The Soul

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The Soul

“You don’t have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
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- C.S. Lewis

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

—Rumi

“Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it”

– the Buddha

“Consider the sun which hath been obscured by the clouds. Observe how its splendor appeareth to have diminished, when in reality the source of that light hath remained unchanged. The soul of man should be likened unto this sun, and all things on earth should be regarded as his body. So long as no external impediment interveneth between them, the body will, in its entirety, continue to reflect the light of the soul, and to be sustained by its power. As soon as, however, a veil interposeth itself between them, the brightness of the light seemeth to lessen.... The soul of man is the sun by which his body is illumined, and from which it draweth its sustenance, and should be so regarded.”

- Baha’u’llah

“The Supreme Soul (who is one), resides within all his creations (as many). Herein lies the true source of morality; the unifying principle that connects us all; that we are all children of one Supreme God, and by hurting another, we are in reality hurting not only God but ourselves.
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- Upanishad.

“It is the nature of the ego to take, and the nature of the spirit to share.”

-Proverb

“For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?”

– Book of Matthew

“The rays of the sun must shine upon the earth, and the solar heat develop the earthly beings; if the rays and heat of the sun did not shine upon the earth, the earth would be uninhabited, without meaning; and its development would be retarded. In the same way, if the perfections of the spirit did not appear in this world, this world would be unenlightened and absolutely brutal. By the appearance of the spirit in the physical form, this world is enlightened. As the spirit of man is the cause of the life of the body, so the world is in the condition of the body, and man is in the condition of the spirit.”

– Abdul’baha

“Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter.”

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Swami Vivekananda.

“The soul is not a combination of elements, it is not composed of many atoms, it is of one indivisible substance and therefore eternal. It is entirely out of the order of the physical creation; it is immortal!”

-– Abdul’baha

“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.” 

- Gandhi

“Spirituality means respecting and honoring the spirit or life force within us.”

- Narasimhan

“Realize your true nature. That is all there is to do. Know yourself as you are — infinite Spirit. That is practical religion. Everything else is impractical, for everything else will perish.”

-Swami Vivekananda.

“May your faces, being steadfastly set towards the Divine Light, become so luminous that all your thoughts, words and actions will shine with the Spiritual Radiance dominating your souls, so that in the gatherings of the world you will show perfection in your life.”  

– Abdul’baha

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,

there is a field.  I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,

the world is too full to talk about.

Ideas, language, even the phrase each other

doesn't make any sense.”

-  Rumi

“The word Atman (Soul) means the “breath of life”. Atman is the principle of man’s life, the Soul that pervades his being, his breath, his intellect and transcends them. Atman is what remains when everything that is not the self is eliminated. It is the unborn and immortal element in man, which is not to be confused with body, mind or intellect.”

- Radhakrishnan

“What the material world values does

not shine the same in the truth of

the soul.  You have been interested

in your shadow.”

– Rumi

“All spiritual progress is the growth of half-knowledge into clear illumination. In our inspired moments we have the feeling that there is a greater reality within us, though we cannot tell what it is.
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- Radhakrishnan

“Let your ambition be the achievement on earth of a Heavenly civilization! I ask for you the supreme blessing, that you may be so filled with the vitality of the Heavenly Spirit that you may be the cause of life to the world.”

– Abdul’baha

“We are not a body, but a Soul. Our Soul is a spark of the Divine (God). Just as a wave is distinct from the ocean only in name and form, so too are we joined with the Infinite Divine. Our separation is merely an illusion; we falsely identify our True Self with the body. We fear death and remain miserable.”

-Unknown

“Happiness lies in understanding that we are not a mortal body, but an immortal soul – that is never born, which never dies. Therefore, do not confine your identity to the boundaries defined by the body, let your spirit soar into the infinite beyond, in union with the Creator.”

-Unknown

“Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue.  If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.”

- Rumi

“Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have found the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.”

-Gibran

“Just like a sunbeam can’t separate itself from the sun, and a wave can’t separate itself from the ocean, we can’t separate ourselves from one another.  We are all part of a vast sea of love, one indivisible divine mind. “

– M Williamson

 “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? “

- Corinthians

“When a soul has in it the life of the spirit, then does it bring forth good fruit and become a Divine tree.”

– Abdul’baha

“The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach. “

– Carl Jung

I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides.  I honor the place in you of Love, of Light, of Peace, of Truth.  I honor the place within you, where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, then there is only one of us.”

-Ram Dass