life-principle

One way of uniting oneself with the lotus was the custom of ritual cunnilingus, widely practiced throughout the east as communion with the feminine life-principle.

Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008

And to save going back and posting a comment on your previous post, can I say how very much I liked - and agree with - your definition of innocence as a guiding life-principle.

My tribute to Boxing Day (and Coach Ian!): Girl Fight Bout Part II Elizabeth McClung 2007

Don Jackson talked about a professor of philosophy who was demonstrating a life-principle to his class.

Archive 2007-12-01 Belinda 2007

Don Jackson talked about a professor of philosophy who was demonstrating a life-principle to his class.

Lord, Help Me To Choose The Rocks Joyful Fox 2007

"Vital" in this context therefore has nothing to do with the life-principle the Etheric plane of Steiner and the Prana of the Hindus.

Archive 2005-12-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

"Vital" in this context therefore has nothing to do with the life-principle the Etheric plane of Steiner and the Prana of the Hindus.

Sri Aurobindo's Cosmology - The Seven Planes Tusar N Mohapatra 2005

And this it was, this same unaccountable, cunning life-principle in him; this it was, that kept him a great part of the time soliloquizing; but only like an unreasoning wheel, which also hummingly soliloquizes; or rather, his body was a sentry-box and this soliloquizer on guard there, and talking all the time to keep himself awake.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

The life-principle of the body politic lies in the sovereign authority.

The Social Contract 2002

We may never understand them ... the mind may very well be so tied in with the life-principle - or soul; call it whatever you please-as to be knowable only to God. '

Masters Of The Vortex Smith, E. E. 1972

The libertarian position usually has as one of its axioms a love of Nature and the natural, that is, of the life-principle itself, commonly identified with sex.

Déjeuner sur l'Herbe McCarthy, Mary 1963