Veils Quotes

• This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

  Rumi

  Love, Valentines Day, Letting Go

  Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “This Is Love”

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• Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.

  Kabir

  Heart, Lifts

  Kabir, Sushil Rao (2000). “The Thirsty Fish: Kabir Bhajans”, p.2, sushil rao

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• Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.

  Khalil Gibran

  Night, Dawn, Behinds

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• No matter what is happening in the world of appearances,
  beyond the veil of illusion there is love and only Love.

  Marianne Williamson

  World, Matter, Illusion

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Nov 08, 2011

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• The soul is covered by a thousand veils.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Soul, Thousand, Covered

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• When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was.

  Rumi

  Again And Again

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• There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

  Omar Khayyam

  Keys, Doors, Might

  Omar Khayyam (2015). “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.33, Booklassic

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• Take that veil from off of your eyes, look into the future of realize.

  Bob Marley

  Eye, Looks, Realizing

  Song: Give Thanks And Praises, Album: Confrontation, 1983

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• Mysteries are feminine; they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Literature, Want, Mystery

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• A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Kissing, Kiss Me

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1169, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.

  Mikhail Naimy

  Life, Shed, Asks

  Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.39, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• When the mind is full of memories and preoccupied by the future, it misses the freshness of the present moment. In this way, we fail to recognize the luminous simplicity of mind that is always present behind the veils of thought.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Memories, Buddhism, Simplicity

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• I am on the edge of mysteries and the veil is getting thinner and thinner.

  Louis Pasteur

  Mystery, Edges

  Letter in December 1851. "The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague In History" by John M. Barry, 2004.

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• The veil between us and the divine is more permeable than we imagine.

  Sue Thoele

  God, Imagine, Divine

  Sue Patton Thoele (2003). “The Woman's Book of Courage: Meditations for Empowerment and Peace of Mind”, p.233, Conari Press

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• When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.

  Octave Mirbeau

  Smell, People, Giving

  Octave Mirbeau (2007). “The Diary of a Chambermaid”, Harper Collins

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• Blinded by the opaque veil of mortality, her eyes are always sealed, like a tomb She wants to know- wants to feel that fire, the brightness of the moon So she searches for light, only to realize its in her, like an ember equipped to ignite.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Eye, Moon, Fire

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• Behind a veil, unseen yet present, I was the forceful soul that moved this mighty body.

  Jean Racine

  Soul, Unseen, Body

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• Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.

  Loreena McKennitt

  Wisdom, Listening, Causes

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• Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.

  Sappho

  Stars, Moon, Light

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• Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Passion, People

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.119, Simon and Schuster

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• The reproduction of
  what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Soul, Perceive, Senses

  Edgar Allan Poe (1980). “The Unknown Poe: An Anthology of Fugitive Writings”, p.51, City Lights Books

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• The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Journey, Self

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• Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceedingly thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.

  Robert Nathan

  Pain, Believe, Giving

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• Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Vices, Virtue

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• In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Reality, Oneness, Looks

  Eckhart Tolle (2001). “Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now”, p.92, New World Library

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