The soul of anything
is the kernel, the core, the real substance, the vital spark -
in brief, it is the thing itself.
-Christian Larson
Only in man is there the existence of the soul
that is not just universal but individual;
capable of becoming as a god,
as one with the Creative Forces.
-Edgar Cayce
The soul is that part of us
which carries the record from one embodiment to another.
-Manly P. Hall
[Soul] is an individuated, pure energy
of universal divine source.
-Chris Griscom
The soul in its essence is divine intelligence.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
It is the soul's light which is natural intelligence.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
The soul has a highly objective viewpoint.
-David A. Cooper
The soul is where the inner
and the outer world meet.
-Novalis
Outside is form.
Inside is thought.
Deepest is soul.
-Deng Ming-Dao
The life whereby we are joined into the body
is called the soul.
-Saint Augustine
A single Screw of Flesh
Is all that pins the Soul
-Emily Dickinson
The soul looks through the eyes of the body.
-Edgar Cayce
The notion that man has a body
distinct from his soul is to be expunged.
-William Blake
Man has no Body distinct from his Soul
for that call'd Body is a portion of the Soul
discern'd by the five Senses,
the chief inlets of Soul in this age.
-William Blake
You do not have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body. -C. S. Lewis
What is the soul?
If there is any explication that can be given of the soul,
it is the feeling of 'I am.'
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
Soul is the feeling of Being I Am.
-Kenneth G. Mills
The soul is the essence of who you are.
-Billy Graham
The soul is all that the entity
is, has been or may be.
-Edgar Cayce
The soul is.
It has no beginning and no end
but flows toward wholeness.
-Gary Zukav
I thinke the soule to be
nothing by Light.
-Anne Hutchinson
The soul has been called an invisible light,
and the light has been called a visible soul.
-Jean-Baptiste Robinet
The Soul reveals itself
To itself as Radiance.
-Lorin Roche
The physical or tangible side of anything
is the wire, so to speak,
while the soul of that thing is the electrical current.
-Christian Larson
What is a soul?
It's like electricity -
we don't know what it is,
but it's a force that can light up a room.
-Ray Charles
The soul is a virtual process and not an entity.
-Fred Alan Wolf
For what is man's soul but a flame?
It flickers in and around the body of man
as does the flame around the rough log.
-Selma Lagerlof
A soul is forged out of fire and rock crystal.
-Etty Hillesum
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond,
and must be polished,
or the lustre of it will never appear.
-Daniel Defoe
I began to think of the soul
as if it were a castle made of a single diamond.
-Teresa of Avila
The soul of man is like a piece of crystal,
but it takes the color of whatever is near it.
-Vivekananda
The cooking vessel of the soul takes in everything,
everything can become soul;
and by taking into its imagination any and all events,
psychic space grows.
-James Hillman
The soul, like the body,
lives by what it feeds on.
-Josiah Gilbert Holland
The soul is swayed by the waters.
-Conan Doyle
Certain it is that there passes not a day
but that the soul adds to its ever-widening domain.
-Maurice Maeterlinck
How the soul is transformed
according to the climate, the silence, the solitude, or the company
in which it lives!
-Nikos Kazantzakis
The soul is the watchful builder of its fate.
-Aurobindo Ghose
The soul structure has to be created.
-Kenneth G. Mills
The soul constitutes the sum total of all the principles
of individualized and permanent self-conscious being.
-Christian Larson
The soul is all that it knows.
-Aristotle
Life unto the soul
is knowledge of truth.
-Ashiq
The soul covers its own truth
with a thousand veils from its own eyes.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
What really counts is to strip the soul naked.
-Joan Miro
To be rooted
is perhaps the most important and least recognized need
of the human soul.
-Simone Weil
The human body is the best picture
of the human soul.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
The body is the first student of the soul. -Henry David Thoreau
The study of the human soul lies within the province of anatomy. -Andreas Vesalius
A soul cannot develop and progress without an appropriate body, because it is the physical body that furnishes the material for its development. -Franz Hartmann
Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. -Blaise Pascal
Soul has been laid in our bodies to grasp the notion of time and feeling. -Blaise Pascal
When the soul wishes to experience something,
she throws an image of the experience out before her
and enters into her own image.
-Meister Eckhart
The soul never thinks without an image. -Aristotle
Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
-Plato
The soul reveals itself in the voice.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Feelings are the texture of the soul.
-Anodea Judith
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel;
its poverty by how little.
-William R. Alger
The soul's bliss and suffering are bound together.
-Jane Kenyon
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness its poison.
-Philip Stanhope
The soul is a chord;
untuning is its illness.
-Pythagoras
It is the soul's duty
to be loyal to its own desires.
-Rebecca West
The soul refuses limits
and always affirms Optimism,
never a Pessimism.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul needs to live in immensity,
infinite space, without limits.
But human beings ceaselessly constrain their soul,
fetter it, smother it;
they ask it to be content with small matters,
with petty and mundane tasks.
-Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
The soul throbs like the sea for a larger life.
No thought which I have ever had has satisfied my soul.
-Richard Jefferies
The most comprehensive work with the soul
concerns its embrace of what we think of as the unknowable.
-John Pierrakos
The soul grows by constant participation
in that which transcends it.
-Gregory of Nyssa
The soul is constantly sending out new combinations of itself,
reaching out to become more than it was,
challenging itself in new ways,
and sometimes suffering the fragmentation
that accompanies experimentation.
-Christopher M. Bache
The powers of the soul
are commensurate with its needs.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is so made that when anything fires his soul,
impossibilities vanish.
-Jean de la Fontaine
The soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic
that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.
-Stefan Zweig
To the soul,
nothing else but our vital innocence
will ever be enough.
-David Whyte
And a soul, if it is to know itself,
must look into its own soul:
the stranger and enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.
-George Seferis
Through experiencing the unconscious,
I gain soul.
-James Hillman
The soul is a series of momentary experiences.
-Alfred North Whitehead
Because the soul is progressive,
it never repeats itself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature never repeats herself,
and the possibilities of one human soul
will never be found in another.
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The soul unfolds itself,
like a lotus of countless petals.
-Kahlil Gibran
No soul that aspires
can ever fail to rise.
-Annie Besant
The soul's advances are not made by gradation,
such as can be represented by motion in a straight line;
but rather by ascension of state
such as can be represented by metamorphosis -
from the egg to the worm, from the worm to the fly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The soul should always stand ajar
ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
-Emily Dickinson
What your heart thinks great, is great.
The soul's emphasis is always right.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a moment of love
that men discover their souls.
-Simone Weil
The soul gives unity
to what it looks at with love.
-Thomas Carlyle
The soul grows through the heart.
The heart is the door to the soul.
-Rodney Collin
My soul has grown deep
like the rivers.
-Langston Hughes
The soul circumscribes all things.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one spectacle greater than the sea;
that is the sky.
There is one spectacle greater than the sky;
that is the interior of the human soul.
-Honore de Balzac
The personality is a song sung by the soul,
and when there is silence
the soul is preparing for a new harmony.
-James Davis
Every soul is a melody
which needs renewing.
-Stephane Mallarme
In the stillness the soul will speak
-The Oculatum
Tell me, where is the soul's abode? - upon the pinions of the wind.
-Meister Eckhart
Where can the soul go?
Where is it not already?
-Vivekananda
Is my soul asleep?...
No, my soul is not asleep.
It is awake, wide awake.
It neither sleeps not dreams, but watches,
its clear eyes open,
far-off things, and listens
at the shores of the great silence.
-Antonio Machado
The soul is the mirror
of an indestructible universe.
-Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz
Let your soul stand cool and composed
before a million universes.
-Walt Whitman
