Thomas Moore
A soulmate is someone to whom we feel profoundly connected, as though the communicating and communing that take place between us were not the product of intentional efforts, but rather a divine grace.Collection: Wedding
The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.Collection: Music
Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.Collection: Crazy
The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.Collection: Life
What's important is finding out what works for you.Collection: What Matters
Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing.Collection: Sweet
This is the right time, and this is the right thing.Collection: Wedding
Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.Collection: Beauty
In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.Collection: Life
[Angels] guide us to become spiritual people for the pleasure of it... because the spiritual life itself has a great deal of beauty and real satisfaction, even pleasure. And this is what the soul needs.Collection: Spiritual
We let a river shower its banks with a spirit that invades the people living there, and we protect that river, knowing that without its blessings the people have no source of soul.Collection: Blessing
The past, the future: - two eternities!Collection: Time
Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.Collection: Hug
A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for withdrawal and quiet, and even a small garden could offer some distance from noise.Collection: Distance
A philosopher being asked what was the first thing necessary to win the love of a woman, answered, Opportunity!Collection: Love
With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, And memory, like a drop that, night and day, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!Collection: Sympathy
When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.Collection: Time
Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.Collection: Sun
To love you was pleasant enough. And, oh! 'tis delicious to hate you!Collection: Depressing
Every season hath its pleasure; Spring may boast her flowery prime, Yet the vineyard's ruby treasuries Brighten Autumn's sob'rer time.Collection: Spring
Peace to each manly soul that sleepeth; Rest to each faithful eye that weepeth.Collection: Uplifting
Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.Collection: Jewels
I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.Collection: Stars
Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.Collection: Soul
Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement—Demeter's grain and fruit—it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate.Collection: Children
Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.Collection: Teacher
The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.Collection: Pride
It is not while beauty And youth are thine own And thy cheeks Unprofaned by a tear That the ferver and faith Of a soul can be known To which time will but Make thee more dear No the heart that has truly loved Never forgets But as truly loves On to the close As the sunflower turns On her god when he sets The same look which She'd turned when he rose.Collection: Heart
The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.Collection: Ambition
Come o'er the sea, Maiden with me, Mine through the sunshine, storms and snows; Seasons may roll, But the true soul Burns the same, where'er it goes.Collection: Sunshine
Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.Collection: Art