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“I was aware of something stable in his nature. Ha game me a feeling of security, as if nothing I said or did would change his opinion of me. I never found his pleasantries irksome, partly, no doubt...”
“But when we sit together, close, said Bernard, we melt into each other with phrases. We are edged with mist. We make an unsubstantial territory.”
“You praise man who has the ability to perform great actions.I admire man who can deal with great pain and knows no despair.”
“So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.”
“Water is sufficient...the spirit moves over water.”
“He was himself a case in point, and perhaps not a rare one, for his spirit, it seemed, had been burned out of him but he was yet walking.”
“Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.”
“Perhaps true weakness is weakness of the spirit”
“Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity,”
“How now, spirit, whither wander you?”
“A bird with a broken wing cannot survive nor will a man with a broken spirit endure.”
“The intellect is the earth, the emotions are the sky and the spirit is the universe beyond.”
“Spirit? Who is that fellow? And where do you know him from? Is he perhaps not merely an arbitrary and convenient hypostasis that you have not even defined, let alone deduced or proved? Do you think...”
“This was what my spirit longed to do, to wander in strange lands. It couldn't stand being trapped in one body all the time. It had wanderlust.”
“I am not gamesome: I do lack some partof that quick spirit that is in Antony.”
“Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere.”
“The spirit never leaves, never goes away.”
“Water will not flow from a faucet that is not connected to its source.”
“A person fully in the Self is formless, birth less and deathless. He is inside, outside and above everything that is known. In purity he is absolute and in spirit he is eternal.”
“And a man said, speak to us of self-knowledge.and he answered, saying:Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart's knowledge...”
