What Is Soul?

Interviews with people from a wide range of ages and occupations - and quotes from icons of the past - address one of the most important and neglected questions of modern times: What is soul?You want to see soul? Go look in the eyes of a newborn child cause thats where it is. And the world is going to conspire to destroy that or at least repress it. Dont be ashamed to say you like something! Dont be ashamed to experience something! It cant hurt you! Thats part of the secret language of soul: the ability to allow yourself to respond to the amazing and infinite number of wonders that life presents to you every day. Rick KoganFriendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. AristotleIf youve ever met someone that youve never met before but you have an instant connection to them its that your soul recognizes their soul. We might have never met before but our souls once knew each other on some level in the past. Rabbi Andrea CosnowskiSoul is when you take a song and make it a part of you - a part thats so true so real people think it must have happened to you. Its like electricity - we dont really know what it is but its a force that can light a room. Ray CharlesTheres a criterion of inclusivity for someone to be soulful. If theres an exclusion of other people by anyone I think theyve abdicated their right to be soulful. Cliff ColnotLoyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. Mark TwainA lot of whats essential and vital and core about the human experience is pretty stinky and people want to turn away from that. If you think of soul as the equivalent of the full richness and uniqueness of human experience you cant have it both ways. You cant be fully soulful with just the romantic nice parts of it. Charles JaffeIn the end when youre lost desperate depressed you still have that little something called soul. Its something that you can never lose. You can lose all the material things in your life your hopes everything but you dont ever lose that thing that is really the essence of what you are. Its even something that can save your life. Elsa MoraLove makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. Zora Neale Hurston