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The Soul In Thomas Moore's Care Of The Soul

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Today, I am reminded of a saying: “there are places in the heart that do not exist, pain must be so that they may be”. In the past, I reasoned this saying to be a metaphor for compassion…that as we work through our pain, we become more connected and loving toward others. What I discovered is; that introspective examination assigning the meaning to pain and painful events is soul work while the work of connecting and loving others is a good but superficial start. In the book “Care of the Soul” Thomas Moore cites: "It’s important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative and progressive. But these qualities don’t necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns of equal value: downtown for reflection, conversation, and reverie: beauty that is captivating and pleasuring: relatedness to the environs and people". That said, my husband and I asked yesterday when we learned my brother’s states of consciousness were fluxuating, wher was his soul? Moreover, if the soul requires nurturing as indicated above, how do physiological changes caused by trauma or disease impact the soul? According to Thomas Moore’s description, as indicated above, the work of the soul is related to consciousness and conscious choice. During my education to obtain my current credentials, I studied …show more content…

Is its essence recognized only through the act of being conscious? To me, “Essence” is a quality of consistent characteristics that enables one to meet life’s challenges. “Soul” is the spark that animates an individual. My brother respected his soul, his spark shone by the way he chose to live his life. A Vietnam vet, he continued to serve by feeding the homeless, showing respect for fellow vets and living a life devoid of excess. More importantly, he possessed a warrior essence, enabling him to reconcile the challenges of living with PTSD and the physiologic sequelae of exposure to Agent

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The human brain is made up of many things, like blood, flesh and veins, but deeper in the brain consists of one's stress, thoughts and pain. As humans, we experience a lot of pain, it could be physical, mental or psychological. Pain can be caused by many things, even by another person. Their acts, their words or even their behaviour can cause you some type of pain. Over time, mental pain becomes a burden, and we need to open up once in a while and relieve ourselves of this burden.

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Before the age of 20 he had earned every Combat Award for Valor available in his period of service, and holding the rank of First Lieutenant. He was made Life Magazines Cover Story for being the most decorated soldier. The psychological effects of war stayed with him for the rest of his life. Though the military did not cause him majority of his post-war stress, he publically forth came about it hoping he could prod the Government into providing better treatment for other Soldiers and Veterans. Audie Murphy had dreamed of being a combat soldier all through his youth.

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In this two Christian philosophers, Richard Swinburne and Tim O'Connor, discussed the concept of neuroscience and the soul. The first philosopher, Swinburne, believed in the idea of substance dualism while O’Conner supported the argument for emergent individualism. Swinburne starts off by saying one’s physical body is simply the vehicle we interact with the world while the real essence of a person lies within their soul. When it comes to Swinburne’s belief on the soul after death I am reminded of Phaedo and how death will only bring about separation of body and soul.

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He had to flee Vietnam along with his sister, mother, and grandmother. He was confused and did not know what was happening around him at the camp, but he had qualities that helped him survive. All he was able to do was stay strong, become flexible, and adapt to his environment as much as possible. He also gave us a piece of advice on surviving, "Try not to feel ashamed" (Lines 33-34) this means that you should do anything in your ability to get food. You will have to be able to beg for the survival of you and your family.

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Reason is the part that guides the other parts of the soul, it analysis and rationalizes options, and determines the best overall choice. Spirit is the part that is passionate and strives to conquer challenges, while appetite is the part that desires pleasures and comforts. Plato states that all three parts are balanced properly when reason the one in charge, but when poorly balanced, virtue is lost and vices begin to form. Ignorance is a vice. In Philabus, Plato states that when harmony of the soul is disrupted, one becomes self-ignorant, and can acquire a false sense of beauty, wealth, and virtue.

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Both of these plights without the human spirit leaving valid humans rendered hopeless through their complications. “There is no gene for the human spirit.” The human spirit is expressed to be practically the most important human trait by Niccol within the

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In the poetic essay “Joyas Voladoras” by Brian Doyle , he switches subjects very quickly from paragraph to paragraph. First he states facts about the beautiful hummingbirds and their hearts, and how the first explorers called them “joyas voladoras,” or “flying jewels”. No matter what kind of hummingbird, they all go through torpor, or a deep sleep. He then talks about blue whales and how their hearts are as big as a room.

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True religion, for Emerson, appears to be narcissistic and egotistical and can be defined as promoting and being consumed by the deity of one’s self, yet, contradictorily, Emerson claimed that as one trusts and worships in themselves, they gain a renewed confidence in other men. The opposite often occurs and the selfish nature Emerson so boldly praised manifests itself when one chooses to focus primarily on themselves rather than Christ. Throughout “The Divinity School Address,” Emerson attempted to justify why the human soul should regard itself as its own god by arguing the “indisputable” power of the soul and its ability to determine everything, such as where it will go after death as Emerson believed nothing about the soul was predetermined. Although Emerson was, to some extent, correct about free will, he misrepresented what little power the soul truly has by implying that, ultimately, the soul, not God, holds, in itself, the power to determine its place in the afterlife. Furthermore, Emerson misuses this as “proof” of why the soul is all-powerful and should be worshipped.

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It is important for the body to feel pain because nerve cells let out pain signals to indicate something is wrong. It is also important for the body to feel emotions so the person can feel the tendencies to run for their life or a sense of importance. As a result, these physical qualities of the body can allow unhappiness when one feels too much pain that is unbearable, or when one cannot sleep because they are too stressed. The second way the body brings unhappiness is through the sense of beauty, where “beauty presents itself to [people’s] sense and [peoples] judgment” (Freud 53). People’s sense of beauty to themselves or others is perceived through their own

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This process promotes a better existence, a journey that will refine happiness. We are all created to live an image of God. Once one has made contact with the True Self, the soul is transformed and intimate with everything. The world begins to make sense again, Rohr stated “we know that God is not a person in the way we understand human persons” (Rohr, 74). God is beyond our imagination, God is in our soul, and spiritual life.

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Unlike physical pain, for some emotional pain has no conceivable end, the pain of something such as a family death has a lasting effect that never reaches a resolution, and conversely to physical pain, emotional pain is not traditionally classified as ‘pain’ in that there is no distress signal, no accompanying precursory depression and the pain is both sudden and common; with contemporary psychologists referring to it more as ‘suffering’ rather than pain (Biro 2010). Most people will experience some form of emotional anguish in their lives, whether it be through the death of a loved one, the breakdown of a relationship or social exclusion. However, the argument as to whether chronic emotional pain is more severe than chronic physical pain remains

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In other words, by recognizing the “I” of the foreign living body as the zero point of orientation of the spatial world, we have consequently categorized the foreign living body as an “object-constituting consciousness and have made it relative to the outer world (Stein, 92). It then follows that the “I” of a foreign living body has already been interpreted as a spiritual subject. Therefore, we have already entered the realm of the spirit when we undertake every literal act of empathy. Moreover, feelings and expressions have further constituted the “world of values” just like the physical nature is constituted in perceptual acts (Stein, 92).

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