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"As a body everyone is single, as a soul never."
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Personal Development

"Life is a spiritual breath."
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"If you say, 'Now I look like an old man', you will start to look like an old man. If you say, 'No, I look like a young man now', you will start to look like a young man. What you project is what you will see. Soul is the form of projection and if false projections are done, the worldly life is created! If you come to a state free of false belief (wrong projection), You will be in the state of the 'Real form of the Self' (mood swaroop)."
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"Soul inhabits body that fits."
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"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."
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"Life is a sacred-spirit."
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"The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it."
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"Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul."
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"The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."
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"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
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Explore more quotes by Beth Gibbons

"The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult."
Music

"I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long while."
Hope

"We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually."
Life

"There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it."
Emotional

"I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death."
Death

"I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover."
Soul

"I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around."
Music

"Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound."
Sound

"You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuring, trying. Every time you try another angle. And sometimes that's frustrating, especially if you don't come up with something for three days."
Music

"Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance."
Time
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