Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.
Interpretation
No matter how deep the sadness, there is always hope and healing.
This quote by Thomas Moore suggests that regardless of the pain and suffering experienced in life, there is always a remedy or solace found in a higher power or spiritual belief. It emphasizes the idea that even the most profound sorrows can be alleviated, reflecting the belief in healing and redemption beyond earthly troubles.
In practice
In a speech at a memorial service, one might say, 'Remember, Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.'
When we relate to our bodies as having soul, we attend to their beauty, their poetry and their expressiveness. Our very habit of treating the body as a machine, whose muscles are like pulleys and its organs engines, forces its poetry underground, so that we experience the body as an instrument and see its poetics only in illness.
Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot.
How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Bastard Freedom waves Her fustian flag in mockery over slaves.
Most people would say the meaning of life is to make the world a little more beautiful, or nicer, or more interesting. But how? These days, our main answer to that is: through work.
Ideas, in a free society, are not a crime- and neither can they serve as the justification of a crime.
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
The future of the world depends on how well we meet it.
Whatever else it might be, the divine is certainly the thing that imposes with maximum intensity the sensation of being alive.
Free grace will fix those whom free will shook down into a gulf of misery.
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