The Mystery of the Soul

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The Mystery of the Soul
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There are many souls distributed all over the
body
Aristotle
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What makes an ax and ax is its soul.
Aristotle
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All Soul has care for the soulless.
Plato
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Where do you find the souls beauty? Go into
yourself and look. If you are not beautiful yet,
do what a sculptor does cut away here and smooth
there make this line lighter, this one cleaner,
until a lovely face appears. Cut away anything
excessive, straighten what is crooked, bright
light to the shadows, work toward a single
glowing beauty and never stop chiseling your
statue.
Plotinus
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Herakleitos

• You can never discover the limits of the
  soul (psyche), no matter how many roads you take,
  so deep is its mystery (logos).

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Everything Giulianizes in you, Giuliano.
Nicolas Cusanus
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Marsilio Ficino

• If there were only two things in the
  world, mind and body, but no soul, the mind would
  have no connection to the body, because it
  doesnt move and is distant from physical life.
  Nor would the body have anything to do with the
  mind, because by itself it is powerless and far
  removed from the mind. But if soul is placed
  between these two, adjusted to each, then one
  will easily connect with the other.

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Our souls (which to advance their state Were
gone out) hung twixt her and me. And whilst our
souls negotiate there, We like sepulchral
statues lay All day, the same our postures
were, And we said nothing, all the day.
John Donne, Exstasie
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Man has no body distinct from his soul for
that calld Body is a portion of Soul discernd
by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in
this age. William
Blake
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Robert Fludd
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• Do you not see how necessary a World
  of Pains and troubles is to school an
  intelligence and make it a soul?

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The seat of the soul is there, where the inner
world and the out world touch. Where they
permeate each other, the seat is in every point
of the permeation.
Novalis
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We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the
moon, the animal, the tree but the whole, of
which these are the shining parts, is the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that
makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to
imagination.
Henry David Thoreau
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Emily Dickinson

• In this short Life
• That only lasts an hour
• How muchhow littleis
• Within our power

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The Soul should always stand ajar That if the
Heaven inquire He will not be obliged to wait Or
shy of troubling Her Depart, before the Host
have slid The bolt unto the Door - To search for
the accomplished Guest, Her Visitor, no more -
Emily Dickinson
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Oscar Wilde

• Nothing is more rare in any person, says
  Emerson, than an act of his own. It is quite
  true. Most people are other people. Their
  thoughts are someone elses opinions, their life
  a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

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Rainer Maria Rilke

• Dear Sir, I cant give you any advice but
  this to go into yourself and see how deep the
  place is from which your life flows.

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Living is being born slowly.  It would be a
little too easy if we could borrow ready-made
souls.  Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to
Arras, 1942
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C. G. Jung

• Life is like a plant that lives on its
  rhizome rootstock. Its true life is invisible,
  hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears
  above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it
  withers awayan ephemeral apparition. Yet I have
  never lost a sense of something that lives and
  endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see
  is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

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James Hillman

• The anima, the archetype of life, as Jung has
  called her, is that function of the psyche which
  is its actual life, the present mess it is in,
  its discontent, dishonesties, and thrilling
  illusions.

James Hillman
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Thomas Moore

• The soul has its own set of rules, which
  are not the same as those of life. The soul is
  cyclic and repetitive. The past is more important
  than the future. The living and the dead have
  equal roles. Pleasures are deep, and pain can
  reach the very foundations of our existence.

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The people who weep before my pictures are
having the same religious experience I had when
painting them. And if you say you are moved only
by their color relationships then you miss the
point.