T Quotes
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“The Soul Has No Morality
We do not hear the hooves,
Although they grow louder, hourly,
And the hooves are magnificent,
Snooty and vain!
And the carriage is black and stately.
The soul has no morality.
It is waiting, fidgety with hope.
It is too abstract to escape,
And not clever at all.
It is no Houdini.
The train takes its time.
At each stop there are mourners
Weeping and waving.
The soul does not weep,
It has no sense of what is proper.
The soul is not even near the train!
On another galaxy it listens to horns.
It whirls on pins. It is clapping
Restless hands. It is singing
'Blue Moon' off key.”
Source: Visiting Rites
“The soul has no "shoulds", "musts", or "have-tos." It doesn't need rules because it knows only connection and flows with what is.”
Source: The Awakened Way: Making the Shift to a Divinely Guided Life
“The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.”
“The soul has to find and hold its ground against hostile forces, sometimes embodied in ideas which frequently deny its very existence, and which indeed often seem to be trying to annul it altogether.”
“The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation.”
Source: The Nicomachean ethics
“The soul has words as petals.”
Source: The Book of Questions: Volume I [The Book of Questions, The Book of Yukel, Return to the Book]
“The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.”
Source: The Poetical Works of
“The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.”
Source: Les Misérables
“The soul holds greater spiritual power than the mind.”
“The soul, in its desire to say many things, dissipates its memory of God through the door of speech, even though everything in it says may be good.”
“The soul, in its loneliness, hopes only for "salvation." And yet what is the burden of the Bible if not a sense of the mutuality of influence, rising out of an essential unity, among soul and body and community and world? These are all the works of God, and it is therefore the work of virtue to make or restore harmony among them. The world is certainly thought of as a place of spiritual trial, but it is also the confluence of soul and body, word and flesh, where thoughts must become deeds, where goodness must be enacted. This is the great meeting place, the narrow passage where spirit and flesh, word and world, pass into each other. The Bible's aim, as I read it, is not the freeing of the spirit from the world. It is the handbook of their interaction. It says that they cannot be divided; that their mutuality, their unity, is inescapable; that they are not reconciled in division, but in harmony. What else can be meant by the resurrection of the body? The body should be "filled with light," perfected in understanding. And so everywhere there is the sense of consequence, fear and desire, grief and joy. What is desirable is repeatedly defined in the tensions of the sense of consequence.”
Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
“The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father; but coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Plotinus - Complete Enneads (Illustrated)
“The soul in man is greater than his fate.”
Source: Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series
“The soul in sleep gives proof of its divine nature.”
“The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.”
“The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.”
Source: Open Closed Open: Poems
“The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.”
Source: The Confessions
“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.”
“The Soul is a fact, but it is not physical. ... Survivors of near-death experiences attest that some part of them apparently detaches from their physical bodies following the death of the body, but while that is proof of the soul for them, it does not prove it to us. The Soul is like divine music that only God can hear; it is the force of endless resurrection; the soul is like a fire that never goes out.”
“The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this ME, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.”
“The soul is a form of energy that makes you sentient.”
“The soul is a great magician; transforming thoughts into reality, desires into actions, and life into experiences.”
“The Soul is a house...Let it burn!”
“The soul is a knowing substance that knows the Reality beyond time and space. To acquire this kind of knowing is to become illuminated, to be connected to a greater intelligence that will guide every step of your life. Instead of living in fear and uncertainty, you will more and more be able to trust the unfolding of Life. (p. 78)”
Source: Living Presence: A Sufi Way to Mindfulness & the Essential Self
“The soul is a living, dynamic part of each person. It exists as consciousness and therefore must be found in consciousness.”
“The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.”
Source: Death's Master
“The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.”
“The soul is a prolonged anniversary of our lives in this world.”
Source: Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
“The soul is a seed, yet it holds, the universe of light.”
“The Soul is a stranger trying to find a Home
somewhere that is not a where.”
“The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
“The soul is a tiny seed, yet it holds, the universe of light.”
“The soul is a verb. . . . Not a noun.”
Source: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
“The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.”
“The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“The soul is always beautiful, it appears more or it appears less,
it comes or it lags behind,
It comes from its embowered garden
and looks pleasantly on itself and encloses the world.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“The soul is always wiser than the mind, even though we are dependent on the mind to read the soul for us.”
Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong
“The soul is an embryo in the body of Man, and the day of death is the Day of awakening, for it is the Great era of labour and the rich Hour of creation.”
“The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul would be no good to the devil if it could be destroyed. And it is not lost when placed in Satan's care, as is so often said. He always know exactly how to put his finger on it.”
“The soul is awakened through service.”
Source: Fear of Fifty
“The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.”
Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
“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, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free.”
Source: Self-realization Magazine
“The soul is called hugr, Anglo-Saxon hygi, thereby indicating it as desire and inclination, as courage and thought. It inspires a man's behaviour, his actions and his speech are characterised according to whether they proceed out of whole hugr, bold hugr, or downcast hugr. It resides in him and urges him on; thus ends Loki when he has said his say among the gods: “Now I have spoken that which my hugr urged me to say,” thus also Sigurd when he has slain the serpent: “My hugr urged me to it.” It sits within, giving counsel or warning; “my hugr tells me,” is a weighty argument, for when the hugr has told a thing, the matter is pretty well settled. “He seems to me unreliable, you will see he will soon turn the evil side outward; it is against my will that he is with you, for my hugr tells me evil about him,” thus Ingolf exhorts his brother to turn away a vagabond who comes to the place. A winter passed, and Ingolf could say that all had fallen out as his hugr had warned him. And Atli Hasteinson, of noble race, confidently gives directions to his household after the fight with Hrafn: “You, my son, will avenge your father, if you take after your kin, and my hugr tells me you will become a famous man, and your children after you.” And when the hugr is uneasy, as when one can say with Gudrun: “Long I hesitated, long were my hugrs divided in me,” then life is not healthy. But when a man has followed the good counsel from within, and attained his end, then there rises from his soul a shout of triumph, it is his hugr laughing in his breast.— Now and again, the soul has its knowledge directly, as we should say; at times it has acquired it by spying out the land, and then it may chance that the enemy has seen his opponent's hugr coming towards him, whether in human form or in the shape of a beast. He dreams of wolves, and is told that it is the hugrs of men he has
seen.”
Source: The Culture of the Teutons: Volumes 1 and 2
“The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.”
“The soul is colourless just like water.”
“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.”
Source: Notebooks
“The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity: with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time.”
“The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.”
“The soul is divine energy that carries an imprint of identity.”
Source: The Algorithm of Life: The Code to Choose Your Destiny
“The soul is dyed by the color of its leisure hours.”