Purification Quotes - Page 4

• There is one antidote for evil passions: the purification of our souls which takes place through the mystery of godliness. The chief act of faith in this mystery is to look to Him who suffered the passion for us. The cross is the passion, so that whoever looks to it? is not harmed by the poison of desire. To look to the cross means to render one's whole life dead and crucified to the world.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Christian, Passion, Mean

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• The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hinduism, Untouchability, Removal

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• Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mind, Causes, Sacred

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.91, Rajpal & Sons

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• The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And we see many things done by the Gods to prevent it from making mistakes and to heal it when it has made them. Arts and sciences, curses and prayers, sacrifices and initiations, laws and constitutions, judgments and punishments, all came into existence for the sake of preventing souls from sinning; and when they are gone forth from the body, Gods and spirits of purification cleanse them of their sins.

  Sallust

  Art, Prayer, Mistake

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• Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.

  Amit Ray

  Creative, Meditation, Ongoing

  "Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style". Book by Amit Ray, May 29, 2012.

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• There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.

  Simone Weil

  Atheist, Two, Atheism

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.114, Psychology Press

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• King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of the statures in the purification of man and the purification of mankind soul towards union with God and with Infinite, which is the philosophical aim of alchemists.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Kings, Philosophical, Men

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• A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Self, Examination, Groups

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• One of the greatest tazkiya (purification) of the nafs (self) is to part with your money and to give it to people who deserve it.

  Junaid Jamshed

  Self, People, Giving

  Source: irusa.org

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• It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Firsts, Temples, Purity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India”

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• The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Government, Creating

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “My new order”

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• Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Watches, Needs

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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• Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction.

  Charles Brent

  Prayer, Pet, Prejudice

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• I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Purity, Great Wisdom, Ability

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• The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Untouchables, Untouchability, Castes

  Mahatma Gandhi (1964). “Caste Must Go and the Sin of Untouchability”

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• I should wish to die if a man who is impure should parade his purity in front of me.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Wish To Die, Purity

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• Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

  Andre Malraux

  World, Masterpiece

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• over and over again I am struck by the wordiness of modern poetry, as if language had replaced experience and must be more and more extreme, intricate and in a way divorced from life itself. It seems as if what we all need is a great purification - but how will that come about?

  May Sarton

  Needs, Way, Language

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• He [Aristotle] pointed out that people who had become initiates in the various mystery religions were not required to learn any facts 'but to experience certain emotions and to be put in a certain disposition.' Hence his famous literary theory that tragedy effected a purification (katharsis) of the emotions of terror and pity that amounted to an experience of rebirth.

  Karen Armstrong

  Literary Theory, People, Tragedy

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• purification in fire. public cremation

  Janet Fitch

  Fire, Cremation

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• Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Pain, Heart, Ego

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• The spiritual world needs two revolutions: One is to separate God from religion and the other is to separate religion from God! This purification process will make God less human and more universal.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Spiritual, Two, Needs

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• At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Assessment, Self, Growing

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• Even if the being is not entirely purified, varieties of inspirations and powers may come down from above but this may lead to serious errors. Inspirations from above mixing with the impurities from below get all muddled up and the sadhak takes this for an absolute command. Many a sadhak has thus fallen into danger. Therefore, one must particularly lay stress on the purification of the being.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Stress, Inspiration, Errors

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn

  Nick Flynn

  Water, Naked, Symbols

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.129, Faber & Faber

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