Quotes About Soul

This idea of becoming a god is age-old. The old belief relegates it to the time after death, but the mystery cults bring it about in this world. An ancient Egyptian text represents it, very beautifully, as the triumphal song of the ascending soul:

Here Job is voicing the torment of soul caused by the onslaught of unconscious desires; the libido festers in his flesh, a cruel God has overpowered him and pierced him through with barbed thoughts that agonize his whole being.

The general undervaluation of the human soul is so great that neither the great religions nor the philosophies nor scientific rationalism have been willing to look at it twice.

Myths are first and foremost psychic phenomena that reveal the nature of the soul.

Równie dobrze mo?na ja?n okreÅ›li? jako ,,Boga w nas

O funcÈ›ionare incorect? a psihicului poate d?una în mare m?sur? corpului, dup? cum, invers, o suferin?? fizic? poate s? atrag? participarea la suferin?? a sufletului; c?ci sufletul È™i corpul nu sunt ceva separat, ci sunt mai degrab? una È™i aceeaÈ™i via??. Astfel, rareori exist? o boal? a corpului care s? nu fie complicat? psihic, chiar dac? nu este determinat? psihic.

I wandered for many years, so long that I forgot that I possessed a soul.48 Where were you all this time? Which Beyond sheltered you and gave you sanctuary? Oh, that you must speak through me, that my speech and I are your symbol and expression! How should I decipher you?

Not only Christianity with its symbols of salvation, but all religions, including the primitive with their magical rituals are forms of psychotherapy which treat and heal the suffering of the soul, and the suffering of the body caused by the soul.

Jung's search for the soul, then, stands at one with the search for appropriately dialogical and differentiated language.

It had been proved to me that I had to abandon the idea of the superordinate position of the ego.

You are a slave to what you need in your soul.

All is clouded by desire: as fire by smoke, as a mirror by dust ...Through these it blinds the soul.

Num deserto de almas também desertas, uma alma especial reconhece de imediato a outra - talvez por isso, quem sabe? Mas nenhum deles se perguntou. Não chegaram a usar palavras como especial, diferente ou qualquer outra assim. Apesar de, sem efusões, terem se reconhecido no primeiro segundo do primeiro minuto. Acontece porém que não tinham preparo algum para dar nome às emoções, nem mesmo para tentar entendê-Ias. (Aqueles dois, p. 107-108)

Num deserto de almas também desertas, uma alma especial reconhece de imediato a outra.

Philip Morris just wanted your lungs," Maher concludes. "The App Store wants your soul.

Let your mind become a lens, thanks to the converging rays of attention; let your soul be all intent on whatever it is that is established in your mind as a dominant, wholly absorbing idea." This advice comes from Antonin-Dalmace Sertillanges, a Dominican friar and professor of moral philosophy, who during the early part of the twentieth century penned a slim but influential volume titled The Intellectual Life.

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

pues que la vida es tan corta,/ soñemos, alma, soñemos...

Yet the profound irony was that our killer believed he was providing himself with just those things: vengeance for the child he had been, protection for the tortured soul he had become.

Great sermon theses are powerful acids that etch themselves on the "have-tos" of the speaker. They are rarely written down. They don't need to be. They have already been written boldly on the preacher's soul.

For he rewove the very fabric of my heart.

All the emotion in the room made the air feel supersaturated, but at the same time it felt as if they were doing some spring cleaning of the soul.

His love for her had never been stronger. He caressed her arm, as if he were caressing the soul that had now left her body. He didn't look back when he left. It was not 'good-bye', it was 'until we meet again'.

All good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling - these stories always contain truth.