Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
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Walt Whitman
The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring...
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Boris Pasternak
So long as the soul of man is encased in one, two, or three body-containers, sealed tightly with the corks of ignorance and desires, he cannot merge with the sea of Spirit.
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Sri Yukteswar Swami
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.
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Natalie Goldberg
Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.
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Richard Flanagan
More Quotes By John Greenleaf Whittier
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.
So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a...
The joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you
The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
Methinks I see the sunset light flooding the river valley, the western hills stretching to the horizon, overhung with trees gorgeous and glowing with the tints of autumn -- a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
