The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Every soul that has perception is, though in different times and in different organs of sense and motion, still the same indivisible person.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.'