„We do not recognize our souls until they are in pain.“

„History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another’s pain in the heart our own.“

—  Sue Monk Kidd Novelist 1948

Zdroj: The Invention of Wings

„We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.“

—  Paulo Coelho, Maktub

Zdroj: Maktub

„The Prescription: We must face our pain and conflict. Until we quit denying our failures and muffling our uneasiness, until we confess our bewilderment and alienation, we can't take the next and necessary steps. The political system needs to be transformed, not reformed.“

—  Marilyn Ferguson American writer 1938 - 2008

The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Seven, Right Power

„All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.“

—  Richard Rohr American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest 1943

Zdroj: Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation

„We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped… We suffer, therefore we think.“

—  Alain de Botton Swiss writer 1969

Zdroj: How Proust Can Change Your Life

„We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.“

—  Stormie Omartian American writer 1942

Zdroj: The Power of a Praying Woman

„What will we do with gold?" "It is better to eat nettles and satisfy our souls,"“

—  Laxmi Prasad Devkota Nepali poet 1909 - 1959

मुनामदन (Munamadan)

„We’re going to have to dig deep into our souls, confront our own self-doubt, and recognize that our destiny is in our hands – that our future is what we make of it. So let’s build the future we all know is possible. Let’s prove to our children that they really can reach for their dreams.“

—  Michelle Obama lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States 1964

2000s, A Challenge to Overcome (November 2007)

„No matter our talent, we all know in the midnight of our souls that 90 percent of what we do is less than our best.“

—  Robert McKee American academic specialised in seminars for screenwriters 1941

Zdroj: Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

„A: The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.
Q: It always happens?
A: If we're lucky. And if we let ourselves be blind.
Q: Instead of watching out?
A: Instead of always watching out.“

—  Mary Zimmerman, Metamorphoses

Zdroj: Metamorphoses

„And even though people try to pretend that pain doesn't do anything to them, none of us can really handle it. Everything bad we do in our life is because of pain of some kind.“

—  James Frey, kniha The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Zdroj: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

„The more we can be with our own difficulty, our own pain, the easier it is to be with the pain and difficulties of others.“

—  Joseph Goldstein American vipassana teacher 1944

Wisdom and Compassion

„Our founders, in the words of Thomas Paine, recognized that, “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.“

—  Walter E. Williams American economist, commentator, and academic 1936

2010s, American Contempt for Liberty (2015)

„Souls recognize each other by vibes not by appearance.“

—  Ralph Smart

„Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?“

—  John Keats English Romantic poet 1795 - 1821

Zdroj: Letters of John Keats

„I dont think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.“

—  Arthur Golden, kniha Memoirs of a Geisha

Zdroj: Memoirs of a Geisha

„If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.“

—  George Sarton American historian of science 1884 - 1956

Preface.
A History of Science Vol.2 Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C. (1959)

„There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.“

—  James Frey, kniha The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

Zdroj: The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

„God is a concept by which we measure our pain.“

—  John Lennon English singer and songwriter 1940 - 1980

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