43 QUOTES APPENDIX - Words Aloft

Humans have been thinking about the possibilities of the future since the first person died. Hope is the quality bridge we use to get some feeling, and maybe even some information, about our destiny. We have all pondered this mystery.

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It will take awhile to do everything we want to do; to discover everything we need to know ─ and that is the point. God loves to share. God escapes absolute infinity, at least partially, by asking us to be partners in the process. He is the Central Stability therefore he created us to do the changing and growing.

If you haven’t done everything, you haven’t done a thing. — William Lawrence “Red” Whittiker (1948-) American roboticist

Nothing short of everything will really do. — Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894–1963) English writer & philosopher

There is always a lot to do before you get to go to heaven. — Octavia Estelle Butler (1947-2006) American science fiction writer

Death added nothing to the intellectual possession or to the spiritual endowment, but it did add to the experiential status the consciousness of survival. (48:7.25) — The Urantia Book {1955}

What you are becoming day by day is of infinitely more importance than what you are today. (147:5.7) — The Urantia Book {1955}

Learning how to operate a soul figures to take some time. — Timothy Francis Leary (1920-1996) American psychologist

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Can we prepare for the other side? What do we do now? What attitude is wise? What path is true?

To get along with God, consider the consequences of your behavior. — Octavia Estelle Butler (1947-2006) American science fiction writer

Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul up so high that the offense cannot reach it. — Rene Descartes (1596-1650) French philosopher

Evil is like a shadow – it has no real substance of its own, it is simply a lack of light. You cannot cause a shadow to disappear by trying to fight it, stamp on it, by railing against it, or any other form of emotional or physical resistance. In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine a light on it. — Shakti Gawain (1948-) American inspirational author

More people are more concerned with what is mortal than with what is immortal. — Judith Mary Kain (1948-) American empath

Life is easier than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. — Kathleen Thompson Norris (1880–1966) American novelist & newspaper columnist

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul. — Mark Twain [born Samuel Clemens] (1835-1910) American humorist

Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.” For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals. — Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Lebanese-American artist & poet

The Positive Qualities are those “divine things.” They are the “pearls of great value” and the “fruits of the spirit.” An innocent child does not need to know the nature of innocence to be so. We need not struggle with goodness ─ just pursue it. We need not fret about beauty ─ just enjoy it. There is a place in the higher mind where the truth is self-evident.

Human things must be known in order to be loved but divine things must be loved in order to be known. — Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French polymath [five disciplines]

For the fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance. — The Bible, Galatians 5:22-23

And the fruits of the divine spirit which are yielded in the lives of spirit-born and God-knowing mortals are: loving service, unselfish devotion, courageous loyalty, sincere fairness, enlightened honesty, undying hope, confiding trust, merciful ministry, unfailing goodness, forgiving tolerance, and enduring peace. — The Urantia Book (193:2.2)

The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found the pearl of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it. — The Bible, Mathew 13, 45-46

If you sincerely seek to understand any one quality, you will find all others. As you acquire your favorites, you will be discovering the rest along the way. — James Preston Philip Downs (1948-) American axiologist

We may only guess at what is on the other side or we may be sure that something is there, but if you do not know, is it not wise to wonder?

He who does not lose his soul will endure. — Lao-tse (6^th Century BC) Chinese mystic philosopher

We do not have to continue as we are, or as we thought we were. Life brings out its brightest colors only when you ask. — Francis James Joseph Raphael Delaney (1942–2017) Irish novelist, journalist & broadcaster

I simply believe some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time. — Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist

Any man who reaches heaven will find … the kernel of what he was really seeking … will be there, beyond expectation, waiting for him in ‘the High Countries.’ — Clive Staples [c. s.] Lewis (1898-1963) Irish-born British novelist

We are often told to “Tread lightly” on the beliefs of others. I know and respect this, and have done my best to tell the truth. Hopefully it is not just my truth but The Truth — at least some of it.

Tell me the Truth
But tell it slant
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind.
— Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

A sensible man will remember the eyes may be confused in two ways – by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognize the same thing happens to the soul. — Plato (428-328 BC) Greek philosopher

Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.” — Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) Lebanese-American artist & poet

Death has always been a big mystery. Being children of The Loving Parent it makes sense provision has been made for a smooth transition from our life in the flesh to our next estate, including transportation.

Also are these angels very much concerned with the means whereby man’s spirit is released from the tabernacles of the flesh and his soul escorted to the mansions in heaven. Angels are the sure and heavenly guides of the soul of man during that uncharted and indefinite period of time which intervenes between the death of the flesh and the new life in the spirit abodes. (167:7.6) — Jesus talking with Nathaniel, The Urantia Book {1955}

One certainly has a soul; but how it came to allow itself to be enclosed in a body is more than I can imagine. I only know once mine gets out, I’ll have a bit of a tussle before I let it get in again to that of any other. — Lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English romantic poet

What is the soul? Can we know? Well, sort of.

What is soul? It’s like electricity – we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room. — Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (1930–2004) American singer, songwriter & pianist

When you do things form your soul you feel a river moving in you. When action comes from another section, the feeling disappears. — Jalāl al-Dīn MuḥammadRumi (1207–1273) Persian Sufi poet

The soul is the self-reflective, truth-discerning, and spirit-perceiving part of man which forever elevates the human being above the level of the animal world. … the soul is that part of man which represents the potential survival value of human experience.
The evolving soul of a human being is difficult of description and more difficult of demonstration because it is not discoverable by the methods of either material investigation or spiritual proving. … Notwithstanding…every morally conscious mortal knows of the existence of his soul as a real and actual personal experience. — Jesus talking with a scholar at the school of Ephesus, The Urantia Book (133:6.5,7)