💡 on souls

My soul, when I tend to it, is a far more expansive and fascinating source of guidance than my ego will ever be, because my soul desires only one thing: wonder.

Elizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

But when that anxiety falls away, when hurt retreats, it becomes clear to me how often my soul meets another’s. I’ve felt it rise to the surface of my body, so that my body has been aglow with it. The occasions that have created that response have been so various – vulnerability, illness, shame, pleasure, community, art. In these states of soulful

Amy Key • Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life

We have these qualities and these capacities that transcend the physical description. They emerge from the physical description, we don’t need anything else but the physics, but because of how we are configured and how organized we’ve become through evolution by natural selection, our minds can reach to the farthest edges of the cosmos and, in some

When I first read it, I thought only a lover could use the word ‘soul’ and get away with it. But it can’t be right that I need a lover so that I can speak of having a soul. That doesn’t do justice to the role platonic love plays in my life, its endless occasions for consideration of the soul. And it does not recognise the way art enables deep

Amy Key • Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life

So, dance carefree, I hope it's easier knowing me
Now, your soul is yours, but I'll help it move if I can

(Rome, Dermot Kennedy)

I remember that time you told me
You said, "Love is touching souls"
Surely you touched mine
'Cause part of you pours out of me
In these lines from time to time

(Case of You, Joni Mitchell)