SOUL AFLAME!

[knightofalbion]

This thread is for inspirational quotations, poems and short stories. If there is something that has touched your soul, led you to a higher path or given you strength in a time of adversity, then please add it here.
If it has inspired you, the chances are it will inspire others too and to help each other along is the duty of every soul.
Into the light!

All this talk of religion, but it's how you live your life that is the all-important thing.
If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
And when your time is up, if you can leave the earth a better place than you found it, then yours will have been a life well lived.

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In this world, you are given as you give
And you are forgiven as you forgive -
While you go your way
Through each lovely day
You create your future as you live

• Peace Pilgrim

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There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated

• Peace Pilgrim

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The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

• Peace Pilgrim

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Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights

• Peace Pilgrim

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As I lived up to the highest light I had, higher and higher light came to me

• Peace Pilgrim

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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.

• Peace Pilgrim

[Kaneda]

Came accross this poem, which I think speaks to a lot of us, especially those who are creative/ spiritual whether religious or not.

"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this:

A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

To him…
a touch is a blow,
a sound is a noise,
a misfortune is a tragedy,
a joy is an ecstasy,
a friend is a lover,
a lover is a god,
and failure is death."

– Pearl Buck

[meandjulio]

'It's best to be honest in life really'
Jane who I used to work with

Hope is never destroyed
A family motto (not my family)

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The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man

• Charles Darwin

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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened

• Anatole France

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If a man aspires towards a righteous life his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals

• Leo Tolstoy

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Man's Sacred Trust: Not to hurt our humble brethren (animals) is our first duty to them, but to stop there is not enough. We have a higher mission - to be of service to them wherever they require it

• St Francis of Assisi

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I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me.
I saw where it was born deep down under feathers or fur, or condemned for a while to roam four-footed among the brambles. I caught the clinging mute glance of the prisoner and swore that I would be faithful.
Thee, my brother and sister, I see and mistake not. Do not be afraid. Dwelling thus for a while, fulfilling thy appointed time - thou too shalt come to thyself at last

• Edward Carpenter

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Since childhood she had walked the Devon rivers with her father looking for flowers and the nests of birds, passing some rocks and trees as old friends, seeing a spirit everywhere, gentle in thought to all her eyes beheld

• Henry Williamson

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May my heart be your shelter

• Marianne Williamson

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Two Paths:
There is a path which pleases the senses and gratifies worldly desires, but does not lead to inner peace.
There is a path which requires purifications and relinquishments, but results in untold spiritual blessings.
You have free will and the choice is yours.

• Peace Pilgrim

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Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant

• Robert Louis Stevenson

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There is always something beautiful to be found if you look for it

• White Eagle

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You are a bearer of the Light, for you are as the Divine Mother, bearing within you the Light of the Son.
Take this Light out into the world to bless and to heal, and quicken the vibrations of the whole earth

• White Eagle

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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall

• Nelson Mandela

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Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world

• Nelson Mandela

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'The best teacher is good example'

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And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
Those who don't believe in magic will never find it

• Roald Dahl

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Some things have to be believed to be seen

• Ralph Hodgson

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

• Helen Keller