Soul Quotes - Page 320

Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.

Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.

My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.

The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.

Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation.

Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.

Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.

The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.

Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.

Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul.

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

The music of the spinning wheel will be as balm to your soul.

The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.

History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.

Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.

He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts.

When the ego dies, the soul awakes.

Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.

The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.

Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

Meditation is the means through which the Soul dictates and guides the mind for all good.

We dance, we dance. You hold the thread of my soul. You spin, you spin. And you unravel the part from the whole. We laugh, we laugh. I'm so far from where I began. I fall, I fall. And I forget that I am.-from Golden Tongue:The Poems of Steven Slaughter

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.