„When the spirit touchesman’s heart and browwith thoughts that are lofty, bold, serene,so that with clear eyes he will face the worldas a free man may;when the spirit gives birth to actionby which alone we stand or fall;when from the sane and resolute actionrises the workd that gives a a man’s lifecontent and meaning — then would that many,lonely and actively working,know of the spirit that grasps and befriends him…“

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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„When the spirit touchesman's heart and browwith thoughts that are lofty, bold, serene,so that with clear eyes he will face the worldas a free man may“
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
„The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment.“
— C.G. Jung
„Man can never know the kind of loneliness a woman knows. Man lies in a woman's womb only to gather strength, he nourishes himself from this fusion, and then he rises and goes into the world, into his work, into battle, into art. He is not lonely. He is busy. The memory of the swim in amniotic fluid gives him energy, completion. The woman may be busy too, but she feels empty. Sensuality for her is not only a wave of pleasure in which he has bathed, and a charge of electric joy at contact with another. When man lies in her womb, she is fulfilled, each act of love is a taking of man within her, and act of birth and rebirth, of child bearing and man bearing. Man lies in her womb and is reborn each time anew with a desire to act, to BE. But for a woman, the climax is not in the birth, but in the moment when man rests inside of her.“
— Anaïs Nin
„Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame.“
— P. C. Cast
„Beauty, the splendour of truth, is a gracious presence when the imagination contemplates intensely the truth of its own being or the visible world, and the spirit which proceeds out of truth and beauty is the holy spirit of joy. These are realities and these alone give and sustain life.“
— James Joyce
„The spirit would cast aside all deceit,open his heart to the spirit he trusts,and unite with him freely as one.“
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer