Late afternoon. Today is daughter’s thirty-first birthday but you don’t feel any older for it. Sister-in-law came down and the three of you saw the movie, Salt, and had lunch at Smokey Bones at The Streets of Westchester before coming home to debate your window choices, something you are presently doing.
It is hard to believe that Kim is thirty-one. I can easily remember our first bonding when she was twenty minutes old. She was so tiny. I was wrapped around her little finger by twenty-one minutes and have been so ever since. We spent a lot of time together as she grew and I had her (by her choice) in AP class her senior year. I did not play favorites but she always managed to get an A-. Her junior teacher told me that as she had been getting A’s in her class, this was not unusual. I am her father, but we are good friends also. Always have been – soul-bound I guess, just like with her mother.
You hesitated using ‘soul-bound’ because you only have an intuitive sense of the word. People sometimes have deeper connections with particular others than they think. In your case though, soul-bound is not as accurate as “heart-bound”.
Okay, what is the difference?
You people want to use depth for both heart and soul. You also use the phrase ‘deep-minded’ for a certain style of intellect. This shows a lack of clarity of meaning. Let’s see what the dictionary says in context.
Heart – one’s innermost character, feelings, or inclinations of disposition.
Soul – one’s immaterial essence, a spiritual principle or moral force.
Intellect – the capacity for rational and knowledgeable thought.
I have shuffled the definitions found in your Merrium-Webster software for simplification. This is not a philosophical debate on understanding, but it will better help the use of the words in context of the book’s intent on presenting a broader view of metaphysics in your modern world orndorff. Now let’s look up “depth” and go from there.
Depth – a degree of intensity; a quality of being profound; being at the limit of one’s capabilities.
The heart has an intensity or passion, it is for all intents and purposes, unlimited in that it is beyond human understanding.
The soul is an equally limited quality or nature of intensity or passion.
The intellect broadly based is limited to one’s specialized capabilities in tandem with one’s heart and soul.
I am not sure I understand your definitions, Amorella. According to my immediate interpretation the heart has no depth because it is immeasurable. Depth assumes it has a bottom. The soul is immeasurable because without a human attachment it is not complete. And, the intellect is in general measurable but not completely because its use is dependent on one’s use of heart and soul in conjunction with itself. Somehow it is the rate of use of all three that provides a sense of ‘depth’ that is limited by one’s capability to use all three together.
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