Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
Interpretation
No matter how deep the sadness, there is always hope and healing.
This quote by Thomas Moore suggests that regardless of the pain and suffering experienced in life, there is always a remedy or solace found in a higher power or spiritual belief. It emphasizes the idea that even the most profound sorrows can be alleviated, reflecting the belief in healing and redemption beyond earthly troubles.
In practice
In a speech at a memorial service, one might say, 'Remember, Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.'
When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
At death, you're going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world... it's what's inside that counts.
Why is the truth, it would seem, revealed to some and not to others? Is there a special organ for receiving revelation from God? Yes, though usually we close it and do not let it open up: Godβs revelation is given to something called a loving heart.
sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless man the most guilty.
Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.
Everyone, including the Athenians [...] are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.
The universe takes us as seriously as we take it.
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