Czeslaw Milosz Quotes

It is part of the unceasing human endeavor to prove that the spirit of man can transcend the flaws of his own nature.

I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies upward, the length and the breadth and the sweep of the heavens are mine!

The body is sort of a pain. It has to go to the bathroom. It has to be comfortable. But the spirit is indestructible. It can move at the speed of light.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

One of the marvels of the world: The sight of a soul sitting in prison with the key in its hand.

Freedom means the power to act by soul guidance, not by the compulsions of desires and habits. Obeying the ego leads to bondage; obeying the soul brings liberation.

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man.

On the holy boughs of the Celestial Tree High up in the heavenly fields, Beyond terrestrial desire My soul-bird a warm nest has built.

With the power of soul, anything is possible.

Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.

Every human soul is of infinite value, eternal, free; no human being, therefore, is so placed as not to have within his reach, in himself and others, objects adequate to infinite endeavor.

Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man.

His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!

We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

maybe there is more to a person than a body and a mind. maybe something else figures into the mix— not a soul, exactly, but a spirit that hints you might one day be greater, stronger than you are now. a promise; a potential.

The soul in man is greater than his fate.

True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter.

When it comes to individual destiny, there is no power greater in the universe then the conviction of the human soul to make a choice.

Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.

We don't, as a collective life on this planet, all get groovy together or all sink into ignorance together. One by one we liberate our souls, our individual souls, from the cycle by our own realizations.

Never, under any conditions allow circumstances to determine your reality.

[Core concepts: Human beings all have souls. Souls are software objects. Software is not immortal.]