Soul is what turns ordinary events into experiences; what imparts to the passing moment depth, connection, and resonance … The effect is unmistakable: an experience of stillness in our heads and, in our hearts, a fullness … Soul is what is transmitted and received in the experience that we call love.

The way of soul, we notice, is downward rather than the upward flight of the mystic.

However much we wish the soul’s path to be straight, upward, and ascending, it is more likely to be meandering, full of regressions, downward turns, and backward glances.

Ideologies can only ever hope to change our lifestyles; it takes soul to change our lives.

The paradox is that we can only truly love each other when we also love something beyond each other.