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 Dryden
I am sore wounded but not slain I will lay me down and bleed a while And then rise up to fight again
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much.
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves: who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves.
For you may palm upon us new for old: All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold.