Sentence examples for soul moving from inspiring English sources

His first assassination is thrillingly anticipated: he has a gun, but opts for a knife, "because he wanted to know what it would feel like when he placed the blade of his knife against the man's skin, when he pushed the sharp and glistening horizon of the knife against the frontier of the skin, violating the sovereignty of another human soul, moving in beyond taboo, toward the blood".

The cyclone represents the theosophical belief in reincarnation, as a soul goes through a cycle of physical births and deaths before it becomes divine; the outwardly expanding spiral where the Yellow Brick Road starts has meaning in occult symbolism, representing the soul moving from the material realm to the spirit world.

And up until that point, I wasn't afraid of dying and my soul moving onto another place.

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Barely a soul moves on the frontline.

In 1990 Parker made her Broadway debut in Prelude to a Kiss, and her performance as Rita a young bartender whose soul moves into the body of an old man, to the dismay of her new husband (played by Alec Baldwin)—earned her a Tony Award nomination.

Alcmaeon thought that the soul moved itself in continual motion and was therefore immortal and like to the divine.

But our fascination with dreams dates back at least 5,000 years to ancient Mesopotamia when people believed that the soul moved out of a sleeping body to visit the places they dreamed of.

Now, what seems to be the other premise of this argument, namely the proposition that the soul moves itself, is refuted by Aristotle in De anima 1.3 4 on the strength of the very proposition established in Physics 7.1 and 8.5 and cited by Metochites in the preceding paragraph, namely that movement is necessarily an irreflexive relation.

In reply to the questions "how can the soul move the body if it is in no way material, and how can it receive the forms of corporeal objects?" he said that "the most ignorant people could, in a quarter of an hour, raise more questions of this kind than the wisest men could deal with in a lifetime; and this is why I have not bothered to answer any of them.

Considering how the soul acts, he maintained that the soul moves its sphere without effort, for the celestial material has no tendency to a contrary motion.