SOUL QUOTES VI

quotations about the soul

When you're born a lover
You're born to suffer
Like all soul sisters
And soul brothers

DEPECHE MODE

"Goodnight Lovers"


Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all.

LEO TOLSTOY

Diary

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The soul is the human being considered as having a value in itself.

SIMONE WEIL

Gravity and Grace

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Human beings frequently speak of their soul without, however, having the slightest comprehension of what the soul and its attributes really are. Only those who possess spiritual illumination, who have attained to the degree of mastership in psychic unfoldment can speak authoritatively on this subject. In order to give my readers a slight comprehension of the soul and its attributes, I quote from a book titled "The Light of Egypt," by T. H. Burgoyne (now out of print): "The soul is formless and intangible, and constitutes the attributes of the divine spirit: therefore, we can only conceive and know the soul by learning the powers or attributes of the spirit. To illustrate, take a ray of light. What do we know concerning it? Nothing, except by its action upon something else. This action we term the attributes of light. In themselves the attributes of light are formless, but they may easily be rendered visible, either by their colors when refracted by the prism, or by their effects when concentrated upon material objects. This may be termed the soul of the ray of light. The organism of man gives us another example. Man possesses five external senses, viz: seeing, feeling, hearing, tasting and smelling. In reality he has seven senses which can be used externally. All our knowledge concerning external phenomena must come at present through the mediumship of one or more of the five physical senses. The organs through which the function of the senses become manifest are visible, but the senses themselves are invisible and formless. We know them only as the attributes of the body; while the mind, which is perfectly and absolutely dependent upon the senses for information, well represents the spiritual Ego in its relation to the soul. The soul is formless and intangible, and can only be defined as the attribute of spirit. One cannot exist without the other; they cannot be called the same; there is the same difference between them as between a ray of light and its action and between the body and its physical senses.

WALTER MATTHEWS

"The Soul", Human Life from Many Angles


Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

attributed, Albert Einstein: The Human Side

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You are a little soul carrying about a corpse.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Meditations

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Within the human soul lie depths as deep
As ever slept within the ocean's breast,
And heights that rise beyond the breaker's crest
In the vain wish to pass their narrow bound.

MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN

"The Depths"

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The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.

SOPHOCLES

Philoctetes

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The soul is the connecting link between God and man, and between the spirit and the flesh, and has its earthly abode in the blood or life.

VAN BRUNT WYCKOFF

attributed, Day's Collacon


How absurd it must seem for an immortal soul to be destined for Heaven or Hell, and yet be sitting in a kitchen, as a maid, or to see oneself objectified as a mechanic! how falsely the usual sunrise waked us, the clock dial, the city street the job! How wrongfully people find themselves in these systems--our time isn't there, our space isn't there, our space isn't even here, not even our name is there--the addressee for whom the alarm clock rings is identical to only a few, and the whole social story of waking, and certainly the day of the mechanic, is false.

ERNST BLOCH

Traces


The human soul is God's treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

MURIEL SPARK

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie


Reincarnation is essential to enable the soul to evolve to its Divine right.

R. F. GOUDEY

Reincarnation: A Universal Truth

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There is one argument commonly employed for the immateriality of the soul, which seems to me remarkable. Whatever is extended consists of parts; and whatever consists of parts is divisible, if not in reality, at least in the imagination. But it is impossible anything divisible can be conjoined to a thought or perception, which is a being altogether inseparable and indivisible. For supposing such a conjunction, would the indivisible thought exist on the left or on the right hand of this extended divisible body? On the surface or in the middle? On the back or fore side of it? If it be conjoined with the extension, it must exist somewhere within its dimensions. If it exist within its dimensions, it must either exist in one particular part; and then that particular part is indivisible, and the perception is conjoined only with it, not with the extension: Or if the thought exists in every part, it must also be extended, and separable, and divisible, as well as the body; which is utterly absurd and contradictory. For can any one conceive a passion of a yard in length, a foot in breadth, and an inch in thickness? Thought, therefore, and extension are qualities wholly incompatible, and never can incorporate together into one subject.

DAVID HUME

"Of the Immateriality of the Soul", A Treatise of Human Nature

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Every soul is a battlefield.

LYMAN ABBOTT

Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott

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The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul.

BIBLE

Proverbs 13:19

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Negativity is an addiction to the bleak shadow that lingers around every human form ... you can transfigure negativity by turning it toward the light of your soul.

JOHN O'DONOHUE

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

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I'm a lost soul. We do wail.

ROGER ZELAZNY

Jack of Shadows

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What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And whose soul have I now? That of a child, or a young man, or a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, of cattle or wild beasts.

MARCUS AURELIUS

Meditations

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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.

WOODY ALLEN

Annie Hall

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