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• Art is a form of catharsis emotional release, purging, cleansing, purifying.

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Emotional, Catharsis

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• The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.

  Umberto Eco

  Heart, Eye, Light

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• Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying!

  Amy Lee

  Writing, Music Is, Therapy

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• Guilt must not be allowed to fester in the silence of the soul, poisoning it from within. It needs to be confessed. Through confession we bring it into the light, we place it within Christ's purifying love. In confession, the Lord washes our soiled feet over and over again and prepares us for table fellowship with him.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Light, Feet, Silence

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• Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.

  Lewis Hyde

  Art, Memories, Inspiration

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• Cleaning is considered a vital part of the training process in all traditional Japanese disciplines and is a required practice for any novice. It is accorded spiritual significance. Purifying an unclean place is believed to purify the mind.

  Mineko Iwasaki

  Spiritual, Practice, Discipline

  Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown (2012). “Geisha Of Gion: The True Story Of Japan's Foremost Geisha”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Holy Ground, Light, Doors

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.40, Convergent Books

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• But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.

  Yasunari Kawabata

  Determination, Rain, Voice

  Yasunari Kawabata, Rudyard Kipling, Sinclair Lewis (1971). “Nobel Prize Library”

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• Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Eye, Water, Naked

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• What is religion? I want to remove the chaff from the grain. For me it is not what it is for the common people. If you take away certain social customs, they think you have taken away religion. For me it means purifying it.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Taken, Mean, Thinking

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• The motive for purifying yourself - that you feel spiritually impure - will prevent any genuine gain until you learn to love the impurity you started with. Can any being seriously think that he is going to pass through the infinity of time without ever making another mistake? Quite often a flash of enlightenment will give you this message: Go back to where you started and learn to love it more.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Mistake, Thinking

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.84, Gibbs Smith

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• It Bible opens up the doors in your life, and provides a purifying dynamic to help you clean out sin and learn to conform to God's will.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Doors, Helping, Study

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.17, Moody Publishers

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• As for certain lesser faults, we must believe that, before the Final Judgment, there is a purifying fire. He who is truth says that whoever utters blasphemy against the Holy Spirit will be pardoned neither in this age nor in the age to come. From this sentence, we understand that certain offenses can be forgiven in this age, but certain others in the age to come.

  Francis of Assisi

  Forgiveness, Believe, Fire

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• Up and away for life! be fleet!-
  The frost-king ties my fumbling feet,
  Sings in my ears, my hands are stones,
  Curdles the blood to the marble bones,
  Tugs at the heart-strings, numbs the sense,
  And hems in life with narrowing fence.
  Well, in this broad bed lie and sleep,-
  The punctual stars will vigil keep,-
  Embalmed by purifying cold;
  The winds shall sing their dead-march old,
  The snow is no ignoble shroud,
  The moon thy mourner, and the cloud.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Stars, Kings, Lying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.234, Delphi Classics

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• The image of the Goddess inspires women to see ourselves as divine, our bodies as sacred, the changing phases of our lives as holy, our aggression as healthy, our anger as purifying, and our power to nurture and create, but also to limit and destroy when necessary, as the very force that sustains all life. Through the Goddess we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. We can move beyond narrow, constricting roles and become whole.

  Starhawk

  Strong Women, Moving, Inspire

  Starhawk (2011). “The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.67, Harper Collins

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• It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he looks at our acts. And any breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but it purifying, compelling punishment.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Believe, Law, Punishment

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• At every moment in our lives we need compassion, but what more urgent moment could there be than when we are dying? What more wonderful and consoling gift could you give to dying people than the knowledge that they are being prayed for, and that you are taking on their suffering and purifying their negative karma through your practice for them?

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Karma, Compassion

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• Freedom only for supporters of the government, only for the members of one party - however numerous they may be - is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of 'justice' but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when 'freedom' becomes a special privilege.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Party, Thinking, Government

  Rosa Luxemburg (1961). “The Russian Revolution, and Leninism Or Marxism?”, p.69, University of Michigan Press

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• It might sound contrary to the wisdom of the world to suggest that one who is burdened with sorrow should give thanks to God. But those who set aside the bottle of bitterness and lift instead the goblet of gratitude can find a purifying drink of healing, peace, and understanding.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Gratitude, Healing, Giving

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• Patience-the ability to put our desires on hold for a time-is a precious and rare virtue. We want what we want, and we want it now. Therefore, the very idea of patience may seem unpleasant and, at times, bitter. Nevertheless, without patience, we cannot please God; we cannot become perfect. Indeed, patience is a purifying process that refines understanding, deepens happiness, focuses action, and offers hope for peace.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Ideas, Perfect, Understanding

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• But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.

  Marvin Harris

  Technique, Sugar, Revolution

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• Eugenics was central to the entire Nazi enterprise, joined with romantic nativist and racist myths of the pure-bred Nordic. The emphasis on 'blood' called for a purifying of the nation's gene pool, so that Germans could regain the nobility and greatness of their genetically pure forebears.

  Alison Thompson

  Greatness, Eugenics, Blood

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• The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.

  Brennan Manning

  Thanksgiving, Spiritual, Gratitude

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• Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and passions, restoring 'Pristine Harmony' of the souls' faculties. He applied the same means to the curing of diseases of both body and mind.

  Porphyry

  Inspiration, Mean, Healing

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• The very discovery of these hidden things is in itself a purifying experience! The soul needs to discover what is inside. The self nature needs to see what it really is, and what it is like-right to the very bottom.

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Powerful, Discovery, Self

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