#spirits

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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.


C. S. Lewis


#belong #eternal #eternal world #half #humans

I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body; and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.


Emanuel Swedenborg


#angels #aware #body #credence #fancy

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.


Albert Schweitzer


#better #calamities #character #elasticity #escapes

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.


Matthew Simpson


#connections #fire #flames #higher #man

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.


Ali ibn Abi Talib


#bad #becomes #darkness #deep #entangled

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.


e. e. cummings


#amazing #blue #day #dream #everything

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses.


Carlos Ruiz Zafón


#calcutta #chronicle-of-the-past #darkness #generations #ghosts

To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love.


Alex Grey


#ask #bare #beings #call #celebrating

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.


Benjamin Rush


#employed #even #frozen #hot #hot water

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.


E. O. Wilson


#ancestral #another #find #form #however