What I am looking for is neither the real nor the unreal, but the mystery of the instinct of the human race.

When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes.

When the soul turns toward itself, it turns at the same time toward the divine.

-- Iamblichus

The soul is forever the mover of itself.

-- Proclus

Everything that is capable of turning back upon itself is incorporeal.

-- Porphyry

It is easy to vanquish bandits in the mountains; it is hard to vanquish the bandits in one's heart.

-- Wang Yangming

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

-- Albert Camus

All the natural movements of the soul are governed by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace alone is the exception.

-- Simone Weil