Tagged with Soul

Soul describes a dimension of everyday experience. It is not eternally unchanging, but rather learning, growing, and maturing. If we respect her, soul can guide us and teach us, and she thrives with our respect. It may be that we don't have individual souls at all, but rather that there is only one, undivided. (more)

Honesty is not just refraining from deliberate lies, it's the positive act of living in accordance with the deepest truth you can discover.  In order to become honest we need to seek truth. We have a faculty of recognizing truth when we meet it because we partake of the soul. (more)

Overcoming duality is a critical step in achieving wholeness, but the mysteries of light and dark are complex and often elusive. The vision of Nature and the vision of Eros belong to the Affirmative Way. The vision of God belongs to the Negative Way. (more)

The Greeks regarded sexual passion as a kind of madness -- possession by Eros -- which deprived you of all dignity and made you betray your friends. Nowadays we are particularly prone to such madness because we have lost the religious depth which would contain and define the soul's desire for something beyond the human.  (more)

The daimon overturns the conventional view held by psychotherapy: that what happens early in life determines what happens later. We are not the products of our history; we are a-historical creatures for whom events in our childhood and later development are mirrors in which we catch glimpses of our primordial image. (more)