Whatever the mind does, the soul has perforce to suffer the consequences of it, because the soul and the mind are knotted together. – Maharaj Charan Singh Ji

What he had yearned to embrace was not the flesh but a downy spirit, a spark, the impalpable angel that inhabits the flesh. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939, translated from Frenc

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

[D]ivine Providence… keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul… – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nominalist and Realist”