Soul

"When will the Self awaken? When does man feel that he is a soul? Only at a mature age. Only in the quake of the inner world. The quake comes sometimes slowly, like a storm cloud, sometimes suddenly, like a bolt of lightning. It shocks you. And then our skies clear. Storms, lightning strikes, are mostly bodily misfortunes: wounds that feel fatal, maiming, contagion, - all the perils of our bodies that measure flesh in reflection and cry out: - Is this what you are? Are you flesh and bone? And then the spirit is moved within us: and our eyes are opened. - No."