SOUL
What a vast world of love and joy is within the soul! We don't have to acquire it; it is already ours.
- Sri Daya Mata, pxxi, Finding the Joy Within You: Personal Counsel for God-Centered Living
Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
- Kurt Vonnegut
A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide. What we commonly call man...does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself...But the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his actions, would make our knees bend...We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to all attributes of God.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive. It is not for unsteady souls.
- Merce Cunningham
You were born with wings/why prefer to crawl through life?
- Rumi
Once you perceive that you have choices, you don’t need to know too much about Jesus and Krishna, Buddha and Allah and Rama. You have the choice to live our own light. Dance with it. Listen to it and follow it.
- Carlos Santana
So many people work so hard, to achieve, attain, accumulate and cherish their fortunes. How many of us blissfully fill our days and nights being the Divine expression we are? This is the meaning of life. It is to be. As a result, all of your creations are a natural outflow from the Divine within your being. This is the joy of life.
- Barbara Rose
The divine manifestation is ubiquitous,
Only our eyes are not open to it.
Awe is what moves us forward.
Live from your own center.
The divine lives within you.
The separateness apparent in the world is secondary.
Beyond the world of opposites is an unseen,
but experienced, unity and identity in us all.
Today the planet is the only proper “in group.”
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world.
We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
but we can choose to live in joy.
You must return with the bliss and integrate it.
The return is seeing the radiance is everywhere.
The world is a match for us.
We are a match for the world.
The spirit is the bouquet of nature.
Sanctify the place you are in.
Follow your bliss. . . .
- compiled from the writings of Joseph Campbell