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The soul itself is only an aggregation of specially tenuous and subtle atoms. We are brought into relation with the external world by the advent in us of extremely subtle atoms reflections of things, semblances of things which enter and mingle with the constituent atoms of our souls.
The leaves were slender and fragile, half gold with autumn, half green, but so tenuous that the dark branches made a pattern of subtle beauty against the sky. The hand of a draughtsman could not have fashioned it with a more excellent skill. But now Margaret could take no pleasure in its grace.
He wanted the remnant of early childhood the memories of strong aromas, sights, and sounds as his senses depicted them to live in him and not be the cause of mourning. He wanted to find the traces of deceased family in those early days and be able to glance back onto those tenuous decaying remnants of memory with a sense of happiness at what was once there.
The profound difference between old-fashioned Western thought and Eastern thought in this regard is, that for the Buddhist the conventional soul the single, tenuous, tremulous, transparent inner man, or ghost does not exist. The Oriental Ego is not individual. Nor is it even a definitely numbered multiple like the Gnostic soul.
Howat watched her without an emotion visible on his sombre countenance. Occasionally Mr. Winscombe's tenuous fingers dipped into a snuff box of black enamel and brilliants, and he lifted his hand languidly. The man's vitality, his sheer determination, were extraordinary. Even now he was far from impotence.
And yet it was all slight and tenuous as though the crack of a twig would break it through so that over it continually like a grand full organ-tone repeated the notes of the bird itself. With the first sigh of the wonder-music the girl had started and caught her breath in the exquisite pleasure of it. As it went on they both forgot everything but the harmony and each other.
But car accidents, cancer, high mortgage payments, a fire gutting a family home, and stock market decline made the firm arms of a loving god into a tenuous thing. It shook the marble walls of the church.
Were there more of such exceptions to the rule of inconsiderate, exaggerated and recklessly mendacious talk that wounds ear and heart, the "society lie" would be no more, and this flimsy excuse for falsehood would be voted an article too tenuous and threadbare for use.
But he had blurted out the question before he was aware. He was standing so close to her that a little whirling breeze blew a strand of her yellow hair across his face. That tenuous contact made him quiver, gave him a queer intoxicating thrill. "Does it show so plainly as that?" she smiled. "It's a secret. A really wonderful secret. I'm just bursting to talk about it, but I mustn't.
The message of music may be a very gossamer thing, it may be far too tenuous to be expressed in words, though possibly it might be conveyed eloquently enough in some of the sister Arts, in dancing, posture, gesture, or in facial expression. "Pour not out words where there is a musician," says the writer in Ecclesiasticus.
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