Spirituality Quotes
Alice Bailey, Marianne Williamson, Helena Blavatsky and Eckhart Tolle account for most of the top entries, so the page leans toward modern and esoteric writing. The best-sourced pieces are less solemn. Woody Allen says he does not want to achieve immortality through his work but through not dying, and Henry Miller, in Sexus (1949), counts sex among the nine reasons for reincarnation.
Two flags. “Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology” is credited to Larry Niven and marked misattributed. “Corporations have neither bodies to kick nor souls to damn” is credited to Andrew Jackson and disputed, which says more about how the topic tag was applied than about spirituality.
Most quoted on spirituality:
My soul is a dark ploughed field
In the cold rain;
My soul is a broken field
Ploughed by pain.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass.
I see magic as a vantage point from which one can look down on the rest of consciousness.
Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.