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The Senses of The Soul
I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.
— Flannery O’Connor
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We always speak about ourselves as ‘I’ and we suppose that we refer to the same thing all the time when in reality we are divided into hundreds and hundreds of different ‘I’s.
— P. D. Ouspensky
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Our bodies have five senses: touch, smell, taste, sight, hearing. But not to be overlooked are the senses of our souls: intuition, peace, foresight, trust, empathy. The differences between people lie in their use of these senses; most people don’t know anything about the inner senses while a few people rely on them just as they rely on their physical senses, and in fact probably even more.
- C. JoyBell C.
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Every dark thing one falls into can be called an initiation. To be initiated into a thing means to go into it…
The shamans say that being a medicine man begins by falling into the power of the demons; the one who pulls out of the dark place becomes the medicine man, and the one who stays in it is the sick person…
Even the worst things you fall into are an effort at initiation, for you are in something which belongs to you, and now you must get out of it.
