Old Souls Quotes

“The Empath is often said to have such a great degree of empathy that they can literally feel what others feel, and thus intuitively know many of the yearnings, sensitivities, tastes and even thought patterns of the people they're around.”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“The Old Soul is more inclined to be a lifelong learner, constantly feeding his thirst for insight through his own persistent efforts. His learning has not been forced into him through education or learned out of obligation, but has been absorbed out of curiosity and personal choice.”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“Everything is connected” was probably a phrase first coined by an Old Soul.”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“Innately, the Old Soul carries a sense of world-wariness as he stands on the outside, looking in. As an observer, the Old Soul like the Steppenwolf, feels an all-pervading sense of alienation. He is the ultimate Outsider who is both in the world, but not quite of the world at the same time.”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“Respectable and elite careers are of no interest to the Old Soul who is much too tired to join in with the “my house is bigger than your house” games of society. If the Old Soul has to work, any job will usually do. It's very uncommon to find Old Souls in prestigious careers, unless they have some higher purpose at play behind the scenes.”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“It's not uncommon for the Old Soul to experience some measure of depression, apathy or existential lethargy when it comes to living everyday life. After all, if physical existence loses its star-spangled gleam, and everyday affairs lose their burning importance, what is the point of living a dull life?”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“Amongst some of the Old Soul's greatest achievements in life include the ability to live with inner peace, even amid the troubles of life. As all is passing, the Old Soul understands the importance of non-attachment to physical and immaterial things.”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“A more common explanation for the feeling of being Old in Soul is tied up in Buddhist and Hindu ideas of reincarnation, or metempsychosis. Interestingly, this is most likely where the origin of the phrase “Old Soul” came from in the first place.”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“When we become more self-aware of our needs, we become better-equipped to take
care of ourselves.”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“The phrase “Old Soul” is the closest many can come to describing those who feel like they have seen and done it all before, who can see through the lies and illusions of existence, and who experience a tired longing to “return home.”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“It's also not uncommon for Old Souls to develop some level of clairvoyance or sixth sense in their lifetimes. This is not necessarily the psychic ability to predict events in the future – although that is not beyond the Old Soul – but rather the ability to intuitively and perceptively understand the people around them at a very profound level. This is often referred to as “seeing through people.” In other words, this is the ability to see beyond the external masks, pretentions and affectations of a person or group of people to see into their deeper hidden characters, thoughts, feelings and motives. For this reason, it's very hard to fool the Old Soul, who can easily differentiate the charlatan from the truth teller, the malicious from the kind-hearted, the unstable from the balanced, and the shallow man from the thoughtful man.”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“Like an old person, the Old Soul is easily tired by pressure, tension and conflict. To them, the matters of everyday life are unsurprising, commonplace and inconsequential in the greater scheme of things.”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“it’s quite common for the Old Soul to experience what many people would refer to as “new age phenomena.” These vast and varied experiences range from sensations as commonplace as experiencing vivid and repeated déjà vu to other sensations as complex as precognition – the foreseeing of an event or series of events in a dream which later transpire in real life.”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“This world is not my home. I'm just a-passin' through. My treasures are laid up somewhere beyond the blue. The angels beckon me from heaven's open door, And I can't feel at home in this world anymore.” – Albert E. Brumley”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“After all, you can fall in love with the mystery, but you can't fall in love with the explanation.”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“Although they love their families, they prefer mellow and relaxed ways of life like old people. Feeling internally retired already from the wiles of the world, the Old Soul lacks the energy and interest to partake in bickering, tension and emotional rollercoasters. As usual, they like observing from a distance and approaching when the waters are calm.”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“As with everything, the Old Soul approaches family with a casual, if not detached, attitude. “They can do their thing while I do mine,” is the attitude usually held towards family drama, which the Old Soul is not usually one to take part in. Somehow always on the outskirts quietly looking in, the Old Soul cares about his or her family but does so without becoming too attached to them or their problems. This is not to say that the Old Soul doesn't try to help at all. If anything, they gladly play the part of counselor or adviser to their family members in times of strife.”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“For instance, in one case documented by researcher Carol Bowman in her book Children's Past Lives, an 18-month-old little girl named Elspeth showed clear signs of having “been here before.” Elspeth, who had never previously spoken a complete sentence, spoke up to her mother one evening as she was being bathed.”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World

“Modern, Historical and Fictional Examples: Helena Blavatsky, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Anandamayi Ma, Kahlil Gibran, Herman Melville, Paul Gaugin, Whoopie Goldberg, Alice Walker, Mattie Stepanek, Igor Stravinsky, Meryl Streep”
― Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World