Thinking With The Soul

Igor Kozlovsky & Marina

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There are people who appear to think only with the brain, while others think with all the body and all the soul, with the blood, with the marrow of the bones, with the heart, with the lungs, with the belly, with the life.

— Miguel de Unamuno

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Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you… Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself, and yourself alone, one question… Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good: if it doesn’t it is of no use

— Carlos Castaneda

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Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: Follow the calmness, the absence of pride.

~Buddha

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There have often been madmen, criminals, liars and egomaniacs in high places. And although the specifics change, and even any sense of decorum, common sense or logic evaporates, it has always been what it is now: a call to turn the bigger part of your attention towards another world, a deeper, higher, bigger, more intimate inner world, the world of nature, of wisdom, of presence…