Quotes About Spirituality

Az ember az Å' számára a világ szeretetét jelentette, és itt zárul le a megszentelés köre.

There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.

To bring the sublime into the mundane is the greatest challenge there is.

Ölüm iki ÅŸeyden biridir: ya bir hiçlik, büsbütün ÅŸuursuzluk halidir, yahut da, herkesin dediÄŸi gibi ruhun bu dünyadan ayr?larak baÅŸka bir dünyaya geçmesidir

Have you ever sensed that our soul is immortal and never dies?

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

what if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,...the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God, himself immortal;...would that be a life to disregard?

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

The physician of the soul is aware that his patient will receive no nourishment unless he has been cleaned out; and the soul of the Great King himself, if he has not undergone this purification, is unclean and impure.

There is the explanation that is put in the language of the mysteries, that we men are in a kind of prison, and that one must not free oneself or run away. That seems to me an impressive doctrine and one not easy to understand fully. However, Cebes, this seems to me well expressed, that the gods are our guardians and that men are one of their possessions. Or do you not think so? I do, said Cebes.

Then you have sufficient indication, he said, that any man whom you see resenting death was not a lover of wisdom but a lover of the body, and also a lover of wealth or of honors, either or both.

Y bien; purificar el alma, ¿no es, como antes decíamos, separarla del cuerpo, y acostumbrarla a encerrarse y recogerse en sí misma, renunciando al comercio con aquel cuanto sea posible, y viviendo, sea en esta vida, sea en la otra, sola y desprendida del cuerpo, como quien se desprende de una cadena?

For the body which is moved from without is soulless; but that which is moved from within has a soul... (Tr. Jowett)

The union of body and soul,you see,can never be superior to their separation.

Cuando se hizo al hombre partícipe de las cualidades divinas, fue el único de todos los animales, que a causa del parentesco que le unía con el ser divino, se convenció de que existen dioses, les levantó altares y les dedicó estatuas.

Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.

What, then, is the achieved Sage? One whose Act is determined by the higher phase of the Soul.

To set oneself above intellect is immediately to fall outside it.

To see the supreme which is also the means to the vision; for that which illuminates the Soul is that which is to see.

This is why we must break away towards the High: we dare not keep ourselves set towards the sensuous principle, following the images of sense, or towards the merely vegetative, intent upon the gratifications of eating and procreation; our life must be pointed towards the Intellective, towards the Intellectual-Principle, to- wards God.

Every evildoer began by despising the Gods; and one not previously corrupt, taking to this contempt, even though in other respects not wholly bad, becomes an evildoer by the very fact.