[T]he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary.
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The history of man is a must read poetry.
We are God chosen-souls.
Eye contact: how souls catch fire.
I explore the mind of souls in stories.
The sea may catch fire, the planets may collide in space, the sun may quench off its heat, but what we understand is that our peace is like a river in our souls; it's surface may wave about in turbulence, but it's bottom is cool and gently calm!
May my soul radiate light and love.
God himself had sent me away. I was truly now among the damned.
My life was going exactly where I wanted it to until the Devil showed up.
The black of the ocean waves was the color of the sorrow in my breast, a sorrow that was never far away and always visible.
I did not choose to be a monster__ shell of a man__alf-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.
If he believed in souls he would have said she had a good one.
Iona stared at me for a long time. __ou are going to leave me a widow before I have a chance to become a bride.
I was once a man, not a great man, not a saintly man, but a good man, and a man nonetheless.
Then it kissed me__ot as a man would kiss a lover, not with tenderness or even passion. This was a kiss that stole the soul of men. Revulsion at this creature__ kiss was instantly replaced by the warmth stealing through my veins, as if my missing blood were being replenished and contrived to heal me. I craved to keep kissing the beast. My entire being awakened to that kiss feeding me ecstasy, feeding me life.
Souls aren__ discrete units _ or even units at all. They__e more like reflections of consciousness in a fractured mirror.
Every known thing used to be unknownAnd every rock could become a stone Someday nature will have to atone When soul sees dead flesh leaving the bone
Life is the spirituality of the soul.