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Thu 26 Jan 2012

Soul colors

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, soul
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Random quote of the day:

 

“The body will again become restless
Until your soul paints all its beauty
Upon the sky.”

—Hafiz of Shiraz, “The Lute Will Beg” (tr. Daniel Ladinsky)

 

Here is the entire short, beautiful poem.

 

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 17 Aug 2011

I Myself am Heav’n and Hell

Posted by PJ under heaven, hell, quote of the day, soul, the self
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed
In one self-place, for where we are is hell,
And where hell is, there must we ever be.”

—Mephistopheles (Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus)

 

Which reminds me of a famous Edward FitzGerald translation of this Omar Khayyám’s quatrain:

 

“I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return’d to me,
And answer’d: ‘I Myself am Heav’n and Hell”

 

…which, to add more ingredients to today’s literary soup, you may remember was used so effectively in The Picture of Dorian Gray.  

 

 

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 8 Dec 2010

The unknowable

Posted by PJ under jung, quote of the day, soul, unknown
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Random quote of the day:

“We can never really know.  I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space or time.”

—Carl Jung, quoted in The Guardian, 19 July 1975

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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