“I learned that our deepest need is to overcome our aloneness and our separateness. We seek to escape from separateness in various ways. We seek conformity, mistaking it for union. This is a soul-crushing way to exist. Or we seek union through orgiastic states - drugs, alcoholism, overwork - or through creative activities. But the ultimate escape from separateness is through interpersonal union.” WayNeedsSoulStatesMotivationalCreativeDrugActivityUltimateOvercomingUnionsVariousCrushConformityAlcoholismSeparatenessOverworkInterpersonal Book:Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership Source: Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
“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.” PeopleNeedsSoulEnoughBornDeserveMercyOvercomingDrivenVanityArroganceArrogantArrogant People Book:Love Within Limits: Realizing Selfless Love in a Selfish World Source: Love Within Limits: Realizing Selfless Love in a Selfish World
“The impulse to think, to philosophize and spin beauty and brilliance out of mind and soul, is somehow the offspring of resistance of an effort to overcome an apparently insurmountable obstacle. Hence cultural creativeness is more likely to flourish in an atmosphere of restriction, of an imposed pattern of thought and behavior, than in one of total freedom.” ThinkingMindSoulEffortBehaviorOvercomingPatternsObstaclesResistanceImpulseAtmosphereRestrictionBrillianceOffspringInsurmountableCreativeness Author:Eric Hoffer
“The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.” WayFirstsSoulPainPastPleasureFiveLonelinessWindWallThousandThirdsOvercomingWingsInjusticeLipsBlowBonesFleshMy SoulCupsMy WayTeaDryThroatLegendsFourthFifthSoul SearchingCaressCommunesDry Lips Author:Lu Tong
“I am ever Thine. If Thou cast me out, who shall take me in? If Thou disregard me, who shall look on me? More canst Thou remit, than I commit; more canst Thou spare, than I offend. Let not hurtful pleasures overcome me; at the least let not any perverse habit overwhelm me; From evil and unlawful desires; From vain, hurtful, impure imaginations; from the illusions of evil spirits; from pollutions of soul and of body; Good Lord, deliver me.” IfsLooksSoulBodySpiritDesireEvilImaginationPleasureLordHabitIllusionOvercomingCastsCommitVainTake MePollutionSparesDisregardHurtfulUnlawfulEvil Spirits Author:Lancelot Andrewes
“To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.” ShouldMindWellsHeartSoulWholeWisdomPoliticsJusticeEconomyOvercomingDifficultyObviousGod LoveLiberalismFraudPrudenceDeceivedFortitudeTemperanceLive WellSubservientFalsity Author:Saint Augustine
“Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.” WaySoulHardWishPrayerLordGreaterPrayingNeededOvercomingDifficultyDepthObstaclesIntimatePreacherAcquaintanceRevivalMoodyRevival PrayerGod PrayerInsurmountableRevival In America Author:R. A. Torrey