Quotes About Purification

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all that New Age stuff reckons a shower cleanses your aura.

He rose, took a slender silver water can with a long slim neck and staggered out. After a while he came back and put the can on the floor. We all rose to congratulate him, for his body had cleared itself of superfluous matter.

After she had cried, she felt at once hollow and… better, as if the salt of all her unshed tears had been poisoning her, and now she was cleansed.

Fire tests gold

Como todas las grandes pestes, también esta ínfima peste mía terminaba con una lluvia. Junto con el agua que manaba de mi pelo y me surcaba las mejillas, el mal se desprendía de mí, partía. Pero con él, todo resto de orgullo; con él, tal vez, la juventud.

Filthy water cannot be washed.

The sole and supreme use of suffering is to purify, to burn out all that is useless and impure.

only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him. Tempest-tossed

There is no more painful bondage than to be at the mercy of one's inclinations; no greater liberty than utmost obedience to the Law of Being. And the Law is that the heart shall be purified, the mind regenerated, and the whole being brought in subjection to Love till self is dead and Love is all in all, for the reign of Law is the reign of Love.

Yes, humanity surges with uncontrolled passion. id tumultuous with ungoverned grief, is blown about by anxiety and doubt; only the wise man, only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.

Yes, humanity surges with uncontrolled passion, is tumultuous with ungoverned grief, is blown about by anxiety and doubt; only the wise man, only he whose thoughts are controlled and purified, makes the winds and the storms of the soul obey him.

Suffering ceases for him who is pure.

Enrichment only comes through purification.

You have purged your way. You are ready to lead sons of men.

As long as one sees faults with the world, he prevails in the knowledge of the senses. The inner purification has not yet occurred in him.

That is the best baptism that leaves the man cleanest inside.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

Wash out your ego every once in a while, as cleanliness is next to godliness not just in body but in humility as well.

Purge. Prepare. Perfect.

We are not as yet in our true country, and as gold is tired in the fire so must our souls be purified by temptation.

And I know that all that multitude of sins would disappear in an instant, even as a drop of water cast into a flaming furnace.d'Elbée, Jean du Coeur de Jésus

I know that all that multitude of sins would disappear in an instant, even as a drop of water cast into a flaming furnace.

In the general tendency toward specialization, philosophy too has established itself as a specialized discipline, one purified of all specific content. In so doing, philosophy has denied its own constitutive concept: the intellectual freedom that does not obey the dictates of specialized knowledge.