21 levels of Self-Deception: THIRD EDITION by Tom Wallace - HTML preview
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Thomas Moore — The Re-enchantment of Everyday Life
W.B. Yeats says simply: ’There is only one history, and that is the soul’s.’ Likewise, Simon Parke, in his book The Beautiful Life, emphasises the essential but neglected importance of the soul:
‘The soul is not given … It is a creation with endless variation of shape and nature, which starts with a desire in your mind, and can become anything.’
And again:
‘…when we use the word soul, we use it to describe a cascading waterfall of experience, all power and fluidity, all change and force, all energy and life, a crashing vastness of possibility and engaged at every level of our physical and psychological well-being.’
(Simon Parke’s book, The Beautiful Life has now been re-published as The Journey Home. I will however continue to provide the quotes from the original version of his book.)
The soul is essentially quite happy to immerse itself in nature and is not that interested in any kind of ‘development’.
As Meister Eckhart says: ‘The soul loves the body.’ (Contrast this with St. Augustine: ‘The soul makes war with the body.’) And Meister Eckhart again: ‘The soul is not in the body, but the body is in the soul.’ And Meister Eckhart further tells us: ‘Our souls grow by subtraction
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