Cassandra
Clare once wrote "Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or
weak, ill or healthy. all those things matter less than what your heart
contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other
things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside."
After
reading Clare's words I could not help not to think further. Are we our bodies
or our souls? Am I a soul? Is this body I'm stuck in is just a container? I
started to think of everything I have learned; didn't god create Adam's body
before he placed his soul? However his body did not move, it laid down for days
with no actual movement or a single thought, till god slotted in the soul, the
body was more likely dead! Once the soul leave the body, the body is no longer
active, just after a second that it leaves it, that vigorous body would lay
down hopelessly with no sight of life. Furthermore,
we can basically point at everything we contain but not the soul. We have no
idea where is the place of our soul. We can't point at a specific place and say
"Hey, this is my soul!" . my philosophy did not stop at that, we
always say, "it touched my heart" or " it broke my heart" ,
though our heart is just an organ , with these kind of terms we actually mean
our souls without us noticing, but how
can that mean we are the soul not the body? It's because in no matter what body
we were placed in, we would have the same feelings, the same thoughts, the same
ideas, yet different shape, different container. Evil or good, bad or
nice..it's the soul not the body, it's us. The soul. These bodies are from god,
keep them safe, take care of them because at a certain time, you will have to
return it back. Remember that you are the soul that god blew, never forget how valuable
you are.
Not related, but it reminded me of my answer http://ask.fm/messy047/answer/67843484122
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