Soul Work Quotes:

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist, Soul Work, Inspirational Buddhist

We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.

- Matthew Fox

topic: Pain, Laughter, Silly, Soul Work

Unraveling external selves and coming home to our real identity is the true meaning of soul work.

- Sue Monk Kidd

topic: Real, Home, Self, Soul Work, Unraveling

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.

- Thomas Moore

source: Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

topic: Opportunity, Soul, Secret, Soul Work, Pausing

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

- Richard Rohr

topic: Pain, Grieving, Soul, Soul Work

Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.

- Phil Cousineau

topic: Soul, Tasks, Life Is, Soul Work, Deep Soul

Who works for glory misses oft the goal; Who works for money coins his very soul Work for the work's sake, then, and it may be, That this thing shall be added unto thee.

- Kenyon Cox

source: Kenyon Cox (1905). “Sculptors of the early Italian renaissance. Perugino. Michelangelo. The pictures of Venice. Veronese. Dürer. Rubens. Frans Hals. Rembrandt. William Blake”

topic: Work, Goal, Missing, Soul Work

One day, a woman found herself standing at Heaven's gate. The angels' only question to her was, "Zusai, why weren't you Zusai?" Within that simple question lies the heart of all our soul work. If you are David, why aren't you fully David? If you are Susan, why aren't you completely Susan? We are here on Earth to become who we are meant to be.

- Angeles Arrien

topic: Lying, Angel, Heart, Soul Work

Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something else turn and take a seat in another room. Soul-makers find each other’s company.

- Rumi

topic: Want Something, Soul, Rooms, Soul Work

What does it mean when a man falls in love with a radiant face across the room? It may mean that he has some soul work to do. His soul is the issue. Instead of pursuing the woman and trying to get her alone, away from her husband, he needs to go alone himself, perhaps to a mountain cabin, for three months, write poetry, canoe down a river, and dream. That would save some women a lot of trouble.

- Robert Bly

topic: Dream, Falling In Love, Husband, Soul Work, Three Months