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I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame.
— Maureen Brady, Daybreak: Meditations For Women Survivors Of Sexual Abuse
Something watches over us and we know it when we follow the little voice inside or heed the warning or inspiration that arrives as if on wings. We need the intermediaries that keep us close to the spirit of life, to the wonders of nature and to the subtleties of our own inner nature.
— Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
The hardest thing in life may be to learn to truly trust that there is something noble and generative in ourselves. This is a greater sense of the notion of believing in our self; to truly believe in oneself means to uncover the inner core of imagination and authenticity that can also be called the genius within us. When we connect to the inner resident of the soul, we also learn how we are woven to the Soul of the World.
— Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
The issue is not simply one of needing to save the world, but also of needing to solve the problem of the loss of soul throughout the modern world. Part of what has been lost in the reckless rushing of modernity is the sense that each life has an authentic interior that shelters important emotions as well as inherent purpose, and that the dignity of existence includes a necessary instinct to unfold the unique story woven inside each living soul.
— Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
Living myth is about the experience of the waters parting again in the here and now. As a critical moment opens before us the spirit of life and genius of the soul speaks to us and through us. What was about to crush us suddenly parts before us and we shoot forward with the sudden vitality of life, fueled by the living imagination needed to survive.
— Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
Nothing is perpetual in this world. Not even your everlasting soul!
— Munia Khan
I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps.
— Walter Mosely
It is the disaster of our entire existence that we live thus away from our soul, and stand in such dread of its slightest movement. Did we but allow it to smile frankly in its silence and its radiance, we should be already living an eternal life. We have only to think for an instant how much it succeeds in accomplishing during those rare moments when we knock off its chains – for it is our custom to enchain it as though it were distraught – what it does in love, for instance, for there we do permit it at times to approach the lattices of external life.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
Be good at the depth of you, and you will discover that those who surround you will be good even to the same depths. Nothing responds more infallibly to the secret cry of goodness than the secret cry of goodness that is near. While you are actively good in the invisible, all those who approach you will unconsciously do things that they could not do by the side of any other man.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself. There will be times when he will surround you with walls of darkness. But remember always that your soul is secure to you, for your soul is entire, and that he cannot enter your soul, for your soul is part of God.
— Jane Yolen, The Devil's Arithmetic
This invisible and divine goodness, of which I only speak here because of its being one of the surest and nearest signs of the unceasing activity of our soul, this invisible and divine goodness ennobles, in decisive fashion, all that it has unconsciously touched.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
May it not be the supreme aim of life thus to bring to birth the inexplicable within ourselves; and do we know how much we add to ourselves when we awake something of the incomprehensible that slumbers in every corner? Here you have awakened love which will not fall asleep again. … nothing can ever separate two souls which, for an instant, ‘have been good together.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
Oh, he understood very well that for the meek soul of a simple Russian, exhausted by grief and hardship and, above all, by constant injustice and sin, his own or the world's, there was no stronger need than to find a holy shrine or a saint to prostrate himself before and to worship.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this there can be no nobler aim in life. It is only by the communications we have with the infinite that we are to be distinguished from each other.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
To love thus is to love according to the soul; and there is no soul that does not respond to this love. For the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back, and never has it to be summoned twice to the nuptial feast.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.
— Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way
While physical states can be publicly known, mental states are only privately known. This characteristic of the mind is not shared with the brain; the properties of the brain and the mind are not identical.
— J. Warner Wallace, God's Crime Scene: A Cold-Case Detective Examines the Evidence for a Divinely Created Universe
O, how wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul! The intellect of man sits enthroned visibly upon his forehead and in his eye; and the heart of man is written upon his countenance. But the soul reveals itself in the voice only; as God revealed himself to the prophet of old in the still, small voice; and in a voice from the burning bush. The soul of man is audible, not visible. A sound alone betrays the flowing of the eternal fountain, invisible to man!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion
It’s the spark of love’s memory inside your heart that recognizes them and most of the time they recognize you too. That spark is the magnet that always brings us back to each other. Like glue, it binds us together with an invisible cord from lifetime to lifetime, soul mate to soul mate.
— Kate McGahan, The Lizard from Rainbow Bridge: A True Tale of an Unexpected Angel
We almost made love with fire, fire in our eyes, fire in our souls, and even in our bones.
— Tamara Stamenkovic
Death has come and atoned for all. I have no grievance against the soul of the man before me. Instinctively do I recognise that it soars high above the gravest faults and the cruellest wrongs (and how admirable and full of significance is this instinct!). If there linger still a regret within me, it is not that I am unable to inflict suffering in my turn, but it is perhaps that my love was not great enough and that my forgiveness has come too late. …
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
The strength of the soul is a strong spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Our angels often come to us in the times when we are unconscious because those are the times we are free of the continual thoughts of our mind. It is here that we remember who we really are. We remember who we are in our soul. We are greater than the physical life we have been living on earth.
— Kate McGahan, The Lizard from Rainbow Bridge: A True Tale of an Unexpected Angel
In my silence and stillness, my soul dances with the ecstasy of life.
— Debasish Mridha
If you would see a man's heart, knock him down. Then observe how he rises. If you would see his soul, do it a thousand times more.
— Lance Conrad, The Price of Nobility
If I tell some one that I love him – as I may have told a hundred others – my words will convey nothing to him; but the silence which will ensue, if I do indeed love him, will make clear in what depths lie the roots of my love, and will in its turn give birth to a conviction, that shall itself be silent; and in the course of a lifetime, this silence and this conviction will never again be the same. …
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
Forgive your self and others by removing the anger that stands in your way and replace it with love, to heal your soul and your spirit.
— Angie karan
Every breathing soul longs to overcome.
— Ted Dekker
Vibration is the core of the spirit. It is the breath of life.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Something deep in human make up needs and longs for a taste of eternity--a momentary release from the relentless pace of time.
— Thomas  Moore, The Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love
Do you think your soul is more beautiful than your body?
— Tamara Stamenkovic
But as the girl timidly accosted him, he gave a convulsive movement and saved hisrespectability by a vigorous side-step. He did not risk it to save a soul. For how was he toknow that there was a soul before him that needed saving?
— Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Other Stories
Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I shall recall the memory of warm, sunny, late summer afternoons like this one, and be comforted greatly.
— Peggy Toney Horton
It is a thing that knows no limit, and before it all men are equal; and the silence of king or slave, in presence of death, or grief, or love, reveals the same features, hides beneath its impenetrable mantle the self-same treasure. For this is the essential silence of our soul, our most inviolable sanctuary, and its secret can never be lost;
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
Sublimely mysterious and immeasurably powerful, is the stewardship that the sound of music can have over the soul.
— Tracey Bond, Spirit Fed Entrepreneur: Growing Your Business with a Fearless Mindset
As we watch the process in which the soul becomes thought or speech, we notice that many a time we ease ourselves into convenient clichés that have little of the new insight in them. Once more we are trapped by habits that are the dunghills upon which the creeds feed. It takes vigilance and humble courage to make acts of faith. After all, where faith is weak, there is an abundance of beliefs. With this in mind we may be more humble about our tradition and our sureness, yet also a bit more proud of the holy process in our inner being that keeps teaching and guiding us.
— Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, Paradigm Shift: From the Jewish Renewal Teachings of Reb Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
Life's too short to lay in wait. A soul is meant to love and love is all there is.
— Kate McGahan
I have learned that I must push the pause button occasionally and retreat into that private place in my soul where it is only me and God!
— Peggy Toney Horton, Stop the World and Get Off
As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the words that we let fall have no meaning apart from the silence that wraps them round.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
Life without a Soul is like a universe without the stars
— Armin Houman
We are all lost souls until we are found.
— Kate McGahan
Form delicious bonds. Be the fruit that others seek when their hearts and souls are hungry.
— Erica Alex
Shoes are like society. Once in awhile they have to replace the worn out souls.
— Kate McGahan
For every summer & every summer after.Promise your-self to bare a bit more.To take things to a new level.To reinvent. To reflect back.To keep things humble.To tie up loose ends &Let the Sparks Fly...
— Jennifer Pierre
You won't forget a woman like her, easily anyway. Once you cross paths with Magic it's hard to see life the same.
— Nikki Rowe
I will continue to exist in all these little moments. where we took the first dip of love and my heart skipped a beat. Our first walk, the first touch which burnt my soul, that first rain, the first kiss, the first comfortable silence between us. How many years may pass, Whenever I am sitting near the window and its raining or whenever I am sitting by a fireside and its cold, There will always be a piece of me which reminds me of you. It will stay in this moment forever.
— Akshay Vasu
Entering into and opening to our inherent spacious soul daily allows a natural liberation of our manifold self-identifications to occur, and it is then that we can truly rest in the sacredness and come to know our ground of being. The great Celtic writer John O’Donohue points to this when he says that “behind the façade of your life, there is something beautiful and eternal happening.
— Meghan Don, The New Divine Feminine: Spiritual Evolution for a Woman's Soul
And it is because we all of us know of this sombre power and its perilous manifestations, that we stand in so deep a dread of silence. We can bear, when need must be, the silence of ourselves, that of isolation: but the silence of many - silence multiplied - and above all the silence of a crowd - these are supernatural burdens, whose inexplicable weight brings dread to the mightiest soul.
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
When the soul is set on fire, great things manifest.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The word animal is a derivative of the Greek word anima, which also means soul.
— Gunther Hauk, Toward Saving the Honeybee
The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.
— James Hillman, Re-Visioning Psychology
There is a kind of flame in Crete - let us call it "soul" - something more powerful than either life or death. There is pride, obstinacy, valor, and together with these something else inexpressible and imponderable, something which makes you rejoice that you are human being, and at the same time tremble. (Report to Greco)
— N. Kazantzakis
The soul knows full well (even though it pretends to forget many times) that it must render account to the paternal soil. I do not say "fatherland", I say "paternal soil". The paternal soil is something deeper, more modest, more reserved, and is composed of age-old pulverized bones.
— N. Kazantzakis
With self-assured spirit, the soul is indomitable.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The soul of Dr. Mrs. Lailah Gifty Akita is the spirit of light and love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The spirit of light is the soul of love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I had allowed my body to take whatever path it wished. The fact that it was guiding me and not I it gave me great pleasure. I had confidence. The body is not blind unwrought material when bathed in Greek light; it is suffused with abundant soul which makes it phosphoresce, and it left free, it is able to arrive at its own decision and find the correct road without the mind's intervention. Conversely, the soul is not an invisible airy phantom; it has taken on some body's sureness and warmth in its own right, and it savors the world with what you might call carnal pleasure, as though it had a mouth and nostrils and hands with which to caress this world. Man often lacks the persistence to maintain all of his humanity. He mutilates himself. Sometimes he wishes to be released from his soul sometimes from his body. To enjoy both together seems a heavy sentence. But here is Greece these two graceful, deathless elements are able to commingle like hot water with cold, the soul to take something from the body, the body from the soul. They become friends, and thus man, here on Greece's divine threshing floor, is able to live and journey unmutilated, intact. (Report to Greco)
— N. Kazantzakis
I had allowed my body to take whatever path it wished. The fact that it was guiding me and not I it gave me great pleasure. I had confidence. The body is not blind unwrought material when bathed in Greek light; it is suffused with abundant soul which makes it phosphoresce, and it left free, it is able to arrive at its own decision and find the correct road without the mind's intervention. Conversely, the soul is not an invisible airy phantom; it has taken on some body's sureness and warmth in its own right, and it savors the world with what you might call carnal pleasure, as though it had a mouth and nostrils and hands with which to caress this world. Man often lacks the persistence to maintain all of his humanity. He mutilates himself. Sometimes he wishes to be released from his soul sometimes from his body. To enjoy both together seems a heavy sentence. But here in Greece these two graceful, deathless elements are able to commingle like hot water with cold, the soul to take something from the body, the body from the soul. They become friends, and thus man, here on Greece's divine threshing floor, is able to live and journey unmutilated, intact. (Report to Greco)
— N. Kazantzakis
I had allowed my body to take whatever path it wished. The fact that it was guiding me and not I it gave me great pleasure. I had confidence. The body is not blind unwrought material when bathed in Greek light; it is suffused with abundant soul which makes it phosphoresce, and is left free, it is able to arrive at its own decision and find the correct road without the mind's intervention. Conversely, the soul is not an invisible airy phantom; it has taken on some body's sureness and warmth in its own right, and it savors the world with what you might call carnal pleasure, as though it had a mouth and nostrils and hands with which to caress this world. Man often lacks the persistence to maintain all of his humanity. He mutilates himself. Sometimes he wishes to be released from his soul sometimes from his body. To enjoy both together seems a heavy sentence. But here in Greece these two graceful, deathless elements are able to commingle like hot water with cold, the soul to take something from the body, the body from the soul. They become friends, and thus man, here on Greece's divine threshing floor, is able to live and journey unmutilated, intact. (Report to Greco)
— N. Kazantzakis
If we meet a myth with our lives and deepest concerns, the mythic oracles speak directly to us. Myths are oracular in the sense that each person can receive a message or an insight that relates to their life circumstances. The point has never been to “believe” in myths or to simply accept what others have said they mean. The key issue with mythic images is to let them speak to us, wherever and whenever we find ourselves seeking guidance, permission, or understanding.
— Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
I open my eyes. I want to know:what is in the abyss of a kiss? Are stars born in these black caves that house bated breaths and unspoken words? Do our souls crawl on these tender cheeks to greet one another by ivory gates? What happens when we kiss?Where do you go?Don’t tell me. For I have lost my desire to know. Kiss me so that I forget myself. I close my eyes and fall in the abyss.
— Kamand Kojouri
As the sun sets, something in me rises! Do you think it could be my soul? I feel it's a big probability!
— Jasleen Kaur Gumber
You won't find me dancing in a club at night but you will find me climbing mountains to see the sunrise, with a glimmer of hope and a smile on my face ~ this is life baby and freedom fills my days.
— Nikki Rowe
How odd it is, that the dead weigh more than the living. You would think it would be the opposite, but it isn't. I think it is because souls give bodies lightness and air. When the soul leaves, the body has nothing left and is desperate to return to the earth. That's why it's so heavy.
— Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted
The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.
— Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
And certainly I know I have the capacity within me to be all of that again, to feel all of that again, and know that, while the door may be currently locked, there is a black pit in the bottom of my soul that has no limit to its falling.
— Claire North, The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
I am what I am and what I have always been, a poor soul on a journey.
— Lian Hearn, The Emperor of the Eight Islands
Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy.
— Debasish Mridha
Evolve and see what comes with you anything that doesn't has taught you all you need to know.
— Nikki Rowe
Death IS an illusion. The body dies. The soul/spirit lives forever. YOU are the sum total of ALL you survey. Who would know you and not know your name? __Kat Kaelin
— Kat Kaelin
Directing praise to oneself is to cash in on the ego in order to bankrupt the soul.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
It's an intense feeling of human experience when a connection has the kind of power to turn dreams into a reality or crush them almost instantly. Those are the souls you remember decades down the road.
— Nikki Rowe
Soul is nothing but the functional expression of protoplasmic activity in the brain.
— Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
One achieves the Self-state (swa-artha) while searching for the highest truth (param-artha). The search for the highest truth is solely for the purpose of attaining the Self, and once the Self is attained there is no need to search for the highest truth.
— Dada Bhagwan
A true swarthi (interested in the Self) will become the absolute Self! This is considered paraartha (for the non-Self). A swarthi will attain the ‘Self’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Faith has wings.
— Juliette Power
Feeling guilt dims our light. Instead of dimming our light to make others feel more comfortable, we could just continue to shine and foster the rise of the vibrations of those around us.Being Happy and Feeling Good does not mean you have no compassion for the misery of those around you. It simply means you won’t dim your light to make them feel comfortable – instead, you’re going to help light the way.At first, your light may be a bit too bright for others and it may hurt their eyes, yet it’s far better to shine rather than to hide your light. When you hide your light for too long, it extinguishes and you slip right back into darkness…unable to find your way until someone ‘shiny’ comes along to light your way and help you to find the light you still possess within, your Soul’s Magnificence.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
Your two selves: Most people are not aware of the fact that they have two different selves. You have a mind and a spirit (consciousness), and though they seem like one thing, they are separate. The way to realize that this is true is to realize that something has to be listening to the thoughts created by your mind.What is it that hears your thoughts?There is the part of you that thinks and the part that hears the thoughts. The thinking part is your mind; the part that hears the thoughts is your spiritual-self. You do not actually hear thoughts through your ears, because your mind is already inside your head. The point is, your spiritual-self receives the things the mind creates in a similar way to hearing them.Check it out: Just ask yourself, what is it that is hearing the thoughts you are thinking right now?It is your spiritual-self, the same thing that receives all life.
— Michael Smith, The Present
Your Eyes, they talk to the Soul!
— Avijeet Das
...unlike Aretha, [Al Green's] only rival vocally, Al never sold himself short in the studio. Where the albums follow the vagaries of genius, the hits exploit Al's personal production line, every one a perfect soul record and a perfect pop record in whatever order suits your petty little values. Brashly feminine and seductively woman-friendly, he breaks free in a register that darts and floats and soars into falsetto with startling frequency and beguiling ease. He's so gorgeous, so sexy, so physically attractive that only masochists want to live without him.
— Robert Christgau
Immortality: "It is impossible to be conscious of being unconscious."It is not possible to be aware of being unconscious from your own perspective. You cannot be aware of not being aware. You can be less aware/conscious, such as when you are asleep, but not completely unconscious (dead), because time would stand still for you. A billion years could pass, and you would not know it.How do you know you are dead? It is not possible to be aware of any gaps in life; it is continuous and never-ending from your own point of view.Death and birth are a continuous event from your own perspective.You will die physically, but you will be born into a new physical body. Being born happens, or you would not be here now. You were born into this life. It is what we know happens. There is no evidence anything else happens. True or false?
— Michael Smith, The Present
There us a kind of flame in Crete - let us call it "soul" - something more powerful than either life or death. There is pride, obstinacy, valor, and together with these something else inexpressible and imponderable, something which makes you rejoice that you are a human being, and at the same time tremble. (Report to Greco)
— N. Kazantzakis
your artis not about how many peoplelike your workyour art is aboutif your heart likes your workif your soul likes your workit's about how honestyou are with yourselfand you must never trade honesty for relatability
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
Caring a tree is caring of your soul.
— Amit Ray, Yoga The Science of Well-Being
a single poemthe thing that can keep melight on my feet,when my soul isheavy with sorrow.
— Sanober  Khan, A Thousand Flamingos
Where the Self [Soul] is forgotten
—  that place is not ours.
I urge you to sit with yourself for 5 minutes and pour your heart out, ask yourself the serious questions ~ not the day to day duties we get caught up in. I can assure you, the 5 minutes spent reflecting on the life you have lived and how much more you're yet to achieve will spark something in you that we all forgot we have.
— Nikki Rowe
Now I know I'm not broken,For the stars within my soul,Have just built constellations,To keep me feeling whole.
— Kyra Jackson
Knowledge that brings closure [settlement] to the mind in every way is Absolute Knowledge and it indeed is the all encompassing Knowledge that always gives complete closure [settlement, solutions].
— Dada Bhagwan
One is said to be enlightened with the Right Knowledge when his conduct is appropriate in any situation.
— Dada Bhagwan
One who does wrong is considered illusioned (mithyatvi - ignorance of the Self). One who does right is considered enlightened (samkit).
— Dada Bhagwan
I make art when I can't gather the words to say.
— Nikki Rowe
My soul also feel proud from my work.
— Tanmaya Guru
In the struggle between the “needs” of the soul and the “wants” of the body, satisfy the soul first for it carries also the riches of the body.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
When the tendencies (vruti) that were wandering around since time immemorial come within & enter into the Self’s (Soul’s) abode
—  it is known as freedom from all wanderings (nivruti).
If it causes you to sin your soul-just walk away
— Charmaine J. Forde
In order to make the egoism non-existent [zero], the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] establishes the awareness of the Pure Soul within.
— Dada Bhagwan
The mind is the foundation for the next life. The foundation of the body will diminish [in this life itself].
— Dada Bhagwan
The person whose attention is in the ‘pure Soul’ is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person
—  they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an ‘above normal’ state.
who are you to teach me about life " she said"I'm yourself in just another body " he said nd smiled "but i dont know all this" she wondered "we know everything but we have forgotten our real self nd replace it with false identity, whatever you see is the extension of your self nd i hope one day you will able to relize that " he said without expression
— jagvir ji
It’s hurtful somehow to admit this thing and anyway that doesn’t mean i’m losing my faith in this beautiful world. But these days now is the time where people have become so much more-excuse me-shallow. When all of the fancy things and outer beauty are demanded, and those who are lost enough to chase and manage to get those things, they will happen to get very nice response from social and able to expand their images and get famous and be seen as someone who has value. Meanwhile those who could see deeper and their souls are insecure of this mad world, they will have smaller space in width but they will dig deeper and deeper into their self, making space in height, finding the true meaning of their souls, the true essential unshakable truth that’s beyond the fragile material worldly things.
— Reza Rusandi
Life is there to attain Liberation while going through the experience of it. It should not be ‘above normal’ or ‘below normal,’ it should be ‘normal’.
— Dada Bhagwan
Calligraphy is an art form that uses ink and a brush to express the very souls of words on paper.
— Kaoru Akagawa
Worshipping ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] is equal to worshiping the Pure Soul and it is indeed same as the worship of absolute supreme Self (Parmatma). And it is the main cause for moksha [final liberation].
— Dada Bhagwan
Chit’s tendencies can become pure [transparent] in front of God, but people don’t have this knowhow. The easiest solution to purify chit’s tendencies is to associate with a person who has the least amount of desires and the ultimate solution to make them pure is the inner visual contemplation (niddidhyasan) of the Vitarag (the enlightened ones who are free of all attachments).
— Dada Bhagwan
What is the nature of the Self (Soul)? To ‘see’ the dharma (function) of everything, to see ‘who is performing what function, and how that function is being performed.’ To ‘see’ it, is called the function of the Self (Soul).
— Dada Bhagwan
I entrain myself (when I remember to)by tuning in to higher frequenciesin the ether, in my soul, everywhere I go,always accessible, always helpfulfor obtaining a higher perspectivein a matter of minutes.
— Jay Woodman
Why is there so much problem just to know one’s own Soul? The Soul resides in one’s own abode (body), but one doesn’t know it and then he says, ‘I know this and I know that so’. Instead why don’t you get to know your own ‘Self’?
— Dada Bhagwan
Passion is life and delights await those whose soul lusts for new experiences. Every breath should stir deep, simmering desire for those who incite torrid urges and send blood coursing through fevered veins. Throw each shiver hard against unyielding rock, salaciously invade the soft pleasures whose ripe lips hunger for satisfaction, demanding the flame be fanned and thirst be quenched…Demand no less, take no prisoners…
— Virginia Alison
One enjoyed the mental pleasures through ignorance (of the Self), and that is cause of the worldly life. Only the bliss of the ‘Knowledge’ [of the Soul, one’s True Self] is to be enjoyed.
— Dada Bhagwan
As long as one is involved in worldly interactions, there is pleasure of the mind; and after knowing the Self (Soul), there is bliss of the Soul.
— Dada Bhagwan
If one were to worship the Soul (self) for even a moment, he will attain moksha without fail. Such is the elegance of the body-complex (paudgalik ramanta) in this world!
— Dada Bhagwan
Once the bliss of the Soul (Self) is attained, it never leaves you. Bliss of the Soul (Self) is eternal.
— Dada Bhagwan
What does ‘experience of the soul’ mean? It is a state of constant eternal bliss.
— Dada Bhagwan
Who am I?’- Not knowing this is the greatest death to the Soul (one’s own self)!
— Dada Bhagwan
Getting to that place of no thought, is not only a spiritual workout, it is enthused bliss for the soul.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
I imagine music sitting in a chair across from me saying "and how does that make you feel?".
— Clayton Montgomery
Samkit’ (right belief) means knowing the Soul (self).
— Dada Bhagwan
The greatest wonder of this world is the “Soul”. Once It is realized (attained), everything is attained!!!
— Dada Bhagwan
Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] has become ‘Soul’ (Atma
—  Self) while staying with the body.
Self discovery is the most empowering time of your life, you remember who you are and you become the best version of yourself but what they forget to tell you is, to get to a point of pleasure you must face the pain.
— Nikki Rowe
The thought of never crossing your path again is to enormous to bare, so for now I'll make dreams in my heart and remind myself to go and sit & remember them every once in a while.
— Nikki Rowe
My soul remembered him, my heart connected with him but time had separated him from wanting me right now.
— Nikki Rowe
I lost a lot of people when I found myself.
— Nikki Rowe
Just dabbing pieces of my heart into things that make me shine, my little young simple life.
— Nikki Rowe
Pretend that you are the soul inside everyone you meet.
— Tom Bliss, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
Have you ever met someone for the first time but feel like you've known them all your life, a sense of déjàvu and synchronicity wrapped into one little motherf*cking mystery to untangle the way our lives are ruled by logic. I have and my life has never been the same since.
— Nikki Rowe
Yes! all is past—swift time has fled away,Yet its swell pauses on my sickening mind;How long will horror nerve this frame of clay?I'm dead, and lingers yet my soul behind.Oh! powerful Fate, revoke thy deadly spell,And yet that may not ever, ever be,Heaven will not smile upon the work of Hell;Ah! no, for Heaven cannot smile on me;Fate, envious Fate, has sealed my wayward destiny.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
The more I read the Quran, the clearer I see the hidden wickedness lurking in the shadows of my soul.
— Moosa Rahat
The teachings of ECK define the nature of Soul. You are Soul, a particle of God sent into this world to gain spiritual experience.
— Paul Twitchell, The Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad: Book One
Bad emotions can be hidden with a smile on the face
— Constance Friday
To ‘us’, nothing except the Soul (Atma) is beautiful, and there is indeed no such thing as bad in this world. Bad is to deviate from one’s own ‘boundary’ (to not remain as the Self).
— Dada Bhagwan
When unity of the mind, speech and body occurs, God has called that the ‘foremost’ religion. If they do not remain in unison, you should maintain the intent of ‘I want to keep them in unison’; then some day it will come into fruition if this resolve is there.
— Dada Bhagwan
She said that each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, words, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches. For a moment we are dazzled by an intense emotion. A pleasant warmth grows within us, fading slowly as time goes by, until a new explosion comes along to revive it. Each person has to discover what will set off those explosions in order to live, since the combustion that occurs when one of them is ignited is what nourishes the soul. That fire, in short, is its food. If one doesn't find out in time what will set off those explosions, the box of matches dampens, and not a single match will ever be lighted. If that happens, the soul flees from the body and goes to wander among the deepest shades, trying in vain to find food to nourish itself, unaware that only the body it left behind, cold, and defenseless, is capable of providing that food. That's why it's important to keep your distance from people who have frigid breath. Just their presence can put out the most intense fire, with results we're familiar with. If we stay a good distance away from those people, it's easier to protect ourselves from being extinguished.
— Laura Esquivel
My body's been touched a thousand or more times but I am craving something so much deeper than that ~ I desire to be felt, right down to the core of my soul and the corners of my heart. That's what love is about isn't it ~ cracking yourself open to the possibility that it could change your life.
— Nikki Rowe
That story, as all good stories, planted a seed in my soul and never left me.
— Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen
I’m just a soul whose intentions are good,’“ he sang to the crabs and the spiders and the palmetto beetles and the lizards and the night. ‘“Oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.
— Neil Gaiman, American Gods
My mind is being consumed by you.My body is longing for you. Just one touch or a kiss, And I shall be satiated for a thousand years.
— Kamand Kojouri
You shouldn't be shy," he told her. "I'd give my soul for a glimpse of you without your clothes.""Don't joke about that.""About seeing you naked? I wasn't joking.""Your soul," Helen said earnestly. "It's too important.
— Lisa Kleypas, Marrying Winterborne
My soul has always remembered you, my mind is just trying to catch up.
— Nikki Rowe
I need to hold on to the faded love ‘cause I love to secure the stems of dying flowers
— Munia Khan
All spiritual techniques seek to awaken fallen man from the dream in which he lives : he dreams continuously of individual state of being, and of the many forms through which the external world presents itself to him; he builds for himself a paradise of illusions, so as to forget the absence of God. To recover the vision of the spiritual world, the soul of man must "die" to this dream, this ceaseless flow of images which fallen man regards as normal, everyday state of his consciousness.
— Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Science  Civilization in Islam
This is a place of mystery, Daniel, a sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. This place was already ancient when my father brought me here for the first time, many years ago. Perhaps as old as the city itself. Nobody knows for certain how long it has existed, or who created it. I will tell you what my father told me, though. When a library disappears, or a bookshop closes down, when a book is consigned to oblivion, those of us who know this place, its guardians, make sure that it gets here. In this place, books no longer remembered by anyone, books that are lost in time, live forever, waiting for the day when they will reach a new reader's hands. In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you here has been somebody's best friend. Now they only have us, Daniel. Do you think you'll be able to keepsuch a secret?' My gaze was lost in the immensity of the place and itssorcery of light. I nodded, and my father smiled.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
God is that force that drives us to really see each other and to really behold each other and care for each other and respond to each other. And for me, that is actually enough. That cultivating it, that thinking about it, worshipping it, working towards it, taking care of it, nurturing it in myself, nurturing it in other people, that really is a life’s work right there, and it doesn’t have to be any bigger than that. God doesn’t have to be out in the next solar system over bashing asteroids together. It’s plenty, just the God that I work with.”  Kate Braestrup
— Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
That would be showing him a part of her soul, a part of her mind, that she's never risked showing anyone. The raw and squirming part that indifferent high-school counselor were always prying at, the part therapists tried to trick her into showing them for free, the part her parents hated her for. The light and the darkness behind her eyes. The soft places.
— Caitlín R. Kiernan, Threshold
....she has realized why people believe in a soul. It's because they have to for they have no other choice. It's hard to bear that all the conversations, all the memories you had with your parents,with your sisters, with the person you loved were burnt or buried, snuffed out of life. So conveniently, people invented the soul, not for the benefit of the deceased, but the loved ones he or she left behind, to make them feel that while they suffer, he or she is watching, and that they equally miss them, like they, too, think of them, and they, too, are watching him.We can't think of the people we love as bodies buried in caskets or an urn full of ashes, so we think of them as a concentrated mist of nothingness which we call the human soul. No matter how hard they we try to make ourselves believe that they are around us, the truth is that they are gone.
— Durjoy Datta, When Only Love Remains
Natural Self is the Soul and illusion is the relative self [prakruti].
— Dada Bhagwa
The Soul’s doership has arisen due to ignorance. Because of this, the inner working components of antaskaran [mind, intellect, chitta and ego] have arisen, and so has the relative-self [prakruti].
— Dada Bhagwan
Once you understand the innate nature (relative self, prakruti) of the other person, you can remain in an attachment-free state with that person. It is Knowledge (Gnan) to understand the innate nature of a person, and once Knowledge arises, so will conduct.
— Dada Bhagwan
Fate will catch up to you, souls don't have a physical address.
— Nikki Rowe
....she has realized why people believe in a soul. It's because they have to for they have no other choice. It's hard to bear that all the conversations, all the memories you had with your parents,with your sisters, with the person you loved were burnt or buried, snuffed out of life. So conveniently, people invented the soul, not for the benefit of the deceased, but the loved ones he or she left behind, to make them feel that while they suffer, he or she is watching, and that they equally miss them, like they, too, think of them, and they, too, are watching him.
— Durjoy Datta, When Only Love Remains
He who can see his own mistake can become absolute supreme Self (Parmatma)!
— Dada Bhagwa
Once a person starts seeing his own mistakes, he starts to become Parmatma, (absolute supreme Self)!
— Dada Bhagwan
As long as one finds faults with the world, he won’t be able to find anything about the Soul (Self). He who sees his own faults is the Soul (Self) himself!
— Dada Bhagwan
When one sees one’s own faults, he attains a state of an abode of Self-illuminated Bliss!
— Dada Bhagwan
He was the safe place I would go when the world became shaky, he would either guide me through the dark or awaken my sense to appreciate my light.
— Nikki Rowe
Don't lose heart, we're just rusty angels.
— Stefan Emunds
You realized you were surrounded by love, that you were held by love, and that you’d had too small an imagination about that word, that thing. Romantic love, absolutely. Our notion of love— it just seems a very unevolved and very unenlightened notion. That it’s this one person who you will meet. Eve Ensler
— Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
— E.M. Forster
Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face-at least to my taste-his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul.
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
A wife and a husband! For infinite lifetimes this is all one has done. And in doing so, one has lost his Absolute Supreme Self [Parmatma]!
— Dada Bhagwan
Nothing can be attained until all supports other than those of the pure Soul have been eliminated.
— Dada Bhagwan
Even a child cannot sit here without support. Some support will be necessary. No one can live without the support from the material world. After getting the support from one’s own Soul, one doesn’t need the support from the material world. ‘He’ will then become independent [support-free].
— Dada Bhagwan
It is wrong to be dependent on the body-complex [pudgal]. One should depend only on the Soul.
— Dada Bhagwan
Keep one goal only and that is ‘to know thy Self [Soul]’. Do not be insistent about ‘I want to do this and do that’. Whatever happens, at whatever time, is correct.
— Dada Bhagwan
I’m drawn to the Jewish notion of the soul, nephesh, which is not something preexistent but emergent—forming in and through physicality and relational experience. This suggests that we need our bodies to claim our souls. The body is where every virtue lives or dies, but more: our bodies are access points to mystery. And in some way that barely makes sense to me, I’m sure that we have to have feet planted on the ground, literally and metaphysically, to reach towards what is beyond and above us.
— Krista Tippett
There’s an infant part in our souls which longs for the lullaby truths of life every night for a tranquil slumber.
— Munia Khan
The magic of life hides in the dusty corners of chaos and you must sweep out the cobwebs of confusion before you reach the calm & euphorically moments; your soul believed, existed all along.
— Nikki Rowe
She had a soul, and that meant she could be saved.
— Cassandra Clare, The Course of True Love [and First Dates]
If this world always made sense and there wasn't the gloomy dark nights that awakened your soul, you would never grow ~ you would never become, nor seek greater version of yourself.
— Nikki Rowe
I don't care what anyone says, the stars give you hope on a dark and gloomy night.
— Nikki Rowe
i trust our connection, regardless of what logic has to say.
— Nikki Rowe
People underestimate the stars and the connectedness they bring between spirit and matter. More often than not, when lost, we seek solitude in staring into the darkness hoping something speaks back to us, usually through a feeling, a thought or a rare occurrence of a shooting star.
— Nikki Rowe
She had something more than material value ~ she had a soul, no money could buy.
— Nikki Rowe
He's the reason I am strong but he is also my biggest weakness.
— Nikki Rowe
Thou I cannot so freely say, My heart is with thee, my soul longeth after thee ; yet can I say, I long for such a longing heart (648).
— Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
I am waiting for the day
—  when my soul will be happy for the breath i take
Then there was Jeannot, who was reminded of another war and who was discovering inside himself the roots of a mad hopefulness that made him want to believe that the present hour might appease the torture of memories, and he could again see the paths of his life opening up before him, paths that came to an abrupt end the day he saw his brother die. Every morning he got up to face this wound that no one could see, and he drank his wine and laughed at stories, and his soul was more bare than a rosebush in winter.
— Muriel Barbery, The Life of Elves
Bonds are name sakeBonds can never hold me long. So I tune my heart & Soul's emotions to the one'sThat destiny handed on to me.
— Sharvani Akula
You can't jugde me for god sake, I know you better than anyone for god sake. You believe in time don't ya??...You believe in bible?? Don't ya???You believe in soul?? Don't ya???...Of Is there a purpose of the purple of the round of going more further than this?, we are still on the top and look what I found!
— Deyth Banger
Everyone know is, soul does it or it doesn't exist it really doesn't matter. What does it matter is that you will die soon and you will be out of the Matrix!
— Deyth Banger
Those who loves you truly will touch your soul not your body
— Parvathy Nambiyar
When a woman is full of cockiness, I wonder what makes her so insecure. When a man is full of ego, I wonder what he's holding onto.
— Nikki Rowe
The highest form of prayer is to the goodness of God. . . . God only desires that our soul cling to him with all of its strength, in particular, that it clings to his goodness.
— Ann Voskamp
Your words don't match your vibe, & im trusting my gut this time.
— Nikki Rowe
Books understand me, but humans don't understand me. They are bad friends books are forever as well as computer's and Tv and everything else which doesn't have soul. Although that dogs and cats and many other animals are quite interesting friends.
— Deyth Banger
Listen.Do you see that you can’t hear snowfall?Look.Do you sensethat you can’t see love?Touch.Do you graspthat you can’t catch poems?Try.Smell this glass. Go on taste this cloud.These material senses won’t get you far untilyou feelthe velvet glove caress your soul.
— Kamand Kojouri