- published: 11 Dec 2012
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The soul – in many traditional spiritual, philosophical, and psychological traditions – is the incorporeal and immortal essence of a person, living thing, or object. Some religions teach that all biological organisms have souls, and others further still that even non-biological entities (such as rivers and mountains) possess souls. This latter belief is called animism.Anima mundi and the Dharmic Ātman are concepts of a "world soul." Some religious thinkers, such as Thomas Aquinas, attribute souls to all organisms but teach that only human souls are immortal.
Soul can function as a synonym for spirit, mind or self; scientific works, in particular, often consider 'soul' as a synonym for 'mind'[citation needed].
The Modern English word soul derived from Old English sáwol, sáwel, first attested to in the 8th century poem Beowulf v. 2820 and in the Vespasian Psalter 77.50, and is cognate with other Germanic and Baltic terms for the same idea, including Gothic saiwala, Old High German sêula, sêla, Old Saxon sêola, Old Low Franconian sêla, sîla, Old Norse sála as well as Lithuanian siela. Further etymology of the Germanic word is uncertain. A more recent suggestion connects it with a root for "binding", Germanic *sailian (OE sēlian, OHG seilen), related to the notion of being "bound" in death, and the practice of ritually binding or restraining the corpse of the deceased in the grave to prevent his or her return as a ghost.
We must hurry up and
make love before
our mother shows up
she'll get nuts on us
I've almost forgot
how it feels to be
in this room again
these walls are drowning me
BUT I'M FEELING SO EXPENSIVE
YOU MAKE ME GLOW
YES I'M FEELING SO EXTENSIVE
DO YOU KNOW THAT I'LL COST YOU?
here alone with you
worries fade away
I touch your precious face
chisled out by my pain
both badly knocked about
in this room again
we have shut the coldness out
for a little while
let's tango let's dangle
and let them sleep
let's get lost let's defrost