The Body and the Soul
I am a spiritual being inside a mortal body.
There are more questions than answers when someone starts thinking about who we are and what the meaning of life is. There are many trite and superficial answers that people may say to seem smart and deep, but there is an uncanny mystery to these questions that begs us to submit to our limitations.
Regardless of the futility of finding provable answers that don’t require faith to believe in, the process and exercise of asking and seeking the answers are profitable and even necessary to living a fulfilling life.
While there are some who bypass this process and simply stick to hedonistic and selfish pleasures with superficial and capricious values, they are building on a foundation of sand that will one day simply be washed away.
Time is a great equalizer when it comes to revealing the truth of what is in us and how whatever we sow we shall also reap.
There doesn’t even need to be some catastrophic incident or tragic happening to force us to recognize our own manipulations and failings. The cycle of life brings us back to the place we squirmed out of and ran from with ignorant assurances in our narcissistic minds.
With that said, some of us believe that humans have a soul that is separate from our body. The…
