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Veils Quotes

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[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

[Turkish women] had enjoyed freedom from the veil for 5,000 years, and had only been shrouded in the last 600 years.
Authors on Veils Quotes: Rumi E. B. White Sri Aurobindo Honore de Balzac Ralph Waldo Emerson Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Plutarch Christopher Pearse Cranch Bill Vaughan Aiden Wilson Tozer Alexander Pope Salman Rushdie Marianne Williamson Victor Hugo Timothy Keller Kenneth Grahame Percy Bysshe Shelley William Butler Yeats Florence Welch Milton Jones Bob Marley John Friend Achim Steiner Emma Restall Orr George Henry Lewes Louise Erdrich C. S. Lewis Andy Stern Martin Luther Christine McCormick Day St. Catherine of Siena Kim Campbell Friedrich Schiller
2.
You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself
Ibn Arabi

'You are My vision, so rely on Me. You are My countenance, so conceal yourself.'
3.
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyam

I encountered a portal which I could not unlock: There was an obstacle blocking my view.
4.
All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.
Bayazid Bastami

5.
Lift the veil that obscures the heart, and there you will find what you are looking for.
Kabir

6.
My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.
Eudora Welty

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We may not understand His Will for us in time, but in eternity the veil will be drawn and we shall see that He acted only for our happiness.
Rose Philippine Duchesne

8.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
Victor Hugo

9.
The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.
Ram Dass

10.
Growth is a painful process. If we’re ever going to collectively begin to grapple with the problems that we have collectively, we’re going to have to move back the veil and deal with each other on a more human level.
Wilma Mankiller

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Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
Demosthenes

12.
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
Virginia Woolf

13.
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
Alfred Nobel

14.
Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.
Mikhail Naimy

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All the impressions which are made on us by Nature are designed to exercise our soul during its terms of penitence, to prompt us towards the eternal truths shown beneath a veil, and to lead us to recover what we have lost.
Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

16.
Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.
Idries Shah

17.
Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion
Aamir Khan

18.
Social engineers veil themselves in a cloak of believability.
Kevin Mitnick

19.
The girl who chooses to be modest, chooses to be respected.
Howard W. Hunter

20.
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
Novalis

21.
You are at home when you're at a Black Veil Brides concert.
Andy Biersack

22.
Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.
Hafez

23.
In reality, every reality is a veil over reality.
Wasif Ali Wasif

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The ban would apply to the full-body veil known as the burqa or niqab. This is not an article of clothing — it is a mask, a mask worn at all times, making identification or participation in economic and social life virtually impossible.
Jean-Francois Cope

25.
Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.
Khalil Gibran

26.
A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.
Marion Woodman

27.
The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
Bill Vaughan

28.
Fear the pleading prayer of a wronged one, for there is no veil between it and Allah.
Muhammad

29.
Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.
Rumi

30.
Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong.
David Icke

31.
Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.
Alexander Pope

32.
People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere.
Lady Gaga

33.
Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
Zora Neale Hurston

34.
Listening causes me to find the existence of truth behind the veil.
Loreena McKennitt

35.
As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.
Juliana Hatfield

36.
In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.
Rumi

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Impossibility is only a sum of greater unrealised possibles. It veils an advanced stage and a yet unaccomplished journey.
Sri Aurobindo

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People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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We may compare the Bible to the Old Testament Tabernacle in the wilderness with its three courts. The outer court is the letter of the Scriptures; the inner court, or holy place, is the truth of the Scriptures; the holiest place of all is the person of Jesus Christ; and only when we pass the inmost veil do we come to Him.
Arthur Tappan Pierson

40.
Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
Honore de Balzac

41.
Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
Nawal El Saadawi

42.
A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.
Victor Hugo

43.
Mysteries are feminine;
they like to veil themselves but still want to be seen and divined.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

44.
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
E. B. White

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Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.
Helen Keller

46.
Take that veil from off of your eyes, look into the future of realize.
Bob Marley

47.
The reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul.
Edgar Allan Poe

48.
The soul is covered by a thousand veils.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

49.
There is a veil between the Supermind above and the lower Prakriti below - the veil of ingrained formations. This veil may completely withdraw or be partially withdrawn. Thus even if there is some little opening, with the contact of Light from above the lower nature will get slowly changed.
Sri Aurobindo

50.
Clouds signify the veil of the Most High.
Honore de Balzac