A Quote by Ali ibn Abi Talib

Body is purified by water. Ego by tears. Intellect is purified by knowledge. And soul is purified with love.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

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Body Ego Intellect Knowledge Love Soul Tears Water

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Ali ibn Abi Talib
Priest
600 - 661

With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect is purified.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

The real guru is the pure intellect within; and the purified, deeply aspiring mind is the disciple.

Chinmayananda Saraswati

Bodies are cleansed by water; the mind is purified by truth.

Horace Mann

Love is the eternally burning fire in which humanity & all the world are being purified.

P.D. Ouspensky

Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.

Plotinus

By keeping the Commandments the soul is purified and the mind too is enlightened, and starts to function as nature intended it to. 'The command of the Lord gives light and enlightens the eyes' (Ps. 19:8).

Dorotheus of Gaza

He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.

Idries Shah

A race cannot be purified from without.

Anna Julia Cooper

I want to suffer and be purified by suffering!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The purified, integrated mind, so perfected in its own understanding, lives in close communion with the soul radiance so that light becomes the constant companion of the mind.

Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

Like men, nations are purified and strengthened by trials.

Samuel Smiles

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.