Soul--
Traditional Definition:
- The animating and vital principle in humans, credited with the faculties
of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial
entity.
- The spiritual nature of humans, regarded as immortal, separable from
the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future
state.
- The disembodied spirit of a dead human.
- A human: “the homes of some nine hundred souls”
(Garrison Keillor).
- The central or integral part; the vital core: “It saddens me
that this network... may lose its soul, which is after all the
quest for news” (Marvin Kalb).
- A person considered as the perfect embodiment of an intangible quality;
a personification: I am the very soul of discretion.
- A person's emotional or moral nature: “An actor is... often
a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not”
(Alec Guinness).
- A sense of ethnic pride among Black people and especially African
Americans, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion,
and music.
- A strong, deeply felt emotion conveyed by a speaker, a performer,
or an artist.
- Soul music.
New World Definition:
Articles:
Prayer, Meditation
and Contemplation by J.J. Dewey
"Prayer opens the door of the soul to gain access to the world
of Spirit, meditation takes you through that door so you can receive
the Spirit, and contemplation brings the things of the Spirit down into
the practical realm of the material world."
Learning
to Remember the Way Home Random sparks of light, by Wendy Garrett
"One day, an awakening begins. Too many questions beg new answers.
The old ones don't fit. What to do to reconcile this awareness? The
choice will shape the temporal character, mold the soul, and inevitably,
illuminate the spark of spirit. A decision is required. Is it best to
wear answers now deemed inadequate or to determine new answers? Either
path requires a major expenditure of energy."
Interviews:
Soul Power
The Edge Interview with Nikki de Carteret by Tim Miejan
"As a meditator with 24 years experience, Nikki's passion is to
facilitate processes that help people to "ground" their spirituality
in a way that becomes integral to their everyday living. Nikki does
not advocate a quick route to spirituality, rather she encourages a
lifetime deepening of self-awareness and soul appreciation."
Conscious
Women, Conscious Lives An interview with author Darlene Montgomery by
Tim Miejan
"It creates a continuity. It creates a sense of universality.
And I would say the fact that there's sort of an immortality in soul,
that we are not just a physical body, that there's a continuity that
goes back and a similarity to human beings even as you go back to the
earliest point in time."
Quotes:
"Man does not have a soul; he is one."
~Harold Bruce Hunting
"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."
~ Mark Twain
"It's the thing I never could write, the idea of identity and
passage of the soul."
~Marguerite Young
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