The Soul Quotes
I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.
The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.
The first part of the spiritual journey should properly be called psychological rather than spiritual because it involves peeling away the myths and illusions that have misinformed us.
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.
My soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.
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.
Nothing so demoralizes the forces of the soul as fear. Only as we realize the presence of the Lord does fear give place to faith.
(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.
If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
Go ahead and cry, Andy. Don't be afraid of those tears. Sometimes they help to wash the soul clean.
And you take care, too, Shahara. Remember the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. (Nero)
... but I'm always being invaded by others' souls so I can't see my own soul very well.
War was then no longer this noble and unified outburst of souls in love with glory that he had imagined from Napoleon's proclamations.
Dancing is so physical and so athletic. I think it rings to the boy that is in my soul because you get to run and jump and climb and act as aggressively as you'd like.
It's real interesting to have a soul as a friend, and it makes me feel super special that I've managed it.
To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.
We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light.
The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot.
The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.
No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny.
There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.
If 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 circustance.
Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.
In that first 'fusion' with Jesus (holy communion), it was my Heavenly Mother again who accompanied me to the altar for it was she herself who placed her Jesus into my soul.
He that seeks here any other thing but simply God and the salvation of his soul, will find nothing but trouble and sorrow.
There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.
Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Knowledge of the soul would unfailingly make us melancholy if the pleasures of expression did not keep us alert and of good cheer.
Plato feels that ethical abstinences and austerities are essential preconditions for the cleansing and opening of the eye of the soul.
A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.
Tonight I am going to defecate on stage because I think that is the only way to express the nature of my soul according to rock and roll.
It is precisely our egoism, our self-centeredness and self-love that cause all our difficulties, our lack of freedom in suffering, our disappointments and our anguish of soul and body.
The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.