Today I was reading an edition of The Warrior of Light. It's an e-newsletter that Paulo Coelho sends out every few weeks. I enjoy his writing...it's honest, thought provoking and often inspires.
The last few editions of the Warrior of Light focused on the 7 Deadly Sins. Today, he sent out the one about Sloth.
This sentence made me think. He wrote:
"Sloth is lack of physical or spiritual effort, which degenerates the soul and leads to sadness and depression."
I thought it's the other way around.......that a constant stuggle, without little victories, chips away at your soul, and eventually leads to it's destruction.
I remember when I was living in Glasgow, Ian couldn't find a job for the longest time. Teaching was one of the options he considered. His mother, a veteran teacher of 30 years, strongly discouraged him from becoming one. I clearly remember, she said it was because it was "soul destroying". That was the very first time I had heard someone use that phrase and I've thought about it often since then.
We know what what nourishes our soul....but do we also recognise the things that slowly destroy it?
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Now here is a topic I could discuss at length, ranging from William Gibson's "Pattern Recognition" where he writes about jetlag, and how this is basically leaving your soul behind because your body travels too fast, to Robert Wright's "The Moral Animal", which certainly explains more about life than any other book I've read (best read only after you managed to have the lotus blossom in your mind, or at least had its roots tickle your spine).
But I won't. I'll focus on my own genes first. They still have giving me little victories, instead of bliss.
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