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"The most powerful
weapon on Earth
is the human soul on
fire."
-Ferdinand Foch
"A human soul can never actually be broken,
but will continue to resist a wrong life through
whatever means it can.
The soul is like the wild that eventually, through
roots, rot,
and weather, will bring down the strongest house.
The soul
will engineer situations to bypass our best efforts at control."
-
Charles
Eisenstein
"The
Supreme Self, which dwells
in all bodies, can never be slain. . . Eternal, universal, unchanging,
immovable, the Self is the
same forever." - Bhagavad Gita
The heart of one's
essence.
An
individual's
emotional or moral
nature.
The disembodied spirit of a dead human.
The central or integral part; the vital core.
A spark of
God's soul
embedded in
human flesh.
The essence of an individual that holds
conscience.
The seat of
real life or vitality; the
source of action; the animating or essential
part.
An individual
considered as the perfect embodiment of an
intangible quality; a personification.
Energy;
courage; spirit;
fervor; affection, or any
other
noble manifestation
of
the heart or moral nature;
inherent power or goodness.
The spiritual
nature of humans,
sometimes regarded as immortal,
separable from the body at death,
and susceptible to happiness or
misery in a future
state.
The animating and vital
principle in humans, credited with the faculties of
thought, action, and emotion and often conceptualized as an immaterial entity .
The
spiritual, rational, and
immortal part in
man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of
morals; -- sometimes, in distinction from the higher
nature, or spirit, of
man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the
seat of life, the sensitive affections and fantasy,
exclusive of the voluntary and rational
powers; -- sometimes, in distinction from the
mind, the moral and emotional part of
man's nature, the seat of
feeling, in distinction from
intellect; -- sometimes,
the intellect only; the
understanding; the seat of
knowledge, as distinguished from
feeling. There is disagreement as to what
exactly the soul is.
I have never been one
soul.
Sixty trillion cells stagger
zigzag down the street,
laughing, cussing, arguing,
singing-crying, living-dying,
sixty trillion cells - all drunk!
Suji Kwock Kim
soul in
stone"In a mountainous kingdom in what is now southeastern Turkey,
there lived in the eighth century B.C. a royal official, Kuttamuwa, who oversaw
the completion of an inscribed stone monument, or stele, to be erected upon his
death. The words instructed mourners to commemorate his life and afterlife with
feasts "for my soul that is in this stele." - John Noble Wilford, November 17,
2008
Archaeologists discovered the Kuttamuwa's Stele in ruins of the
walled city Sam'al (now Zincirli) near the Syrian border.
Kuttamuwa's
Stele provides the first written evidence of people in this region which held
the religious concept of the soul apart from the body.
Semitic
contemporaries, including the Israelites, believed that the body and soul were
inseparable making cremation unthinkable.
Kuttamuwa's Stele translates:
"I, Kuttamuwa, servant of Panamuwa, am the one who
oversaw the production of this stele for myself while still living. I placed it
in an eternal chamber and established a feast at this chamber: a bull for
Hadad, a ram for Shamash and a ram for my soul that is in this stele."
Circumstantial evidence indicates the people at Sam'al practiced
cremation.
"Spiritual growth need not be based on religious
faith."
- Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama
"Your spirit
is a fountain; river after river flow from it, put all mourning out of your
mind forever and keep on drinking the water. Do not be afraid. The water is
limitless." - Rumi
Energy, vivacity, ardor,
enthusiasm,
courage.
The vital
principle or animating force
within
living beings.
The actual though unstated
sense or significance of something.
The part of a
human associated with the
mind, will, and
feelings.
The soul,
considered as departing from the body of an
individual at
death.
The immaterial part of an
individual; the actuating cause
of an individual
life.
A particular mood or an
emotional state characterized by vigor and
animation.
Temper or disposition of
mind; mental condition or
disposition; intellectual or
moral state.
Any
supernatural being, good or evil; an
apparition; a specter; a
ghost; a sprite; a
fairy; an elf.
Life, or living
substance, considered independently of
corporeal or material
existence; an intelligence conceptualized
as apart from any
physical organization
or embodiment; vital essence,
force, or energy, as distinct from matter.
The intelligent, immaterial and
immortal part of
man; the soul, in
distinction from the body in which it resides;
the agent or subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether
spiritual or
material.
"Listen now. The intellect derives from the
senses, which are limited, and come from the body. The
intellect therefore is also limited, and it can never truly
know reality, which is
infinite and
eternal. Intellect has no real
mettle, you see, and at the first threat, into a hole it scuttles." - Kim
Stanley Robinson
The faculty of
thinking, reasoning, and
applying knowledge.
The
principle of intelligence; the
spirit of
consciousness regarded as an aspect of
reality.
Memory;
remembrance; recollection;
as, to have or keep in mind, to
call to mind, to put in
mind, etc.
The collective
conscious and subconscious processes in a sentient
organism that direct and
influence mental and
physical
behavior.
The
human consciousness
that originates in the brain and is manifested
especially in thought,
perception,
emotion, will, memory, and
imagination.
The
intellectual or
rational faculty in man; the understanding; the
intellect; the
power that conceives,
judges, or reasons;
also, the entire spiritual
nature; the soul; -- often in
distinction from the body.
mental anxiety
reduction
The mind attempts to reduce anxiety through a series of hypothetical
constructs which are defense mechanisms. The defense mechanisms of projection
and rationalization function by distorting or denying reality, this does not mean that the individual
entirely loses touch with reality -
reality has simply been redefined as non-threatening
within the individual's mind.
the aging mind"The mind, as it
traverses middle age, gets better at recognizing the central idea, the big
picture." - Barbara Strauch
"With a brain already full of
well-connected pathways, adult learners should jiggle their synapses a bit by
confronting thoughts that are contrary to their own, We need to know stuff. But
we need to move beyond that and challenge our perception of the world. If you
always hang around with those you agree with and read things that agree with
what you already know, you're not going to wrestle with your established brain
connections. Such stretching is exactly what scientists say best keeps a brain
in tune: get out of the comfort zone to push and nourish your brain. Do
anything from learning a foreign language to taking a different route to work."
- Kathleen Taylor
Jack Mezirow, a professor emeritus at Columbia
Teachers College, has proposed that adults learn best if presented with what he
calls a "disorienting dilemma," or something that "helps you critically reflect
on the assumptions you've acquired."
"Transformational learning is
defined as learning that induces more far-reaching change in the learner than
other kinds of learning, especially learning experiences which shape the
learner and produce a significant impact, or paradigm shift, which affects the
learner's subsequent experiences. Meaning perspectives naturally change and
evolve in response to life experiences, especially those which induce powerful
emotional responses in the individual." - Sunny Cooper
"Heart to heart is an essential means of passing on the secrets of
the Way."
- Rudbari
"Surely something resides in this heart that is
not perishable
- and life is more than a
dream." - Mary Wollstonecraft
"Set out now, while you're strong, on the heart's
vast plain:
You'll never discover joy on the plain of the body.
The
heart's the only house of safety, my friends:
It has fountains, and rose
gardens within rose gardens.
Turn to the heart and go forward, travelers of
the night;
There's where you'll find trees and streams of Living Water. "
- Rumi
A craftsman went up to a weeping wailing
miserable man.
The craftsman said: 'Why do you cry?'
The sorrowful man
answered: 'I am crying to attract the pity of His heart.'
The craftsman
told him: 'Your words are nonsense, for He has no physical heart.'
The
dejected man answered: 'It is you who are wrong. He is the owner of all the
hearts which exist. Through the heart you can make your connection with God.' -
Farid al-Din Attar of Nishapur
"My first counsel is this:
Possess a pure, kindly and radiant
heart, that thine may be
a sovereignty ancient, imperishable and
everlasting.
The heart must needs therefore be cleansed from the idle
sayings of men,
and sanctified from every earthly affection,
so that it
may discover the hidden meaning of divine inspiration,
and become
the treasury of the mysteries of divine
knowledge."
- Bahá'u'lláh
See Jesus
See
Rene Descartes
See
God
See
God's Law
See
Natural Law or the Law of God
See Ellsworth M. Toohey's
missive on how to rule the world
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