Reflection: What is Soul searching

[evil_baron]

Is the attempt to discover or uncover one's soul? If it is an "old soul", how would we make it our own? What does it look like? The glimmer of hope? The angst of emo? Where do most go when searching for a soul? The fount of all knowledge and wisdom? The depths of despair or the pinnacle of success

Comments

[suba_al_hadid]

I guess when I do what folks would call soul-searching, I'm usually seeking to understand myself in order to learn how to cope with the world around me based on what I find out about myself.

[sequentialscott]

Here's a sort-of related post I did on the topic:

I'm struck by how many TV shows, books, comics, movies, etc. casually use the soul as if they know what they're talking about. For example, Angel is the vampire with a soul. Spike goes and gets his back. What does that mean, exactly?

What if we have not one soul, but many, bound to one body? Perhaps a soul is a group of spirits, temporarily wrapped up into one package in time and space. There's a spirit of music, one of determination, one of pleasure seeking, one of philosophy, one of love, one of selfishness. When a body dies, the spirits scatter, taking what they've learned (or not) and forming part of new souls in other, new people.

Perhaps, rarely, a person can truly change and eject one of the spirits from their soul, or bind a new one floating by. Perhaps after death all the spirits scatter but one, who can't move on.

Perhaps, after everything, the spirits will coalesce, forming one unimaginable soul. Forming God.
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[ex_ciannait]

I think the beauty of the soul is that it is bigger than our shoebox words to describe it.

I think.. We have to experience, and love. That shows us our souls.