Our soul

We've been thinking some since we last copied down Gibran's poem.  Mostly about the soul.  The most we've ever really done with that thought was to think it would go up and not be eaten by worms.  We looked it up in the dictionary and we started an Internet search.  We didn't have enough time to go into it very far and what we found wasn't in the direction we were flowing. 

What has passed through our mind(s) and we'll explore a little bit more, especially with Dr. M, is that maybe what makes a core different from the parts is that she is the only one of us that has a soul.  As far as Dr. W. would say, "I really don't know.  Some would agree that the soul lies deep in the self."  Left it kind of open for us.

Hmm, here's an interpretation ... 

The spiritual, rational, and immortal part in man; that part of man which enables him to think, and which renders him a subject of moral government, sometimes, in distinction from the higher nature, or spirit, of man, the so-called animal soul, that is, the seat of life, the sensitive affections and phantasy, exclusive of the voluntary and rational powers; sometimes, in distinction from the mind, the moral and emotional part of man's nature, the seat of feeling in distinctinn from intellect; sometimes the intellect only; the understanding; the seat of knowledge, as distinguished from feeling.  In a more general sense, "An animating, separable, surviving entitiy, the vehicle of indivdual personal existence.  "The eyes of our souls only then begin to see, when our bodily eyes are closing." (Law) SOUL definition.

Oh dear, that was confusing.  It's just that ... It would seem that every individual would get a soul at birth.  It doesn't seem right to say that we've got 20 of them.  There is too much sharing of interpersonal resources.  And, we seem always to be moving along the same general path.  We have different ideas of what it looks or feels like, but maybe just maybe Dear Heart's soul is guiding us?