In search of soul

All through your life your soul takes care of you... your soul is alive and awakened, gathering, sheltering and guiding your ways and days in the world. In effect, your soul is your secret shelter.

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Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.

 

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.

 

All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration of its possibilities and the wonder of its mysteries.

 

When you come to accept yourself and like yourself, you learn not to be afraid of your own nature. At that moment, you come into rhythm with your soul, and then you are on your own ground.

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David Elkins: American psychologist and psychotherapist
 

We live in a culture that has forgotten the soul... We hunger for something we cannot name and go up and down the earth searching for something we cannot find, never realizing that what we are really looking for is the soul that lies at the core of our being.

As the soul has to do with depth, we are not likely to encounter her if we move in the horizontal dimension, skimming the surface of life... Rather we must go down into the depths of our being, into the depths of our relationships, down into the depths of life itself.

The soul works in the medium of imagination; she knows herself, creates herself, and reveals herself through images.
 

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Thomas Moore: Writer and psychotherapist 

Soul is not a thing, but a quality or dimension of experiencing life and ourselves. It has to do with depth, value, relatedness, heart, and personal substance.

Many of us spend time and energy trying to be something we are not. But this is a move against soul, because individuality rises out of the soul as water rises out of the depth of the earth.