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This seven minute video explains, in my humble opinion, wonderfully what it means to have a soul and what it's purpose is. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1LC-ZKFINU" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1LC-ZKFINU
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My mind leads me to confusion,fear, an wanting. A connection to my soul has lead me to a peaceful mind and joyful heart.
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I think your soul is all in your head. I can't speak for anyone besides myself, but I know that if I had to go through life here without hope, it'd be a pretty desolate place. And yet I hope that eventually it'll get better, that this war will end, that maybe someday there won't be wars, although that's hard to imagine. I think a soul is the human response to adversity, the manifestation of hope. I think we want to believe that there's a better place than Earth, so we invented souls to get there. I think we were scared of death, so we invented souls which will never die. Does this make the soul real? I don't know. But I do know that whether my soul is real or just a manifestation of the way I want to think, it makes life and death a lot easier to think about.
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that's just it. thats what you have to start with... what is a soul? I believe that if you think a soul is some creepy crawling transparant kinda white sorta ghost... thingy... then you are wrong. soul is the effort of feeling, the emotional connection to things, be it body, mind, or between people or songs. A soul is nothing material, therefore, why need it be attached to a limited container (flesh, bones, blood) ? The journey of life has all to do with the soul. The soul develops as you experience things. The Soul has to do with the spiritual connection and understanding of things as well. So, in a lifetime, people cannot always fully develop their souls, and the afterlife is all about developing the soul in such a way that is heavenly, or shaped by God as his relfection because we are his creation. I do not believe the soul gets judged by God as to whether or not to go to hell or heaven, these are merely states of minds... or states of the soul. A person committing suicide to find a solution and to stop the "Misery of life" will not stop their hellish state of mind after their hearts have ceased to beat. The afterlife, immediately after the soul is recognized as no part of the body, becomes a state of being in which the soul finds the answers and learns and understands the secrets of the universe and God. If that isn't your idea of heaven... I think my main point is that the Soul eventually finds a state of mind called heaven... therefore, all souls eventually go to heaven, of course, this is after death. Before death we may well be in heaven or hell, but eventually all heaven is strived for by every soul, even if a hellish atmosphere is another soul's idea of heaven. To me, spirit is the mostly the same as soul. it is the same idea, but rather than a passionate effort in feelings (that's what soul is) it is more of a happy, positive, fun, uppidy kind of effort. they don't call them school soul days, they call them school spirit days! the soul and spirit are the only ideas that matter to who we are as people... not as humans, but as people. they are what makes us who we are emotionally and knowledgely (?). they are our connection to that speacial part of us that every human shares... call it God, or conscience, or cherry soda, its the same idea that we are all born with and have as a part of our souls. *But that's just what I think* ;D
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yes because if we don't, what is it we feel melding as hundreds of people join in song at a funeral, when we look out at the ocean, or climb a mountain. What is is we feel when we cry for someone else's loss or when our heart hurts. We cannot know if this part of us that feels so very deeply will go on after us; we can believe, we can hope. And we cannot name it. But, at the same time, I do not think we can deny it.
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We are conscious awareness. As conscious awareness we own nothing, not our bodies nor our world. We do not own a soul. The word soul seems to imply a spiritual separation from all that is, a separate identity distinct from the body and from God. It feels to me like the idea of a soul separate from God and the body is an invention of the human ego to help sooth it's fears of being gobbled up by the Oneness of all that is. If the ego can reinvent itself in the world of spirit it just may have a chance of surviving the death of the body as a separate and distinct individual. It all seems pretty silly when one looks at it from the perspective of the eternal conscious awareness that we are.
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The sould can be defined as a physical life. The soul is not in the body, it is the life-energy/life-force of the body and is in essence your life and life history. Erase your memories and that erases you, or at least everything we desparately try to hold on to. Time is the distance between our souls.
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i believe we are souls and that our bodies are just a illusion in this world of illusion. I believe that we are here in this dimension learning lessons of forgiveness and love ...and we reach other dimensions and continue on the journey, or quite possibly come back here to learn what is needed again if by chance we don't.
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And the souls are saying, "Do we really have bodies?" The two, soul and body, are very inseparable. We see it all the time. "Where's your spirit (soul)?" We even have Spirit Day at schools to show school spirit. When we are spiritless, were depressed. That's all coming from the body side of the equation. Bodies looking for their souls and souls looking for their bodies. The stuff of epic tales. -patti
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I believe that we do have souls because I know what it feels like to have my own soul be chipped away by unwelcome things and people and judgements people might have about my creativity and that's why we as creative people have to protect out souls with all our might! Our souls are precious. Treat them as such.
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I like how C.S. Lewis said it best: “You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” I fully believe that, too. When I feel emotions like love, joy, heartbreak, anger, sadness, hope, etc... it's not my body that is experiencing these feelings, it's me. I'm a soul, I just have a body.
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but what if we're just physical bodies with a mind? animals think, do they not? what if we're just like them? what if when we die, we just die, and that's it? how do you know a soul exists?
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