The developing world has become a playground for the redemption of privileged souls looking to atone for global injustices by escaping the vacuity of modernity and globalisation.
But it has also been very much a home to quite a few privileged souls.
As a member of the privileged class, her soul searching included a trek to Europe, which Addams made twice during this period.
And this selfish normality, this ordinary solipsism, this lucky, privileged equilibrium of the soul is an obstacle to understanding other people, even as it enables liberal journeys of comprehension.
Yet in assigning to the human soul a privileged, central place in this hierarchy and stressing that the soul through its universal, infinite aspirations and thoughts links the highest with the lowest beings and acts as a bond and knot of the universe, Ficino reveals his affinity with the thought of Renaissance humanism, which gave special emphasis to man and his dignity.
On a recent wintry night, when officials here made a hurried decision to open a vacant library building to the homeless, they inadvertently exposed the conflicted soul of a privileged city.
Many of these stories neatly diagnose some awful, numbed condition of the souls of the privileged and affluent.
His long, eloquent sentence reaches its climax of moral dismay in lines nine to 12, where pleasing, privileged bodies are contrasted with their degenerate souls, recalling the earlier corruption of youth and hope.
He was larger than life and this gentle soul touched the lives of everyone privileged to know him.
I consider myself privileged to have known, albeit briefly, such a brave and gentle soul, and have been reminded of him by the play and the Spielberg movie "War Horse".
