Resources of The Soul
From birth, your fate is set. Every choice you make reveals you accept or reject it. As you begin to see through your beliefs, awareness of the truth within grows. Awareness reveals that everything unfolding in your life exists with the purpose to allow your soul, that unique experience of you, to evolve and recall spiritual nature.
— Liara Covert
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A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
– Jorge Luis Borges
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something — a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things — which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out and taken yours.
— Alan Bennett
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The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between…
