The Soul and Our Promise to It
Our second life begins when we listen.
“We have two lives, and the second begins when we realize we only have one.”
— Confucius
The call
What can you suggest that at the same time, you can’t understand?
What is that thing you know that you know not why??
What’s happening when you’re asked, from the deep of you, to go somewhere?
To act on something?
To do it blindly?
Without justification?
It’s the most irrational of irrationalities, yet it makes sense for some reason. To the point that it eats at you. Demands that you listen to it.
You can’t just know that you have a soul, you have to know your soul.
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Reactivity versus Response
There’s the impulse to do something stupid. It’s an emotionally reactive solution to something that has happened to you or something you’re running away from.
It feels like relief, but only because it creates a void.
This is not the soul, but you running away from it.
Then…
