spiritual qualities, and the Kurus represent evil qualities.Within each human being, the good and evil qualities battle for ascendance. The purpose of holy scripture is to offer the human being a method for learning to enhance the good and eliminate the bad, in order to regain the paradise of the soul.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Paramahansa Yogananda's Gita
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The artist/poet must still acknowledge that his body or animal carries that burden that results from the soul's duty to itself. While the body becomes "tired with [ ] woe," the soul spurs it on, and the individual who is the result of this composite soul and body must balance the weight of each: the physical weight that weakens and ages and the spiritual weight (more accurately "presence") that does neither.
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Shakespeare Sonnet 50
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About the poem, Wordsworth has explained: "The last stanza--'The Cocks did crow to-whoo, to-whoo, And the sun did shine so cold'--was the foundation of the whole. The words were reported to me by my dear friend, Thomas Poole; but I have since heard the same repeated of other Idiots. Let me add that this long poem was composed in the groves of Alfoxden, almost extempore; not a word, I believe, being corrected, though one stanza was omitted. I mention this in gratitude to those happy moments, for, in truth, I never wrote anything with so much glee."
from Linda Sue Grimes: Suite101.com: Wordsworth's 'The Idiot Boy'
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