It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger – how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.
Paul HoffmanTags: pain love reason man world easy people god soul heart destruction quote tomas understand paul last four price left hand frase against englishman easier prefer scratch cale finger hoffman english-quote gash
Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.
Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi)Tags: love soul heart seperation
... when someone sees a soul disturbed and unable to see something, he won't laugh mindlessly, but he'll take into consideration whether it has come from a brighter life and is dimmed through not having yet become accustomed to the dark or whether it has come from greater ignorance into greater light and is dazzled by the increased brillance.
PlatoTags: soul light plato republic allegory-of-the-cave
A soul that is transformed by principles exudes holiness and a sense of pureness that is beyond our imagination.
Garey GordonFor the Word of God is not received by faith if it flits about in the top of the brain, but when it takes root in the depth of the heart . . . the heart's distrust is greater than the mind's blindness. It is harder for the heart to be furnished with assurance [of God's love] than for the mind to be endowed with thought.
John CalvinTags: god soul faith grace intellect
The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
Terence McKennaYou show me what someone listens to, I’ll tell you everything you want to know about his soul. (For instance, a bunch of Nickelback albums would have indicated he never had a soul in the first place.)
Tad WilliamsTags: humor music soul nickelback
The truth is that solitude is the creative condition of genius, religious or secular, and the ultimate sterilising of it. No human soul can long ignore "the giant agony of the world" and live, except indeed the mollusc life, a barnacle upon eternity.
Helen WaddellTags: solitude soul creativity genius
Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth.
Evan D.G. FraserTags: history food soul connection eating earth
...there is no map of the soul because we make it up as we go...
John GeddesTags: life purpose soul meaning map
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