#spirit

The nineteenth century was the Age of Romanticism; for the first time in history, man stopped thinking of himself as an animal or a slave, and saw himself as a potential god. All of the cries of revolt against 'God' - De Sade, Byron's "Manfred", Schiller's "Robbers", Goethe's "Faust", Hoffmann's mad geniuses - are expressions of this new spirit. Is this why the 'spirits' decided to make a planned and consistent effort at 'communication'? It was the right moment. Man was beginning to understand himself. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#man #nineteenth-century #romanticism #spirit #age

In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#crucified #each #flesh #individual #made

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#anguish #cost #i #i am #know

Love is when you love someone’s spirit as much as their body, even if their spirit has departed and their body is buried wherever you hid it. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#death #dying #funny #humor #love

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. ↗

— Jeremy Taylor

#meditation #our #soul #spirit #tongue

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity. ↗

— James Keller

#ago #bear #carved #cell #condemned

Our memory of dreams is a glimpse of the full spiritual life that each of us leads beyond the physical. ↗

— Harold Klemp

#life #spiritual #art

...we see this tendency to throw off restraints in life, in art - it's an inglorious gesture of thumbing the nose - it makes me laugh... ↗

— John Geddes

#free-spirited #restraints #art

To yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#meant-to-be #purpose #resistance #soul #spirit

Change is the only constant in the universe. ↗

— Jim Fargiano

#guidance #happiness-life #spiritual #change