by Michael Sauve

Created on: February 18, 2007   Last Updated: May 11, 2007

"Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul." ~Geoffrey Fisher

We as innate creators must find new ways to unfold ourselves in the Medias. We paint our dreams and hearts in vivid colors and lavishly decorative words in hopes that others will hear our cries and relate. When we unfold our emotions into glorious melodies and inspiring lyrics, the lofty dancers take flight in fluid motion and with their bodies paint their expression into world. We seek this as artist. We seek this as writers. We seek this as humans. And our whole life attempt to tap into the spirituality. We do crave no more to show the world that we do indeed have more to offer beyond our body and flesh.

"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way." ~Vincent Van Gogh

But the question most never think about is what is a soul?

A soul is defined by the dictionary.com as:

1. The animating and vital principle in humans, credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity.
2. The spiritual nature of humans, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state.
3. The disembodied spirit of a dead human.

We have all heard this word thrown around, that we do indeed own a soul an embodiment of us in a spiritual form. So many cultures throughout history have expressed this in one form or another. And I have heard many theories and thoughts about the subject of what a soul is and what happens to it when we part of this world.

In just about every religion and culture there is some perception on what the soul is and whether or not it exists at all. Most Christians regard the soul as the immortal essence of a person - the seat or center of human purpose, compassion, and conduct - and that after death; God will either reward or punish the soul after death. Plato, drawing from the immortal words of his teacher Socrates, perceived the soul as the cardinal nature of a person, being that which decides what we do and how we respond to other humans. Aristotle, shortly thereafter, defined the soul as the central essence of a being, but argued against it being an independent entity of the body. For example, if a pen had a soul, the act of writing would be that soul, because 'writing' is the essence of what it is to be a pen. Or how I look to view it, painting

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