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40. "Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery."~

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.

Fond memory brings the light of other days around me.

When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.

Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.

Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.

I have made many mistakes and done a lot of foolish things, but when I look back on the person I was, I feel affection for him and laugh at him.

You look until you see nothing tangible, and that is God.

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu ...

What's important is finding out what works for you.

There are places in this world that are neither here nor there, neither up nor down, neither real nor imaginary ...

It might be better to be more of a skeptic than a believer, less open-minded and more critical. The problem in the modern spiritual

Came but for friendship, and took away love.

Taking an interest in one's own soul requires a certain amount of space for reflection and appreciation.

Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.

The whole area of religion and spirituality invites flimflam and is filled with

Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.

The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

Recognize what is before your eyes, and what is hidden will be revealed to you. THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope,
That star on life's tremulous ocean.

A calling is the sense that you are on this earth for a reason, that you have a destiny, no matter how great or small.

A genuine odyssey is not about piling up experiences. It is a deeply felt, risky, unpredictable tour of the soul.

To the soul, memory is more important than planning, art more compelling than reason, and love more fulfilling than understanding.

Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing.

Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul.

Oh! blame not the bard.

Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth ...

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.

This heart, my own dear mother, bends,
With love's true instinct, back to thee!

A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.

In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.

Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.

I said (while The moon's smile Played o'er a stream, in dimpling bliss,) "The moon looks "On many brooks, "The brook can see no moon but this;"[1]

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

But anyone who deliberately tries to get himself elected to a public office is permanently disqualified from holding one.

You need your intelligence and your skepticism.

Body exercise is incomplete if it focuses exclusively on muscle and is motivated by the ideal of a physique unspoiled by fat.

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

There's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers
Is always the first to be touched by the thorns.

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

You discover that when you are doing the right work, you are the right person.

Your first task is to find the place where your soul is at home.

A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology.

Flight usually intensifies the very thing one flees and establishes a special intimacy with it.

Sex and religion are closer to each other that either might prefer.

Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.

The devil ... the prowde spirite ... cannot endure to be mocked.

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

To be grafted to soul means to be open to the life that pools deep inside you, allowing it to coalesce into a career or other kind of work.

The past, the future: - two eternities!

This is the right time, and this is the right thing.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Go where we may, rest where we will,
Eternal London haunts us still.

Soul' is not a thing, but a quality or a dimension of experiencing life and ourselves.

As the religious authorities often say, the institution is human, while the substance of the religion is transcendent.

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

The formal religions are often overdone, with useless formalities, immature psychological notions, and pompous authorities.

To love you was pleasant enough. And, oh! 'tis delicious to hate you!

T'is the last rose of summer,
Left blooming alone.

Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.

Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.

Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.

I feel like one
Who treads alone
Some banquet-hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled,
Whose garland's dead,
And all but he departed!

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

The life of the soul, as the structure of dreams reveals, is a continual going over and over of the material of life. In

It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

The light, that lies In woman's eyes, Has been my heart's undoing.

Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise.

A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!

A piece of the sky and a chunk of the earth lie lodged in the heart of every human being.

Now is not the time to tolerate the religions of the world; it's time to seek them out and study them and be affected by them.

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

Music, oh, how faint, how weak,
Language fades before thy spell!
Why should Feeling ever speak,
When thou canst breathe her soul so well?