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We display outrageously and obsessively that which we do not possess or have deeply at our disposal. If we are displaying sex with unseemly exaggerati...more

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... ongoing care for the soul rather than seek for a cure appreciates the mystery of human suffering and does not offer the illusion of a problem-free...more

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Technologies of the soul tend to be simple, bodily, slow and related to the heart as much as the mind. Everything around us tells us we should be mech...more

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It may help us, in those times of trouble, to remember that love is not only about relationship, it is also an affair of the soul.

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Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…

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It is only through mystery and madness that the soul is revealed

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I’m interested in this humbler approach, one that is more accepting of human foibles, and indeed sees dignity and peace as emerging more from that acc...more

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Renaissance philosophers often said that it is the soul that makes us human. We can turn that idea round and note that it is when we are most human th...more

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In the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino put it as simply as possible. The mind, he said, tends to go off on its own so that it seems to have no rele...more

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Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time an...more

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Something deep in human make up needs and longs for a taste of eternity--a momentary release from the relentless pace of time.