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"The human soul cannot be equated with the brain, consciousness or behavior. The soul is the very breath of our vitality and the unfathomable source of our identity. It is not a problem to be solved, but rather our very life that needs food and nurturing. The best food for the soul is a mixture of love, beauty, and excursions out of time where we glimpse the eternal.
"We need love, we need beauty, and we need at least passing acquaintance with eternity. To the soul these are absolutes, and yet in modern life these three graces of life and values largely neglected. We reduce love to interpersonal relationship and then treat relationship in an emotional problem. We seem numb to ugliness and allow our world to be shaped and adorned according to the exclusive principle of function. Even religions seem to have forgotten the central place of the eternal in the development of reverence, ritual, and contemplation.
"The soul longs for love that is unconditional, unending, and without a tangible object. Beauty relieves us the limitation of functionality and pragmatism--dehumanizing signals of a loss of soul. And eternity is the proper time frame of the soul, whose immortality is ever present and whose endurance knows no limitation."
--from "The Education of the Heart," edited by Thomas Moore.