The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.
The soul is your innermost being. The presence that you are beyond form. The consciousness that you are beyond form, that is the soul. That is who you are in essence.
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.
The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.
The real sustains the same relation to the ideal that a stone does to a statue - or that paint does to a painting. Realism degrades and impoverishes.
Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.
Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.
The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.
You don't have a soul; you are your own soul. In other words, you are not this book, your social security card, your body, or your mind. You are you.
What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.