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“Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.”

Trying Soul Song Voice Teacher Students Debut Updates Voluptuous Retro

Author:Will Hermes

“Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop.”

Soul Pain Suffering Teacher Mankind Breaths Great Teacher

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.”

Knows Doe Soul Play Use Body Evil Know How Teacher Benefits Nonsense Leisure Absurdity Wickedness Filling Fasting Dice

Book:Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)

Source: Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)

“Some souls attain enlightenment. No one knows why. You could say it is individual inclination. I'm not convinced that's the case.”

Knows Soul Individual Cases Teacher Enlightenment Convinced Enlightened Inclination

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

World Littles Soul Play Next Teacher This World Enlightened Commodity Liberated Next Play

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Most people think that an enlightened Buddhist Teacher is a fireman; His job is to put the fire out so that you can live in your home safely. But seeker beware! A fully enlightened Buddhist teacher is an arsonist! His job is to set your spirit on fire...by feeding the flames of your soul with love.”

People Thinking Soul Home Jobs Spirit Fire Teacher Buddhist Your Soul Flames Enlightened Feeding Seekers Fireman Arsonists

Author:Frederick Lenz

“We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master. We then become witnesses to the development of the human soul; the emergence of the New Man who will no longer be the victim of events but, thanks to his clarity of vision, will become able to direct and to mold the future of mankind.”

“If children had teachers for judgment and eloquence just as they have for languages, if their memory was exercised less than their energy or their natural genius, if instead of deadening their vivacity of mind we tried to elevate the free scope and impulse of their souls, what might not result from a fine disposition? As it is, we forget that courage, or love of truth and glory are the virtues that matter most in youth; and our one endeavour is to subdue our children's spirits, in order to teach them that dependence and suppleness are the first laws of success in life.”