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Soul Stories
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Even though care of the soul is not about changing, fixing, adjusting, and making better, still we have to find a way to live with our disturbing feelings, such as jealousy and envy…
Aphrodite is bitterly upset about his single-mindedness and his disdain for the part of life she tends, chiefly love and sex. Enraged and jealous, Aphrodite causes Hippolytus’ stepmother, Phaedra, to fall in love with him. Naturally, all kinds of complications and mayhem ensue: in the end, Hippolytus is trampled to death by his horses, panicked by a giant, bull-shaped wave created in the sea by Aphrodite.
This form of demise has a certain poetic justice, since Hippolytus had been more devoted to his horses, animals that reflect his nervous energy and spirit, than to people, especially women…
— Thomas Moore
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I first believed without any hesitation in the existence of the soul, and then I wondered about the secret of its nature. I persevered and strove in search of the soul, and found at last that I myself was the cover over my soul.
I realized that that in me which believed and that in me which wondered, that which persevered in me, and that which found, and that which was found at last, was no other than my soul. I thanked the darkness that had brought me to the light, and I valued the…
