The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

The key to seeing the world's soul, and in the process wakening our own, is to get over the confusion by which we think that fact is real and imagination is illusion.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.