Emotions Are Your Soul Speaking

But there are times we don’t like the message.

So, here’s a phrase I wince at: The Soul Knows Only Love. There are variations on this and you can see a number of them if you check Google images, but this is the simplest. On the one hand I really like it because it points to a truth we often forget: this life we’re living is finite and temporary. There’s more to life and we’re going back to it at the end of our tour. Or in other words, “Don’t sweat the small stuff and it’s all small stuff.” This can be really helpful when life gets difficult or downright unbearable. It helps us keep our balance or get some semblance of balance when everything is dissolving around us and helps us to breathe when we think we might have only one breath left. I’m good with that.

But beyond the inspirational aspects of the phrase, I wince because of all the other things it does. For example, it makes the soul into an object. This sentence refers to the soul as if it is the knee or the finger or the eye. However, the soul isn’t a body part or a discrete separate entity. Each and every one of you reading this is a soul. And your soul is all of you. Your soul is the you who is drinking coffee and the one having sex and the one doing paperwork and the one gardening and the one saving children from burning buildings and the one in rush hour traffic. This is why we come here, because we as…