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“We have to start from the ground up and reconsider what education is. In my language, I'd like to see us educate the soul, and not just the mind. The result would be a person who could be in the wo...”
“Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.”
“In the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino put it as simply as possible. The mind, he said, tends to go off on its own so that it seems to have no relevance to the physical world. At the same time, ...”
“A man or a woman can inspire such deep fantasy and emotion that through the lovemaking embrace of a partners body we make break through the limits of the human condition to touch upon another level...”
“It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed”
“It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.”
“Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…”
“Renaissance philosophers often said that it is the soul that makes us human. We can turn that idea round and note that it is when we are most human that we have greatest access to the soul.”
“I’m interested in this humbler approach, one that is more accepting of human foibles, and indeed sees dignity and peace as emerging more from that acceptance than from any method of transcending th...”
“Something deep in human make up needs and longs for a taste of eternity--a momentary release from the relentless pace of time.”
“We display outrageously and obsessively that which we do not possess or have deeply at our disposal. If we are displaying sex with unseemly exaggeration and preoccupation then we have not found the...”
“A small amount of good literature can often teach more about the inner life than volumes of psychology.”
“Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination”
“Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing t...”
“Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,Which I gaze on so fondly to-day,Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms,Live fairy-gifts fading away,Thou wouldst still be adored, as this...”
“Oft in the stilly night,Ere Slumber's chain has bound me,Fond memory brings the lightOf other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood years,The words of love then spoken; The eyes that sh...”
“The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.”
“Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.”
“The friendship that like live is warm; a love like friendship, steady.”
“Technologies of the soul tend to be simple, bodily, slow and related to the heart as much as the mind. Everything around us tells us we should be mechanically sophisticated, electronic, quick, and ...”
