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“We cultivate soul by seeking depth, interiority, and connectedness - in short, by exercising imagination.”

Life Soul Philosophy Imagination Meaning

Book:The Secret Tradition of the Soul

Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul

“The more we realize our selves, the less they seem to be our selves, as if the world-soul merely wishes to reflect itself through our eyes. The less self-important we are, the more important we are as selves, with a unique perspective on the cosmos.”

Life Soul Self Philosophy Meaning Cosmos

Book:The Secret Tradition of the Soul

Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul

“Death is not the opposite of life but of birth - life is a continuous realm out of which we are born; that (as Plato says) we can dimly remember during our existence; and to which we return when we die - to that totality of life compared to which mortal existence seems but a dreamlike fragment.”

Life Soul Philosophy Death Birth

Book:The Secret Tradition of the Soul

Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul

“Ideologies can only ever hope to change our lifestyles; it takes soul to change our lives.”

Life Soul Philosophy

Book:The Secret Tradition of the Soul

Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul

“We are more like a many-faceted whole, and it is our task in the course of a lifetime to realize each facet of our selves - a journey that is more likely to be downward, circular, and labyrinthine than upward, onward, and straight.”

Life Soul Self Philosophy

Book:The Secret Tradition of the Soul

Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul

“Our lives are like a piece of embroidery: on one side, all loose ends, cut threads, and knots; but, turned around at death, a marvelous, coherent picture.”

Life Soul Philosophy Meaning

Book:The Secret Tradition of the Soul

Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul

“There are many other worlds - but they are all in this one.”

Life Soul Philosophy Worlds

Book:The Secret Tradition of the Soul

Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul

“The unconscious reflects back at us the face we show to it.”

Life Soul Philosophy

Book:The Secret Tradition of the Soul

Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul

“As part of the Soul of the World we are part of a cosmic dance of which it is meaningless to ask the purpose and meaning - because it is all purpose and meaning.”

Life Soul Philosophy Purpose Meaning

Book:The Secret Tradition of the Soul

Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul

“Emotion and intellect, matter and spirit, body and soul, One and Many, male and female, human and divine, freedom and necessity - all the contradictions of our fractured existence are most marvelously woven together in the wedding of soul and spirit, which preserves our twofoldness right into the heart of the One.”

Life Soul Philosophy Spirit Purpose Unity Meaning

Book:The Secret Tradition of the Soul

Source: The Secret Tradition of the Soul

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