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Purification is but the cleaning of the lamp-glass which hides the Light -- Annie Besant
The offering up or cleaning up ego stuff is called purification. Purification is the act of letting go. This is done out of discriminative awareness. That is, you understand that you are an entity passing through a life in which the entire drama is an offering for your awakening. -- Ram Dass
Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Purity is an illusion. The idea of purity has been used as an excuse for calamities like honor killings, bride burnings, child molestation. Purification is genocide. -- Alice Glass
Solitude is the place of purification. -- Martin Buber
The purification of politics is an iridescent dream. -- John James Ingalls
Hiddenness is the place of purification. In hiddenness we find our true selves. -- Henri Nouwen
Making love? It's a communion with a woman. The bed is the holy table. There I find passion -- and purification. -- Omar Sharif
Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value. -- Mark Twain
And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching -- T. S. Eliot
The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments. -- Epictetus
Peace is for the purification of one's mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace. -- Ramana Maharshi
Life is a stream of happy and unhappy experiences, because that leads to Soul's purification. How do you get by in the dark times? Try to give love to someone, especially then. -- Harold Klemp
When light engages the heart, it causes an illumination of the path, a purification of the consciousness, an enlightenment of the intellect and an establishment of the foundations of dhikr and shukr and of beautiful worship... -- Habib Umar bin Hafiz
All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute; all truth in the universe will manifest in your heart, if you are sufficiently pure. -- Swami Vivekananda
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you. -- George Bernard Shaw
The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves. -- Paulo Coelho
King in Crimson is actually an alchemical term. King Crimson is a metaphor for Devil or Satan, but at the same time it's also a metaphor for one of the statures in the purification of man and the purification of mankind soul towards union with God and with Infinite, which is the philosophical aim of alchemists. -- Bruce Dickinson
For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go by for the birth of a human child; to write a book or compose music often years must be dedicated to patient research ...To find the mystery there must be patience, interior purification, silence, waiting.... -- Pope John Paul II
Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge. Such rites demand, if they are to be meaningful at all, a certain amount of time spent precisely on the Red Line, where you can lean over the manicured putting green at the edge of the precipice and see exactly nothing. -- John L. Parker Jr.
If in this life there are so many ways for purification and repentance, how much more should there be after death! The purification of souls, when separated from the body, will be easier. We can set no limits to the agency of the Redeemer; to redeem, to rescue, to discipline, is his work, and so will he continue to operate after this life. -- Clement of Alexandria
purification in fire. public cremation -- Janet Fitch
Enrichment only comes through purification. -- Nirmala Srivastava
...purification was the point of such pain. -- Holly Lynn Payne
The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72) -- Swami Satchidananda
Temple going is for the purification of the soul. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world. -- Andre Malraux
The removal of untouchability is a question of the purification of Hinduism. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes. -- Mahatma Gandhi
By defilement of mind, beings are defiled; by purification of mind, beings are purified. -- Gautama Buddha
There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God. -- Simone Weil
The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process. -- Masanobu Fukuoka
The spiritual journey is one of continuous learning and purification. When you know this, you become humble. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter. -- Henri Nouwen
Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another. -- Amit Ray
Keeping away for all evil deeds, cultivation of life by doing good deeds and purification of mind from mental impunities. -- Gautama Buddha
Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Training was a rite of purification; from it came speed, strength. Racing was a rite of death; from it came knowledge -- John L. Parker Jr.
I am a bad, wicked man, but I am practicing moral self-purification; I don't eat meat any more, I now eat rice cutlets. -- Vladimir Lenin
In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn -- Nick Flynn
Thou art never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which He permits for the purification and beautifying of thy soul. -- Miguel de Molinos
It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification. -- Billy Graham
One of the greatest tazkiya (purification) of the nafs (self) is to part with your money and to give it to people who deserve it. -- Junaid Jamshed
My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values. -- Jerry Saltz
Swimming in the U.K. is not really about enjoying a sultry experience. It's about cold, clear acts of purification, and constitutional durability. It's about invigoration and bravado. -- Sarah Hall
The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination. -- Ambrose
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God. -- Oscar Wilde
Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of them need refining and some the purification of destruction. -- Charles Brent
At the individual level Swaraj is vitally connected with the capacity for dispassionate self-assessment , ceaseless self purification and growing self-reliance.... It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves -- Mahatma Gandhi
In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary. -- Thomas Huxley
The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life -- Adolf Hitler
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. -- Oscar Wilde
How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed. -- Wang Wei
The spiritual world needs two revolutions: One is to separate God from religion and the other is to separate religion from God! This purification process will make God less human and more universal. -- Mehmet Murat ildan

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