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		I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lois McMaster 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life. Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life; but it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ramakrishna 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Fretting about overpopulation, is a perfect guilt-free- indeed, sanctimonious- way for 'progressives' to be racists. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				P. J. O'Rourke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have listened to you, to our people. I have heard your doubts, your anxieties, nay, outright opposition to the lifting of Martial Law. And I have prayed to the Almighty for guidance. And it is after deliberate, sober judgment and soul-searching that I come before you and say, it is now time to terminate martial law. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ferdinand Marcos 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I knew better than to let you break my heart The soul you'll never see again won't be showing scars You still love her I can see it in your eyes The truth is all that I can hear every time you lie. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Demi Lovato 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		The harm that you do to others is the harm that you do to yourself and you cannot think then that you can cause wars in other parts of the world and destroy people and drone them without this having a terrible impact on your own soul and your own consciousness. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alice Walker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		But now if I can wrap myself up in that song, and when that song gets to be a part of me, and affects me emotionally, then the emotions that I go through, chances are I’ll be able to communicate to you. Make the people out there become a part of the life of this song that you’re singing about. That’s soul when you can do that.1 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ray Charles 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		O Mariner-soul, Thy quest is but begun, There are new worlds Forever to be won. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lucy Larcom 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Arthur Schopenhauer 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Peter Benchley 
			 
		 
	
	
	 
	
	
	
	
		Let us never forget the duty, which we have taken upon us. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adolf Hitler 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Albert Einstein 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Lois McMaster