“How can we sleep when our soul is lit from within?”

“….Charles laughingly observed,’Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It’s just a question of whether you’re talkin’ about a woman or God.”

“The soul … has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.”

“A good writer is also an avid reader. A good reader is also a vivid dreamer. A good dreamer is also a good learner. And a good learner is definitely a good listener. A good listener is always looking to what the heart speaks. A spoken heart talks directly to a silent soul. And a silent soul is most of the time in pace with a peaceful thought. A peaceful thought is also a good writer…”

“Old soul. Poet’s heart. Warriors mind.”

“She’s not stumbling, she’s not lost. She’s simply romancing her inner animal and falling in love with the wild part of her soul.”

“Your soul is so bohemian, free and gypsy wild. Come swim with me in the calming sea, let’s be mermaids for awhile.”

“While you were busy working on your ego, she was busy working on her soul.”

“I feel it in my heart, I see it past my eyes, I hear it coming from my soul, my dreams are there, waiting, for me to reach out and touch them. I need to be brave, I need to grab hold.”

“You know that thingYou do so well,That little sparkYou hideIn the dark,That you thinkNobodyKnowsAboutButYou?Well,Did you knowThatThere’sA sheenThat you beam,When you talkOr doAnything,That everyoneKnowsAboutButYou?SOUL SHINE by Suzy KassemRISE UP AND SALUTE THE SUN, 2010”

“Love heals all illness of the soul.”

“Behind the perfection of a man’s style, must lie the passion of a man’s soul.”

“We are all artists in this life and our only job is to create from the space within our soul.”

“I am the girl that goes backwards, takes wrong turns, stumbles in life’s chasms. I am also the girl that finds gold where others feared to stray. Perhaps because I follow my heart, instead of sage advice thrown my way.”

“You’ve got to plant flowers in the center of your soul if you want to bloom.”