It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed.
There’s nothing half so sweet in life as love’s young dream.
Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement – Demeter’s grain and fruit – it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate.
A piece of the sky and a chunk of the earth lie lodged in the heart of every human being.
Body exercise is incomplete if it focuses exclusively on muscle and is motivated by the ideal of a physique unspoiled by fat.
For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might get their living, so that no man should be driven to this necessity.
A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady.
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.
It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.
Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world.
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.
How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.
Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.