He chides them for being absorbed in the acquisition of wealth, reputation, and honor while they do not take care for nor think about wisdom, truth, and how to make their souls better (Ap. 29d-e).
We have Someone who is with us at all times, who guides us, who knows how special we are, who wants to give us more than we have ever known before, whose only concern is to see us follow our hearts' longings, and who knows our hearts, minds, and souls better than we know them ourselves.
How's the song go? "Hey sister, soul sister, better get that dough, sister".
"My mind and soul are better than this," she said, and she surveyed the Hudson sunset and took a swig of wine.
The wish for a new testament is old in Judaism, though some would say that Beinart's attempt to separate Judaism's sinful body from its liberal soul — the better to save it — is an antiquated act.
And when the northeasters blow across central Connecticut and midterms chill the soul, what better comfort than a steaming cup of herbal tea spiked with sweet, sustainable Husky honey?
Roberto Cavalli, the Italian fashion designer with a Gypsy soul, understood better than most that, in these times of economic and political turmoil, furniture has to be more than functional.
Then to the concept of extracting an "egg" of consciousness, a kind of Mini-Me, purely to toil in a tiny, white, closed cyberjail at the tasks of keeping the real-life Me fed and watered and kept at the right temperature and with the toast done just so: basically, the concept of outsourcing a small twitch of one's own soul, the better to keep body and… body together.
The more soul, the better for Dementors.
