Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call union with the divine, his contact with the world is restored and he can return to his former life, "the same person, but altogether different." Progoff agrees with the author of The Cloud that this ultimate success may regulate "his conduct ao agreeably, both in body and in soul, that it will make him most attractive to every man and woman who sees him." It may also make him "well able to render judgment, if the need should arise, for people of all natures and dispositions...
...nearly 500 years, the persecuted Jews of Eastern Europe led a narrow, closed-in existence. The only escape lay inward-in wild frenzies of Hasidic worship or in equally wild flights of the imagination. In this kind of life, the storytellers became the soul's best physicians; drawing on their tradition, later writers such as Russia's Sholom Aleichem created a whole literature in which pain and happiness, the worldly and the supernatural come together under a canopy of wry humor. Two books, written by exiles from Eastern Europe, have much of Aleichem's rewarding piety...
Descartes believed the pineal gland was the seat of the soul, and doctors later thought it was man's third or inner eye. The pineal (from the Latin word for pine cone, which it resembles in shape) is a small gland attached to the midbrain...
Perhaps the Soviet breakthrough, in prompting considerable soul-searching in America, may prove a welcome catalyst to the process of national maturity. Instead of scratching its head and, in angry confusion, dubbing the situation "a puzzlement," the country may gain a new confidence and balance. The price for failing to learn this lesson now may be higher later...
Guillen chose as examples three love poems by the 16th century Spanish mystic, St. John of the Cross. These poems show that the union of the soul and the body must be approached by love and faith, not by reason, the Wellesley professor said...