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10A Path with Soul Joining Our Inner and Outer Worlds

The seat of the soul is there where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.

Novalis (Cousineau, 1994)

This final chapter returns us to the theme of soul as a quality stirred into being through reflection on experience and action in the world. To care for the soul within us and outside in the world, we need to recognize that soul is not our possession, but rather the points of overlap where interior experience and the outer world are joined. In the stories that have been woven through this book, there has been an underlying premise that neither self-reflection nor external analysis alone can gain access to the deeper regions ...

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