will create unconsciously. Gary Zukav
• A body is merely a vehicle. The deepest emotions are experienced through the soul. Alexandra Adornetto
• I just want to feel as much as I can, it’s what soul is all about. Janis Joplin
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Realise you are the soul in essence and come to identify with it

• Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are — infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish. Swami Vivekananda
• Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally. Ram Dass
• When you realize that the ego is making you miserable you don’t identify with it. You identify with your soul’s humility and the ego dissolves. Frederick Lenz
• When you understand that you are your soul, then you will experience Life as an expression of the soul. Neale Donald Walsch
• Do not be satisfied with a little light and temporary peace in meditation; and don’t be constantly identified with the body if you want to know the greatness of your soul. Paramahansa Yogananda
• The ultimate goal of Hindu religious life is to transcend individually, to realize one’s own true nature”, the inner essence of oneself, which is divine and pure. Puchalski
• If we identify with the soul we awaken the authentic self, inspire the spirit and fuel the fire of transformation. Micheal Teal
• Identify with the soul. Not the role. Ram Das
• Life is art. Life is sacred art. The art of sacred living means being a holy actor, acting from the soul rather than the ego. Gabrielle Roth
• The ego is frightened by death, because ego is part of the incarnation and ends with it. That is why we learn to identify with our soul, as the soul continues after death. For the soul, death is just another moment. Ram Das
• The soul knows everything. Be who you are and your life will transform forever. Deepak Chopra
• As you become multi-sensory, you begin to see yourself as a soul first and a personality second. You begin to experience yourself as more than a body and more than a mind. and the circumstances around you as meaningful and designed for your spiritual growth. Gary Zukav
• When we work from the Soul consciousness, we can shape our own destiny. Harold Klemp
• Awaken to who you really are,  You are a sacred spirit on a sacred journey

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Discover the soul

• Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul. Sir J. Stephen
• … the effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with spiritual quests throughout the ages. Cynthia Eller
• Are you searching for your Soul? Then come out of your prision. Leave the stream and join the river that flows into the Ocean. It will not lead you astray. Let the beauty you seek be what you do. Rumi
• Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm. Frederick Lenz
• Our supreme purpose here is to discard our false identity and realize the Atman (soul) within. Bert McCoy
• That which is nearest is least observed. The Atman (soul) is the nearest of the near, therefore the careless and the unsteady mind gets no clue to it. But the person who is alert, calm, self-restrained, and discriminating ignores the external world and, diving more and more into the inner world, realizes the glory of the Atman and becomes great. Swami Vivekananda
• A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox’s or bear’s, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there. Meister Eckhart
• Dig deep. Find your way to your soul. Kami Garcia
• The effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with spiritual quests throughout the ages. Cynthia Eller
• The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? Oscar Wilde
• What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one’s soul. Victor Hugo
• The grandest purpose of life (contrary to the implications of novelists) is not to know human love or to produce children or to win men’s fickle acclaim; man’s sole worthwhile aim is to find his Self (soul). Parmahansa Yogananda
• It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul. Desmond Tutu
• I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock. Maria V. Snyder
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Explore and examine the soul

• A traveler am I, and a navigator, and every day I discover a new region within my soul. Kahlil Gibran
• Dig deep. Find your way to your soul. Kami Garcia
• All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration of its possibilities and the wonder of its mysteries. John O’Donohu
• I held my breath, for to me there is nothing more awe-inspiring than when a man discovers to you the nakedness of his soul. William Somerset Maugham
• O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls! Philip James Bailey
• People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world – all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls. Thus the soul has gradually been turned into a Nazareth from which nothing good can come. Carl Jung
• Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear. George Herbert
• The sphere that is deepest, most unexplored, and most unfathomable, the wonder and glory of God’s thought and hand, is our own soul! Henry Ward Beecher
• There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines in our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it, ease like water over a stone, on to its fluid contours, and are home. Josephine Hart
• Acting is not about being famous, it’s about exploring the human soul. Annette Bening
• As we explore the soul, it is important to remember that this exploration will take place within nature (the body), for that is where and what we are. K.S. Iyengar
• Every mundane activity is an opportunity for full, authentic self-exploration. The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater. Gabrielle Roth
• I am here to live, to love, to give, to grow, to serve, to explore life, and explore my soul within. I am not here to be who society expects me to be. My thoughts are my own and I am proud to live in the skin of my very own authentic self. I am proud to be me. Melanie Moushigian
• I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it. Tori Amos
• People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing there own soul. Carl Jung
• The difficult part of the process is the long exploration and discovery of your own soul and living with the results. Mike Svob
• Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity. Anthon St. Maarten
• To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness Friedrich Nietzsche
• The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul. Terri Windling
• So that I may meet the day with the knowledge to build the day I will look into my soul while it is still dawn, before the morning breaketh. Walter Russell
• Self-knowledge,  Exploration

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Nourish the soul with unconditional love and kindness…

• The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul. John Welwood
• Love is the force that ignites the spirit. Phil Jackson
• This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls. Aberjhani
• Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the hidden process by which the tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasseled flower. George Eliot
• The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. Nicholas Sparks
• The only food our soul needs is love. Louix Dor Dempriey
• Love’s supreme moment, when the soul unchecked Soars high as heaven, and its best rapture knows, This holds a deeper pathos than our woes, Since they leave nothing better to expect. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Forgiveness is a powerful expression of the love within our soul. Anthony Douglas
• It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul. Thomas Moore
• Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa
• Love is for the soul and sex is for the body. Both cry out for satisfaction Eric Jerome Dickey
• Love is the oxygen of the soul. Tony Robbins
• Love is the secret password to every soul. Anthony D. Williams
• Love is wind for the soul. D. Antoinette Foy
• Maybe love at first sight isn’t what we think it is. Maybe it’s recognising a soul we loved in a past life and falling in love with them again. Kamand Kojouri
• Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart. Wole Soyinka
• The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more love that it finds, the more it gives itself: so that, as we grow clear and open, the more complete the joy of heaven is. And the more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love, and, mirror like, each soul reflects the other. Dante Alighieri
• The soul that walks in love neither tires others nor grows tired. John of the Cross
• The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property. Confucius
• To love is for the Soul to choose a companion, and travel with it along the perilous defiles and winding ways of life; mutually sustaining, when it is rugged with obstructions, and mutually rejoicing, when rich broad plains and sunny slopes make journeying delight. George Henry Lewes
• What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul. Victor Hugo
• Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. Nora Roberts
• My soul defense against the natural horror which death inspires, is to love beyond it. Madame Swetchine
• The longer I live and the more I see of the struggle of souls toward the heights above, the stronger this truth comes home to me: That the Universe rests on the shoulders of love; a love so limitless, deep, and broad, that men have renamed it and called it–God. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love. Christian D. Larson
• When you create a soul, plant the seeds of love with your thoughts, words, and actions. The soul flourishes among the flowers of love. Revathi
• The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls. Spencer W. Kimball
• Love is the action of soul satisfaction. Michael Franti
• It is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way. Albert Einstein
• Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self… At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, “What did you do for your fellow man?” Misty Upham
• Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. Petrarch
• Immerse your soul in love. Thom Yorke
• True love wasn’t found in good hair or the right clothes, make-up or shoes. True love was found in the soul – as was wisdom and compassion. C. Cast
• The pure love of one soul can offset the hatred of millions. Mahatma Gandhi
• One small action of love can do far, far more for a soul than all the most beautiful words in the world. Eileen Caddy
• It is not genius, nor glory, nor love that reflects the greatness of the human soul; it is kindness. Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
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… by always choosing love…

• The choice that you, as a soul, have in relation to anything is always to be loving. Do you understand that this is the divine purpose, that all of us as humans have been given…to love unconditionally? John Morton
• In all relationships, there is only one question that has any importance to your soul: “What would love do now?” Neale Donald Walsch

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… by loving from the soul

• Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation. Michael Jackson
• Loving someone can be hard at times. You risk a lot when you love – your heart and soul, at the least. Love is the most important and most rewarding investment you can make in another person. E.B. Spredemann
• She had a wild, wandering soul but when she loved, she loved with chaos and that made all the difference. Ariana Dancu
• Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used. Emmanuel
• A lifetime without Love is of no account. Love is the Water of Life. Drink it down with heart and soul! Rumi
• I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Nourish the soul by loving and accepting yourself

• I believe one of our souls’ major purposes is to know, love, and express our authentic selves. To live the life and be the person we were created to be. However, our true selves only emerge when it’s safe to do so. Self- condemnation, shame, and guilt send your true nature into hiding. It’s only in the safety of gentle curiosity, encouragement, and self- love that your soul can bloom as it was created to do. Sue Patton Thoele
• I suggest that the more you are able to see, love, and accept the one facet of Spirit gazing at you from the mirror, the more you will be able to love Spirit within others. If we are the same awareness shining through a billion separate forms, then all love begins with self-love. For the heart to awaken, it cannot exclude a single soul, including yourself. If you do not love yourself, how can you find the space to love others? Dan Millman
• The essence of being alive is loving acceptance of yourself, for once we accept ourselves we unleash the beauty that lies within our soul. Micheal Teal
• We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard’s power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It’s us and our homemade masks. Richard Bach
• This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind. Laura Hillenbrand
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Love reveals the soul

• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston
• The light of unconditional love awakens the dormant seed potentials of the soul. John Welwood
• I believe that the measure of my soul is my capacity to love imperfect people. Joseph Grenny
• Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era.. Paulo Coelho
• Love lays bare your soul. Mary Lydon Simonsen
• The greater the man’s soul, the deeper he loves. Leonardo da Vinci

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Love is a union of souls

• One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it… and the journey is always towards the other soul. H. Lawrence
• Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Kahlil Gibran
• Love grows. Lust wastes by enjoyment, and the reason is, that one springs from an union of souls, and the other from a union of sense. William Penn
• I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still… I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose. Emily Dickinson
• Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. Rumi
• The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love. Thomas Carlyle
• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle
• Love does not choose belief, place, time, situations, or race. Love happens between two souls. Haidji
• Sex is the joining of two bodies; love is the joining of two souls. Gary Chapman
• There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew. William Cartwright
• True love is not a potion one person can swallow and another refuse to drink. It happens only when the souls of two join together to form one. C. Cast
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Love is the very essence of the soul

• We picture love as heart-shaped because we do not know the shape of the soul. Robert Brault
• The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality. Gary Zukav
• Love has its own communication. It’s the language of the heart, while it has never been transcribed, has no alphabet, and can’t be heard or spoken by voice, it is used by every human on the planet. It is written on our souls, scripted by the finger of God, and we can hear, understand, and speak it with perfection long before we open our eyes for the first time. Charles Martin
• Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul. Jose Ortega Gasset
• Love is the reality of the soul. Lilian Whiting
• Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. Victor Hugo
• Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love. Mechthild of Magdeburg
• In the depth of the soul is the atman, the oversoul. And that oversoul is really love and compassion, peace, joy, and wisdom. Ram Dass
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Love is the beauty of the soul

• Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. Saint Augustine of Hippo
• Love is the beauty of the soul. St Augustine
• Love is the soul’s exquisite vibrations. Love is the soul at song. Edwin Leibfreed
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Nourish the soul too with compassion and empathy

• Empathy is the way to a peaceful heart, soul and mind. K Hobgood
• Building a strong foundation of self-love, forgiveness, compassion…. and connecting with your soul Essence infuses confidence, courage, inner strength… to be true to who you are mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Lorraine Cohen
• Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory. Aberjhani
• Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. Eric Hoffer
• Compassion needs space because love needs a place of unimpeded encounter between grace and nature. In a world crowded by information, we need to find space for the soul to grow. Ilia Delio
• When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind’s workings. Instead of thinking that I was a failure, could I perhaps accept that I am only a human being– and a normal one, at that? Elizabeth Gilbert
• When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey. John O’Donohue
• True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. Dante Alighieri
• Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men. David O. McKay
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Nourish the soul by helping and serving others

• The soul is awakened through service. Erica Jong
• I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. Maya Angelou
• Everyone can be great because anyone can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t even have to make your subject and verb agree to serve…You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The most giving souls are those who give when they don’t have to give, who could just walk away from this world and its suffering and merge with eternal existence and bliss forever. Frederick Lenz
• From the soul’s perspective, both helpee and helper are just hanging out together – complementary roles in a dance. Without helpees, what would the helpers have to do? Susan Jeffers
• Helping, fixing, and serving represent three different ways of seeing life. When you help, you see life as weak. when you fix, you see life as broken. When you serve, you see life as whole. Fixing and helping may be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul. Rachel Naomi Remen
• Realise that you cannot help a soul unless that soul really wants help and is ready to be helped. Send that soul nothing but love and more love. Be still…and wait. But be there when that soul turns for help. Darren Bayliss
• Service is a smile. It is an acknowledging wave, a reaching handshake, a friendly wink, and a warm hug. It’s these simple acts that matter most, because the greatest service to a human soul has always been the kindness of recognition. Richelle E. Goodrich
• And what is as important as knowledge, asked the mind. Caring and seeing with the heart, said the soul. Flavia Weedn
• I believe if you can find something to give back to, your soul will feel fulfilled in a very powerful way. Alicia Keys
• Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity. Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
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Nourish the soul by giving generously

• There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar. Oliver Goldsmith
• To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. Confucius
• To generous souls every task is noble. Euripides
• Too often, people make the mistake of believing that if they only had more money or more sex or a different partner or a better-looking body, they would feel the sense of “wholeness” they have always craved. Virtually without exception, this is not the case. What is actually lacking is the dimension of giving and kindness as a means of nourishing the soul. To add this dimension to your life is to nourish your soul. Harold Kushner
• I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nourish the soul by being kind and encouraging

• Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. Jean Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
• Kind words are jewels that live in the heart and soul and remain as blessed memories years after they have been spoken. Marvea Johnson
• Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul. George M. Adams
• A kind soul is in constant bloom. S. Williams
• Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. King Solomon
• The world can be harsh and negative, but if we remain generous and patient, kindness inevitably reveals itself. Something deep in the human soul seems to depend on the presence of kindness; something instinctive in us expects it, and once we sense it we are able to trust and open ourselves. John O’Donohue
• We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. George M. Adams
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Nourish the soul with stillness

• If you believe the noises of the world, rather than the silences of your soul, you will be lost. Neale Donald Walsch
• I lovingly nurture the god in embryo that lies deep within my soul. I awaken myself to the deep stillness that lies deep within my heart. Deepak Chopra
• Silence is our true teacher because it speaks the language of our soul. Michael Jeffreys
• The silence I am describing is a silence that you use to contain the grace you receive when you enter the castle of your soul. You carry this silence within you, even when you are with others. It allows you to hold your center amid the chaos of your life. Caroline Myss
• Noise is the function of the human mind. Silence is the abiding state of your soul. Robert Beno
• We need silence to be able to touch souls. Mother Teresa
• Sometimes, simply by sitting, the soul collects wisdom. Zen proverb
• Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up. Anne Leclaire
• Nourish your spirit with stillness. Nourish your mind with knowledge. Nourish your heart with unconditional love. Nourish your body with living food. Nourish your relationships with thoughtfulness. Tim Ong
• Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
• Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. Jeremy Taylor
• In the stillness, you will find your true being. In the silence, you will hear the breathing of your soul – and of God. You will find God in the Stillness. Neale Donald Walsch
• In quietness the soul expands. Rockwell Kent
• In the attitude of silence, the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. Mahatma Gandhi
• My soul lives somewhere between silence and the moon. Terri Guillemets
• The soul always knows what to do to heal itself . The challenge is to silence the mind Caroline Myss
• ..trees, flowers, grass…grow in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls. Wilbur Pierce
• God of wilderness, God of wildness, lead me to the quiet places of my soul. In stillness, in openness, may I find my strength. Jan Richardson
• I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. S. Eliot
• If only all might be hushed, sense impressions, the soul itself, all imagery, all symbols, all things transient, then we might hear the very voice of the eternal, and if that experience were prolonged, we would indeed enter into the joy of our Lord. Augustine
• If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is. Amy Carmichael
• The deepest rivers make least din, the silent soul doth most abound in care. William Alexander
• There is hardly ever a complete silence in our soul. God is whispering to us well-nigh incessantly. Whenever the sounds of the world die out in the soul, or sink low, then we hear these whisperings of God. He is always whispering to us, only we do not always hear, because of the noise, hurry, and distraction which life causes as it rushes on. Frederick William Faber
• There is something greater and purer than what the mouth utters. Silence illuminates our souls, whispers to our hearts, and brings them together. Kahlil Gibran
• This withdrawal from the day’s turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries to provide the conditions wherein we are able to yield ourselves to intuitive leadings, promptings, warnings, teachings, and counsels and also to the inspiring peace of the soul. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions. Paul Brunton
• Of all the sounds that touch my soul these days, the most beautiful one of all is silence. Guy De la Valdene
• Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul. Paramahansa Yogananda
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… especially through meditation

• Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your soul, all functioning in such a harmony, in such wholeness, humming so beautifully… that they are in a melody, they are one. Your whole being – body, mind, soul – is involved in meditation. Rajneesh
• Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action. Francis Quarles
• Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. Jeremy Taylor
• It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky… a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. Victor Hugo
• Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul, and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love. Sarah McLean
• Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul. Rajneesh
• Meditation is the progressive quieting of our mind, until we reach the source of thought, which in wisdom traditions are the realm of our soul and spirit. In this domain of awareness there is infinite creativity, synchronicity, the power of intention, and freedom from limitations. Deepak Chopra
• Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass. Owen Feltham
• The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn’t belong to the soul. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Through meditation one discovers one’s own light. That light you can call your soul, yourself, your God—whatsoever word you choose—or you can remain just silent because it has no name. Rajneesh
• The advanced student should meditate deeply until his thoughts become dissolved into intuition. In the lake of intuition, free from the waves of thought, the yogi can see the unruffled reflection of the moon of the soul. Forgetting his dreams of the body, he knows that the soul exists behind the screen of thoughts and is therefore unknown to them. When the yogi perceives the soul as made in the image of Spirit, he knows himself to be unchangeable, unmanifested, ever calm, like the Spirit. All devotees should meditate and interiorize their consciousness until they realize the true nature of the soul. Paramahansa Yogananda
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Nourish the soul through conscious breathing

• Shallow breathing is the root of all evil, but conscious deep breathing restores and secures our souls. Desmond Green
• Om is the bow, the arrow is soul. Hermann Hesse
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Nourish the soul with space and idleness

• In a world crowded by information, we need to find space for the soul to grow. Ilia Delio
• I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow. Elizabeth von Arnim
• Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. Gaston Bachelard
• As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul. Wayne Dyer
• The simplicity of listening to a favorite CD, the calmness of soaking in a hot bath, the ease of resting on a bench at the edge of a garden: these personal spaces feed our souls, allowing us to restore our spirits and enjoy our lives. Chris Casson Madden
• I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls. E. B. Du Bois
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Nourish the soul with time spent in solitude

• By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. George Herbert
• To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions. Deepak Chopra
• Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself. Alice H. Rice
• The best of all is to Be alone to experience one’s soul in Silence. To be nakedly alone, unseen, is better than anything in the world, a relief like death. To Be–alone–is one of life’s greatest delights. Sunyata
• The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. Omar Khayyam
• The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of human living. Man cannot be happy for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul. If man is exiled constantly from his own home, locked out of his spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person. Thomas Merton
• We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being. Hermann Hesse
• In order to grow in grace, we must be much alone. It is not in society that the soul grows most vigorously. In one single quiet hour of prayer it will often make more progress than in days of company with others. It is in the desert that the dew falls freshest and the air its purest. Horatius Bonar
• Expose yourself to aloneness. When a person is left alone, he starts thinking of higher reality – about death, life, soul, God and the mystery of all. Chinmayananda Saraswati
• Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss. Guru Nanak
• The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude. James Russell Lowell
• Solitude is the soul’s holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead. Katrina Kenison
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Nourish the soul with dreams

• Dreams are logs that feed the fire of our souls. Marcela Bennett
• Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill
• We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Paulo Coelho
• Dreams won’t always take you on a straight path to destiny, but they’re usually related to what your soul wants for you. Kelly Cutrone
• Dreams grow like wildflowers in her soul. Terri Guillemets
• Dreams won’t always take you on a straight path to destiny but they’re usually related to what your soul wants for you. They’ll force you to ask yourself the hard questions, they’ll kick your ass and more importantly, they’ll turn you on. Kelly Cutrone
• The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul. Carl Jung
• The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. James Allen
• We must never stop dreaming. Dreams provide nourishment for the soul, just as a meal does for the body. Many times in our lives we see our dreams shattered and our desires frustrated, but we have to continue dreaming. If we don’t, our soul dies, and agape cannot reach it. Paulo Coelho
• Cut not the wings of your dreams, for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul. Flavia
• Dream big dreams; only big dreams have the power to move men’s souls. Marcus Aurelius
• Dreams are the most curious asides and soliloquies of the soul. Alexander Smith
• Dreams are whispers from your soul. Marcia Wieder
• Dreams nourish the soul just as food nourishes the body. The pleasure of the search and of adventure feed our dreams. Paulo Coelho
• It would be helpful if the universe would give us one big clue, or a giant compass, if you will, pointing to the direction we should be taking. In fact, the compass is there. To find it, you need only look inside yourself to discover your soul’s purest desire, its dream for your life. Deepak Chopra
• Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. Pamela Vaull Starr
• A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. Richelle E. Goodrich
• When we dream with the courage of our soul, we dream sacred dreams – fresh, creative, and able to infuse us with passion and courage to act. Alberto Villoldo
• Dreams are the guiding words of the Soul. Carl Jung
• Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• As I wish for you dreams that will soothe your soul, dreams that will whisper of secrets untold. I wish for you dreams that will capture your life, dreams so spectacular and bright you can know no strife. Lora Leigh
• Neurosis is the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning. Carl Jung
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Nourish the soul with vision

• When the Soul wants to experience something, she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it. Meister Eckhart
• The vision is true north for the soul. It is a permanent, intuitive compass direction for a human being. Every person inevitably strays from the path. Life is an endless experiment and course correction. The vision brings one back to the true path. Thomas G. Bandy
• It is where life is fundamental and free that men develop the vision needed to reveal the human soul in the blossoms it puts forth. Frank Lloyd Wright
• Thinking in images creates fire in the mind, visions in the soul and energy in the body. Dr Jean Houston
• The soul never thinks without a picture. Aristotle
• Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. Napoleon Hill
• A vision we give to others of who and what they could become has power when it echoes what the spirit has already spoken into their souls. Larry Crabb
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Nourish the soul by following your passions and doing what you love

• Don’t die with your music (stories/talents) still inside you. Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul. Wayne Dyer
• When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. Jean Shinoda Bolen
• When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling disappears. Rumi
• Only Passions, great Passions, can elevate the soul to great things. Denis Diderot
• What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. Rebecca West
• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand Foch
• Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. Albert Diderot
• Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Douglas MacArthur
• To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson
• Behind the perfection of a man’s style, must lie the passion of a man’s soul. Oscar Wilde
• It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection. Jerome
• You should only be doing that thing that lights up your soul. Kim Coles
• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair. Blaise Pascal
• Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore, let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; And let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily resurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes. Kahlil Gibran
• When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion – that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet – therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul’s code. Stephen Covey
• Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind. Bryant McGill
• Listen to your intuitive inner voice and find what passion stirs your soul. Wayne Dyer
• Many of us are afraid to follow our passions, to pursue what we want most because it means taking risks and even facing failure. But to pursue your passion with all your heart and soul is success in itself. The greatest failure in the world is to have never really tried. Robyn Allan
• Remember to delight yourself first, then others can be truly delighted. When we focus on the song of our soul and heart, then others will be touched similarly. SARK
• The key is to trust your heart to move where your talents can flourish. This old world will really spin when work becomes a joyous expression of the soul. Al Sacharov
• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. Edmund Burke
• Passion is the soul of youth. Kedar Joshi
• When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out. Lucy Maud Montgomery
• The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced. Michel de Montaigne
• Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, drives our curiosity, fuels our love and carries our friendship, stimulates our intellect, and pushes our limit…. A passion for life is contagious and uplifting. Passion cuts both ways…. Those that make you feel on top of the world are equally able to turnit upside down. Jon Krakauer
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Nourish the soul with meaningful and enjoyable work that uses your talents

• Work nourishes the soul. All the creatures of the universe are busy doing work, and we honor life when we work. The type of work is not important: the fact of the work is. All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others. Matthew Fox
• When you engage in a work that taps your talent and fuels your passion – that rises out of a great need in the world that you feel drawn by conscience to meet – therein lies your voice, your calling, your soul’s code. Stephen Covey
• The key is to trust your heart to move where your talents can flourish. This old world will really spin when work becomes a joyous expression of the soul. Al Sacharov
• Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world. Thomas Moore
• Dropping the things I hate frees me up to do the things I love. How much more skillful, soulful, and useful could your best work get if you didn’t spend so much energy pushing yourself into doing stuff you hate? Leo Babauta
• Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other. Henry David Thoreau
• It is easy to work when the soul is at play. Emily Dickinson
• Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night. Marian Wright Edelman
• Take time to do what makes your soul happy. Let your soul shine as bright as the sun. Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause know each other right away. Rumi
• When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight. Michael Bridge
• All work feeds the soul if it is honest and done to the best of our abilities and if it brings joy to others. Matthew Fox
• Work for your own soul’s sake. Edgar Lee Masters
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Nourish the soul by putting your heart and soul into all you do

• Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. Sivananda
• You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do. Roy T. Bennett
• Whatever you do, do it with all your heart and soul. Bernard Baruch
• Begin to do small things in a great way…You must put the whole power of your great soul into every act. Wallace D. Wattles
• Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your object. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
• How good is man’s life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! Robert Browning
• If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. Thomas Merton
• Put you heart, mind, intellect and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. Swami Sivananda
• The force, the mass of character, mind, heart, or soul that a man can put into any work is the most important factor in that work. P. Peabody
• To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem. Maurice Young
• Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words from your mouth will be empty, and each action will be meaningless. Truth and confidence are the roots of happiness. Kathleen Pedersen
• When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it. Thomas Paine
• When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put you whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. Albert Camus
• You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. Gary Zukav
• Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it. Buddha
• Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world. Thomas Moore
• I think that whenever soul is present, it’s because what you’re doing, whom you’re with, where you are, evokes love without your thinking about it. You are totally absorbed in the place of person or event, without ego and without judgment. Jean Shinoda Bolen
• I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. Vincent van Gogh
• The beauty is forever there before us, forever piping to us, and we are forever failing to dance. We could not help but dance if we could see things as they really are. Then we should kiss both hands to Fate and fling our bodies, hearts, minds, and souls into life with a glorious abandonment, an extravagant, delighted loyalty, knowing that our wildest enthusiasm cannot more than brush the hem of the real beauty and joy and wonder that are always there. Margaret Prescott Montague
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Nourish the soul by doing what makes the soul happy

• Take time to do what makes your soul happy. Let your soul shine as bright as the sun. Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause know each other right away. Rumi
• What is right for one soul may not be right for another. It may mean having to stand on your own and do something strange in the eyes of others. But do not be daunted, do whatever it is because you know within it is right for you. Eileen Caddy
• For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant. Aristotle
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Nourish the soul with a soul-felt purpose

• The significant business of your life is alive and well, awaiting discovery, within your very own soul. You and I were born to come into ourselves as complete and distinctive persons. Accepting this, we build a valuable life. Marsha Sinetar
• Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Shelly
• We must trust our soul’s non-callings as well as its callings. Destiny seems to have very specific ideas about what each of us should be doing on the planet, and our greatest personal fulfillment always lies in those directions and none other. Dianne Skafte
• The soul doesn’t distinguish between good and bad as much as between what is nutritious and what isn’t. Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world. Thomas Moore
• To be at peace with life we must find our souls purpose for by doing so we cultivate wholeness and create a world of pure spirit. Michael Teal
• Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason, mastery demands all of a person. Albert Einstein
• Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it. Buddha
• Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don’t, they’re going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul. Russell Simmons
• Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward. Man is made so that when anything fires his soul the impossibilities vanish. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality. John Quincy Adams
• Living on purpose is a lifestyle, a way of being and a lifelong spiritual practice that will refine your Soul. This isn’t a 10-day or 30-day plan. This is a lifelong adventure! Mastin Kipp
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Nourish the soul by finding meaning in life

• Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it. . . . What frustrates us and robs our lives of joy is this absence of meaning. . . . Does our being alive matter? Harold S. Kushner
• Synchronicity is an inexplicable and profoundly meaningful coincidence that stirs the soul and offers a glimpse of one’s destiny. Phil Cousineau
• I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence? Annie Lennox
• It’s something that I had been pushing down my whole life. The search for meaning, I guess, the whispering of the soul. Ricky Williams
• Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Those rewards create almost as many problems as they solve. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it. Harold S. Kushner
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Nourish the soul with creativity

• For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me. Sue Monk Kidd
• Trust the process of the subtle push toward art and creative expression from inside you – it is the gentle call of your heart and renewed search for soul. It is an opening to expansion of your expressive abilities and the discovery of hidden limitations ready to be challenged. Donald William Mathews
• Imagine the wheel of time turning in a seemingly endless round, revealing that the beginning is the end of another beginning. This is the cyclic nature of the inward journey of creativity, which is by nature back and down – back in time and down into the soul’s depths. Phil Cousineau
• The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea. Charles Sanders Peirce
• The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something divine. Michelangelo
• The soul of Man must quicken to creation. S. Eliot
• Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea. Lou Dorfsman
• Creativity of all kinds focuses your mind, engages your imagination, and feeds your soul. Sue Patton Thoel
• Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty. Walter Lippmann
• Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. Nnamdi Azikiwe
• What anxiety means is it’s as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It’s what makes us human beings. Rollo May
• Alexander Pope once wrote that the theater aspires to wake the soul by gentle strokes of art – to raise the genius and to mend the heart. Kelsey Grammer
• To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart. Alexander Pope
• You are a powerful, unlimited and eternal soul who is here to enjoy the experience of creativity and contribute to humanity’s evolution. Timothy Leary
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Nourish the soul with music

• Music is the soul of language. Max Heindel
• Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. Lao Tzu
• Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. Plato
• Music is an outburst of the soul. Frederick Delius
• A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good. Colbie Caillat
• Music is the vernacular of the human soul. Geoffrey Latham
• Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It’s the language of the soul. Gabrielle Roth
• Music isn’t just learning notes and playing them, You learn notes to play to the music of your soul. Katie Greenwood
• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy… the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Ludwig van Beethoven
• For me, music is the smile of the soul. Luis Szaran
• Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. Plato
• Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. Modest Mouse, Modest Mouse
• A book is a story for the mind. A song is a story for the soul. Eric Pio
• A musician must lift up the souls of the listeners, and take them towards space. Nikhil Banerjee
• Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us. Martin Luther
• In my soul, the music of the universe can be heard. Eric Honeycutt
• Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. Plato
• Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity. Joseph Addison
• Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. Edward Bulwer Lytton
• O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow’s weight. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs. Walter Russell
• The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams. Claude Debussy
• When you listen to someone’s songs, their soul comes through. Matt Ross
• Music can calm the heartbeat and soothe the soul. Jenny Stamos Kovacs
• Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. Johann Sebastian Bach
• Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Red Auerbach
• The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul. Johann Sebastian Bach
• Music fills the infinite between two souls. Rabindranath Tagore
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Nourish the soul with art

• Art is like singing. Some do it better than others, but everyone can and should be doing it for their soul. Barbara Mason
• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso
• Surrounding yourself with art can enrich not only your visual experiences, but instill a sense of vitality to your life and uplift your soul. Ernest West Basden
• Color directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul. Wassily Kandinsky
• Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher
• The human body is an instrument for the production of art in the life of the human soul. Alfred North Whitehead
• The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don’t want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don’t have a soul. Sir Thomas More
• The purpose of art is… to press forward into the whole of the external world and the soul, to see and communicate those objective realities within it which rule and convention have hitherto concealed. Max Scheler
• The work of the artist is to heal the soul. Kathleen Raine
• To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. Kurt Vonnegut
• Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. Theodore Dreiser
• Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul — and you answer. Terri Guillemets
• Film as dream, film as music. No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul. Ingmar Bergman
• Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something. Kurt Vonnegut
• The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul. Maxim Gorky
• The soul is our artistic self, our capacity for transforming every dimension of our lives into art and theater. Gabrielle Roth
• The very act of creating a work of art breathes life into one’s soul, and causes one to feel but a small part of God. Anitak Eyor
• To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart. Aberjhani
• To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. Arnold Bennett
• To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart. Alexander Pope
• Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term “Art,” I should call it “the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.” The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of “Artist”. Edgar Allan Poe

• Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth. Aberjhani
• The practice of art isn’t to make a living. It’s to make your soul grow. Kurt Vonnegut
• The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically. Wassily Kandinsky
• The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. William Somerset Maugham

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Nourish the soul with poetry

• Poetry helps my soul escape its encasement. Maya Angelou
• Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one’s soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. John Keats
• Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity. Amy Lowell
• Poetry at its best is the language your soul would speak if you could teach your soul to speak. Jim Harrison
• Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men’s souls. James Russell Lowell

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Nourish the soul with nature

• A soul who is not close to nature is far away from what is called spirituality. In order to be spiritual, one must communicate, and especially one must communicate with nature; one must feel nature. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Are not the mountains, waves and skies, a part of me and of my soul, as I of them? Lord Byron
• As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares. Jacques Rousseau
• Awaken to the universe’s simple gift of the butterfly. Watch with fascination and joy as a jeweled treasure glides by and gently touches your soul. K. D’Angelo
• Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs To the silent wilderness Where the soul need not repress Its music lest it should not find An echo in another’s mind. John Updike
• Each stone, each bend cries welcome to him. He identifies with the mountains and the streams, he sees something of his own soul in the plants and the animals and the birds of the field. Paulo Coelho
• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. John Muir
• Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. John Muir
• Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Orison Swett Marden
• God of the oriole’s yellow breast, of the eagle’s talon and spread of wing, of the bluebird’s blue and the tanager’s crimson… Let me abide by my own soul as the violet does by its purple, and believe in it as the rose must believe in its fragrance and hue. Muriel Strode
• I find nature so nourishing. I love to hike, especially in the mountains. When I’m walking in nature, I feel in awe of the wonder of creation. Nature is full of surprises, always changing, and we must change with it. In nature, the soul is renewed and called to open and grow. In the wilderness, you’re up against whatever nature brings you–the dangers as well as the beauty. Linda Leonard
• If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive. Eleonora Duse
• It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination. Henry David Thoreau
• It was not that the jagged precipices were lofty, that the encircling woods were the dimmest shade, or that the waters were profoundly deep; but that over all, rocks, wood, and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its inmost depths. Thomas Cole
• Me and mine” become the biggest barriers in cultivating the feeling of oneness and harmony with the rest of humanity. Pulkit Mathur
• Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span upon this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal. Elizabeth Aston
• Nature – trees, flowers, grass – grow in silence. We need silence to be able to touch souls. Wilbur Pierce
• Nature is another important aspect of nourishing the soul. After a hike in the mountains where we live, for instance, I feel a remarkable sense of gratitude and awe. My mind quiets down and allows me to see more clearly the beauty of creation. And through that gratitude, the beauty of the universe is reflected back to the creator. Joan Borysenko
• Nature is full of surprises, always changing, and we must change with it. In nature, the soul is renewed and called to open and grow. In the wilderness, you’re up against whatever nature brings you–the dangers as well as the beauty. Linda Leonard
• Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature’s grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man. Heinrich Heine
• The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also. Harriet Ann Jacobs
• The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul. Barry Lopez
• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy. Orison Swett Marden
• There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole. Alphonse de Lamartine
• There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. Washington Irving
• There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Therefore am I still / A lover of the meadows and the woods, / And mountains; and of all that we behold / From this green earth; of all the mighty world / Of eye and ear, both what they half create / And what perceive; well pleased to recognize / In nature and the language of the sense, / The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse/ The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul / Of all my moral being. William Wordsworth
• To trace the history of a river or a raindrop . . . is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again. Gretel Ehrlich
• Trees give peace to the souls of men. Nora Waln
• We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if we can’t see the stars at night. Thomas Berry
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Nourish the soul with the ocean

• The ocean stirs the heart, inspires the imagination and brings eternal joy to the soul. Wyland
• The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. The touch of the sea is sensuous, enfolding the body in its soft, close embrace. Kate Chopin
• Sand lines my soul which is filled with the breath of the ocean. D. Posey
• My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Like the birds of the sea, men come from the ocean-the ocean of the soul. How could this bird, born from that sea, make his dwelling here? Rumi
• The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamouring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude. Kate Chopin
• There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the poor soul. Sebastian Barry
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Nourish the soul with flowers

• A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even on solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it. Vita Sackville-West
• Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul. Prophet Muhammad
• Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. Gérard de Nerval
• Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul. Luther Burbank
• Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. Henry Beecher
• He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul. Celia Thaxter
• If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom. Terri Guillemets
• Plants give us oxygen for the lungs and for the soul. Linda Solegato
• My soul, be satisfied with flowers, With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them In the one garden you may call your own. Edmond Rostand
• Flowers are reincarnation. They come out of the earth of our ashes. Nothing else looks so soul-like. Francesca Lia Block
• I’ve always thought my flowers had souls. Myrtle Reed
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Nourish the soul with beauty

• Is your life beautiful? Do you live in surroundings that you have made beautiful through your own unique, creative ideas? To expect and lovingly require beauty to be apparent in all areas of your life is to be deeply loving to yourself, your soul, your world, and shows reverence to God and all of life. There is always something beautiful to be found, right where you are, if you will look for it. Concentrate your thoughts on the good, the beautiful, and the true things in life. John Templeton
• My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness. Michelangelo
• The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful. Plotinus
• Beauty has nothing to do with possession. If possession and beauty must go together, then we are lost souls. A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it’s there to be beheld. … It’s there for your pleasure. Diana Vreeland
• Almost any intense emotion may open our “inward eye” to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauty of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive. Margaret Prescott Montague
• Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul. Wayne Dyer
• Beauty goes beyond the hardships of life and can make it all worthwhile. When beauty finally suffuses our souls, nothing else will take precedence, because we will have discovered the essence of God. Charles D. Lelly
• Expect and lovingly require beauty to be apparent in all areas of your life is to be deeply loving to yourself, your soul, your world, and shows reverence to God and all of life. There is always something beautiful to be found, right where you are, if you will look for it. Concentrate your thoughts on the good, the beautiful, and the true things in life. John Marks Templeton
• Grant us a heart wide open to all this beauty; and save our souls from being so blind that we pass unseeing when even the common thorn bush is aflame with your glory. Walter Rauschenbusch
• If I don’t see something or someone as beautiful, I often ask myself what it is in me that’s keeping me from seeing the beauty. What part of me is blocking my vision so that I can’t see the most precious aspects of that thing or person? If I can find an answer to that question, then seeing the beauty all around me becomes easier, and my soul becomes richer. Tom Walsh
• The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires. William Hazlitt
• The soul is that which beholds beauty even when the mind denies it. Neale Donald Walsch
• The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Whenever I experience something beautiful, I am with Soul. That moment of inward breath, that pause and awareness of “how beautiful this is” is a prayer of appreciation, a moment of gratitude in which I behold beauty and am one with it. Jean Shinoda Bolen
• Beauty is to the spirit what food is to the flesh. It fills an emptiness in you which nothing else can fill. Frederick Buechner
• The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. George Sand
• Beauty awakens the soul to act. Dante Alighieri
• Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. Edgar Allan Poe
• The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Looking for and enjoying beauty is another way to nourish the soul. The universe is in the habit of making beauty. There are flowers and songs, snowflakes and smiles, acts of great courage, laughter between friends, a job well done, the smell of fresh-baked bread. Beauty is everywhere, ready to nourish the soul. It must only be seen to begin helping us. Matthew Fox
• Souls will never ascend to Heaven until the sight of beauty lifts them there. Michelangelo
• The sight of such aching beauty would infuse his soul with pain. Tabitha Suzuma
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Nourish the soul with the senses

• Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. Oscar Wilde
• Blake said that the body was the soul’s prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the ‘windows of the soul.’  Jim Morrison
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Nourish the soul with color

• Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. Oscar Wilde
• Who says soul has only one colour? Joss Stone
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Nourish the soul with wonder, mystery and reverence

• There is a little plant called reverence in the corner of my soul’s garden, which I love to have watered once a week. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed. Thomas Moore
• The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way. Arthur Christopher Benson
• As children we had a sense of wonder. Our eyes were wide open and drinking in the gifts we beheld. Our thirsty souls could not get enough of the wonders of creation. Then, somehow, we grew too old to dream. Edward Hays
• We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our souls, the deathless dream, the eternal poetry, the perennial sense that life is miracle and magic. E. Merrill Root
• Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul. D. H. Lawrence
• When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. Mahatma Gandhi
• Reverence is a perception of the soul. Gary Zukav
• There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. Joseph Conrad
• Mystery is the soul of existence. Kedar Joshi
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Nourish the soul with autumn

• Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. George Eliot
• Fall hurries you along as you walk the roads, crunching the leaves that have fallen in mad and variegated drifts. The wind makes you ache in some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die—migrate or die. Stephen King
• The days may not be so bright and balmy—yet the quiet and melancholy that linger around them is fraught with glory. Over everything connected with autumn there lingers some golden spell—some unseen influence that penetrates the soul with its mysterious power. Northern Advocate
• There is a certain even-handed justice in Time; and for what he takes away he gives us something in return. He robs us of elasticity of limb and spirit, and in its place he brings tranquility and repose—the mild autumnal weather of the soul. Alexander Smith
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Nourish the soul with gratitude and appreciation

• Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop
• If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. Harold Kushner
• When your life is filled with the desire to see holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul! Harold Kushner
• Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies. they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Charles Edward Jefferson
• Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant. Hosea Ballou
• Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted – a paved road or a washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul. Rabbi Harold Kushner
• Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls. Rabbi Harold Kushner
• Grateful souls focus on the happiness and abundance present in their lives and this in turn attracts more abundance and joy towards them. Stephen Richards
• If one could only learn to appreciate the little things … A song that takes you away, for there are those who cannot hear. The beauty of a sunset, for there are those who cannot see. The warmth and safety of your home, for there are those who are homeless. Time spent with good friends for there are those who are lonely. A walk along the beach for there are those who cannot walk. The little things are what life is all about. Search your soul and learn to appreciate. Shadi Souferian
• My acknowledgement is a personal expression of self and soul in which my heartfelt thanks is given to all that I am grateful for receiving into my life. Eleesha
• This seems to be the central dilemma of human life – that it is easier to desire what is over there than to appreciate what is right here. Your spirit or your soul exists only in you, so going elsewhere can never give you access to your essential nature, to who you really are. Byron Brown
• When gratitude replaces judgment, peace spreads throughout your body, gentleness embraces your soul, wisdom fills your mind. Let gratitude replace judgment and your whole experience of life will take a turn for the better. Neale Donald Walsch
• And as it is the most generous souls who have most gratitude. René Descartes
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Nourish the soul with anticipation

• Anticipation awakes the passion, vision Ignites the heart, touch erupts the soul. Craig D. Slovak
• Anticipation was the soul of enjoyment. Elizabeth Gaskell
• Happy is the soul that has something to look backward to with pride, and something to look forward to with hope. Oliver G. Wilson
• Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it’s bad for the heart. Stephen Sondheim
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Nourish the soul with surprise

• Life is a celebration of awakenings, of new beginnings, and wonderful surprises that enlighten the soul. Cielo
• Surprises are the joy of living. Surprises directly touch the soul. Good surprises energize and bad surprises teach. Alev Oguz
• Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. Joseph Addison
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Nourish the soul with hope

• Hope is the dream of a soul awake. French Proverb
• Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity. Herman Melville
• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson
• Our souls are infinitely swirling colors of stardust and hope. Terri Guillemets
• The hope of all earnest souls must be realized. John Greenleaf Whittier
• Happy is the soul that has something to look backward to with pride, and something to look forward to with hope. Oliver G. Wilson
• Hope is medicine for a soul that’s sick and tired. Eric Swensson
• Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops… at all. Emily Dickinson
• Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all. Emily Dickinson
• Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. G. K. Chesterton
• Here is a truth, a truth by which to live: there is hope. There is always hope. If we choose to abandon it, our souls will turn to ash and blow away. John Connolly
• A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love. Simone Weil
• May you find in the nectar of life, the sweetness of hope in your heart, feel the comfort of song birds in your soul, the grace of new wind in your wings. Laurel Burch
• We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Ezra Taft Benson
• I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul. Chris Cleave
• Hope is the adrenalin of the soul. Amy Tan
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Nourish the soul with laughter

• Laugh a lot, and sincerely, because that is the pure sound of your soul. A sense of humor keeps us healthy and belongs in our spiritual practices. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison. Lord Chesterfield Stanhope
• Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing. My soul probably looks like Fred Astaire. Jarod Kintz
• What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Yiddish Proverb
• Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul. Thomas Mann
• Laughter is the language of the soul. Pablo Neruda
• To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. William Shakespeare
• I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.” Quincy Jones
• If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man. Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
• Laughter opens your heart and soothes your soul. No one should ever take life so seriously that they forget to laugh at themselves. Robin S. Sharma
• To be intuitive, we must cultivate our sense of humor and look for reasons to laugh everywhere. We become so self- absorbed and serious when it comes to our problems and melodramas that we disconnect from our deeper sense of who we are as beautiful souls—we withdraw from life instead of enjoying it. Laughter brings us back to ourselves and back to life. Sonia Choquette
• You lavish your soul with lashings of light in those moments that you listen, love and laugh. Robert Beno
• Genuine laughing is the vent of the soul, the nostrils of the heart, and just as necessary for health and happiness as spring water is for a trout. Josh Billings
• Laughter is wine for the soul – laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness – the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living. Sean O’Casey
• Laughter is good medicine for the soul. Our world is desperately in need of more medicine. Jim Stovall
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Nourish the soul by smiling

• A smile starts on the lips, a grin spreads to the eyes, a chuckle comes from the belly, but a laugh bursts forth from the soul, overflows and bubbles all around. Carolyn Birmingham
• Smiling opens my heart and fills my soul with happiness. I now give myself permission to smile for the sake of smiling. Darren R. Weissman
• Smiling engages your heart to beam the radiant light of your soul out through your eyes and into the world. Your shining light is always beautiful… Robert Beno
• Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Smiling is the way the soul says hello. Obviously a frown means goodbye. Is there a word halfway between hello and goodbye? Because that’s what my soul is saying right now. Jarod Kintz
• Smile with your lips, smile with your eyes, smile with your heart and your soul and your life. Terri Guillemets
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Nourish the soul with truth

• The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires. William Hazlitt
• The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• The main thing is to have a soul that loves the truth and harbours it where he finds it. And another thing: truth requires constant repetition, because error is being preached about us all the time, and not only by isolated individuals but by the masses. In the newspapers and encyclopedias, in schools and universities, everywhere error rides high and basks in the consciousness of having the majority on its side. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me That I can no longer call myself A man, a woman, an angel, Or even pure Soul. Hafez
• Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul. Pythagoras
• Truth outlives pain, as the soul does life. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another’s truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey. William Butler Yeats
• Those who love truth more than life itself turn away from the fleeting things of time with all their souls. To use an expression of Plato— God himself sets their faces in the right direction. Simone Weil
• Whether it is the beautiful that brings to our hearts the love of truth and justice, or whether it is truth that teaches us how to find the beautiful in nature and how to love it, in either case art does a noble work. It drags out the soul from its everyday shell, and brings it under the spell of its own mysterious and wonderful power, so that a memory of this experience stays with the people, sustains them in their daily labors, and refines their minds. Helena Modjeska
• There is beauty in truth, even if it’s painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don’t teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one’s character, one’s mind, one’s heart or one’s soul. José N. Harris
• You can’t lie to your soul. Irvine Welsh
• Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Keep the other person’s well-being in mind when you feel an attack of soul-purging truth coming on. Betty White
• The soul enjoys silence and peace, not by many reasonings, but by simply contemplating the truth. Peter of Alcantara
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Nourish the soul with knowledge …

• Knowledge is the food of the soul. Plato
• Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. Will Durant
• Religion and science are the two wings upon which man’s intelligence can soar into the heights, with which the human soul can progress. It is not possible to fly with one wing alone! Abdu’l-Bahá
• The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue. Thomas Aquinas
• The soul is too great to know itself, yet each individual portion of the soul seeks this knowledge, and in the seeking creates new possibilities of development, new dimensions of actuality. The individual self at any given moment can connect with its soul. Jane Roberts
• There is one thing one has to have either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge. Friedrich Nietzsche
• By emulating learned ones can one attain wisdom necessary to discriminate between evil and good. These great souls have attained knowledge after great contemplation and hence their wisdom is unquestionable. Yajur Veda
• Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge. Horace Mann
• Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope. George Eliot
• There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. Arnold Bennett
• He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul. Friedrich Nietzsche
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… and education

• … the task of education, as Dave Forman stated, is to help us ‘open our souls to love this glorious, luxuriant, animated, planet.’ The good news is that our own nature will help us in the process if we let it. David Orr
• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. K. Chesterton
• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. Joseph Addison
• Education is the leading of human souls to what is best and making what is best out of them. John Ruskin
• The very reason for nature’s existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning. Swami Vivekananda
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Nourish the soul with books and reading

• A room without books is like a body without a soul. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Books are the mirrors of the soul. Virginia Woolf
• Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. William Hazlitt
• Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity. Edward Newton
• And I’ll bury my soul in a scrapbook, With the photographs there and the moths. Leonard Cohen
• It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the communion with superior minds… In the best books, authors talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. William Ellery Channing
• Reading a book is like having the ability to dip a straw into the author’s soul and sip and slurp without lowering the water table of wisdom. Jarod Kintz
• Reading is the royal road to intellectual eminence…Truly good books are more than mines to those who can understand them. They are the breathings of the great souls of past times. Genius is not embalmed in them, but lives in them perpetually. William Ellery Channing
• The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,’The medicines of the soul.’ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
• I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul. Joyce Carol Oates
• Reading feeds the soul, writing nourishes it! Joanne McClean
• A woman who loves books has a dreamer’s soul, with each story she has read woven into her own. Alyson Richman
• Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul – what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love? Salman Rushdie
• Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading. Laurence Sterne
• Just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul. Pope John XXIII
• Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think. Douglas Rushkoff
• The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies. Andre Maurois
• Literature is the thought of thinking souls. Thomas Carlyle
• My soul found ease and rest in the companionship of books. Pat Conroy
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Nourish the soul with writing

• Writing is a tool of transformation and can shine the light on the inside, dispelling darkness, taking us through external layers, bringing us closer to our souls. Hillary Carlip
• Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul. Richard Flanagan
• That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies. Isabel Allende
• When you’re in the midst of writing, it’s a beautiful thing happening through you. Many people have said that it’s not you, it’s the soul of humankind and so on, I don’t know. But it has the same effect as music. It takes you out of your body and out of this planet. C. Boyle
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Nourish the soul with virtue and goodness …

• A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever-flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief. Epictetus
• Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works. Clement of Alexandria
• Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune. Honore de Balzac
• The simultaneous existence of opposite virtues in the soul are like pincers to catch hold of God. Simone Weil
• The soul is strong that trusts in goodness. Philip Massinger
• There is in the soul a taste for the good, just as there is in the body an appetite for enjoyment. Joseph Joubert
• Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life. Joseph Joubert
• Virtue is the music of the soul, the harmony of the passions; it is the order, the symmetry, the interior beauty of the mind; the source of the truest pleasures, the fountain of the sublimest and most perfect happiness. Mary Collyer
• Virtue, the strength and beauty of the soul, Is the best gift of Heaven: a happiness That even above the smiles and frowns of fate Exalts great Nature’s favourites: a wealth That ne’er encumbers, nor can be transferr’d. John Armstrong
• Above all, let us never forget that an act of goodness is in itself an act of happiness. It is the flower of a long inner life of joy and contentment; it tells of peaceful hours and days on the sunniest heights of our soul. Maurice Maeterlinck
• As a good tree produces good fruit; even so does a virtuous soul produce pure thoughts. William Scott Downey
• Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can. John Wesley
• The soul that companies with Virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught; sweet, rich, and generous of its store; that injures not, neither destroys. Epictetus
• These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions … The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life. Aristotle
• True religion is real living; living with all one’s soul, with all one’s goodness and righteousness. Albert Einstein
• Virtue is the health, true state, natural complexion of the Soul. Benjamin Whichcote
• Everytime you do a Good Deed with true intention, your soul grows purer. Soman Chainani
• Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living. David O. McKay
• No soul willfully does wrong. Plato
• The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue. Thomas Aquinas
• Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue. Ernest Sosa
• Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. John Dryden
• The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly. Michel de Montaigne
• Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again. Swami Vivekananda
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… by withstanding excessive temptation

• As soon as you wilfully allow a dialogue with temptation to begin, the soul is robbed of peace, just as consent to impurity destroys grace. Josemaria Escriva
• Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. William Butler Yeats
• Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. Elias A. Ford
• Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall. James Joyce
• It is easy enough to be virtuous when nothing tempts you to stray; when without or within no voice of sin is luring your soul away. But it is only a negative virtue until it is tried by fire. For the soul that is worth the treasures of the earth is the soul that resists desire. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself. Oscar Wilde
• The source and cause of all temptation is in the inward desire; that being purified or eliminated, outward objects and extraneous powers are utterly powerless to move the soul to sin or to temptation. James Allen
• Without temptation the soul cannot grow. James Allen
• To say no at the right time, and then stand by it, is the first element of success. He is the wise man who, for all his life, can keep mind and soul and body clean. David Starr Jordan
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Nourish the soul with purity

• Purity is the diamond of the soul. Edward Counsel
• Purity is the soul’s birthright. Let thoughts, words and actions be filled with this. Brahma Kumaris
• Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity. John Henry Cardinal Newman
• We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern. Saint Basil
• Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Pure chastity is beauty to our souls, grace to our bodies, and peace to our desires. Solon
• The one thing worth living for is to keep one’s soul pure. Marcus Aurelius
• The only beautiful thing in the world whose beauty lasts for ever is a pure, fair soul. Bram Stoker
• The pure soul is a pure lie. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing. Plotinus
• Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence. Rumi
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Nourish the soul with a clear conscience

• Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct. Samuel Smiles
• Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul. Peter Kreeft
• Each man’s soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts. Austin O’Malley
• Guilt is a gift from Allah warning you that what you are doing is violating your soul. Nouman Ali Khan
• The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. John Calvin
• A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without. Joseph Addison
• Conscience is nothing but the echo of God’s voice within the soul. B. Hall
• Conscience is the magnet of the soul. It has a divine polarity. Amid the tempests of passion, in the dark hours of trial, that only lie just this side of despair, when a host of fierce temptations beleaguer, then consult this Divine Monitor; and though its tiny needle may tremble amid the attractions of earth, yet, if uncorrupted, its polestar will be the throne of God. Horace Mann
• Conscience is the mirror of our souls, which represents the errors of our lives in their full shape. George Bancroft
• Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Conscience is the window of the soul; evil is the curtain
• Science without conscience is the soul’s perdition. François Rabelais
• Taste is the literary conscience of the soul. Joseph Joubert
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Nourish the soul with confession

• Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul. Mignon McLaughlin
• Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence. Dorothy Dix
• Confession is good for the soul, they say. I’d imagine this is true. But my sins were too convoluted. And from the little I understand–too damning. Kate Karyus Quinn
• Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff – it is a palliative rather than a remedy. Peter De Vries

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Nourish the soul with repentance

• Repentance is the turning of the soul from the way of midnight to the point of the coming sun. Henry Ward Beecher

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Nurture the soul with values, principles and ideals

• Your core values are the deeply held beliefs that authentically describe your soul. John C. Maxwell
• All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them. Thomas Carlyle
• He who, having lost one ideal, refuses to give his heart and soul to another and nobler, is like a man who declines to build a house on the rock because the wind and rain have ruined his house on the sand. Constance Naden
• We see facts with our eyes; we see ideas with our minds; we see ideals with our souls. Whatever we see with our souls is real and permanent and cannot be destroyed. Glenn Clark
• When the old creeds are threadbare, and worn through, / And all too narrow for the broadening soul, / Give me the fine, firm texture of the new, / Fair, beautiful and whole! Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• You don’t get old from living a particular number of years: you get old because you have deserted your ideals. Years wrinkle your skin, renouncing your ideals wrinkles your soul. Worry, doubt, fear, and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die. Douglas MacArthur
• The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live. Victor Hugo
• Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. Bill Watterson
• A man doesn’t grow old because he has lived a certain number of years. A man grows old when he deserts his ideal. The years may wrinkle his skin, but deserting his ideal wrinkles his soul. Brennan Manning
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Nourish the soul with humility

• Humility is not self-deprecation. To believe that you have no worth, or were created somehow flawed or incompetent, can be foolish. It is knowing you were created with special talents and abilities to share with the world; but it can also be an understanding that you are one of many souls created by God, and each has an important role to play in life. John Marks Templeton
• Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues: hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance. Augustine of Hippo
• Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you. Aberjhani
• Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. Honore de Balzac
• When humility enters our souls, we are at last able to perceive that we do not live alone in the world but with millions of brothers and sisters, and that hidden in the heart of each is the same animating spirit. S. Anderson
• Modesty is the chastity of merit, the virginity of noble souls. Madame de Girardin
• Humility is simply the disposition which prepares the soul for living on trust. Andrew Murray
• The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nourish the soul with God

• A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst and die whilst the water of earthly delights is running all around him. Alexander MacLaren
• As the flowers follow the sun, and silently hold up their petals to be tinted and enlarged by its shining, so must we, if we would know the joy of God, hold our souls, wills, hearts, and minds, still before Him, whose voice commands, whose love warns, whose truth makes fair our whole being.’ God speaks for the most part in such silence only. If the soul be full of tumult and jangling voices, His voice is little likely to be heard. Alexander Maclaren
• Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God. Alexander MacLaren
• Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind. Janet Erskine Stuart
• God takes delight in all that expands the soul and opens the heart and is restricted by all that contracts the soul and closes the heart. Anthony Lambert
• I feel the healing hands of God touch my heart and kiss my soul. Harley King
• I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries of God’s dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand. George Eliot
• It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God’s purpose in this earth. William Mountford
• Man has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean’s roar. Horace Mann
• My soul, alas, needs these uneasinesses in outward things, to be driven to take refuge in God. Henry Martyn
• Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness. Teresa of Avila
• Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak. François Fénelon
• It is only through the holes in our soul that we break out and God breaks through. Richard Rohr
• Only in the sacredness of inward silence does the soul truly meet the secret, hiding God. The strength of resolve, which afterward shapes life, and mixes itself with action, is the fruit of those sacred, solitary moments. There is a divine depth in silence. We meet God alone. Frederick William Robertson
• Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name unless it is so. Janet Erskine Stuart
• The Soul can hear the violets grow! It can hear the throbbing heart of God! Edwn Leibfried
• The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. Edna St. Vincent Millay
• The soul does contemplate and worship God; when it is not disturbed by the body. Benjamin Whichcote
• The soul is the connecting link between God and man, and between the spirit and the flesh, and has its earthly abode in the blood or life. Van Brunt Wyckoff
• The spirit possesses God essentially in naked nature, and God the spirit. Ruysbroeck
• What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God. Hubert Van Zeller
• Belief in God does not rest upon a mere doctrine of logic, which some other statement of logic may come and upset. It is one of those primal facts in the human soul which no mere logic has established nor can refute. H. Chapin
• Do not try to approach God with your thinking mind. It may only stimulate your intellectual ideas, activities, and beliefs. Try to approach God with your crying heart. It will awaken your soulful, spiritual consciousness. Sri Chinmoy
• In these times, God’s people must trust him for rest of body and soul. David Wilkerson
• Sickness always brings the soul nearer to God. James Lendall Basford
• The best notion we can conceive of God, may be, that he is to the creation what the soul is to the body. William Shenstone
• The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church. Edith Stein
• Ignorance is what separates man from God. Our souls are already a part of the divine consciousness of God, yet we remain ignorant of this truth and so the divinity within us remains unmanifested. Pulkit Mathur
• The soul is that part of you in harmony with God. James Cook
• To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love. Aiden Wilson Tozer
• Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul. Johannes Tauler
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… realising that it is only God that can sustain and satisfy the soul

• It is only God who can satisfy the soul. Henry Ward Beecher
• As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it. Saint Augustine
• And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the motif of the soul as a skiff, abandoned on the infinite sea of desires, in the sterile field of cares and ignorance, among the mirages of knowledge, amid the unreason of the world – a craft at the mercy of the sea’s great madness, unless it throws out a solid anchor, faith, or raises its spiritual sails so that the breath of God may bring it to port. Michel Foucault
• Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God. Evelyn Underhill
• The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. Hildegard of Bingen
• The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God. Hubert Van Zeller

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Nourish the soul with spirituality and religion

• Religion handcuffs the mind, Spirituality frees the soul. Look deep inside for the key. Liam Deegan
• Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally. Ram Dass
• Still amazes me that people spend more time researching a new vehicle than they do the religion they entrust their souls to. Larissa Ione
• Stripped of all its outer encrustations, spirituality emerges as a science, as scientific as any other, as verifiable in its results. Let any seeker take it up and let him create in the laboratory of the soul the conditions that are prerequisite; as sure as the day follows the night shall he rise into the Kingdom of God. Sant Kirpal Singh
• Who will deny that true religion consists, in a great measure, in vigorous and lively actings of the inclination and will of the soul, or the fervent exercises of the heart? That religion which God requires, and will accept, does not consist in weak, dull, and lifeless, wishes, raising us but a little above a state of indifference. Jonathan Edwards
• Each soul is divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity within, by controlling nature; external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or philosophy – by one, or more, and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, rituals or books, are but secondary details. Swami Vivekananda
• Spirituality does not come from religion. It comes from our soul. Anthony D. Williams
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Nourish the soul with prayer

• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. Victor Hugo
• For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit. William Mountford
• God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls. Yehuda Berg
• I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It had always been there, I realized with shock. Maria V. Snyder
• If my eyes have pain, I close them; If my body aches, I rest it; If my heart breaks, I mend it; If my soul is lost, I pray for it. Jeremy Aldana
• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Mahatma Gandhi
• In prayer the soul comes nearest the experience of absolute love: in belief it ascends by means of symbols towards absolute truth. Evelyn Underhill
• Prayer is the life of the soul. Madame de Stael
• Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us. Georgia Harkness
• Prayer is the oxygen of the soul. Pio of Pietrelcina
• Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use. Teresa of Avila
• A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual. Paulo Coelho
• In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence. Mother Teresa
• Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be obtained in any other way. Thomas S. Monson
• Prayer draws us near to our own souls. Herman Melville
• Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks. George Meredith
• Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
• Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home. Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Prayer is not an act of worship merely, the bending of the knee on set occasions, and offering petitions in need. It is an attitude of soul, opening the life on the Godward side, and keeping free communication with the world of spirit. Hugh Black
• Prayer is the balloon of faith by which the soul rises heavenward. James Lendall Basford
• Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed; The motion of a hidden fire, That trembles in the breast. James Montgomery
• The spiritual path is a path of prayer. Prayer is food for the soul and the universe. Prayer connects us, humbles us, strengthens us, enlightens us and makes us one with the Great Mystery. John Kehoe
• When we pray, our hearts glow a glorious joy that lights our souls and all the world around us. Terri Guillemets
• Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul. Philip Yancey
• Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life. Joseph Murphy
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Nourish the soul with contemplation

• … the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul. Josef Pieper
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Nourish the soul with faith

• Faith is the soul’s adventure. William Bridges
• Some people say they will not believe in anything they can’t see. What a catastrophe to not have any faith at all! You live only less than a half of life, if you will only believe in the things that you can see. Life is lived by those who have much faith and believe in many unseen things. If you believe in nothing that you cannot see, think about how much there is that you choose to turn your face away from! You can’t see your soul and you cannot prove that it exists, therefore if you call yourself one who believes in nothing unseen, then you will forever deny your soul its existence, for the existence of the soul dwells in love, trust, anger, passion, faith, belief, strength; the soul is forever nourished by things that are unseen! And so we have too many empty bodies walking around! Bodies with souls inside that are half-dead and dying. JoyBell C.
• While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation. T.F. Hodge
• Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. Henry van Dyke
• Faith is the daring of the soul to go farther than it can see. William Newton Clarke
• Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark. If we truly knew all the answers in advance as to the meaning of life and the nature of God and the destiny of our souls, our belief would not be a leap of faith and it would not be a courageous act of humanity; it would just be… a prudent insurance policy. Elizabeth Gilbert
• Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine. Richard Cecil
• Faith is the union of God and the soul. John of the Cross
• Faith dares the soul to go further than it can see. William Clark
• Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul. Joyce Meyer
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Nourish the soul with worship

• True worship is not just an emotional experience. It reaches to the very depths of our souls and touches every aspect of our being. Bill McCartney
• Relinquishment of burdens and fears begins where adoration and worship of God become the occupation of the soul. Frances J Roberts
• The joy of the soul is in glorification of the beloved Lord of all creation. Radhanath Swami
• For true worship, only God and the human soul are necessary. It does not depend upon times, or seasons, or occasions. Ralph Waldo Trine
• I see the stars. I hear the rolling thunder, thy power throughout the universe displayed. Then sings my soul, my Savior, God, to thee. Reba McEntire
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Nourish the soul with yoga

• Yoga is essentially a practice for your soul, working through the medium of your body. Tara Fraser
• Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul. Amit Ray
• Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one’s being, from bodily health to self-realization. Yoga means union—the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one’s actions. B.K.S. Iyengar
• Yoga is the study of the human body. It is the surge for the human soul. Rodney Yee
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Nourish the soul with home

• A house that does not have one worn, comfy chair in it is soulless. May Sarton
• I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. Jean Cocteau
• My home…It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul. Michel Eyquem De Michel de Montaigne
• A house is a home when it shelters the body and comforts the soul. Phillip Moffitt
• A house that does not have one warm, comfy chair in it is soulless. May Sarton
• The first contributing factor to a happy home is the sublime virtue of loyalty, one of the noblest attributes of the human soul. David O. McKay
• His native home deep imag’d in his soul. Homer
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Nourish the soul with family

• Family life is full of major and minor crises- the ups and downs of health, success and failure in career, marriage, and divorce- and all kinds of characters. It is tied to places and events and histories. With all of these felt details, life etches itself into memory and personality. It’s difficult to imagine anything more nourishing to the soul. Thomas Moore
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Nourish the soul with friends

• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
• Friendships – and indeed most relationships – are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties… not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time. Rasheed Ogunlaru
• Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws. Ogwo David Emenike
• Mingle often with good people to keep your soul nourished. Anthony Douglas
• A bosom friend — an intimate friend, you know — a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
• Friends will keep you sane. Love could fill your heart. A lover can warm your bed. But lonely is the soul Without a mate. David Pratt
• There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul. Baltasar Gracian
• A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. Charles Kingsley
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Nourish the soul with community

• A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You, the people must get it this soul. Pope John Paul II
• A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living. Rudolf Steiner
• Cut off is our customary state of being. But there is within us the constant yearning for connectedness, a yearning – “Ah!- to live without the slightest partition between our souls and the distant stars, between ourselves and the world’s otherness. We yearn for community with each other because we know that with it we would feel more at home in our lives, no longer strangers to one another and aliens to the earth. Parker J. Palmer
• The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs. Tony Kushner
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Nourish the soul by living life fully

• Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally. Fernando Pessoa
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Nourish the soul by being authentically you

• Once you accept and rejoice in your authenticity, you begin to see things as YOU are. You begin to see the authentic self is the Soul made visible. Godspeed on your journey to wholeness. Sarah Ban Breathnach
• The effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with spiritual quests throughout the ages. Cynthia Eller
• There are many who are living far below their possibilities because they are continually handing over their individualities to others. Do you want to be a power in the world? Then be yourself. Be true to the highest within your soul and then allow yourself to be governed by no customs or conventionalities or arbitrary man-made rules that are not founded on principle. Ralph Waldo Trine
• When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret. Shannon L. Alder
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Nourish the soul with patience

• Possess your soul with patience. John Dryden
• Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms: and he, that will venture out without this to make him sail even and steady will certainly make shipwreck, and drown himself; first, in the cares and sorrows of this world; and, then, in perdition. Ezekiel
• Who-ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. Francis Bacon
• Peace is the wait of the patient soul. Candace Wheeler
• The world can be harsh and negative, but if we remain generous and patient, kindness inevitably reveals itself. John O’Donohue
• Be patient. Like storms, the challenges will pass. Know too, that like the sun, your true soul self is constantly radiating. John Morton
• Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels. Patience is truly a fruit of the Spirit. Patience means staying with something until the end. It means delaying immediate gratification for future blessings. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
• The fates have given mankind a patient soul. Homer
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Nourish the soul with forgiveness

• Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• Forgiveness doesn’t mean: “What you did was okay.” It simply means, “I’m no longer willing to carry the heavy toxic burdens of anger, resentment, and victimhood in my soul. Doreen Virtue
• If we can forgive everyone, regardless of what he or she may have done, we nourish the soul and allow our whole being to feel good. To hold a grudge against anyone is like carrying the devil on your shoulders. It is our willingness to forgive and forget that casts away such a burden and brings light into our hearts, freeing us from many ill feelings against our fellow human beings. Sydney Banks
• In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another. Andy Stanley
• When I feel betrayed by someone, instead of sulking, clinging to my resentment and playing the role of victim, I am challenged to strengthen my soul through forgiveness. By forgiving the person who hurt me, I strengthen my soul. . . . each time we are called upon to forgive, we nourish our souls and learn more about who we are and what we have to share in this world. This is also an example of unconditional love. John Gray
• Forgiveness is a powerful expression of the love within our soul. Anthony Douglas
• Show mercy. No soul ever was made poor by loving too much, or injured by forgiving too often. Catherine Bramwell-Booth
• Great souls forgive not injuries till time has put their enemies within their power, that they may show forgiveness is their own. John Dryden
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Nourish the soul with action

• The soul has no secret that the behavior does not reveal. Lao Tzu
• The soul is a verb. . . . Not a noun. David Mitchell
• The soul is known by it’s acts. St Thomas Aquinas
• The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action… the soul was never put into the body to stand still. John Webster
• To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. Edward Abbey
• As Atman (the soul) does and acts, so it becomes: by doing good it becomes good, and by doing evil it becomes evil. It becomes virtuous through good acts, and vicious through evil acts.  Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
• Put you heart, mind, intellect and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. Swami Sivananda
• Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Activity will cleanse and brighten it. Samuel Johnson
• Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing. William Shakespeare
• The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. Thomas Moore
• The soul’s joy lies in doing. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• We get more pleasure from making progress toward our goals than we do from achieving them because, as Shakespeare said, “Joy’s soul lies in the doing.” Jonathan Haidt
• When you believe, or are led to believe, you are unable to act upon the greatest desires of the soul, the result is mental and spiritual enslavement. Iyanla Vanzant
• Every action alters the soul of the doer. Oswald Spengler
• The soul acts, to be sure, but the activity of the soul is not independent. It acts itself, but the Lord causes it to act. Moreover, the Lord in causing it to act now has regard to its former efforts, and He also caused it to act in a former existence, having regard to its efforts previous to that existence. Adi Shankara
• Beauty awakens the soul to act. Dante Alighieri
• Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are. Julia Cameron
• To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium. Eric Hoffer
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Nourish the soul with by living in the now

• Living in the present moment is the recurring baptism of the soul, forever purifying every new day with a new you. Alaric Hutchinson
• The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind. Edgar Guest
• Mind says: ‘I can’t be happy in this moment because it has nothing I want’. The Soul responds: ‘This moment is all we ever have’. Robert Beno
• Time is the life of the soul. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. Thomas Merton
• Visit your soul; don’t visit your past. Paulo Coelho
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Nourish the soul with tears

• Let your tears come. Let them water your soul. Eileen Mayhew
• The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. John Vance Cheney
• Crying relieves pressure on soul. Toba Beta
• Real tears are not those that fall from the eyes and cover the face, but those that fall from the heart and cover the soul. Christina Ricci
• When the heart is down and the soul is heavy, the eyes can only speak the language of tears. Ikechukwu Izuakor
• All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person. Hermann Hesse
• And I do believe, that my soul, would have no rainbow, if my eyes had no tears. Aisha Chaudhary
• Tears are Summer showers to the soul. Alfred Austin
• There you go…let it all slide out. Unhappiness can’t stick in a person’s soul when it’s slick with tears. Shannon Hale
• What is it about tears that should be so terrifying? The touch of God is marked by tears…deep, soul- shaking tears, weeping…it comes when that last barrier is down and you surrender yourself to health and wholeness. David Wilkerson
• Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you. Gregory David Roberts
• Beautiful soul weeps deep. Ivo Andric
• It’s better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart. Pope John Paul II
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Nourish the soul through forgetfulness of self

• Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed. Adrienne Monnier
• I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going. Friedrich Nietzsche
• When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish. Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul. Rumi
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Nourish the soul with stories

• Maybe stories are just data with a soul. Brené Brown
• I am a storyteller. The type that went from place to place, gathered people in the square and transported them, inspired them, woke them up, shook their insides around so that they could resettle in a new pattern, a new way of being. It is a tradition that believes that the story speaks to the soul, not the ego… to the heart, not the head. In today’s world, we yearn so to ’understand’, to conquer with our mind, but it is not in the mind that a mythic story dwells. Donna Jacobs Sife
• When Stories nestle in the body, soul comes forth. Deena Metzger
• The folktale is the primer of the picture-language of the soul. Joseph Campbell
• Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia. Vera Nazarian
• Fantasy is one of the soul’s brighter porcelains. Pat Conroy
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Nourish the soul with play

• It is easy to work when the soul is at play. Emily Dickinson
• Don’t ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• I believe in cleansing the soul through fun and games. Erlend Loe
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Nourish the soul with reason

• Philosophy is reason with the eyes of the soul. William Gilmore Simms
• Reason is our soul’s left hand, Faith her right; by these we reach divinity. John Donne
• If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe. Saint Augustine
• The soul is a special substance, endowed with reason, adapted to rule the body. Augustine
• Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul. They are its actions, but they are not its essence. Akhenaton
• Nothing in this world is so marvelous as the transformation that a soul undergoes when the light of faith descends upon the light of reason. William Bernard Ullathorne
• The intellect must be different from the soul. Peter Adamson
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Nourish the soul with variety

• The finest souls are those that have the most variety and suppleness. Michel de Montaigne
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Nourish the soul with simple living

• A spiritual retreat is medicine for soul starvation. Through silence, solitary practice, and simple living, we begin to fill the empty reservoir. This lifts the veils, dissolves the masks, and creates space within for the feelings of forgiveness, compassion, and loving kindness that are so often blocked. David A. Cooper
• Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul. Thomas McEvilley
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Nourish the soul with words that affirm and enlighten

• Don’t live by my words, don’t die by them, chew them slowly digest them, and smile if they give nourishment to your soul. Stanley Victor Paskavich
• Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. Proverbs 16:23-25
• Inspiring quotes and phrases are like vitamins to the soul. Remez Sasson
• Kind words produce their own image in men’s souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used. Blaise Pascal
• Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink. Terri Guillemets
• One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul. Therese of Lisieux
• The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Two words. Three vowels. Four constenants. Seven letters. It can either cut you open to the core and leave you in ungodly pain or it can free your soul and lift a tremendous weight off you shoulders. The phrase is: It’s over. Maggi Richard
• Words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. Hazrat Inayat Khan
• Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. Rumi
• Words are truly the image of the soul. St. Basil the Great
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Nourish the soul with a new language

• Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• To have another language is to possess a second soul. Charlemagne
• Learn a new language and get a new soul. Czech Proverb
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Nourish the soul with simplicity

• Simplicity brings back the joys of Paradise. Not that we have pure pleasure without a moment’s suffering, but when we are surrendered to God, we are not grasping for pleasure, and even our troubles are received with thanksgiving. This inner harmony, and this deliverance from fear and the tormenting desires of self, create a satisfaction in the soul which is above all the intoxicating joys of this world put together. François Fenelon
• Simplicity is the nature of great souls. Papa Ramadas
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Nourish the soul by letting go of the need for control and certainty

• You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star. Friederich Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nourish the soul with sleep and dreaming

• The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth. Mignon McLaughlin
• Sleep doesn’t help if it’s your soul that’s tired.
• The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened. James Arthur Baldwin
• The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to us. It is not the possession of our being. Sleep opens within us an inn for phantoms. In the morning we must sweep out the shadows. Gaston Bachelard
• When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures. Henry David Thoreau
• Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world. Heraclitus
• Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved. The warmth, the security and peace of soul, the utter comfort from the touch of the other, knits the sleep, so that it takes the body and soul completely in its healing. H. Lawrence
• In the dream state, the mind and soul are set free to create as they please, to imagine vast worlds not tied to gross sensory realities but reaching out, almost magically, to touch other souls, other people and far-off places, wild and radiant images cascading to the rhythm of the heart’s desire. Ken Wilber
• The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. Gaston Bachelard
• Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• What we experience in dreams – assuming that we experience it often – belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced “actually”: we are richer or poorer on account of it. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Nourish the soul with pleasure

• Pleasure is the first good. It is the beginning of every choice and every aversion. It is the absence of pain in the body and of troubles in the soul. Epicurus
• Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul. Alexander Pope
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Nourish the soul with dignity and honor

• Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man’s soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. Laura Hillenbrand
• Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it. Akhenaton
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Nourish the soul with fairness and justice

• Of all the things of a man’s soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil. Plato
• The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nourish the soul with temperance

• Temperance is reason’s girdle and passion’s bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue. Jeremy Taylor
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Nourish the soul with honesty

• What health is to the body, even that is honesty to the soul. Develop your spirit that it may gain strength to control the body and follow the natural laws of nutrition and hygiene. Kemetic Wisdom
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Nourish the soul through acceptance and surrender

• It’s the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles. Seneca the Younger
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Nourish the soul with sincerity

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Nourish the soul with adventure

• As long as there are young men with the light of adventure in their eyes or a touch of wilderness in their souls, rapids will be run. Sigurd Olson
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Nourish the soul with gardening

• My spirit was lifted and my soul nourished by my time in the garden. It gave me a calm connection with all of life, and an awareness that remains with me now, long after leaving the garden. Nancy Ross
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Nourish the soul by being with children

• The soul is healed by being with children. Fyodar Dostoyevsky
• Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know. Mark Hart
• God sent children for another purpose than merely to keep up the race–to enlarge our hearts; and to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections; to give our souls higher aims; to call out all our facilities to extended enterprise and exertion; and to living round our firesides bright faces, happy smiles, and loving, tender hearts. Mary Botham Howitt
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Nourish the soul by getting a dog

• Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer. Dean Koontz
• People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way. Ashly Lorenzana
• The dog without his master was like a body without a soul. Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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Nourish the soul with walking

• You need special shoes for hiking – and a bit of a special soul as well. Emme Woodhull- Bäche
• I never knew a man go for an honest day’s walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul. M. Trevelyan
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Nourish the soul with travel

• I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. Paulo Coelho
• Those who go overseas find a change of climate, not a change of soul. Horace
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Nourish the soul with wine

• You needn’t tell me that a man who doesn’t love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He’s simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. Saki
• Wine – it should be enjoyed for the benefits of the soul – and nothing more. Peter Fiduccia, Wine Lover
• Wine has been a part of civilized life for some seven thousand years. It is the only beverage that feeds the body, soul and spirit of man and at the same time stimulates the mind… Robert Mondavi
• Wine brings to light the hidden secrets of the soul, gives being to our hopes, bids the coward flight, drives dull care away, and teaches new means for the accomplishment of our wishes. Horace
• If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul. Clifton Fadiman
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Suffering can help the soul to learn and grow

• … the soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears. Native American Saying
• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Helen Keller
• Courage! Even sorrows, when once they are vanished, quicken the soul, as rain the valley. Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis
• Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life. Thomas Moore
• God teaches the soul by pains and obstacles, not by ideas. Jean-Pierre de Caussade
• Great souls suffer in silence. Friedrich Schiller
• He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, alike they’re needed to the flower; and joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul its nourishment. Sarah Flower Adams
• Human is a suffered mind but an enlightened soul. Santosh Kalwar
• I believe that the soul consists of its sufferings. For the soul that cures its own sufferings dies. Antonio Porchia
• I don’t deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts. Douglas Coupland
• If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. Rajneesh
• In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us. Richard Rohr
• Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven. Bill Vaughan
• Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. Khalil Gibran
• Sometimes it takes great suffering to pierce the soul and open it up to greatness. Jocelyn Murray
• Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived. George Herbert
• Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person. Fritz William
• Suffering can be endured because there is a reason for it that is worth the effort. What is more worthy of your pain than the evolution of your soul? Gary Zukav
• Suffering perfects the soul. James Cook
• The beginning of divine wisdom is clemency and gentleness, which arise from greatness of soul and the bearing of infirmities. Isaac of Nineveh
• The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain. Myrtle Reed
• The souls of heroes are forged by the gods and tempered with the pain of life. Brian Rathbone
• Their pain is a blessing because ultimately it helps to bring back feeling, and can lead the way to the restoration of depth and soul. Marvin Westwood
• There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. Carl Jung
• There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony. Edith Hamilton
• We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain. James O’Barr
• When I moan in agony of body, you may heal me, but when I moan in agony of soul, I must heal myself. Muriel Strode
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Adversity, loss and disappointment can help the soul to grow

• I believe that the souls of women flatten and anchor themselves in times of adversity, lay in for the stay. Elizabeth Berg
• I count life just a stuff To try the soul’s strength on. Robert Browning
• More learning can occur when there are many obstacles then when thear are few or none. A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul’s growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress. Brian L. Weiss
• Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. Thomas Carlyle
• Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties. Horace
• Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease. George Eliot
• Adversity calls forth the soul’s courage to bear unflinchingly whatever Heaven sends. Euripedes
• There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. Elie Wiesel
• Trials, temptations, disappointments — all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character, but strengthen it. Every conquered temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. James Buckham Kennedy
• A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul’s growth. You may have chosen the more difficult life so that you could accelerate your physical progress. Brian L. Weiss
• Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. Eliza Tabor Stephenson
• Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul? John Keats
• Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. Elias A. Ford
• Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. James Buckham
• He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. Henry Fielding
• I like to say that a bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul. When we look back on some of our most challenging experiences, we admit that we wouldn’t trade what we gained from them for remaining the same as we were. Something within acknowledges that during those times when we are pressed against the ropes of life, we learn to become more generous, to forgive, to never give up on ourselves or others. We learn to regenerate, to rejuvenate, to surrender. Michael Bernard Beckwith
• It is heartening to realize that although we may crave comfort and routine, we nourish the soul’s growth primarily through what is hard. Robert K. Cooper
• What treasure can I see in this? No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the glory out. Susan Jeffers
• Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life. Thomas Moore
• Your soul never asks you to endure anything you can’t handle. Debbie Ford
• What you lose in the world will not be a loss to your soul. Paramahansa Yogananda
• When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed. Nikos Kazantzakis
• A soul is forged in the fires of adversity, not comfort. Jana Oliver
• Everything is meant to be lost, that the soul may stand in unhampered nothingness. Meister Eckhart
• For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations. Logan Pearsall Smith
• The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory. Richard Sibbes
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A nourished soul creates joy

• To live happily is an inward power of the soul. Marcus Aurelius
• If you are not living in joy, you are out of integrity with your soul. Michael Beckwith
• The progress of our soul is like a perfect poem. It has an infinite idea which, once realised, makes all movements full of meaning and joy. Rabindanath Tagore
• When you do things from your soul you feel a river moving in you, a joy. When action come from another section, the feeling disappears. Rumi
• Set your soul on fire by awakening joy
• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand Foch
• The windows of my soul I throw wide open to the sun. John Greenleaf Whittier
• Joy is a quality of the soul and is realized in the mind when personality and soul are in alignment. Djwhal Khul
• The soul is here for its own joy. Rumi
• Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. Mother Teresa
• The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain. Myrtle Reed
• The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. Emily Dickinson
• The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience. Sri Aurobindo
• To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul. George Eliot
• We human beings are spiritual beings. We have soul. We have spirit. We have mind. We have consciousness. We want fulfillment, we want happiness, we want satisfaction, we want joy. We want imagination. We want art, culture, music. Satish Kumar
• The soul’s joy lies in doing. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul. Alexandra Stoddard
• There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go. Frederick Faber
• When your life is filled with the desire to see holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul! Harold Kushner
• The Spirit is ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new omnipresent Joy; the soul is the individualized reflection of ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new Joy, confined within the body of each and every being. Paramahansa Yogananda
• The soul’s joy lies in doing. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A nourished soul creates genuine happiness

• But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of the soul. Aristotle
• Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus
• The happiness of one’s own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one’s own happiness, the happiness of others. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Whatever’s good for your soul, do that.
• The forgetfulness of one’s true Self (soul) is the greatest suffering for a man. Everything that is not Atman is trivial. There is no real happiness in the trivial; the only happiness is in the Infinite. The Upanishads
• Because we are spiritual beings, it is the spirit of what we do that determines how much fulfillment we derive. You can be going through all the motions and doing all the appropriate and expected actions, but if you are empty or absent inside, your deeds mean little. Only soul satisfaction can fulfill you; everything else will leave you hungry. Rumi
• Most true happiness comes from one’s inner life, from the disposition of the mind and soul. Admittedly, a good inner life is difficult to achieve, especially in these trying times. It takes reflection and contemplation and self- discipline. William L. Shirer
• O, happy the soul that saw its own faults. Rumi
• Constant happiness is the philosopher’s stone of the soul. Voltaire
• To be happy is only to have freed one’s soul from the unrest of unhappiness. Maurice Maeterlinck
• Happiness is the soul’s joy in the possession of the intangible. William George Jordan
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A nourished soul is like a light that shines from you

• All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous. Thomas Carlyle
• Every little soul must shine. Burl Ives
• If something is written in the stars, can’t it also be inscribed in the fiery light of our own souls? Terri Guillemets
• Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that. Rumi
• Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form … you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light of your soul. John O’Donohue
• O little souls! as pure as white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul of mine! Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Take time to do what makes your soul happy. Let your soul shine as bright as the sun. Rumi
• What is a soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room. Ray Charles
• Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul. Henry David Thoreau
• With all your science – can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that light comes into the soul? Henry David Thoreau
• Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds. Louisa May Alcott
• Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too. Aberjhani
• Stop sourcing for external energry source to charge yourself. Seek the light within and it will brighten you more, remember you truly are one amazing, beautiful, gorgeous soul. Revathi Sankaran
• The moon looks wonderful in this warm evening light, just as a candle flame looks beautiful in the light of morning. Light within light… It seems to me to be a metaphor for the human soul, the singular light within that great general light of existence. Marilynne Robinson
• Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. Sarah Williams
• Through meditation one discovers one’s own light. That light you can call your soul, yourself, your God—whatsoever word you choose—or you can remain just silent because it has no name. Rajneesh
• You lavish your soul with lashings of light in those moments that you listen, love and laugh. Robert Beno
• Souls are the radiating rays of Spirit, individualized as formless, vibrationless “atoms” and “tissues” of Spirit. Paramahansa Yogananda
• The soul always remains unpolluted, like age-long buried gold. All one has to do is wash off the dirt and spiritual rays will shine forth through one’s joy. Paramahansa Yogananda
• The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world. Hugh Black
• Because love was a light that wouldn’t allow darkness to reign in his soul. Karen Kingsbury
• But few are those who tread the sunlit path; Only the pure in soul can walk in light. Sri Aurobindo
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A nourished soul illuminates the beauty within

• Beauty is the illumination of your soul. John O’Donohue
• Beauty is the reflection of the magic inside your soul. Vanessa Hernandez
• A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It’s the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows and the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years. Audrey Hepburn
• Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied. Amit Ray
• There is a beautiful thing inside you. Nikita Gill
• Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul’s beauty. Augustine of Hippo
• Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure. Plato
• Let there be many windows in your soul, That all the glory of the universe may beautify it. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Nobody should be judged on their looks. Beauty is not found on the body but in the soul. Danyon Guthrie-Lewis
• Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. Veronica A. Shoffstall
• The beauty of the soul is shown in the face. Tamil proverb
• The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. Aristotle
• The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance. Saint John Vianney
• Where does the rainbow end, in your soul or on the horizon? Pablo Neruda
• Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Alexander Pope
• Beauty attracts heart but character attracts soul. Sindhu Vishnu
• To care about your outward appearance is important, but what’s more important is to have a beautiful soul. Roy T. Bennett
• True beauty is a ray that springs from the sacred depths of the soul. Rumi
• True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within. A. Bucchianeri
• As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it. Henry David Thoreau
• The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul. Frank Delaney
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A nourished soul is like a fire that burns within

• A soul,–a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth. James F. Cooper
• Each is a spark from the original soul, and this soul is inherent in all souls. Martin Buber
• For what is man’s soul but a flame? It flickers in and around the body of a man as does the flame around the rough log. Selma Lagerlöf
• I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire. George Bernard Shaw
• I feel the flame of eternity in my soul. Helen Keller
• No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights dissolve in God’s own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite. Sri Chinmoy
• One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. Vincent van Gogh
• The fire that burns in the soul is of the same essential nature as the stars. Georg Lukacs
• The human mind is a spark of the almighty consciousness of God. Sri Yukteswar
• The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. Ferdinand Foch
• Upturned toward the sun, eyes closed. That color and warmth I see and feel is the soul on fire. If only it remained when again my eyes opened. Jeb Dickerson
• We are actually sparks of God, Working creatively together with God. Bernard Haisch
• The spirit of the human being is an inward flame, a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out. Margot Asquith
• One must never let the fire go out in one’s soul, but keep it burning. Vincent van Gogh
• Love is not a fire to be shut up in a soul. Jean Racine
• What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather? Charles Dickens

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A nourished soul generates vitality and energy

• There is a well of infinity hidden within each Soul. There you will find an incredible energy source, beyond your broadest understanding. It is Light and Healing. The Force of Nature. The essence of Love. Royce Addington
• If we identify with the soul, we awaken the authentic self, inspire the spirit and fuel the fire of transformation. Micheal Teal
• What is soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light up a room. Ray Charles
• To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul. Rumi
• Heal the soul first; then healing of the mind and body will follow. Zhi Gang Sha
• A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ. John Steinbeck
• A healthy soul must do two things for us. First, it must put some fire in our veins, keep us energized, vibrant, living with zest and full of hope as we sense that life is, ultimately beautiful and worth living … Second, a healthy soul has to keep us fixed together. It has to continually give us a sense of who we are, where we came from, where we are going, and what sense there is in all of this.
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A nourished soul brings grace

• Grace comes into the soul, as the morning sun into the world: first a dawning, then a light, and at last the sun in his full and excellent brightness. Thomas Adams
• Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. William Hazlitt
• Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God. Thomas Merton
• Grace is unity with God Grace is not a strange, magic substance which is subtly filtered into our souls to act as a kind of spiritual penicillin. Grace is unity, oneness within ourselves, oneness with God. Thomas Merton
• Grace teaches truth, monitors the monastery, illumines the soul, produces tears. Thomas a Kempis
• The grace of God comes swiftly to the soul when endurance is no longer possible. Dorotheus of Gaza
• In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Teresa of Avila
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A nourished soul brings health and healing

• The spirit is one of the most neglected parts of man by doctors and scientists around the world. Yet, it is as vital to our health as the heart and mind. It’s time for science to examine the many facets of the soul. The condition of our soul is usually the source of many sicknesses. Suzy Kassem
• If we want to change the world, it must first come from healing the discord within our own souls. Will Bowen
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A nourished soul brings inner peace

• Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Marcus Aurelius
• Peace is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. Jawaharlal Nehru
• As you find your soul-reservoir of peace, less and less controversy will be able to afflict your life. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Inner peace is oxygen to the spirit. Alison Stormwolf
• At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul. Hugh Black
• Every morning prepare your soul for a tranquil day. Saint Francis de Sales
• Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity. Teresa of Avila
• Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul. Francois Fenelon
• Peace is the wait of the patient soul. Candace Wheeler
• Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties. Horace
• The soul, at peace, reflects the peace without, Forgetting grief as sunset skies forget The morning’s transient shower. Emma Lazarus
• Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace unless there is soul peace. World wars are only projections of the conflicts waged inside the souls of men and women, for nothing happens in the external world that has not first happened within a soul. Fulton J. Sheen
• A peaceful mind is a springboard to positive transformation, for by cleansing the mind we inspire the spirit and motivate the soul. Micheal Teal
• Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. In the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. Max Ehrmann
• May such calmness of soul be mine, so as to meet the forces of circumstances. Aeschylus
• Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. Jawaharlal Nehru
• The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul. The Bhagavad Gita
• A peaceful soul haunts the warring mind. Iimani David
• What is success? It is being able to go to bed each night with your soul at peace. Paulo Coelho
• Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul. Isabel Allende
• Let everything about you breathe the calm and peace of the soul. Paul Gauguin
• Nothing from outside can stop a man from enjoying lasting peace and permanent joy in life, for it is the essential nature of his own soul. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
• Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever. Georg C. Lichtenberg
• Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account. Hannah Whitall Smith
• Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls. Honore Gabriel Riqueti
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A nourished soul awakens imagination and possibility

• Remember that imagination is the faculty of the soul and that when it suggests new pathways to us we are being invited to explore the territory of the soul in ways that will certainly change and re enchant us. Caitlin Matthews
• Imagination is the fundamental expressive tool of the soul. Bruce L. Moon
• The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. Henry Ward Beecher
• It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World’s Soul into all of us. Terence McKenna
• Imagination is the eye of the soul. Joseph Joubert
• All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of heaven, and is God’s self in the soul. Henry Ward Beecher
• Imagination is the deepest voice of the soul and can be heard clearly only through cultivation and careful attention. A relationship with our imagination is a relationship with our deepest self. Pat B. Allen
• Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Neither height nor depth can measure the possibilities of the human soul. James Lendall Basford
• Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish. Jean de la Fontaine
• The imaginative faculty of the soul must be fed with objects immense and eternal. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• All the possibilities of your human destiny are asleep in your soul. You are here to realize and honor these possibilities. When love comes in to your life, unrecognized dimensions of your destiny awaken and blossom and grow. Possibility is the secret heart of time. John O’Donohue
• Most people live … in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general. William James
• Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul. Sivananda
• To liberate the potential of your mind, body and soul, you must first expand your imagination. Robin Sharma
• Your soul’s desire are with you at birth like a hidden treasure chest of possibilities for you to discover as you grow and evolve into the person you were meant to be. Give voice to what you long for in the deepest place in your heart. Debbie Ford
• With the power of soul, anything is possible. Jimi Hendrix
• After deep exercise of soul, I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely. John Nelson Darby
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A nourished soul makes life come alive

• Until you know that life is interesting – and find it so – you haven’t found your soul. Geoffrey Fisher
• Relief from boredom, anxiety, depression, and addictions are the pleasant side effects of engaging the imagination, and of restoring the soul. Bruce L. Moon

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A nourished soul is a source of strength and resilience

• Defeat is in your mind…resilience is in your soul. Keri Murphy
• The soul that is within me no man can degrade. Frederick Douglass
• Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul. Rumi
• Even if your body isn’t healthy, your soul overcomes that, it doesn’t even care, it worships anyway, it’s joyful anyway. That’s what God wants to give you in your life. Lacey Mosley
• Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. Alex Karras
• So artist, you too from the depths of your soul…let your roots creep forth, gaining strength. Emily Carr
• Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair. William Shakespeare
• Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles. Alex Karras
• Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows how to survive in hard places. I learned about these qualities during my bouts with depression. In that deadly darkness, the faculties I had always depended on collapsed. My intellect was useless; my emotions were dead; my will was impotent; my ego was shattered. But from time to time, deep in the thickets of my inner wilderness, I could sense the presence of something that knew how to stay alive even when the rest of me wanted to die. That something was my tough and tenacious soul. Parker J. Palmer
• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A nourished soul is a source of courage

• Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery. Henry Van Dyke
• When you say a man has guts, you say he has a soul. Martin H. Fischer
• Proclaim the glory of the Atman (soul) with the roar of a lion, and impart fearlessness unto all beings. Swami Vivekananda
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A nourished soul is a source of will and resolve

• A man can be compelled to do anything, but his soul cannot be forced. Simon Soloveychik
• There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness; but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise; be wise and thou art happy. Akhenaton
• There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;All things give way before it soon or late.What obstacle can stay the mighty force Of the sea seeking river in its course, Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait? Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back. Vince Lombardi
• A warrior…must believe in his strength of will, of purpose, of heart and soul. David Gemmell
• No more will, no more soul, no more life! George Ohsawa
• It’s important to distinguish the soul from the spirit, or will, because the will or the heart or the spirit is the executive center of the self. Dallas Willard
• Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
• A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop. Robert Hughes
• To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul. Rumi
• Will power,  Self-control

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A nourished soul can become the masters of one’s destiny

• A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master. Carl Jung
• A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. James Allen
• Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart. Robert Brault
• It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley
• When there’s no information and the compass turns to nowhere that you know well, let your soul be your pilot. Sting
• Take me to the pilot of your soul. Elton John
• The soul of man createth its own destiny. Nathaniel Parker Willis
• The soul of man is not a thing which comes and goes, is builded and decays like the elemental frame in which it is set to dwell, but a very living force, a very energy of God’s organic will, which rules and moulds this universe. James Anthony Froude
• To understand that we have souls, is to feel our separation from things visible, our independence of them, our distinct existence in ourselves, our individuality, our power of acting for ourselves this way or that way, our accountableness for what we do. John Henry Newman
• We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts. Napoleon Hill
• The soul is a special substance, endowed with reason, adapted to rule the body. Augustine
• A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. Benjamin Disraeli
• Great souls have wills; feeble ones only have wishes. Robert Collier
• My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger. Aldous Huxley
• One ship drives east and another west, with the self-same winds that blow. ‘Tis the set of the sails and not the gales that determines where they go. Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate, as we voyage along through life; ’tis the set of a soul that decides its goal and not the calm or the strife. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley
• A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Destiny,  Choice,  Living consciously

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A nourished soul is a source of creative expression …

• Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time. Debbie Ford
• Creativity is an attitude that transcends paradigms and beliefs. It’s a soul level yearning to fulfill a purpose, uniquely contribute and leave a mark. Janice Francisco
• Trust the process of the subtle push toward art and creative expression from inside you – it is the gentle call of your heart and renewed search for soul. It is an opening to expansion of your expressive abilities and the discovery of hidden limitations ready to be challenged. Be open to what it means, it has many possibilities for action in every part of your life. Ultimately it will lead to significant personal changes – to living life in a new way with new tools of creative expression. Donald William Mathews
• What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul. Deepak Chopra
• The soul creates, the mind reacts. Neale Donald Walsch
• Great souls have wills; feeble ones only have wishes. Robert Collier
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… inspiring art…

• Art is not in the …eye of the beholder. It’s in the soul of the artist. Seth Goden
• Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. Somerset Maugham
• Art is the journey of a free soul. Alev Oguz
• Art is like a fart for the soul. Better out than in. Martin Firrell
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… and music…

• Music is the soul of language. Max Heindel
• Music is an outburst of the soul. Frederick Delius
• Music is the vernacular of the human soul. Geoffrey Latham
• For me, music is the smile of the soul. Luis Szaran
• Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. Plato
• Music is to the soul what words are to the mind. Modest Mouse
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… and dance

• Dance is the hidden language of the soul. Martha Graham
• Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It’s the language of the soul. Gabrielle Roth
• I feel that the essence of dance is the expression of man–the landscape of his soul. I hope that every dance I do reveals something of myself or some wonderful thing a human can be. Martha Graham
• I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words. Ruth St. Denis
• The dancer’s body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. Isadora Duncan
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A nourished soul is a source of genius

• Each man’s soul is his genius. Xenocrates
• Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit. Wallace D. Wattles
• Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul. Edwin Percy Whipple
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A nourished soul helps understand

• The soul creates, the mind reacts. The soul understands what the mind cannot conceive. Neale Donald Walsch
• The soul has been given its own ears to hear things that the mind does not understand. Rumi
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A nourished soul recognises truth

• Re-examine all that you have been told. Dismiss that which insults your soul. Walt Whitman
• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth. Walt Whitman
• Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.” Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.” For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. Kahlil Gibran
• Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
• The soul understands what the mind cannot conceive. Neale Donald Walsch
• Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. Anne Sexton
• I’ve heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not. Richelle Mead
• In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him. Frederick William Robertson
• In the attitude of silence, the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. Mahatma Gandhi
• The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth. Henry Theodore Tuckerman
• Truth is a very different thing from fact; it is the loving contact of the soul with spiritual fact, vital and potent. It does not work in the soul independently of all faculty or qualification there for setting it forth or defending it. Truth in the inward parts is a power, not an opinion. George MacDonald
• Truths are too often considered as so true, that they lose all the power of truth, and lie bed-ridden in the dormitory of the soul, side by side with the most despised and exploded errors. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Re-examine all that you have been told in school, or in church or in any book. Dismiss whatever insults your soul. Walt Whitman
• All souls can find the truth within. Eileen Caddy
• Don’t turn your face away. Once you’ve seen, you can no longer act like you don’t know. Open your eyes to the truth. It’s all around you. Don’t deny what the eyes to your soul have revealed to you. Now that you know, you cannot feign ignorance. Now that you’re aware of the problem, you cannot pretend you don’t care. To be concerned is to be human. To act is to care. Vashti Quiroz-Vega
• I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise from the soul saying, “Ain’t that the truth.” Quincy Jones
• You can’t lie to your soul. Irvine Welsh
• The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought. George Gissing
• The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer say what they choose. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A nourished soul is an excellent teacher

• There is no other teacher but your own soul. Swami Vivekananda
• To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. Muriel Spark
• My body has taught me many things, all of them filled with soul: how to dance and make love, mourn and make music; now it is teaching me how to heal. I am learning to heed the shifting currents of my body–the subtle changes in temperature, muscle tension, thought and mood–the way a sailor rides the wind by reading the ripples on the water. Kat Duff
• The whole point of anything that is really, truly valuable to your soul, and your own growth, is not to attach to a teacher, but rather to find out what the real deal is in the world itself. Alice Walker
• University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can’t teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one’s soul. JoyBell C.
• Learning,  Teaching

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A nourished soul expands perception…

• Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and spiritual worlds are opened to him. For those who do not have such higher senses, these worlds are dark and silent, just as the bodily world is dark and silent for a being without eyes and ears. Rudolf Steiner
• Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, there are other colors in the heart and the soul. Rumi
• Our ability to understand ourselves is now expanding beyond the information that we can receive from our five senses. We’re becoming aware of ourselves as more than minds and bodies. We are becoming aware of ourselves as souls while we simultaneously have personalities and walk upon the earth. That is the huge transformation that is reshaping the human experience – the expansion of our perceptual capability beyond the five senses. We’re becoming multisensory. Gary Zukav
• A soul subject is something that resonates with you deeper than the intellect can reach…a multi- sensory perception…a recognition of a new freedom that is calling you. Gary Zukav
• As you become multi-sensory, you begin to see yourself as a soul first and a personality second. You begin to experience yourself as more than a body and more than a mind. and the circumstances around you as meaningful and designed for your spiritual growth. Gary Zukav
• Drink from your own wells. Sup at your table. Speak from your own heart. Go where your legs take you. Know your own mind. See through your soul’s eyes. Follow none but your own self. For each man has his own pathway, and whoever would be your guide cannot help but lead you astray. Marcus Tullius Tiro
• For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a man’s soul with the larger sweep of the world’s forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. George Eliot
• Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don’t know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more. JoyBell C.
• Perception is merely reality filtered through the prism of your soul. Christopher A. Ray
• Reverence is a perception of the soul. Gary Zukav
• The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we able to know everything, because it’s all written there. Paulo Coelho
• The five senses are the ministers of the soul. Leonardo da Vinci
• What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations. S. Lewis
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… especially through the power of intuition

• Intuition is seeing with the soul. Deen Koontz
• Intuition is your soul’s perception… Compton Mackenzie
• Trust your intuition. It’s your soul talking to you. Tony Kelbrat
• We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct. Charles Sanders Peirce
• Intuition is the whisper of the soul. Jiddu Krishnamurti
• By learning to trust your intuition, miracles seem to happen. Intuitive thoughts are gifts from the higher self. Susan Jeffers
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A nourished soul brings heightened awareness

• When you are soul-centered, you can focus your attention where and when you want to, easily, without distraction. You know to look for what you want to see and experience. You know that what you seek you shall find, and what you focus on in life will be more prominent in your awareness. You know your awareness is powerful and creative. Sarah McLean
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A nourished soul creates charisma

• Charisma is the fragrance of soul. Toba Beta

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A nourished soul is what true wealth is

• The meaning of earthly existence lies, not as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Henry David Thoreau
• It would be idle to say that life is a steady progression in happiness. But it is most certain that in the natural course of things a healthy soul grows continually richer until its latest day on earth. George S. Merriam
• Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. Bob Marley
• The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel… its poverty by how little. Sherrilyn Kenyon
• Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night. Marian Wright Edelman
• It’s better to have a rich soul than to be rich. Olga Korbut
• Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. Oscar Wilde
• A single soul is richer than all the worlds. Alexander Smith
• It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind. Lucretius
• In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. Oscar Wilde
• The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul. Prophet Muhammad
• The human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches. Henry Ward Beecher
• There is no point in getting rich if we lose our soul along the way. Farahad Zama
• One’s real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched. Olive Schreiner
• Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul. James Allen
• Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Henry David Thoreau
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Recognise others as beautiful souls

• When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person. Shannon L. Alder
• I see behind each mask that wonder; a kindred soul. Walt Whitman
• Whether thou be king or peasant, I shall remember only that thou art a soul. Though thy raiment be of hodden gray, yet I shall speak to royalty, and though it be of ermine, I shall speak only to the peasant heart beneath. Muriel Strode Lieberman
• Worship God by reverencing the human soul as God’s chosen sanctuary. Revere it in yourselves, revere it in others, and labor to carry it forward. …Go forth to respect the rights, and seek the true, enduring welfare of all within your influence. Carry with you the conviction that to trample on a human being, of whatevercolor, clime, rank, condition, is to trample on God’s child. William Ellery Channing
• Develop an interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music – the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself. Henry Miller
• From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the sake of each other – above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Albert Einstein
• To every soul you encounter, be a mirror, which reflects only their beauty. Bryant McGill
• When we lose sight of each other as sacred souls on a sacred journey, then we cannot see the purpose behind all relationships. Neale Donald Walsch
• When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing. Catherine Ponder
• Our fundamental relationship is soul-to-soul. As we become multi-sensory, we become aware of it. Gary Zukav

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Be with those who make your soul bloom

• I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. Rumi
• Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. Marcel Proust
• Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. George Eliot
• Look carefully around you and recognize the luminosity of souls. Sit beside those who draw you to that. Rumi
• When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul. Langston Hughes
• He stirred my soul in the most subtle way and the story between us wrote itself. Nikki Rowe
• I know your soul. Everything else is just an ornament. Roshani Chokshi
• If life is a journey, then let my soul travel and share your pain. Santosh Kalwar
• No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence. George Eliot
• Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for a while, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never ever the same. Flavia Weedn
• Spiritual partnership implies a goal of encouraging and supporting the unfolding of each other’s soul’s reasons for being here in the first place. Katherine Woodward Thomas
• There is nought better than to be with noble souls in company. Mahabharata
• Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person’s soul. John O’Donohue
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Reveal your soul to others…

• You can have regret from yesterday, fear tomorrow but peace today by sharing your heart’s deepest feelings. A life spent being fearful of showing your soul is a life not worth living. Shannon L. Alder
• You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul. Ivan Turgenev
• You’re more powerful when talking from your soul. Jane Fonda
• With few words I shall make thee understand my soul. Michelangelo
• Because to confide a part of your soul to something that can think and move for itself is obviously a very risky business. K. Rowling
• There is more to a soul than what others see. Colleen Coble
• Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I’ll sketch it in words. Yasunari Kawabata
• Vulnerability,  Intimacy

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… but not to just anyone

• I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope. Oscar Wilde
• I felt like some part of my soul was ripped out and put under a microscope for criticizing. Alysha Speer

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Touch the soul of another and allow your soul to be touched

• The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground. Stephen Covey
• One’s real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched. Olive Schreiner
• Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people’s souls. Melody Beattie
• Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch. John Dryden
• Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Touching souls… The best feeling in the world. Renzo Gracie
• When souls really touch, it is forever. Then space and time disappear, and all that remains is the consciousness that we are not alone in life. Joan D. Chittister
• My heart beats faster as you take my hand, my love grows stronger as you touch my soul. A.C. Van Cherub
• When a man touches a woman’s body, he is not just touching her body. It goes MUCH DEEPER than that for a woman. He is touching parts of her soul- parts as diverse as how she feels about being a grandmother someday, to what is her favorite ice cream, to how much she loves her pet, and to her opinion of how the current President is governing. The man wants a sexual encounter and love is far from his mind; she desires permanence, commitment, safety, and security. Jim Anderson
• We should seize every opportunity to give encouragement. Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. George M. Adams
• The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal. Maurice Maeterlinck

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True love is a union of souls

• One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it… and the journey is always towards the other soul. H. Lawrence
• Love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Kahlil Gibran
• Love grows. Lust wastes by enjoyment, and the reason is, that one springs from an union of souls, and the other from a union of sense. William Penn
• I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still… I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose. Emily Dickinson
• Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. Rumi
• The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love. Thomas Carlyle
• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle
• Love does not choose belief, place, time, situations, or race. Love happens between two souls. Haidji
• Love allows understanding to dawn, and understanding is precious. Where you are understood, you are at home. Understanding nourishes belonging. When you really feel understood, you feel free to release yourself into the trust and shelter of the other person’s soul. John O’Donohue
• Sweet serenity; the love and magic of two souls forever intertwined. Debbie Nicholson
• The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love… and, mirror-like… each soul reflects the other. Dante Alighieri
• I feel like a part of my soul has loved you since the beginning of everything. Maybe we’re from the same star. Emery Allen
• Love is putting a piece of your soul into someone else’s care, and being responsible for an equal share of theirs. This is soulmate love. S. Berg
• Unity,  Oneness.  Connectedness

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True intimacy in a relationship comes from the soul

• I am not saying renounce sex, I am saying transform it. It need not remain just biological: bring some spirituality to it. While making love, meditate too. While making love, be prayerful. Love should not be just a physical act; pour your soul into it. Osho
• Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved. John O’Donohue
• How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into. Sylvia Plath
• Seduce my mind and you can have my body. Find my soul and I am yours forever.
• Our fundamental relationship is soul-to-soul. As we become multi-sensory, we become aware of it. Gary Zukav
• The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together. Barbara De Angelis
• Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul. Mahatma Gandhi
• It is through our deepest intimate relationships that we can gain some of our soul’s most powerful spiritual advancements. John Friend
• Every woman wants a man who’ll fall in love with her soul as well as her body. Rainbow Rowell
• Principles for healthy relationships,  Intimacy

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Connect to the soul of another …

• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Nicholas Sparks
• A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other’s individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level. John Welwood
• Our souls speak a language that is beyond human understanding. A connection so rare the universe won’t let us part. Nikki Rowe
• Intimacy is not purely physical. It’s the act of connecting with someone so deeply, you feel like you can see into their soul. Reshall Varsos
• Soulmate is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real. Hilary Duff
• Whatever happened, I’d met my person, the one my soul connected to. Kiera Cass, The Siren
• It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart. Henry Miller
• Our souls were split in two in heaven in order that we should find each other in this world and become whole. Rabbi Avroham Czapnik
• What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life – to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. George Eliot
• No one could tell me where my soul might be; I searched for God but he eluded me; I sought my brother out and found all three. Ernest Howard Crosby
• Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right-doing there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about. Rumi
• Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words. Rumi
• The heart heals with the anticipation of meeting another soul. Greg Popiel
• We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls. Anaïs Nin
• We transform our relationships when we listen with our ears, hearts, and souls. Deepak Chopra
• I love being reminded that existence itself is all about the tangling of souls. Carolyn Mackler
• Soulmates,  Connection

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… through conversation…

• Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul. Isabel Allende
• Great conversation … requires an absolute running of two souls into one. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Making conversation

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… through friendship …

• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
• Friendships – and indeed most relationships – are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties… not in the distance of physical miles or even the passing of time. Rasheed Ogunlaru
• What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
• Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honours its laws. Ogwo David Emenike
• Mingle often with good people to keep your soul nourished. Anthony Douglas
• There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one’s self, the very meaning of one’s soul. Edith Wharton
• A bosom friend — an intimate friend, you know — a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
• Friends are all souls that we’ve known in other lives. We’re drawn to each other. That’s how I feel about friends. Even if I have only known them a day, it doesn’t matter. I’m not going to wait till I have known them for two years, because anyway, we must have met somewhere before, you know. George Harrison
• Friends will keep you sane. Love could fill your heart. A lover can warm your bed. But lonely is the soul Without a mate. David Pratt
• If you claim to be a real friend then be real in your soul. If you claim to be fake then be an enemy instead. Santosh Kalwar
• There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul. Baltasar Gracian
• Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul. Chaim Potok
• A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. Charles Kingsley
• The noble soul occupies itself with wisdom and friendship. Epicurus
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… through a kiss

• A kiss seals two souls for a moment in time. Levende Waters
• Ancient lovers believed a kiss would literally unite their souls, because the spirit was said to be carried in one’s breath. Eve Glicksman
• Once he drew With one long kiss my whole soul thro’ My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew. Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze. Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
• What of soul was left, I wonder, when the kissing had to stop? Robert Browning
• When I kiss you, I can taste your soul. Terri Guillemets
• For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy Garland
• Four sweet lips, two pure souls, and one undying affection, – these are love’s pretty ingredients for a kiss. Christian Nestell Bovee
• Kissing with the tip of the tongue is like ice-cream melting. It was he who taught me that a kiss has a soul and colour of its own. Weihui Zhou
• When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted. Rumi
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Photograph the soul of another

• When you photograph a face . . .you photograph the soul behind it. Jean-Luc Godard
• When you photograph people in color, you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in Black and white, you photograph their souls! Ted Grant
• Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face. Steve McCurry
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Let go of the need to judge the journey of another soul

• It is not for you to judge the journey of another’s soul. It is for you to decide who you are, not who another has been, or has failed to be. Neale Donald Walsch
• It’s easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you’d be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it’s lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul. Sherrilyn Kenyon
• When you learn not to judge, you are basically saying, “I am willing to let anything in without deciding first whether it is good or bad.” In the practice of openness, you will be inviting your soul to be intimate with you. Deepak Chopra
• We should worry about our own souls first and trust in God’s plan for others. James Cook
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A soulmate is a soul that reflects your own

• Our universe grants every soul a twin-a reflection of themselves -the kindred spirit – And no matter where they are or how far away they are from each other- even if they are in different dimensions, they will always find one another. This is destiny; this is love. Julie Dillon
• People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. Elizabeth Gilbert
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Soulmates often share the same soul mission and life path

• Rather than being about excitement and lust, a soul mate relationship is characterized by such things as a shared life path, a sense of comfort and ease, and a genuine liking of each other. Katherine Woodward Thomas
• Soulmates tend to find each other during their respective pursuits of their soul missions. Creating a soulmate could be seen as a spiritual reward that we give ourselves, after pursuing many soul contracts rife with discord. Linda Brady
• When will I meet him? We meet our soulmates when we’re on our soul path. Karen M. Black
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Soulmates are deeply connected

• Soulmate is an overused term, but a true soul connection is very rare, and very real. Hilary Duff
• I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years — across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won’t break because our souls are tied. Jennifer Elisabeth
• A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks up again in various times and places over lifetimes. We are attracted to another person at a soul level not because that person is our unique complement, but because by being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves. Edgar Cayce
• A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace. Thomas Moore
• I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together. Lisa Kleypas
• The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other. And maybe each time, we’ve been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come. Nicholas Sparks
• Souls bound together can’t be forever torn apart by distance and neither by death. Patti Callahan Henry
• Mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and–and in love before they’re born. Scott Fitzgerald
• You are the soul that fits into mine. Lauren Kate
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Soulmates provide a supreme level of comfort and security

• We recognize a soul mate by the supreme level of comfort and security we feel with that person. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t issues that remain to be ironed out. Rather, it means we know intuitively that we can resolve issues with our soul mate without losing his or her love and respect. Linda Brady
• Love is putting a piece of your soul into someone else’s care, and being responsible for an equal share of theirs. This is soulmate love. S. Berg
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Soulmates bring out the best in us

• A soul mate is a person who brings out the best in you. They are far from perfect, but they are a perfect fit for you. Marc and Angel Chernoff
• A soul mate is someone whose way of viewing life is not necessarily the same as yours but complements yours, so that there is not a compromise, there is a complement. Paul Robear
• A soulmate is the person who makes your soul grow the most. Caroline Myss
• A soulmate is the one person whose love is powerful enough to motivate you to meet your soul, to do the emotional work of self- discovery, of awakening. Kenny Loggins

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Soulmates can take many forms

• Most people have more than one soul mate. You may already be in several soul mate relationships with friends and loved ones. A soul mate can come in the form of a life partner, treasured friend, child, or lover. A soul mate can be someone with whom you share a spiritual path, a joint work in the world, or a commitment to be parents to certain souls. It can be someone whose growth you are sponsoring, such as a child. Sanaya Roman

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Soulmates are brought together by synchronicity

• Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences. Emery Allen
• The moment you meet your SoulMate is the ultimate synchronicity. Lucky is the person who recognizes in that very moment the intersection of the perfect time, perfect place and perfect person. Annette Vaillancourt Ph.D.
• When deep down in the core of your being you believe that your soulmate exists, there is no limit to the ways he or she can enter your life. Arielle Ford
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Soulmates sometimes come and go

• If you want to attract a life partner as your soul mate, there are several illusions you will need to relinquish. One is that your soul mate is someone you will be with for the rest of your life. You can have a soul mate relationship that lasts a few weeks, months, or years. Time has nothing to do with the quality of your connection and its importance in your life. Sanaya Roman

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More about soulmates

• Maybe our girlfriends are our soulmates and guys are just people to have fun with. Candace Bushnell
• Our soulmates seldom appeal to our personality—our ego. That’s why they are called soulmates rather than ego mates. Carolyn Miller
• To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect. Criss Jami
• What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with. Robert Brault
• Your soul mate can turn into your cell mate if the mutual desire for growth isn’t there. Judith Orloff

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• Actually, your soul and mine are the same. We appear and disappear with each other. Rumi
• Adoration is made out of a solitary soul occupying two bodies. Aristotle
• Know in thyself and All one self-same soul; banish the dream that sunders part from whole. old Hindu poem
• All souls are one. Each is a spark from the original soul, and this soul is inherent in all souls, just as your soul is inherent in all the members of your body. Martin Buber
• Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Aristotle
• Ocean separates lands, not souls. Munia Khan
• I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone. Mohandas K. Gandhi
• Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
• The universe is a single life comprising one substance and one soul. Marcus Aurelius
• We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. John Muir
• Weak or wicked, great or small, in men and in animal, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in the soul, but in the manifestation. Between me and the smallest animal the difference is only of manifestation, but as a principle he is the same as I am, he is my brother, he has the same soul as I have. This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants. Swami Vivekananda
• We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman (soul) or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self (soul) can see that Self in everybody. Swami Satchidananda
• We should learn to love everyone equally, because in essence we are all one, one Atman, one soul. Mata Amritanandamayi
• Enquire: ‘Who am I?’ and you will find the answer. Look at a tree: from one seed arises a huge tree; from it comes numerous seeds, each one of which in its turn grows into a tree. No two fruits are alike. Yet it is one life that throbs in every particle of the tree. So, it is the same Atman (soul) everywhere. Anandamayi Ma
• Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion. Marguerite Young
• The Ātman is that which appears to be separate between two living beings but isn’t, that essence and innermost, true, radiant self of all individuals which connects and unifies all. Chandogya Upanishad
• The most intimate motions within the depths of our souls are not completely our own. For they belong also to our friends, to humankind, to the universe, and the Ground of all being, the aim of our life. Paul Tillich
• Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Emily Brontë
• How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul. Frances Hodgson Burnett
• You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one. Rumi
• A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. Rumi
• I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!. G. Holland
• Plotinus thought that the entire world has a single soul. He also thought that each animal and plant and of course human, has an individual soul. Peter Adamson
• I did not know my soul until I saw it’s reflection in your eyes. Anne Fortier
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• The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life. K.S. Iyengar
• Health is a state of complete harmony of the body, mind and spirit. When one is free from physical disabilities and mental distractions, the gates of the soul open. K.S.
• Empowered choices are “whole choices” that take your mind, body and soul into consideration. Danielle LaPorte
• Nourish your spirit with stillness. Nourish your mind with knowledge. Nourish your heart with unconditional love. Nourish your body with living food. Nourish your relationships with thoughtfulness. Tim Ong
• Thinking in images creates fire in the mind, visions in the soul and energy in the body. Dr Jean Houston
• If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit. Thomas Merton
• The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain. Myrtle Reed
• The peace of God is with them whose mind and soul are in harmony, who are free from desire and wrath, who know their own soul. The Bhagavad Gita
• Heal the soul first; then healing of the mind and body will follow. Zhi Gang Sha
• The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. Nicholas Sparks
• A sound soul dwells within a sound mind and a sound body. Atsushi
• Before this moment I’d lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what can it be? Denis Johnson
• Harmony,  Mind, body, soul connection

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The heart speaks for the soul

• You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. You must know what you are feeling. If you don’t know what you are feeling, you will create unconsciously. If you are unconscious of an aspect of yourself; if it operates outside your field of awareness, that aspect has power over you. Gary Zukav
• The most sacred place dwells within our heart, where dreams are born and secrets sleep, a mystical refuge of darkness and light, fear and conquest, adventure and discovery, challenge and transformation. Our heart speaks for our soul every moment while we are alive. Listen… as the whispering beat repeats: be…gin, be…gin, be…gin. It’s really that simple. Just begin… again. Royce Addington
• If we can feel that it is not our voice, not our fingers, but some reality deep inside our heart which is expressing itself, then we will know that it is the soul’s music. Sri Chinmoy
• Great thoughts come from the heart, not the mind. To the soul alone, therefore, belong the thoughts that reunite, to the mind those that divide. Alexandre Vinet
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The heart and the soul complement each other

• The heart is the perfection of the whole organism. Therefore, the principles of the power of perception and the soul’s ability to nourish itself must lie in the heart. Aristotle
• A beating heart needs a soul to go with it, or it’s nothing but a machine. Terri Guillemets

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It’s the heart that discovers and knows the soul

• You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. Gary Zukav

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The mind and soul are intertwined …

• The mind is a place where the soul goes to hide from the heart. Michael Singer
• … the mind is the internal coating of the Atman (soul) who is the real perceiver, the real enjoyer. Swami Vivekananda
• A soul gives power to the mind; and the mind empowers the soul. Jeremy Aldana
• Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted together. Maharaj Charan Singh Ji
• As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul! Sophocles
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… for the mind effects the soul…

• Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts. Marcus Aurelius
• Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted together. Maharaj Charan Singh Ji
• As sight is in the eye, so is the mind in the soul! Sophocles
• Joy is a quality of the soul and is realized in the mind when personality and soul are in alignment. Djwhal Khul
• Worry drains the mind of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul. Robin S. Sharma

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… just as the soul effects the mind

• The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master. Anne Sophie Swetchine
• Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Shelly
• Heal the soul first; then healing of the mind and body will follow. Zhi Gang Sha

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A peaceful soul needs a peaceful mind and vice versa

• Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives. Marcus Aurelius
• A peaceful mind is a springboard to positive transformation, for by cleansing the mind we inspire the spirit and motivate the soul. Micheal Teal
• Peace is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people. Jawaharlal Nehru
• A peaceful soul haunts the warring mind. Iimani David
• Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
• It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind. Lucretius
• Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms. Rabindranath Tagore

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The mind and soul can be on different wave-lengths

• Noise is the function of the human mind. Silence is the abiding state of your soul. Robert Beno
• The soul creates, the mind reacts. Neale Donald Walsch
• Human is a suffered mind but an enlightened soul. Santosh Kalwar
• This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls. Aberjhani
• The soul is that which beholds beauty even when the mind denies it. Neale Donald Walsch
• … we see facts with our eyes; we see ideas with our minds; we see ideals with our souls. Whatever we see with our souls is real and permanent and cannot be destroyed. Glenn Clark
• Mind says: ‘I can’t be happy in this moment because it has nothing I want’. The Soul responds: ‘This moment is all we ever have’. Robert Beno
• Defeat is in your mind…resilience is in your soul. Keri Murphy
• Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind. Alex Karras
• Great thoughts come from the heart, not the mind. To the soul alone, therefore, belong the thoughts that reunite, to the mind those that divide. Alexandre Vinet
• Religion handcuffs the mind, Spirituality frees the soul. Look deep inside for the key. Liam Deegan
• What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• The body apologizes to the soul for its errors, and the soul asks forgiveness for squatting in the body without invitation. Gregory Maguire

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The soul understands what the mind cannot

• The soul understands what the mind cannot conceive. Neale Donald Walsch
• The soul has been given its own ears to hear things that the mind does not understand. Rumi
• I’ve heard that the soul often recognizes truth when it hears it, even if the mind does not. Richelle Mead
• It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart. Henry Miller
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Both the mind and soul must be nourished and fed

• The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. Marcus Tullius Cicero
• The mind, with its emotions, is composed of ideas and impressions, and it is healthy and vital when it is continually replenished with inspiration, confidence, hope, wisdom, and understanding. No man lives long without food of the spirit. Ervin Seale

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Nowadays the soul and mind have become interchangeable as concepts

• One might wonder “even if the mind is physical, what about the soul?” Maybe it’s the soul, not the mind, which is non-physical as one might be told in many religious traditions. While it is true that the term “soul” (or “spirit”) is often used instead of “mind” in such religious contexts, the problem is that it is unclear just how the soul is supposed to differ from the mind. The terms are often even used interchangeably in many historical texts and by many philosophers because it is unclear what else the soul could be other than “the mental substance.” It is difficult to describe the soul in any way that doesn’t make it sound like what we mean by the mind. After all, that’s what many believe goes on after bodily death; namely, conscious mental activity. Granted that the term “soul” carries a more theological connotation, but it doesn’t follow that the words “soul” and “mind” refer to entirely different things. Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy
• In more recent metaphysics less has been heard of the soul and more of the mind; the old problem of the relationship of soul and body is now that of the relationship of mind and body. Encyclopaedia Britannica
• In the seventeenth century, the mechanistic revolution abolished souls and purposes from nature, with the single exception of human minds. Rupert Sheldrake
• Thinking is the soul speaking to itself. Rebecca Goldstein

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Some describe the body and the soul as being distinct…

• Always discriminate-your body, your house, the people and the world are all absolutely unreal like a dream. Always think that the body is only an inert instrument. And the Atman (soul) within is your real nature. Swami Vivekananda
• The soul is not the body and it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body. Giordano Bruno
• You are a little soul carrying around a corpse. Epictetus
• My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecilic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul. Robert E. Howard
• Your soul isn’t in your body; your body is in your soul! Alan Watts
• One of the most difficult jobs of earthly self is to reconcile soul and body. Terri Guillemets
• The body is some kind of image of you, it’s kind of something that’s just attached to your soul, some kind of outside principle, which doesn’t really represent who you really are. Peter Adamson
• Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body. Michael Shermer
• What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul. Oscar Wilde
• There is no great difficulty to separate the soul from the body, but it is not so easy to restore life to the dead. Saadi
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… while others argue they are not separate

• Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. William Blake
• Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning. Albert Einstein
• Souls and bodies should go on together. Louisa May Alcott
• Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn’t give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul. Kabir
• My body is precious and not separate from my soul. S.A.R.K.
• The flesh is as spiritual as the soul, and the soul is as natural as the flesh. Jane Roberts
• The soul and body are the same shape—that the soul is not a speck or spot in the heart, or brain—a something and nothing, but that it inhabits every part of the body, and thus its seat is all over the body. James Gillingham
• I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one’s-self is. Walt Whitman
• What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul. Oscar Wilde
• We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one. Aristotle
• The body is wiser than its inhabitants. The body is the soul. The body is God’s messenger. Erica Jong
• We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies. George Bernard Shaw
• A soul, being invisible by nature, can be distinguished only by the presence of its body or bodies. The mere presence of a body signifies that its existence is made possible by unfulfilled desires. Paramahansa Yogananda

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The soul is more what we essentially are than the body

• See yourself as a soul with a body, rather than a body with a soul. Wayne Dyer
• You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. S. Lewis
• I’m not a body with a soul, I’m a soul that has a visible part called the body. Paulo Coelho
• I am not my body. My body is nothing without me. Tom Stoppard
• I began by being perplexed about my body; and I ended by being anxious about my soul. In short, I wished to know what I was. Adolphe Monod
• I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes. Anaïs Nin
• Never tell a child, said George Macdonald, you have a soul. Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body. The body is but the temporary clothing of the soul… H.F.A
• My body seems a mere encumbrance to me; an imbecilic wagon, hitched to the horse of desire, which is the soul. Robert E. Howard
• Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse. Marcus Aurelius
• We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience. George Harrison
• Your soul isn’t in your body; your body is in your soul! Alan Watts
• The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman (soul) who is the real perceiver, the real enjoyer, the being in the body who is working the body by means of the internal organ or the mind. Swami Vivekananda

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The body is the dwelling place of the soul

• The body is our dwelling-place, and the soul the immortal guest which lodges there. Mencius
• Remember that the body is the temple of the soul. Those who mistreat the body tend to mistreat the soul within. Susan Santucci
• The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in. K.S. Lyengar
• Souls are poured from one into another of different kinds of bodies of the world. Jesus Christ in Gnostic Gospels: Pistis Sophia
• One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know if once mine gets out, I’ll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other. Lord Byron
• The soul lives unstably in the body, and is capable of mysterious transformations. Somerset Maugham
• Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively. Diogenes Laertius
• The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of this you would not say that you have changed. Similarly, when you give up this bodily dress at death you do not change. You are just the same, an immortal soul, a child of God. Paramahansa Yogananda

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… and therefore, should be well cared for

• The body is the soul’s house. Shouldn’t we therefore take care of our house so that it doesn’t fall into ruin? Philo Judaeus
• You only get one body; it is the temple of your soul. Even God is willing to live there. If you truly treat your body like a temple, it will serve you well for decades. If you abuse it you must be prepared for poor health and a lack of energy. Ollie Hille
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The body, some say, is the temporary prisoner of the soul

• Blake said that the body was the soul’s prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the ‘windows of the soul.’ When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience. Jim Morrison
• Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death. Charles Caleb Colton
• Once the soul has been caught by maya, or delusion, it must occupy a series of prison houses of births and deaths to fulfill its desires and pay to the Justice of Cause and Effect the debts incurred by its own actions. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Our souls are prisoners of the terror of death, and the day is beautiful. Paulo Coelho
• Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul. Henry Van Dyke
• The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul. William Gilmore Simms
• The body distracts your soul. Peter Adamson
• The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it. Tanith Lee
• The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself. If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, someday an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free. Paramahansa Yogananda
• The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body… for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul. Leonardo da Vinci
• The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body. Michel Foucault
• To the soul’s desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned . Frank Herbert
• You don’t believe in the soul until you feel it straining to escape the body. Glen Duncan

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The soul is permanent while the body is temporary …

• You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily. Walter M. Miller Jr
• Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on. RuPaul
• The body,-that is dust; the soul,-it is a bud of eternity. Nathaniel Culverwell
• Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched… K. Rowling
• The soul never dies and the body is never really alive. Isaac Bashevis Singer

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…and therefore, we should not prioritise the body over the soul

• The impermanent, which is the body, is given too much importance. The permanent, which is the Atman, is completely forgotten. This should change. Mata Amritanandamayi
• Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater – no, nothing, nothing! John Vianney
• Good men study to spiritualize their bodies; bad men to incarnate their souls. Benjamin Whichcote

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The soul governs the body…

• Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith. Hildegard of Bingen
• Life was intended to be so adjusted that the body should be the servant of the soul, and always subordinate to the soul. G. Holland
• I would say the soul would be more than the engine. The soul would be like the computer system that coordinates everything, from the smog device to the fuel injection system to the brakes. Dallas Willard
• Think of the soul as the computer system that runs the whole thing. And then the spirit is the executive center. It’s the faculty of choice. Dallas Willard
• The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement – in fact, of nervous functions in general, – are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance. Aristotle
• There is a little gland in the brain in which the soul exercises its functions in a more particular way than in the other parts. René Descartes

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… and yet falsely identifies with it

• Every man is a soul and has a body. Through delusion, he constantly finds his soul identified with the body; thus he ascribes to himself all the bodily limitations. Paramahansa Yogananda
• The pure soul, the atman, is called the jiva when it is identified with its mortal coverings—body mind, senses and other principles of Nature. Even so, the true essence of the soul remains untainted Spirit—the Divinity in every being. It is only owing to the outer identification with the physical paraphernalia that the inner light and divine consciousness become screened behind delusion. Meditation clears the cosmic mist as the descended consciousness of the soul starts ascending to its lost higher planes of existence. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else. Blaise Pascal

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The soul and body effect each other

• A great soul, with a great purpose, can make a weak body strong and keep it so… Mark Twain
• If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul. Leonardo da Vinci
• Heal the soul first; then healing of the mind and body will follow. Zhi Gang Sha
• The diverse states of the soul are always correlative with those of the body. Julien Offray de La Mettrie
• The human body is the best picture of the human soul. Ludwig Wittgenstein
• What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body. Carolyn Myss
• The soul is the weariest part of the body. Paul Bowles
• Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body. Martin Luther
• t’s like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn’t make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be. Plato
• Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body. George Santayana

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A healthy body requires a healthy soul and vice versa

• Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other. Henry David Thoreau
• A healthy body is the guest-chamber of the soul; a sick, its prison. Francis Bacon
• Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. Cicero
• Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of treatment, for they are one and indivisible. Sick minds must be healed as well as sick bodies. Jeff Miller
• The body too has its rights; and it will have them: they cannot be trampled on without peril. The body ought to be the soul’s best friend. Many good men however have neglected to make it such: so it has become a fiend and has plagued them. Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
• The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated. Plato
• The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity. Boris Pasternak
• What health is to the body, even that is honesty to the soul. Develop your spirit that it may gain strength to control the body and follow the natural laws of nutrition and hygiene. Kemetic Wisdom
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Some see God and the soul as separate entities

• God, in relation to the soul, presumes a duality—the Object to be perceived, God; and the perceiver or experiencer, the soul. Paramahansa Yogananda
• God can be understood as a supreme person with qualities of love and compassion towards creatures. On this theistic view the soul remains distinct from the Lord even in liberation. Professor Gavin Flood
• The Dvaita (dualistic) school believes that all souls are individual and self-contained, and they are always separate from God. This school often holds that all souls are all created at the same time, but they reincarnate into different shells in order to experience different types of existence. Beings on this earth are not yet worthy of being with God, so they must build up merit, either through, acts or devotion. Eventually these souls do enough good works, or repeat enough mantra or ritual enough acts to sit next to Vishnu in Heaven. Gary Gomes
• God created individual souls, state Dvaita Vedantins, but the individual soul never was and never will become one with God; the best it can do is to experience bliss by getting infinitely close to God. Thomas Padiyath
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Conceiving the soul as separate from God, some argue, is a hindrance to spiritual awakening

• The belief in a soul struggling to become pure enough to be worthy of unification with God, carrying its karma from lifetime to lifetime like a shell on a snail, sustains and even amplifies the belief in a separate self. Anthony Lambert
• The eternal soul theory ‘I have a soul’ and the material theory ‘I have no soul’ are both obstacles to self-realization or salvation. Sri Dhammananda Maha Thera
• If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness. Joel Salatin
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Some see the soul as a reflection of God

• God is reflected in miniature as the soul in the body of man. The soul in essence is a perfect reflection of the Divine; but through becoming identified with a body, it imagines itself to be the ego that is subject to pleasure and pain. The soul temporarily dreams itself to be a body, experiencing its attendant joys and sorrows; though in reality it is always the changeless image of God. Paramahansa Yogananda
• The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or whether it be obscured or disfigured, as is the case with sinners; or whether it be clear and beautiful as is the case with the just. Thomas Aquinas
• The image of God is found essentially and personally in all mankind. Each possesses it whole, entire and undivided, and all together not more than one alone. In this way we are all one, intimately united in our eternal image, which is the image of God and the source in us of all our life. Our created essence and our life are attached to it without mediation as to their eternal cause. Ruysbroeck
• The soul is in itself a most lovely and perfect image of God. John of the Cross
• Do not even allow yourself to be limited to the consciousness that you are a man or a woman: You are a soul made in God’s image. Paramahansa Yogananda

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Some see the soul as individualised Spirit (God)

• God [Brahman] is Sat-Chit-Ananda, ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new Bliss. We, as soul, are individualized Sat-Chit-Ananda. Paramahansa Yogananda
• The drop of consciousness, which is individual Spirit, is like a ray of light emanating from the sun. The individual ray is really no different from the sun. When consciousness stops identifying itself as the ray, it comes to know itself as the sun. Beings have merged into that state. Michael A. Singer
• The difference between soul and Spirit is this: The Spirit is ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new omnipresent Joy; the soul is the individualized reflection of ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new Joy, confined within the body of each and every being. Souls are the radiating rays of Spirit, individualized as formless, vibrationless atoms and tissues of Spirit. Hence, they are coexistent with Spirit and of the same essence, as the sun and its rays are one. Though incarnate, the soul belongs to the noumenal region, which changes not. All material forms belong to the regions of phenomena; their very nature being alienated from Spirit, they change constantly. Phenomena arise from and are inseparably linked with noumena; but the latter, being of Spirit, are immutable and transcendent. The outer surface of the soul’s consciousness that is cloaked with the instrumentalities of the ego, mind, and senses undergoes the permutations of Nature, but the soul’s essence remains inviolable. Paramahansa Yogananda
• We are partakers of the life of God; and though we differ from Him in that we are individualized spirits, while He is the Infinite Spirit, including us, as well as all else beside, yet in essence the life of God and the life of man are identically the same, and so are one. They differ not in essence or quality; they differ in degree. William James
• Soul is individualized Spirit, which is unmanifested, ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new Bliss. The soul, as Spirit’s reflection, has the same qualities as Spirit, but the soul identifies itself with the three bodily sheaths that cover it: — the ideation body or consciousness, — the astral body or life force, — and the physical body of flesh — and their normal and abnormal conditions. Paramahansa Yogananda
• The universal everything is made of the singular consciousness of God. When a spark of that consciousness is individualized by God, it becomes a soul, capable of ultimately expressing the God-image in which it is made. In essence, the soul is perfect and complete, an exact reflection of God’s ever-existing, ever-conscious, ever-new bliss. But when incarnate, it takes on the dualistic nature of creation, outwardly expressing primarily either a masculine or feminine, positive or negative, half of its essence. Paramahansa Yogananda
• As God is omnipresent in the cosmos but is undisturbed by its variety, so man, who as a soul is individualized Spirit, must learn to participate in this cosmic drama with a perfectly poised and equilibrated mind. Paramahansa Yogananda

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Some see the soul as a part of God

• Don’t you know that the primordial soul came out of the essence of God, and that every human soul is a part of God? And will you have no mercy on man, when you see that one of his holy sparks has been lost in a maze and is almost stifled? Martin Buber
• Every soul and spirit hath a certain continuity with the spirit of the universe. Giordano Bruno
• Everything is an awareness – a unique and invidualised portion of the ultimate, unsurpassable awareness that is God. Peter Wilberg
• God is the ocean, man (the jiva or individualized soul) is a wave. As man is a part of God, so is he never truly apart from Him. By the power of maya, a portion of God’s cosmic consciousness is cloaked in Nature’s garb, a body fitted with five external senses and one internal sense, mind. Paramahansa Yogananda
• It is manifest . . . that every soul and spirit hath a certain continuity with the spirit of the universe. . . . The power of each soul is itself somehow present afar in the universe [and is] exceedingly connected and attached thereto. Giordano Bruno
• Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe. Plotinus
• The soul of man… is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe. Plutarch
• The members of humanity are really and truly souls. We’re all part of one great oversoul. Benjamin Creme

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Some compare the soul to a drop of water while God is the ocean

• As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities of the ocean, so man, detached in consciousness from the Infinite, contains within him its likeness; and as the drop of water must, by the law of its nature, ultimately find its way back to the ocean and lose itself in its silent depths, so must man, by the unfailing law of his nature, at last return to his source, and lose himself in the great ocean of the Infinite. James Allen
• How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• The human mind is a spark of the almighty consciousness of God. Sri Yukteswar
• The soul is an infinite ocean of just beautiful energy and presence made manifest in human form. Panache Desai
• We are like droplets of water in an ocean of consciousness; individual to an extent, but those droplets together make up the ocean — without the droplets there is no ocean. David Icke
• Now just as a wave is made from the same water as the ocean, so too are our souls made from the same substance (consciousness) as God. Each soul is a portion of God confined within an individual body. Pulkit Mathur

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Some compare the soul to a wave on the ocean of God, inseparable from God

• God is not a person, but an infinite ocean of pure consciousness. From this ocean, arise each of our individual souls, which can be imagined as waves on the surface. Pulkit Mathur
• If something is infinite, it cannot be divided into separate individual parts, otherwise it will cease to be infinite and become the finite. Therefore, just as a wave cannot be separated from the ocean, our souls too are an indivisible and integral part of God and are necessarily, omnipresent, formless, eternal, immortal and infinite. Pulkit Mathur
• Just as a wave on the surface of the ocean is composed of the same water as the ocean, and can never be separated from it, so too are our souls made from the same substance as God and we are eternally joined with Him. Pulkit Mathur
• Just as the ocean is one continuous mass of water, so too is God one unbroken mass of consciousness. There is no boundary that can separate our soul from the rest of God because it is the same substance (consciousness) that is present everywhere. All is One Existence. Pulkit Mathur
• To become aware of our soul as apart from our body is the first step towards realizing God. For God is the infinite ocean of consciousness and our souls are like individual waves on its surface. If we know the wave then we have known the ocean too. Pulkit Mathur

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God is often described as the universal soul

• From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. Georg Hermes
• God is the Soul of all souls – The Supreme Soul – The Supreme Consciousness. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Just as the Atman (soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. Radhakrishnan
• Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world. Marcus Tullius Cice
• God is the Soul of all souls – The Supreme Soul – The Supreme Consciousness. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciousness and creating all things with a single purpose that they might work together spinning and weaving and knotting whatever comes to pass. Marcus Aurelius
• Soul of the universe, Sire, God, Creator, Lord, I believe in Thee, ‘neath all these names: And without having need to hear thy word, In the sky’s brow my glorious creed I trace. Alphonse de Lamartine
• That energy field can be called God, soul, spirit, or consciousness. Wayne Dyer
• The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry. Josiah Gilbert Holland
• There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things. Wayne Dyer
• We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath. Laurence Binyon

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Some see the soul as a microcosm of the whole, containing The All

• … not in this sense — that you are a part, a piece, of an eternal, infinite being, an aspect or modification of it… For we should then have the same baffling question: which part, which aspect are you? what, objectively, differentiates it from the others? No, but, inconceivable as it seems to ordinary reason, you — and all other conscious beings as such — are all in all. Hence, this life of yours… is, in a certain sense, the whole… This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula… ‘Tat tvam asi’ — this is you. Or, again, in such words as ‘I am in the east and in the west, I am below and above, I am this whole world.’ Erwin Schrodinger
• All know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop. Kabir
• Each being contains in itself the whole intelligible world. Therefore, All is everywhere. Each is there All, and All is each. Man as he now is has ceased to be the All. But when he ceases to be an individual, he raises himself again and penetrates the whole world. Plotinus
• In my soul, the music of the universe can be heard. Eric Honeycutt
• God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction. Meister Eckhart
• In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence. Kahlil Gibran
• In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore, what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe. David Bohm
• Anything we take in the Universe, because it has in itself that which is All in All, includes in its own way, the entire soul of the world, which is entirely in any part of it. Giordano Bruno
• When is a man in mere understanding? I answer, ‘When a man sees one thing separated from another.’ And when is a man above mere understanding? That I can tell you: ‘When a man sees All in all, then a man stands beyond mere understanding. Meister Eckhart
• You are the soul of the soul of the universe, and your name is Love. Rumi

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Some believe in the ultimate union of the soul with God …

• Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds. They are in connection with a reserve power that is without limit. Wallace D. Wattles
• I am converted into Him in such a way that He makes me one Being with Himself-not a similar being. By the living God, it is true that there is no distinction! Meister Eckhart
• It is only by worshiping God and His presence in Nature, and then by worshiping God as unmanifested Spirit, by Spirit-and-soul union, that the devotee reaches the final state of emancipation, from which there is no fall. Paramahansa Yogananda
• No devotee should be satisfied until he has sufficiently developed his intuition—by impartial introspection and deep meditation, as in Kriya Yoga—to experience the communion of soul and Spirit. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Now rejoice, all ye powers of my soul, that you are so united with God that no one may separate you from Him. I cannot fully praise nor love Him therefore must I die, and cast myself into the divine void, till I rise from non-existence to existence. Meister Eckhart
• Undivided. All. Only the pure in heart and poor in spirit can come to the unitive knowledge of God. My Me is God, nor do I recognize any other Me except my God Himself. St. Catherine of Genoa
• Souls which have come to the unitive knowledge of God are, almost nothing in themselves and all in God. Benet of Canfield
• The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe. Novalis
• The soul cannot live unless it is ineffably and without confusion united to God, who is truly the life eternal. Saint Simeon
• We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars, and at the same time irradiates our mind. Rabindranath Tagore
• Since the Atman is considered to be part of the one divine reality known as Brahman (God), the ultimate goal of Hindus is to attain self-realization so that they can unify their Atman (soul) with the underlying force of the greater universe. Patrick Zeis
• Any personalized communion with God or worship of a conceptualized aspect or attribute of Divinity maintains the duality of worshiper and Worshiped, the ecstatic relationship sometimes preferred by saints. But the even higher state referred to by Jesus, beyond dualistic devotion, is Oneness with the Object of worship, and specifically, the ultimate union: oneness of the soul with Spirit. God as Spirit, the Absolute, beyond form, qualities, manifestations, cannot be perceived, but only experienced by the supreme realization of Spirit and soul union. This ecstasy, a supernal Bliss that no human tongue can tell or rational thought conceive, is described simply by India’s rishis: “He who knows, he knows; naught else knows. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Freedom from anger, from excitement, from rage, from greed, from perplexity, from hypocrisy, from hurtfulness (from injury to others); Speaking the truth, moderate eating, refraining from calumny and envy, sharing with others, avoiding accepting gifts, uprightness, forgiveness, gentleness, tranquility, temperance, amity with all living creatures, yoga, honorable conduct, benevolence and contentedness – These virtues have been agreed upon for all the ashramas; he who, according to the precepts of the sacred law, practices these, becomes united with the Universal Self. Apastamba Dharma Sūtra
• If you both agree at a conscious level that the purpose of your relationship is to create an opportunity, not an obligation—an opportunity for growth, for full Self expression, for lifting your lives to their highest potential, for healing every false thought or small idea you ever had about you, and for ultimate reunion with God through the communion of your two souls—if you take that vow instead of the vows you’ve been taking—the relationship has begun on a very good note. Neale Donald Walsch
• To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him. Saint Francis de Sales

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… so that God and the soul become one

• As the soul becomes more pure and bare and poor, and possesses less of created things, and is emptied of all things that are not God, it receives God more purely, and is more completely in Him; and it truly becomes one with God, and it looks into God and God into it, face to face as it were; two images transformed into one. Meister Eckhart
• When time comes for us to again rejoin the infinite stream of water flowing to and from the great timeless ocean, our little droplet of soulful water will once again flow with the endless stream. William Marks
• You should know (God) without image, unmediated and without likeness. But if I am to know God without mediation in such a way, then “I” must become “he”, and “he” must become “I”. More precisely I say: God must become me and I must become God, so entirely one that “he” and this “I” become one “is” and act in this “isness” as one, for this “he” and this “I”, that is God and the soul, are very fruitful. Meister Eckhart
• For though she sinks all sinking in the oneness of divinity, she never touches bottom. For it is of the very essence of the soul that she is powerless to plumb the depths of her creator. And here one cannot speak of the soul any more, for she has lost her nature yonder in the oneness of divine essence. There she is no more called soul, but is called immeasurable being. Meister Eckhart
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Some believe that each soul is none other than God

• The jiva or the individual soul is not different from Brahman. Adi Shankara
• The jiva (soul), in reality, is the Supreme Self (God); all else besides is unreal. Adi Shankara
• The personal soul (atman) is not different from the Universal Soul or God. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Each soul is not just a portion of God, but in actuality the whole of Him. Pulkit Mathur
• Brahman the Absolute (God) alone is real; this world is transient, cannot be defined, cannot be translated as unreal, but the jiva or the individual soul is not different from Brahman. Adi Shankara
• Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms. Rabindranath Tagore
• Our self (Soul) is maya (an illusion) where it is merely individual and finite, where it considers its separateness as absolute; it is satyam (truth) where it recognizes its essence in the universal and infinite, in the Supreme Self, in paramatman (God). This is what Christ means when he says, Before Abraham was, I am (i.e. before Abraham was God, who is the same that is in my soul – I am That.) Rabindranath Tagore
• To gauge the soul, we must gauge it with God, for the Ground of God and the Ground of the Soul are one and the same. Meister Eckhart
• The spirit is akin to, or even identical with, the divine Spirit that is the Ground of all being. Aldous Huxley
• When is a man in mere understanding? I answer, ‘When a man sees one thing separated from another.’ And when is a man above mere understanding? That I can tell you: ‘When a man sees All in all, then a man stands beyond mere understanding. Meister Eckhart
• Some simple people think that they will see God as if He were standing there and they here. It is not so. God and I, we are one. Meister Eckhart
• The fool thinks, “I am the body”; the intelligent man thinks, “I am an individual soul united with the body.” But the wise man, in the greatness of his knowledge and spiritual discrimination, sees the Self (soul) as the only reality and thinks, “I am Brahman (God). Adi Shankara
• Spirit forgets that it’s Spirit and condenses to a smaller version of itself, which is soul. Soul forgets that it’s soul and condenses to mind. Mind forgets that it’s mind and condenses to body. Body forgets that it’s body and condenses to the lowest dimension that you can have, which is matter. Ken Wilber
• Tat twam asi – You are That. That immanent one (God), is the same that is in the human soul. The Supreme Soul (who is one), resides within all his creations (as many). Herein lies the true source of morality; the unifying principle that connects us all; that we are all children of one Supreme God, and by hurting another, we are in reality hurting not only God but ourselves. The Chandogya Upanishad.
• That hidden Unity is beyond what is visible. All men have this capacity of knowing themselves, for the soul has the Logos within it, which can be known when the soul is evolved. What is within us remains the same eternally; It is the same in life and death, waking and sleeping, youth and old age; for, It has become this world, and the world must return to It. Heraclitus
• The Atman (soul) which is akin to or even identical with Brahman (God). Aldous Huxley
• The eye by which I see God is the same as the eye by which God sees me. My eye and God’s eye are one and the same-one in seeing, one in knowing, and one in loving. Meister Eckhart
• The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God, as if He stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge. Meister Eckhart
• The mystery of being is arising as all individual beings. This profound idea brings us to the greatest teaching found at the heart of the spiritual traditions of the world: Atman is Brahman. The soul is God. Tim Freke
• The Neo-Platonic philosophers describe God as the ‘mystery of being’, which is in the process of ‘becoming’ all that is. The mystery of being is arising as all individual beings. This profound idea brings us to the greatest teaching found at the heart of the spiritual traditions of the world: Atman is Brahman. The soul is God. Tim Freke
• The Self (soul) when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe – the body – is the soul. Swami Vivekanada
• This treasure of the Kingdom of God has been hidden by time and multiplicity and the soul’s own works, or briefly by its creaturely nature. But in the measure that the soul can separate itself from this multiplicity, to that extent it reveals within itself the Kingdom of God. Here the soul and the Godhead are one. Meister Eckhart
• This tremendous equation –the Self (soul) is Brahmanis (God) the central discovery of the Upanishads. Its most famous formulation is one of the great formulae: Tat tvam asi, You are That. That is the characteristic way the Upanishads point to a Reality that cannot be described; and you, of course, is not the petty, finite personality, but that pure consciousness which makes the eye see and the mind think: the Self. Eknath Easwaran
• When God reveals Himself, He is not seen as something or someone apart. The soul is lifted up to identify with God, so there is no longer a soul, but God Himself is revealed as one’s Self. That Self is eternal, beyond all manifestation, never affected by the ongoing drama of world experience. It masquerades as every being, all the while remaining purely Consciousness and perfect Bliss. Swami Abhayananda
• Because Hinduism is based upon the assumption that Brahman (God), or infinite consciousness, is the underlying substance of the entire world, there has to be a part of each individual that is in fact Brahman. Hindus use the term Atman to describe this component of one’s self (soul), and it is considered in similar fashion to the western notion of a soul. It is assumed that just as Brahman is the underlying force of the universe, the Atman, or pure consciousness, or the True Self, is what precedes over all activities and bodily functions of every individual in the world. Patrick Zeis
• The schools of nondualism recognize only one type of Self (soul), the Supreme Self or Brahman (God). The individual Self is considered an illusion or a projection of the Supreme Self only. The projection is withdrawn when a person achieves liberation, just as a wave rises from the ocean and subsides into it. Jayaram V
• Just as the Atman (soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath the drive and activity of the universe. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
• One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman (soul) the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total. Swami Vivekananda
• The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi (‘That art thou’); the Atman (soul), or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is. Aldous Huxley
• The mystic and the physicist arrive at the same conclusion; one starting from the inner realm, the other from the outer world. The harmony between their views confirms the ancient Indian wisdom that Brahman (God), the ultimate reality without, is identical to Atman (soul), the reality within. Fritjof Capra
• Followers of the Advaita Vedanta tradition maintain that the soul and God are ultimately identical and liberation is achieved once this has been realised. This teaching is called non-dualism or advaita because it claims there is no distinction between the soul and the ultimate reality. Professor Gavin Flood
• The seer (soul) is the absolute knower.  Yogasutra
• He lives as all beings; it is only Him everywhere…. He takes the form of the limited soul, appearing to be bound; but, in fact, He is forever free. Brahman appears as Creator, and also as the limited soul. He is the Power that creates the appearance of the world. Yet He remains unlimited and unaffected by these appearances. Svetasvatara Upanishad
• Philosophical schools such as Advaita (non-dualism) see the “spirit/soul/self” within each living entity as being fully identical with Brahman– the universal soul. Arvind Sharma
• There is one soul that connects and exists in all living beings, regardless of their shapes or forms, and there is no distinction, no superior, no inferior, no separate devotee soul (Atman), no separate god soul (Brahman). The oneness unifies all beings, there is divine in every being, and that all existence is a single reality. A Rambachan
• The Atman (soul) is the Brahman (God), the Brahman is the Atman, each self is non-different from the infinite. Arvind Sharma
• I am Brahman (God)… I dwell within all beings as the soul, the pure consciousness, the ground of all phenomena… In the days of my ignorance, I used to think of these as being separate from myself. Now I know that I am All. Shankara
• Tomorrow’s God says that every church is ‘his church,’ and every faith is ‘her faith,’ and every soul is God’s soul, because it shares the same soul with God! And no person or living thing in the universe stands outside the community of God. Neale Donald Walsch
• Know thy own soul, for only then can you know God. The Upanishads
• The Upanishads declare Tat twam asi – “You are That One”. That immanent one (God), is the same that is in the human soul. Not only that but you are Him – you are that one principle that has been manifesting itself as this variety of Creation. Pulkit Mathur
• You are the soul of the soul of the universe, and your name is Love. Rumi
• The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God . Giordano Bruno
• 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. Paulo Coelho
• As the Godhead is nameless, and all naming is alien to Him, so also the soul is nameless; for it is here the same as God. Meister Eckhart

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According to this view, God is being every soul

• He is the immutable Foundation of all that exists; those souls who realize Him as their very own Self are freed forever from the need for rebirth. When that Lord, who pervades all the worlds everywhere, gave birth to the first motion, He manifested Himself as creation. It is He alone who is born in this world. He lives as all beings; it is only Him everywhere…. He takes the form of the limited soul, appearing to be bound; but, in fact, He is forever free. Brahman appears as Creator, and also as the limited soul. He is the Power that creates the appearance of the world. Yet He remains unlimited and unaffected by these appearances. When one knows that Brahman, then that soul becomes free. The forms of the world change, like clouds in the sky; but Brahman, the Lord, remains One and unchanged. He is the Ruler of all worlds and all souls. Through meditation on Him, and communion with Him, He becomes known… and one therefore becomes freed from illusion. Svetasvatara Upanishad
• In those respects in which the soul is unlike God, it is also unlike itself. St. Bernard

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For the soul to realise itself as God is self-realisation

• This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom. Rabindranath Tagore
• To cognize the Divine Essence – this is the highest purpose of soul, sent by the Creator to the Earth! Pythagoras
• The entire purpose of manifest existence is simply to facilitate the realization of who and what you really are. Metta Zetty
• The goal of Vedantic spirituality is to lead us to experience the ultimate reality of who we really are – that we are neither the body and nor are we the mind. Instead we are the Atman, the Soul – pure, infinite and eternal, which is an indivisible part of the ocean of consciousness known as Brahman or God – the Absolute. Pulkit Mathur
• The most consistent versions of materialism deny the reality of anything beyond matter – no soul, no spirit, no will, no mind. This is called reductionism: Humans are reduced to biochemical machines. Nancy Pearcey
• The pinnacle moment when the soul experiences its true nature and experiences its unbreakable unity with Brahman, is known as Self-realization, or God-realization, or Samadhi in Vedanta. Pulkit Mathur
• We are here to awaken to the reality of our true identity – that we are sparks of the Eternal Imperishable Spirit, who is the source of all Creation and the very essence of our being. Shriram Sharma Acharya
• Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms. Rabindranath Tagore
• We don’t, as a collective life on this planet, all get groovy together or all sink into ignorance together. One by one we liberate our souls, our individual souls, from the cycle by our own realizations. George Harrison
• We must not only know intellectually, but realize spiritually, that One Life pervades everything. There is but one religion of God, one Truth underlying the different names of religion. That universal state of consciousness is very hard to attain unless one has Self-realization, the knowing that we are souls and that all souls are a part of the One God. Paramahansa Yogananda

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For the soul to know itself as God is liberation

• While the Upanishads recognized many things as being not-Self, they felt that a real, true Self could be found. They held that when it was found, and known to be identical to Brahman, the basis of everything, this would bring liberation. In the Buddhist Suttas, though, literally everything is seen is non-Self, even Nirvana. When this is known, then liberation – Nirvana – is attained by total non-attachment. Thus both the Upanishads and the Buddhist Suttas see many things as not-Self, but the Suttas apply it, indeed non-Self, to everything.  Peter Harvey
• He is the immutable Foundation of all that exists; those souls who realize Him as their very own Self are freed forever from the need for rebirth. Svetasvatara Upanishad
• The ultimate liberation, according to the Vedantins, is a state of total identification of the individual soul with the Universal Soul (Brahman). S. Prasad
• In order to attain liberation, a human being must acquire self-knowledge, which is to realize that one’s true self (soul) is identical with the transcendent self Brahman (God). David Lorenzen
• Once an individual attains Moksha, by unifying Atman (the soul) with Brahman (God), they are said to live permanently in a state of unwavering happiness and pure ecstasy. It is for this reason that the term Sat Cit Ananda, or ‘Truth Consciousness Bliss’, is used to describe the ultimate divine reality. Patrick Zeis
• He who knows the Self is liberated; even the gods cannot prevent his being so, because he has realized himself to be the very Soul (Atman) of the gods. The Upanishads
• He who knows the Supreme Brahman (God) verily becomes Brahman (God). The Upanishads
• Ātman is a Sanskrit word that means inner self or soul. In Hindu philosophy, especially in the Vedanta school of Hinduism, Ātman is the first principle, the true self of an individual beyond identification with phenomena, the essence of an individual. In order to attain liberation, a human being must acquire self-knowledge=, which is to realize that one’s true self (Ātman) is identical with the transcendent self Brahman (God). Wikipedia
• Whoever knows the self as “I am Brahman,” becomes all this universe. Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
• Atman-knowledge is the state of full awareness, liberation, and freedom that overcomes dualities at all levels, realizing the divine within oneself, the divine in others, and in all living beings; the non-dual oneness, that God is in everything, and everything is God. Arvind Sharma
• It is only when we have realized the true nature of our soul, that despair will vanish and hope will come; fear and ignorance will vanish and joy will come; infinite power, strength and purity will come, and along with it everything that is excellent will come. Pulkit Mathur
• Our souls are evolving towards becoming the one. That’s what we’re doing and we’re using our incarnations as teaching devices. Ram Dass

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For the soul to know itself as God is for it to recognise the oneness of all things

• Atman (soul)-knowledge is the state of full awareness, liberation, and freedom that overcomes dualities at all levels, realizing the divine within oneself, the divine in others, and in all living beings; the non-dual oneness, that God is in everything, and everything is God. Arvind Sharma
• The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God. Giordano Bruno
• Any personalized communion with God or worship of a conceptualized aspect or attribute of Divinity maintains the duality of worshiper and Worshiped, the ecstatic relationship sometimes preferred by saints. But the even higher state referred to by Jesus, beyond dualistic devotion, is Oneness with the Object of worship, and specifically, the ultimate union: oneness of the soul with Spirit. God as Spirit, the Absolute, beyond form, qualities, manifestations, cannot be perceived, but only experienced by the supreme realization of Spirit and soul union. This ecstasy, a supernal Bliss that no human tongue can tell or rational thought conceive, is described simply by India’s rishis: “He who knows, he knows; naught else knows. Paramahansa Yogananda
• Each soul in entering the material experience does so for those purposes of advancement towards that awareness of being fully conscious of the oneness with the Creative Forces. Edgar Cayce
• We try to realize the essential unity of the world with the conscious soul of man; we learn to perceive the unity held together by the one Eternal Spirit, whose power creates the earth, the sky, and the stars, and at the same time irradiates our mind. Rabindranath Tagore
• When everything is known as the Self, not even an atom is seen as other than the Self. Shankara
• Atman (The soul) is universal oneness, present in all living beings. Atman connects and prevades in everyone. Hurting or injuring another being is hurting the Atman, and thus one’s self that exists in another body. Isha Upanishad
• Joy is the realization of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world- soul with the supreme love. Rabindranath Tagore
• The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of men when they realise their relationship, their Oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realise that at the centre of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this centre is really everywhere, it is within each of us. Black Elk
• Joy is the realisation of the truth of oneness, the oneness of our soul with the world and of the world-soul with the supreme lover. Rabindranath Tagore
• Within you lies the sun, the moon, the sky and all the wonders of this universe. The intelligence that created these wonders is the same force that created you. All things around you come from the same source. We are all one. Every being on this Earth, every object on this Earth has a soul. All souls flow into one, this is the Soul of the Universe. Robin S. Sharma
• Look at the waves in the sea. Not one wave is really different from the sea, but what makes the wave apparently different? Name and form; the form (body or shape) of the wave and the name (classification into plants, animals, mankind etc.) which we give to it. This is what makes it different from the sea. When name and form go, it is the same sea. So this whole universe is that one Unit Existence; name and form have created all these various differences. Swami Vivekananda
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The soul can be lost

• Don’t Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold. Bob Marley
• For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Jesus, in Mark 8:36
• If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose. Charles Bukowski
• It’s prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don’t forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers. George Bernard Shaw
• Most men would gladly give their souls to the Devil, were he willing to accept them. Abraham Miller
• Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Mark 8:37, The Holy Bible.
• There is no point in getting rich if we lose our soul along the way. Farahad Zama
• What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Jesus, in Mark 8:36 NIV
• You can throw yourselves away. You can become of no use in the universe except for a warning. You can lose your souls. Oh, what a loss is that! The perversion and degradation of every high and immortal power for an eternity! And shall this be true of any one of you? Will you be lost when One has come from heaven, traveling in the greatness of His strength, and with garments dyed in blood, on purpose to guide you home—home to a Father’s house — to an eternal home? Mark Hopkins
• Soul loss can be observed today as a psychological phenomenon in the everyday life of the human beings around us. Loss of soul appears in the form of a sudden onset of apathy and listlessness; the joy has gone out of life, initiative is crippled, one feels empty, everything seems pointless. Marie-Louise von Franz
• It’s easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you’re willing to forfeit your soul. Gene Luen Yang
• A man only has a soul to be won or lost. Paulo Coelho
• That was the true terror of love, that you could love with your whole heart, your whole soul, and lose both. Laurell K. Hamilton
• Choose battles that you can win without losing your heart and your soul. C. Cast
• Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul. Lawrence Durrell

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The greatest loss of the soul is all loss of meaning

• The potential for loss of soul–to one degree or another–is the affliction of a society that as a collective has lost its sense of the holy, of a culture that values everything else above the spiritual. We live in such a spiritually impoverished culture–and in such a time. Loss of soul, to one degree or another, is a constant teasing possibility. We are invited at every corner to hedge on the truth, indulge outselves, act as if our words and actions have no ultimate consequence, make an absolute of the material world, and treat the spiritual world as if it were some kind of frothy, angelic fantasy. In such a world the soul struggles for survival; in such a world a man can lose his own soul and have the whole culture support him, and in such a world, conversely, the light of a single, great soul that lives in integrity can truly illumine the world. Daphne Rose Kingma

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The soul can be sold and bought

• Every era has a currency that buys souls. In some the currency is pride, in others it is hope, in still others it is a holy cause. There are of course times when hard cash will buy souls, and the remarkable thing is that such times are marked by civility, tolerance, and the smooth working of everyday life. Eric Hoffer
• To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul – would you understand why that’s much harder? Ayn Rand
• Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money. William Jennings Bryan
• Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. Logan Pearsall Smith
• He offered her power, money, status… a giant prison, all in exchange for only…her soul. Jamie Weise
• Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. Marilyn Monroe
• How can any man be free without a soul of his own, that he believes in and won’t sell at any price? H. Lawrence
• How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. Oscar Wilde
• It never does hurt immediately to sell your soul. The gain is always immediate, the full price redeemable later. Peter Hartcher
• But souls can’t be sold. They can only be lost and never found again. Ray Bradbury
• Whatever the consequences of staying true to yourself, they’re much less than the consequences of selling your soul. Carly Fiorina
• It’s the person who would sell his soul for a nickel, who is loudest in proclaiming his hatred of money. Ayn Rand
• You have my soul and I have your money. Charles Bukowski
• The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away. Oscar Wilde
• Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it. Nikki Sixx
• Sell your soul to yourself. You’ll make more money. Marilyn Manson

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The soul can be hurt and damaged

• A broken soul is not the absence of beauty, but a cracked and torn soul reeks of the sweet incense it contains. C. JoyBell C.
• I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Brokenness is the operative issue of our time – broken souls, broken hearts, broken places. Samantha Power
• Problems of the heart always bruised the soul. Paulo Coelho

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The soul can become empty

• The human soul is an abyss. Fernando Pessoa
• Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease. Rick Warren

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The soul can become paralysed

• It is not death to have the body called back to the earth, and dissolved into its kindred elements, and mouldered to dust, and, it may be, turn to daisies, in the grave. But it is death to have the soul paralyzed, its inner life quenched, its faculties dissipated; that is death. E. H. Chapin

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The soul can become unwell

• Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. Cicero
• Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health. Saint Basil
• While I am compassed round With mirth, my soul lies hid in shades of grief, Whence, like the bird of night, with half-shut eyes, She peeps, and sickens at the sight of day. John Dryden

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Souls can become seamed with scars

• Most men have more scars on their souls than on their bodies. James Lendall Basford
• Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven. Bill Vaughan
• The defects of the soul are like wounds in the body — whatever care one takes to heal, the scar still appears, and they are every moment in danger of reopening. François VI de la Rochefoucault
• A mature soul filled with scars of life experiences. Toba Beta
• If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance. Theodore Dreiser
• It’s easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you’d be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it’s lined with cracks and scars that go all the way to the foundation of their soul. Sherrilyn Kenyon
• Misery is a scar on the soul, that if it begins in childhood, it lasts the whole lifetime. I understand that no two scars are alike, but I also ask myself; even if these scars are not alike, aren’t these things engraved on our souls signed by which we know each other?Aren’t we also alike? Bahaa Taher

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Even if it is immortal, the soul can feel like it is dying

• We may get a pay check, but over time what we sense is the dying of our souls. David Kim
• Could a man’s heart, his soul, perish and yet leave him walking and talking as if alive? Jim Butcher
• You gotta find a way to survive cause they win when your soul dies. Tupac Shakur
• It is my opinion that a man’s soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money. Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Anger and resentment can hurt the soul

• A man can’t eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul. Garrison Keillor
• Anger is energy, and energy must be transferred into activity. Anger comes from our passions, but it becomes sin when it is destructive, either to others or to ourselves. Pent-up anger will either explode uncontrollably or eat away at our hearts and souls until it takes up all of our interior space. Unless and until we deal with our anger, there is no room in us for anything else. G. Porter Taylor
• Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind. Benjamin Franklin
• Anger is the most volatile form of emotion you can ever burden yourself with. Every bit of anger you hold on to damages your soul. Whenever you feel angry, remember that the person you are hurting is yourself. Celestine Chua
• Anger is the noise of the soul; the unseen irritant of the heart; the relentless invader of silence. Max Lucado
• As smoking is to the lungs, so is resentment to the soul; even one puff is bad for you. Elizabeth Gilbert
• Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things. Marvin J. Ashton
• Giving into anger destroys the soul. Karen Dawn
• Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge and harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people. . . but not those who have hurt us; forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us. Steve Maraboli
• Living in love, gratitude and forgiveness, is peaceful and spiritually rejuvenating. Living under the emotional constraints of anger and resentment is draining and toxic to heart and soul. Jaeda DeWalt
• It is difficult to fight against anger; for a man will buy revenge with his soul. Heraclitus
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Quitting can hurt the soul

• Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. Douglas MacArthur

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Expectation can hurt the soul

• Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy — the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation. Eric Hoffer
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Excessive ego can hurt the soul

• Food for the ego is poison for the soul. Donna Goddard
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Greed and materialism can hurt the soul

• At the conclusion of all our studies we must try once again to experience the human soul as soul, and not just as a buzz of bioelectricity; the human will as will, and not just a surge of hormones; the human heart not as a fibrous, sticky pump, but as the metaphoric organ of understanding. We need not believe in them as metaphysical entities — they are as real as the flesh and blood they are made of. But we must believe in them as entities; not as analyzed fragments, but as wholes made real by our contemplation of them, by the words we use to talk of them, by the way we have transmuted them to speech. We must stand in awe of them as unassailable, even though they are dissected before our eyes. Melvin Konner
• Materialistic things do not impress me. Your soul does.
• Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls. Austin O’Malley
• The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. Charles Caleb Colton
• Covetousness is an eager desire of getting and keeping the goods of this life in a manner that is contrary to the command of God, and inconsistent with the welfare of men. It consists in an habitual tendency or lust of the soul, whereby it is carried out and inclined towards the enjoyment of worldly riches, as its highest and chiefest good. Wellins Calcott
• It’s possible to have too much in life. Too many clothes jade our appreciation for new ones; too much money can put us out of touch with life; too much free time can dull the edge of the soul. We need sometimes to come very near the bone so that we can taste the marrow of life rather than its superfluities. Joan Chittister
• The accumulation of material possessions, which I refer to by the technical term of “stuff,” doesn’t feed the soul. It doesn’t matter how much stuff you accumulate; it won’t satisfy your spiritual nature. Stuff is like junk food to the soul, and just as junk food won’t nurture your body, neither will accumulating more stuff. Brad Swift
• The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. Ben Nicholson
• The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly. Caryll Houselander
• The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel. Logan Pearsall Smith
• The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip. Wassily Kandinsky
• The people recognize themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobile, hi-fi set, split-level home, kitchen equipment. Herbert Marcuse
• Prosperity, in regard of our corrupt inclination to abuse the blessings of Almighty God, doth prove a thing dangerous to the soul of man. Hooker
• Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. Charles Caleb Colton
• The corruption of the American soul is consumerism. Ben Nicholson
• The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul. Ben Nicholson
• Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
• Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation of zombies. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Excessive need for comfort and ease can hurt the soul

• As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul. Mahatma Gandhi
• Beware the serpent, slyly hid, which stings the soul with poison of Prosperity. Edward Robeson Taylor
• The lust for comfort murders the passions of the soul. Kahlil Gibran
• For too many of us ease is far more soul-destroying than trouble. Alice Foote MacDougall
• When it is moving on luxurious wings, The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings. John Keats
• A soul is forged in the fires of adversity, not comfort. Jana Oliver
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Addiction, desire and attachment can hurt the soul

• Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of Divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for until the cord be broken, the bird cannot fly. John of the Cross
• Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition. Epictetus
• So the unwanting soul sees what’s hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants. Lao Tzu
• Most souls labor under a self-imposed curse of desiring but never truly giving themselves over to love. Michael Xavier
• As a storm conceals the glories of the sun and defaces the beauty of the landscape, even so do maddening passions deform the soul, bearing along with their impetuous waves both pestilence and death. William Scott Downey
• The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly. John of the Cross
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A lack of awareness can hurt the soul

• A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, and the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul. Jerry Fleishman
• Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, and the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul. Jerry Fleishman
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Complaining can hurt the soul

• The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects. Lord Jeffrey
• The feeble soul merely whines and complains. Taylor Caldwell
• A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise. Bahá’u’lláh
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Excessive doubt can hurt the soul

• Doubt is not a thing “shot into the soul” from without like “a loaded shell shot into a fortress.” It springs up in the soul itself; and the more you attempt to “fling it away” without satisfying it, the deeper and more ineradicable it grows. A. Layman
• Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way. Kate Seredy
• Wanting soul life without the dark, warming intelligence of personal doubt is like expecting an egg without the brooding heat of the mother hen. David Whyte
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Worry can hurt the soul

• Worry drains the mind of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul. Robin S. Sharma
• The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn’t worth a damn. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Hatred can hurt the soul

• I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. Booker T. Washington
• One may not give one’s soul to a devil of hate – and remain forever scatheless. Eugene O’Neill
• Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul. William Penn
• Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads. Charles Sprague
• Hating hurts the hater the most. Hating is not a salve for the wounded soul, it is an abrasive that keeps the soul wounded and raw and oversensitive. Jack R. Rose
• Hatred comes with a persistency worthy of a better cause, and clamors for possession of the citadel of the soul. Nicias Ballard Cooksey
• There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. Henry Ward Beecher
• Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. Honore de Balzac
• Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk. I was struck by that and meant to try it, but knew I shouldn’t waste the milk. Alice Munro
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Fear and excessive caution can hurt the soul

• It’s the one who won’t be taken that cannot seem to give, and the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live. Bette Midler
• Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentiment. Leo Tolstoy
• If you don’t take risks, you’ll have a wasted soul. Drew Barrymore
• The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• There are some timid souls that will never know victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
• While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation. T.F. Hodge
• Fear betrays unworthy souls. Virgil
• Once a decision is made to be tasteful and risk-free, all spark, soul, variety, sleaze, spontaneity and fun go right out the window. Cintra Wilson
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Conformity can damage the soul

• Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent. Virginia Woolf
• Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night. Abraham Joshua Heschel
• Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls. Rumi
• Loyalty to a petrified belief never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. Mark Twain
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A lack of purpose and ideals can hurt the soul

• He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man. Robert Ley
• The blackest murder is the killing of the Soul’s aspirations! Edwin Leibfreed
• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Samuel Ullman
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Excessive routine can hurt the soul

• As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge. Henry Van Dyke
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Religious dogma can hurt the soul

• The downside, of course, is that over time religions become encrusted with precepts and ideas that are the antithesis of soul, as each faith tries to protect its doctrines and institution instead of nurturing the evolution of consciousness. If one is not careful to distinguish the genuine insights of a religion from its irrelevant accretions, one can go through life following an inappropriate moral compass. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Don’t drown your soul in ideology and dogma

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Selfishness can hurt the soul

• Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element. William Mountford
• In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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Ambition can hurt the soul

• The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things. Charles Baudelaire
• Ambition and curiosity are the two scourges of the soul: the latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything; the former prevents our leaving anything in doubt or undecided. Michel de Montaigne
• Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. Edward Dahlberg
• And not only do we have to put our feelings at the heart of our ambitions, we have to pursue our desires in a way that is life-affirming, rather than soul-depleting. Rigid goal-chasing is burning us out. Soul- anchored intentions are the way to get home. Danielle LaPorte
• Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, — it steals away the freshness of life, –it deadens its vivid and social enjoyments, –it shuts our souls to our own youth, –and we are old ere we remember that we have made a fever and a labor of our raciest years. Edward Bulwer Lytton
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Indifference and apathy can hurt the soul

• They say philosophers and wise men are indifferent. Wrong. Indifference is a paralysis of the soul, a premature death. Anton Chekhov
• Indifference never wrote great works, nor thought out striking inventions, nor reared the solemn architecture that awes the soul, nor breathed sublime music, nor painted glorious pictures, nor undertook heroic philanthropies. All these grandeurs are born of enthusiasm, and are done heartily.
• Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul. Andre Maurois
• He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. David Lloyd George
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Conditional love can hurt the soul

• Nothing on earth hurts my soul deeper than conditional love. Brooke Bida

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Sin and vice can hurt the soul

• You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin. Henry Ward Beecher
• There are two kinds of disease of the soul, vice and ignorance. Socrates
• Sin is whatever obscures the soul. Andre Gide
• Now, men think, with regard to their conduct, that, if they were to lift themselves up gigantically and commit some crashing sin, they should never be able to hold up their heads; but they will harbor in their souls little sins, which are piercing and eating them away to inevitable ruin. Henry Ward Beecher
• Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul. Alice James
• Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful. Oscar Wilde
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Suspicion can hurt the soul

• Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. Thomas Paine

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Superstition can hurt the soul

• Superstition is the spleen of the soul. Alexander Pope
• Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of. Joseph Joubert

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Rushing and busyness can hurt the soul

• Our rushing and our busyness create a fog layer that encloses us, surrounding us with thicker and thicker layers externally and building denser and denser fog layers within. Pretty soon, we have lost touch with that which guides our lives. We need contact with our spirituality to be the people we would like to be. Anne Wilson Schaef
• I don’t have an answer for the hurry sickness afflicting our society and our souls. But I do trust that the how- to- stop-it is within you, and you can change your pace if you want to. Sue Patton Thoele
• Hurry always empties a soul. Ann Voskamp
• Haste,  Busyness

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Arrogance and excessive pride can hurt the soul

• Because arrogance is born in personal vanity, arrogant people are driven without mercy. They can never get enough power to fill the soul’s needs or enough respect to overcome the fear that they deserve less than they are getting. Lewis B. Smedes
• Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided. Michel de Montaigne
• Pride is the shirt of the soul, put on first and put off last. George Swinnock
• Pride is the king of vices…it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul… Fulton J. Sheen
• And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive. Anne Rice
• Arrogance,  Pride

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Procrastination, inaction and idleness can hurt the soul

• Procrastination has been called a thief,–the thief of time. I wish it were no worse than a thief. It is a murderer; and that which it kills is not time merely, but the immortal soul. William Nevins
• Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. Edward Abbey
• There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess. Sir Aubrey de Vere
• Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls and the recruiting-officer of hell. Edward Irving
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Passivity can hurt the soul

• Passivity is corrosive to the soul; it feeds on feelings of integrity and pride, and it can be as tempting as a drug. Caroline Knapp

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Stagnation can hurt the soul

• The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die. Susanna Kearsley

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Complacency can hurt the soul

• Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul. Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Shame can hurt the soul

• Shame is a soul eating emotion. Carl Jung
• Shaming a person makes him as low as he can go. For a person who has been shamed has no way out, his is the feeling of there being nothing he can do to set things right. Something vague, but decisive, has shrunk his soul. Robert D. Caldwell, M.Div.
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Negativity can hurt the soul

• Be wise. Banish the self-limiting words: “I don’t know how to …” “I can’t do that because …” “I never have any money …” Every negative phrase you utter in a day, is like poison to your soul. Your subconscious hears it and believes it. This limits you in ways you cannot even fathom. Beth Ramsay
• Sensitive souls draw in the negativity of others because they are so open. John Gray
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Regret can hurt the soul

• To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. Oscar Wilde
• I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing. Somerset Maugham
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Self-pity can hurt the soul

• Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul. Paul Hoffman
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Ingratitude can hurt the soul

• Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude. George Washington
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Ignorance can hurt the soul

• Ignorance is often the blindness of the soul. Edward Counsel
• It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day’s dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations. George Eliot
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Leaving feelings unexpressed can hurt the soul

• It’s not that I have stopped feeling, it’s just that I have stopped expressing. And that causes more pain to the heart and more suffering to the soul. Because the feelings unexpressed, the words unspoken and the prayers unheard are much more heart rending than the physical or mental distress. Shalini Govil

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Environmental destruction can hurt the soul

• If we kill off the wild, then we are killing a part of our souls. Jane Goodall
• When we destroy animal spirits and souls, we destroy our own spirits and souls. Marc Bekoff
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Jealousy and envy can hurt the soul

• But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they’re jealous. ‘Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself. William Shakespeare
• Certainly, envy is no monopoly of the poor; it makes itself felt in all sections of society; it haunts the court, the library, the barrack-room, even the sanctuary; it is provoked in some unhappy souls by the near neighbourhood of any superior rank or excellence whatever. Henry Parry Liddon
• Envy is the ulcer of the soul. Socrates
• If you could untie your wings and free your soul of jealousy, you and everyone around you would fly up like doves. Rumi
• Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul. John Dryden
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Deception, cheating and infidelity can hurt the soul

• But whoso committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding; he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. Proverbs 6:32
• Deception is a cruel act… It often has many players on different stages that corrode the soul. Donna A. Favors
• Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul. Patricia Briggs
• A lie is an affront to the soul, as well as an insult to the intelligence of the person to whom one lies. Judith McNaught
• Deceit,  Infidelity

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Fame can hurt the soul

• Fame is the responsibility, the perennial discipline, the concubine who solicits and imbibes, bit by bit, the love, the relations, the serenity, and the soul, leaving behind the subaqueous plaudits that pinch to the core. Himmilicious
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Disgust can hurt the soul

• Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul. Diane Ackerman

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Excessive competition can hurt the soul

• Competition, which is said to be “the life of trade,” when pushed too far, is no less the death of it–and of the soul. Christian Nestell Bovee
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Comparison can hurt the soul

• From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with. Osho
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Perfectionism can hurt the soul

• There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretence of perfection. Rumi
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Depression can hurt the soul

• Depression begins with disappointment. When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement. Joyce Meyer
• Depression turned my body, mind and soul into concrete; procrastination turned my heart into a block of dirty ice. Dolly Sen
• In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the foreknowledge that no remedy will come – – not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. William Styron
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Chronic suffering can hurt the soul

• Intense, unexpected suffering passes more quickly than suffering that is apparently bearable; the latter goes on for years and, without our noticing, eats away at our souls, until, one day, we are no longer able to free ourselves from the bitterness and it stays with us for the rest of our lives. Paulo Coelho
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Sorrow can hurt the soul

• Sorrow is the mere rust of the soul. Samuel Johnson
• Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived. George Herbert
• The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. Claude Debussy
• Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul. Laurie Halse Anderson
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Loneliness can hurt the soul

• For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable. Laini Taylor
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Resistance can hurt the soul

• He who doesn’t accept the conditions of life sells his soul. Charles Baudelaire
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Work without meaning or enjoyment can hurt the soul

• Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. Albert Camus
• Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless. Laini Taylor
• Meaning,  Enjoyment

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Words can hurt the soul

• The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words…they’ll destroy my soul. Cassandra Giovanni
• Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. Karen Marie Moning
• Words have ruined more souls than any devil’s agency. Eric Hoffer
• Sticks and stones can only break bones; but words can shatter the soul. Adam Savage
• Verbal blows cut to the soul and ate at the heart for eternity. Sherrilyn Kenyon
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More potential enemies of the soul

• Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. Tom Robbins
• Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn’t nourish the body – or the soul. Suzanne Fields
• I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn’t get him anything other than a living. Mark Helprin
• The fly that touches honey cannot use its wings; so too the soul that clings to spiritual sweetness ruins it’s freedom and hinders contemplation. Ghose Aurobindo
• We think to dance, and dance in thought. But to hibernate in the mind, is to bring upon us an apocalypse of the Soul. Ilyas Kassam
• The Soul is shriveled up and buried in a grave that does not love. Thomas Traherne
• Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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The soul can be enveloped in darkness

• I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me. Sylvia Plath
• Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, ‘mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample o’er the dead to seize their spoil, Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible As exaltations laden with slow death, And o’er the fairest troop of captured joys Breathes pallid pestilence. George Eliot
• Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed. Leo Tolstoy
• The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof. George Eliot
• There are little bits of my soul, little dark corners that you know nothing of. It’s not good, it’s not right that I should go about with them shut up in me. Anita Vivanti Chartres
• There’s a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there’s a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain’t no either or proposition. We’re talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can’t hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes! Stuart Stevens
• What broke your heart so bad That you had to close every door, That you say you have a dark soul And can’t utter the word ‘love’ anymore? Sanhita Baruah
• What do you want? Just coffee. Black – like my soul. Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
• I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don’t think that’s only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that. Kevin Bacon
• My soul is dark with stormy riot. Samuel Hoffenstein
• The soul’s dark cottage, battered and decayed, lets in new light through chinks that time hath made. Edmund Waller
• There is darkness inside all of us, though mine is more dangerous than most. Still, we all have it—that part of our soul that is irreparably damaged by the very trials and tribulations of life. We are what we are because of it, or perhaps in spite of it. Some use it as a shield to hide behind, others as an excuse to do unconscionable things. But, truly, the darkness is simply a piece of the whole, neither good nor evil unless you make it so. Jenna Maclaine
• This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will never be more than a little clearing in the forest. H. Lawrence
• Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. Marcel Proust
• What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction? James Joyce
• Loneliness is a darkness of the soul. K. Jemisin
• People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream. Haruki Murakami
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The soul can become a battle field …

• Every soul is a battlefield. Lyman Abbott
• Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, Necessity and Freewill. Thomas Carlyle
• Of all battles, there are none like the unrecorded battles of the soul. Henry Ward Beecher
• The greatest battle of life is fought out within the silent chambers of your own soul. President Richards
• The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices. Oliver Goldsmith
• The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed. James Anthony Froude
• Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. Khalil Gibran
• The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. M. Scott Peck
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… a battle between good and evil

• It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul. Ursula K. Le Guin
• Men possessing small souls are generally the authors of great evil. William Scott Downey
• No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good. Saint Basil
• So in an evil world do good souls, even in the busiest turmoil, catch some light from above and make heaven visible by reflection in the dark places of earth. Henry James Slack
• An evil thought in a soul is like a water-rat swimming in a pond at evening: the rat destroys the iridescent reflection of heaven in the water. Austin O’Malley
• The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter. Sophocles
• The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most frequent use, appearing to form the whole character; but they are only the tones most often heard. The whole scale is in every soul, and the notes most seldom heard will on rare occasions make themselves audible. Fanny Kemble
• We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. Herman Melville
• Evil is the plague of the soul. Edward Counsel
• False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. Socrates
• As Atman (the soul) does and acts, so it becomes: by doing good it becomes good, and by doing evil it becomes evil. It becomes virtuous through good acts, and vicious through evil acts.  Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
• Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. Robert Southey
• The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. Francis Bacon
• Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself. George A. Smith
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The soul can be trapped in a hellish state

• The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul. John Calvin
• Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals. James Joyce
• Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit. Rafael Sabatini
• Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven. Anne Rice
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The soul can be temporarily be trapped in a dark night of the soul

• A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift. James Wolcott
• And through a dark night of the soul, I came to realize that salvation happens through a mysterious, indefinable, relational interaction with Jesus in which we become one with Him. I realized Christian conversion worked more like falling in love than understanding a series of concepts of ideas. This is not to say there are no true ideas, it is only to say there is something else, something beyond. Donald Miller
• Awareness born of love is the only force that can bring healing and renewal. Out of our love for another person, we become more willing to let our old identities wither and fall away, and enter a dark night of the soul, so that we may stand naked once more in the presence of the great mystery that lies at the core of our being. This is how love ripens us -by warming us from within, inspiring us to break out of our shell, and lighting our way through the dark passage to new birth. John Welwood
• Being human is a complicated gig. So give that ol’ dark night of the soul a hug. Howl the eternal yes! Friedrich Nietzsche
• But for the present I would lie there and know I didn’t have to get up, and feel the holy emptiness and blessed fatigue of a saint after the dark night of the soul. For God and Nothing have a lot in common. You look either one of Them straight in the eye for a second and the immediate effect on the human constitution is the same. Robert Penn Warren
• Every spiritual teaching points to the possibility of the end of suffering – Now. It is true that most teachers have had to go through the “Dark Night of the Soul,” although for one or two it was very, very quick. Eckhart Tolle
• I believe that the dark night of the soul is a common spiritual experience. I believe, too, that the answer is continued seeking and perseverance. It helps to know that others have endured a loss of faith. Julia Cameron
• I’d read somewhere that nine out of ten adults in Alaska had a drinking problem. I could believe it. Snow, ice, sleet, wind, the dark night of the soul: what else were you supposed to do? T.C. Boyle
• I’m an atheist, I always thought, ‘This is it.’ If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I’m fairly stoic about death, but I’m not keen on dying if it’s going to be long and protracted. I don’t have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I’m such a little busy bee. Edmund White
• If I believe in anything, it is in the dark night of the soul. Awe is my religion, and mystery is its church. Charles Simic
• If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey. Rufus Jones
• In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day. F. Scott Fitzgerald
• In community, where you have all the affection you could ever dream of, you feel that there is a place where even community cannot reach. That’s a very important experience. In that loneliness, which is like a dark night of the soul, you learn that God is greater than community. Henri Nouwen
• In the dark night of the soul, bright flows the river of God. John of the Cross
• People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls. Carl Jun
• Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the ‘dark night of the soul. Parker J. Palmer
• Sometimes you can’t see your way out. The “dark night of the soul” – it’s a reality for many, many people. Mariel Hemingway
• Sustaining faith is what sets you through those dark nights of the soul when you don’t know where to go or what to do, and it seems that you can’t last another day…but because of your faith in God, you do. Joel Osteen
• The mystic may find great joy, but the Dark Night of the soul inevitably follows it. Steven Payeur
• The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation. Joseph Campbell
• The dark night of the soul for me was one night in Florida, when I had been on the road for about four years and I realized that everybody around me was on my payroll, that my old friends hadn’t been in touch with me and my family didn’t know where to get me. I was a very unhappy guy and it was because I was really alone. Barry Manilow
• The dark night of the soul is a journey into light, a journey from your darkness into the strength and hidden resources of your soul. Caroline Myss
• The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity. So it is that we must weather that dark time, the period of transformation when what is familiar has been taken away and the new richness is not yet ours. Ram Dass
• The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul. Flannery O’Connor
• There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were. Vilayat Inayat Khan
• There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. Carl Jung
• There’s a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there’s a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain’t no either or proposition. We’re talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can’t hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes! Stuart Stevens
• To heal the wound, you have to go into the dark night of the soul. Tori Amos
• Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast And by a lantern bright I fled my house while all in quiet rest. Shrouded by the night and by the secret stair I quickly fled. The veil concealed my eyes while all within lay quiet as the dead. John of the Cross
• When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed. Joseph Campbell
• Won’t You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way… Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee… Give me my rapture today. Van Morrison
• You don’t go through a deep personal transformation without some kind of dark night of the soul. Sam Keen
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Some say animals have souls

• Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. Anatole France
• If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. James Herriot
• Any entity – no matter how many tentacles it has – has a soul. Guy Consolmagno
• The belief that humans have eternal souls whereas animals are just evanescent bodies is a central pillar of our legal, political and economic system. It explains why, for example, it is perfectly okay for humans to kill animals for food, or even just for the fun of it. Yuval Noah Harari
• The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone. Pythagoras
• I am certain of one thing as I sit in my pew: If I have a soul — and I think I do — an octopus has a soul, too. Sy Montgomery
• Weak or wicked, great or small, in men and in animal, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in the soul, but in the manifestation. Between me and the smallest animal the difference is only of manifestation, but as a principle he is the same as I am, he is my brother, he has the same soul as I have. This is the principle of Universal Brotherhood of man with one another, with all life down to the little ants. Swami Vivekananda
• Cats were not, in her experience, an animal with much soul. Prosaic, practical little creatures as a general rule. It would suit her very well to be thought catlike. Gail Carriger
• All living creatures are the dwelling of him who lies enveloped in matter, who is immortal, who is spotless. A wise man shall strive after the knowledge of the Atman. It is he [Self] who is the eternal part in all creatures, whose essence is wisdom, who is immortal, unchangeable, pure; he is the universe, he is the highest goal. Apastamba Dharma Sūtra
• I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish – consciously or unconsciously – that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal. Dean Koontz
• I have always felt it was human arrogance that assumes that only people have souls. Anne Raver
• I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. Jean Cocteau
• Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls. Eva Ibbotson
• When you walk across the fields with your mind pure and holy, then from all the stones, and all growing things, and all animals, the sparks of their soul come out and cling to you, and then they are purified and become a holy fire in you. Hasidic saying
• Descartes . . . held that animals were in fact just elaborate machines . . . It was only our non-mechanical, non-physical minds that make human beings (and only human beings) intelligent and conscious. Daniel Dennett
• I would like to act as your interpreter and I hope this will help you see the animal world around you … not as mindless automatons driven by inflexible genetic code, but as stalwart souls and lovable rascals. Peter Wohlleben
• Atman (the soul) is universal oneness, present in all living beings. Atman connects and prevades in everyone. Hurting or injuring another being is hurting the Atman, and thus one’s self that exists in another body. Isha Upanishad
• What is the soul? Some say it is the self, the I that inhabits the body; without the soul, the body is like a lightbulb with no electricity. But it is more than the engine of life, say others; it is what gives life meaning and purpose. Soul is the fingerprint of God. Others say that soul is our innermost being, the thing that gives us our senses, our intelligence, our emotions, our desires, our will, our personality, and identity. One calls soul the indwelling consciousness that watches the mind come and go, that watches the world pass. Perhaps none of these definitions is true. Perhaps all of them are. But I am certain of one thing as I sit in my pew: If I have a soul — and I think I do — an octopus has a soul, too. Sy Montgomery
• When we destroy animal spirits and souls, we destroy our own spirits and souls. Marc Bekoff
• There’s a spiritual bond that connects all Souls: human, animal, and lower forms of life. Harold Klemp
• Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly transmigrating and passing into all sorts of plants or animals. Diogenes Laertius
• Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. Victor Hugo
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Others believe they don’t

• I believe that each of us was put on this earth to fulfil his or her potential for humanity, and the soul is that part of us that makes us truly human. The soul is what makes a human being a human being and not simply another creature on God’s earth. Rabbi Harold Kushner
• Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• According to Christianity, God gave an eternal soul only to humans. Since the fate of this eternal soul is the point of the whole Christian cosmos, and since animals have no soul, they are mere extras. Yuval Noah Harari
• What is so real as the cry of a child? A rabbit’s cry may be wilder But it has no soul. Sylvia Plath

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Maybe trees have souls too

• They tell us that plants are not like man immortal, but are perishable-soul -less. I think that is something that we know exactly nothing about. John Muir
• Enquire: ‘Who am I?’ and you will find the answer. Look at a tree: from one seed arises a huge tree; from it comes numerous seeds, each one of which in its turn grows into a tree. No two fruits are alike. Yet it is one life that throbs in every particle of the tree. So, it is the same Atman everywhere. Anandamayi Ma
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Some do not believe in the soul

• Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning. Albert Einstein
• Searching for a soul in man is like searching for something in a dark empty room. But the poor man will never realize that what he is searching for is not in the room. It is very difficult to make such a person understand the futility of his search. Sri Dhammananda Maha Thera
• ‘Soul’ is a mere figure of speech to which no reality corresponds. William James
• No state once gone ever recurs nor is identical with what goes before. But we worldlings, veiled by the web of illusion, mistake this apparent continuity to be something eternal and go to the extent of introducing an unchanging soul, an atta, the supposed doer and receptacle of all actions to this ever-changing consciousness. Narada Tera
• Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, just as a child depends on its parent. For self-preservation man has conceived the idea of an immortal Soul or Atman, which will live eternally. In his ignorance, weakness, fear, and desire, man needs these two things to console himself. Hence he clings to them deeply and fanatically. Walpola Rahula
• Religion is little more than a transaction in which troubled people trade their souls for temporary and wholly illusionary psychological comfort–the old give-it-up-in-order-to-save-it routine. Religions lead us to believe that the soul is the ultimate family jewel and that in return for our mindless obedience, they can secure it for us in their vaults, or at least insure it against fire theft. They are mistaken. Tom Robbins
• The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen. Steven Pinker
• Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of a spirit rising to the sky is no more real than a medieval Scandinavian fairytale! Mehmet Murat Ildan
• No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul. Somerset Maugham
• One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat. Mark Twain
• We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul. Leonardo da Vinci
• Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism. Albert Einstein

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Modern materialistic science denies the soul

• First and foremost, Science has discarded the belief, held true for thousands of years by many religions of the world – that there exists a spiritual entity called the soul, which transcends matter and is the real source of consciousness within all. Pulkit Mathur
• I don’t understand why people insist on pitting concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can’t they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid package that marries them both in a wonderful package called a human being. What’s wrong with that idea? Garth Stein
• In most respects, fields have replaced the souls of classical and medieval philosophy. Rupert Sheldrake
• In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc have thus far failed, and if we are honest, we must confess that in science there exists no God, no immortality, no soul or mind, as distinct from the body. Charles Proteus Steinmetz
• In the seventeenth century, the mechanistic revolution abolished souls and purposes from nature, with the single exception of human minds. Rupert Sheldrake
• It should be said that the old distinction between soul and body has evaporated quite as much because ‘matter’ has lost its solidity as mind has lost its spirituality. Psychology is just beginning to be scientific. In the present state of psychology belief in immortality can at any rate claim no support from science. Bertrand Russell
• It would not be unfair to suggest that we have taken the scientific worldview he made possible to its very limits in the opposite direction: happiness is caused by endorphans, mother love is programmed by genes and triggered by chemicals; a full-page ad in my university’s magazine recently boasted a picture of a chromosome with the heading, This is your life. The soul has so shrunken from view that far from standing awestruck by its infinitude we have difficulty remembering that it exists: indeed, why speak of soul; mind or consciousness play no role in the electrochemical image of the human being which popular imagination and some scientists today present unchallenged. Eknath Easwaran
• It’s this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what’s it made of? It’s made of neurons. It’s made of lots of tiny robots. And we can actually explain the structure and operation of that kind of soul, whereas an eternal, immortal, immaterial soul is just a metaphysical rug under which you sweep your embarrassment for not having any explanation. Daniel Dennett
• No one has ever touched a soul or has seen one in a test tube or has in any way come into relationship with it as he has with the other objects of his daily experience. Nevertheless to doubt its existence is to become a heretic and once might possibly even had led to the loss of one’s head. Even today a man holding a public position dare not question it. John B. Watson
• Scientific materialism arose historically as a rejection of mechanistic dualism, which defined matter as unconscious and souls as immaterial, as I discuss below. One important motive for this rejection was the elimination of souls and God. Rupert Sheldrake
• The existence of the immortal in man is becoming increasingly discredited under the influence of the dominant schools of modern thought.’ The belief in the immortality of the soul is a dogma that is contradicted by the most solid, empirical truth. S. Wily
• The hypothesis of the soul, on the other hand, has not once in all of human history been supported by good, solid scientific evidence. That’s pretty surprising when you think about it. For decades, and indeed centuries, most scientists had some sort of religious beliefs, and most of them believed in the soul. So a great deal of early science was dedicated to proving the soul’s existence, and discovering and exploring its nature. It wasn’t until after decades upon decades of fruitless research in this area that scientists finally gave it up as a bad job, and concluded, almost unanimously, that the reason they hadn’t found a soul was that there was no such thing. Greta Christina
• The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul. Edward Burne-Jones
• The philosopher stands at his desk in the lecture hall, and demonstrates away the soul of man, and with exact thought measures out his atoms and resolves him back to gas and air. Ouida
• The soul-theory is a complete superfluity, so far as accounting for the actually verified facts of conscious experience goes. So far no one can be compelled to subscribe to it for definite scientific reasons. James
• There are scientists who will tell you that spirit, because it can’t be measured, doesn’t exist. Bollocks. It does exist. Sam Allardyce
• There is no place in the brain for your soul to be hiding. Sam Harris
• Until the seventeenth century, university scholars and Christian theologians taught that the universe was alive, pervaded by the Spirit of God, the divine breath of life. All plants, animals and people had souls. The stars, the planets and the earth were living beings, guided by angelic intelligences. Mechanistic science rejected these doctrines and expelled all souls from nature. The material world became literally inanimate, a soulless machine. Matter was purposeless and unconscious; the planets and stars were dead. Rupert Sheldrake
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Buddhists do not believe in the soul …

• Buddhists do not believe that at the core of all human beings and living creatures, there is any “eternal, essential and absolute something called a soul, self or atman.” KN Jayatilleke
• Buddhists reject the concept and all doctrines associated with atman, call atman as illusion (maya), asserting instead the theory of “no-self” and “no-soul”. John C. Plott
• Buddhism has defined nirvana as that blissful state when a person realizes that he or she has “no self, no soul”. John C. Plott
• With regard to the soul theory, there are three kinds of teachers in the world: The first teacher teaches the existence of an eternal ego-entity that outlasts death: He is the eternalist. The second teacher teaches a temporary ego-entity which becomes annihilated at death: He is the materialist. The third teacher teaches neither an eternal nor a temporary ego-entity: He is the Buddha. K. Sri Dhammananda Maha Thera
• There is a parable in our Buddhist texts with regard to the belief in an eternal soul. A man, who mistook a moving rope for a snake, became terrified by that fear in his mind. Upon discovery that it was only a piece of rope, his fear subsided and his mind became peaceful. The belief in an eternal soul is equated to the rope of that man’s imagination. Sri Dhammananda Maha Thera
• When most people think of “self” they think of some abstract core that is the subject of all experience and the agent of all actions. Buddha taught (and modern cognitive science tends to agree) that upon careful examination there is no such single core. Instead experiences result from interactions of multiple perceptory functions. Similarly, our actions are performed by a conglomerate of functions, without a single agent responsible for all choices. Andrei Volkov
• According to the historical Buddha, there is no “soul” or “self” in the sense of a permanent, intrinsic, autonomous “I” inhabiting our bodies. What we imagine to be “I” is an effect created by our brains and senses that is re-created anew every moment. “Enlightenment” might loosely be defined as the falling away of the illusion of “I.” Barbara O’Brien
• Buddhists do not believe in an eternal soul that goes to meet God in the Christian sense, or one that is continually reincarnated in the Hindu sense; rather, the concept of rebirth (or Buddhist reincarnation) has been described as lighting a candle with the flame from another candle. John Horgan
• Where Buddha departed most radically from Hinduism was in his doctrine of “anatta”, the notion that individuals do not possess eternal souls. Instead of eternal souls, individuals consist of a “bundle” of habits, memories, sensations, desires, and so forth, which together delude one into thinking that he or she consists of a stable, lasting self. John Horgan
• This all sounds very depressing of course. If “you” are not permanent, then “who” is experiencing rebirth? “Who” continues on? And maybe more importantly, if “you” are not permanent, what does it matter what you do in this life? Alan Peto
• As part of his teaching, the Buddha discouraged speculation upon any phenomena, which were not part of the perceptual reality. Accordingly, he discouraged questions and speculation upon the nature of the transcendental Self or God. He also avoided speculation upon the nature of reality, whether it was real or illusory, just as he avoided elaborating the state of Nirvana because it too was outside the boundaries of ordinary human experience. Jayaram V
• A chief selling point of Buddhism is its supposed de-emphasis of supernatural notions such as immortal souls and God. Buddhism “rejects the theological impulse,” the philosopher Owen Flanagan declares approvingly in The Problem of the Soul. John Horgan
• The most fundamental message of Gautama the Buddha is not God, is not soul… it is freedom: freedom absolute, total, unconditional. He does not want to give you an ideology, because every ideology creates its own slavery. Rajneesh

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Souls and children

• The soul is healed by being with children. Fyodar Dostoyevsky
• There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children. Nelson Mandela
• No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. Emma Goldman

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Souls and childhood

• Childhood is the one story that stands by itself in every soul. Ivan Doig
• Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul. Dave Pelzer
• When a tree is polled, it will sprout new shoots nearer its roots. A soul that is ruined in the bud will frequently return to the springtime of its beginnings and its promise-filled childhood, as though it could discover new hopes there and retie the broken threads of life. The shoots grow rapidly and eagerly, but it is only a sham life that will never be a genuine tree. Hermann Hesse
• Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life. K. Chesterton
• In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colors of a rainbow. Papiha Ghosh
• That’s what makes it so right. Your eyes—your soul is there, but the rest of you is still so undefined. That’s the beauty of childhood. The eyes show everything you’ve seen so far, but the rest of you is still so open to possibility, to whatever you might become. Bree Despain
• Time always seems long to the child who is waiting – for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day. Dag Hammarskjold
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Some souls are born old

• I am a child with an old soul. I see magic in everything, but at the same time, everything tires me because I feel everything so very deeply. Juansen Dizon
• You know why little babies weep? The little babies are missing their families from their past lives. The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies. The tears loosen their memories so they can slide away. They cry at the life they have lost, and then they cry at everything they’ll forget. Akhil Sharma
• I’m not to blame for an old body, but I would be to blame for an old soul. An old soul is a shameful thing. Margaret Deland
• I think I was always an old soul, even as a teenager. Brooke Fraser
• I think soul is soul. I don’t see new soul as any different to old soul. Paloma Faith
• I’m a young girl with an old soul. I wanted to fuse the two together, the past and the present. Melanie Fiona
• We all have souls of different ages Scott Fitzgerald
• You are only a young talent, but we don’t know how old your soul is. Tom Jones
• All thoughts that mold the age begin deep down within the primitive soul. James Russell Lowell

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The world can be said to have a soul

• We can say that the earth has a vegetative soul, and that its flesh is the land, its bones are the structure of the rocks . . . its breathing and its pulse are the ebb and flow of the sea. Leonardo da Vinci
• We consider that the whole universe is animated, and that all the globes, all the stars, and also the noble earth have been governed since the beginning by their own appointed souls and have the motives of self-conservation. William Gilbert
• Not unfittingly do some call it the light of the world, others the soul, still others the governor. Tremigistus calls it the visible God: Sophocles’ Electra, the All-seer. And in fact does the sun, seated on his royal throne, guide his family of planets as they circle around him. Nicholas Copernicus
• Water is the soul of the Earth. H. Auden
• The soul is a breath of living spirit, that with excellent sensitivity, permeates the entire body to give it life. Just so, the breath of the air makes the earth fruitful. Thus the air is the soul of the earth, moistening it, greening it. Hildegard of Bingen
• You work that you may keep peace with the earth and the soul of the earth. Khalil Gibran
• Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world. Alexis Carrel
• The soul of the world is nourished by people’s happiness. Paulo Coelho
• There may be a soul of the world, there may be … a psychical side, of which we are not aware, to every atom in the universe, and the psychical side, like the moon, may show us ever but the one face, the other forever in the shadow; but, at best, this is only a conjecture, it presents no solid foundation upon which to rest a theory. John Grier Hibben
• The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. Paulo Coelho
• Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty… Aberjhani
• Each person is a story that the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself. Michael Meade
• Love is the force that transforms and improves the Soul of the World. Paulo Coelho
• I like to use the term alchemy, which is the soul of the world, or those of Jung’s collective unconscious. You connect with a space where everything is. Paulo Coelho
• At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. Paulo Coelho
• When you want something with all your heart, that’s when you are closest to the Soul of the World. It’s always a positive force. Paulo Coelho
• Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there. Paulo Coelho
• Light, that first phenomenon of the world, reveals to us the spirit and the living soul of the world through colors. Johannes Itten
• Love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it. Love is also the seed and milk and the fruit of the world, though we can partake of it in greed or reverence. Michael O’Brien
• Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it’s full of life, it’s full of hidden places and the beauty is that it looks simple but it’s complex in the way that it expresses the soul of the world or God. Paulo Coelho
• That which oppresses me, is it my soul trying to come out in the open, or the soul of the world knocking at my heart for entrance? Rabindranath Tagore
• 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. Paulo Coelho
• Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world. Plutarch

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Having more than one soul

• Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• He who has two languages has two souls. Quintus Ennius
• Faust complained about having two souls in his breast, but I harbor a whole crowd of them and they quarrel. It is like being in a republic. Otto von Bismarck
• Your soul is like the souls of a thousand monkeys on crack, all smushed together. Sarah Rees Brennan
• I’ll never fall in love again… it’s like having two souls at the same time. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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The journey of the soul

• Art is the journey of a free soul. Alev Oguz
• If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey. Rufus Jones
• In the morning of life, before its wearisome journey, The youthful soul doth expand, in the simple luxury of being; It hath not contracted its wishes, nor set a limit on its hopes. Martin Farquhar Tupper
• No one else can hold your hand or take this voyage of the soul for you. Jim Harrison
• It is not for you to judge the journey of another’s soul. It is for you to decide who you are, not who another has been, or has failed to be. Neale Donald Walsch
• Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Erich Fromm
• Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that is experienced. That is why there exist contemplative souls who have lived more intensely, more widely, more tumultuously than others who have lived their lives purely externally. Fernando Pessoa
• Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul, and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love. Sarah McLean
• One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it… and the journey is always towards the other soul. H. Lawrence
• So trust the process of your life unfolding, and know with certainty, through the peaks and valleys of your journey, that your soul rests safe and secure in the arms of God. Dan Millman
• Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm. Frederick Lenz
• The dark night of the soul is a journey into light, a journey from your darkness into the strength and hidden resources of your soul. Caroline Myss
• The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement is inward, into the lands of the soul. Terri Windling
• The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual. Rabindranath Tagore
• The journey to personal freedom can only be achieved if you listen to the voice of your soul. Micheal Teal
• The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey. Henry
• To love is for the Soul to choose a companion, and travel with it along the perilous defiles and winding ways of life; mutually sustaining, when it is rugged with obstructions, and mutually rejoicing, when rich broad plains and sunny slopes make journeying delight. George Henry Lewes
• When we lose sight of each other as sacred souls on a sacred journey, then we cannot see the purpose behind all relationships. Neale Donald Walsch
• When you are compassionate with yourself, you trust in your soul, which you let guide your life. Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey. John O’Donohue
• Your soul already knows that, what it needs is to use the long journey to be able to grow, stretch along the horizon, touch the sky. Paulo Coelho
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• If I should die to-night what have I to show for my life in the way of soul-winning? Fredonia Ellsworth Holloway

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• Brevity is the soul of lingerie. Dorothy Parker
• Every American woman has two souls to call her own; the other being her husband’s. James Agate
• Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. George Carlin
• He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. David Lloyd George
• I drink to separate my body from my soul. Oscar Wilde
• I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. Woody Allen
• Mouth: In man the gateway to the soul; in woman the outlet of the heart. Ambrose Bierce
• No real English gentleman in his secret soul was ever sorry for the death of a political economist. Walter Bagehot
• Should have sold its soul for a little help in the script department. Jami Bernard
• Souls wouldn’t wear suits and ties, they’d wear blue jeans and sit cross-legged with a glass of red wine. Terri Guillemets
• The human soul weighs 1.2lbs. I know because I’ve weighed myself before and after I walk into my job.
• There’s nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. Woody Hayes
• You have a good and kind soul it just doesn’t match the rest of you. Norm Papernick
• He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an axe… Bohumil Hrabal
• She can’t help it,’ he said. ‘She’s got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog. Stephen King
• Take me to the pilot of your soul. Elton John
• To be really medieval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes. Oscar Wilde
• What do you want? Just coffee. Black – like my soul. Cassandra Clare
• A bad day for the ego is a good day for the soul.
• Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul. Isak Dinesen
• Distance makes the heart grow fonder, and familiarity breeds contempt. According to this my soul mate should be in Thailand. Jason Zebehazy
• Hot coffee and cold winter mornings are two of the best soul mates who ever did find each other. Terri Guillemets
• Hydrogenated and androgynous milky white love is all I have to offer you. Would you like me to pour it in your coffee, or directly into your soul? Jarod Kintz
• I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice cream. Heywood C. Broun
• I’m so in love, every time I look at you my soul gets dizzy. Jaesse Tyler
• It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times. Pearl S. Buck
• My dog was my soul mate; we both took naps we both skipped lunch we both hated the vacuum. Elayne Boosler
• Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer. Tom Robbins
• Better a soulless clone… than a souled roach. David Mitchell
• Nothing heals the soul like chocolate … It’s God’s apology for broccoli. Richard Paul Evans
• Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it. Nikki Sixx
• I want to be good. I can’t bear the idea of my soul being hideous. Oscar Wilde
• I wanted her body and soul, but body first. Philip Sington

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