In an hour you will be at the dentist for a teeth cleaning. After that, who knows what errands and chores lurk about.
I think I need to put out the relevent dictionary definitions of heart, soul, and mind. I need to know where other people are coming from with the words before I add my two cents worth.
Heart:
• the heart regarded as the center of a person's thoughts and emotions, esp. love or compassion: hardening his heart, he ignored her entreaties | he poured out his heart to me | he has no heart.
• one's mood or feeling: they had a change of heart.
• courage or enthusiasm: they may lose heart as the work mounts up | Mary took heart from the encouragement handed out | I put my heart and soul into it and then got fired.
Soul:
1 the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal.
• a person's moral or emotional nature or sense of identity: in the depths of her soul, she knew he would betray her.
• emotional or intellectual energy or intensity, esp. as revealed in a work of art or an artistic performance: their interpretation lacked soul.
2 the essence or embodiment of a specified quality: he was the soul of discretion | brevity is the soul of wit.
Mind:
1 the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought: as the thoughts ran through his mind, he came to a conclusion | people have the price they are prepared to pay settled in their minds.
• a person's mental processes contrasted with physical action: I wrote a letter in my mind.
2 a person's intellect: his keen mind.
• a person's memory: the company's name slips my mind .
• a person identified with their intellectual faculties: he was one of the greatest minds of his time.
3 a person's attention: I expect my employees to keep their minds on the job.
• the will or determination to achieve something: anyone can lose weight if they set their mind to it.
From installed American-Oxford Dictionary software
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The above is according to my American-Oxford software. All three words are nouns.
Therein lies the rub, old man. You must treat them as other parts of speech also. Post for now. – Amorella.
You both had lunch at Panera in that Carol enjoys their summer ‘berry’ salad. You had your usual soup and half a Cuban, which surprisingly, you found quite tasty. Carol was going to make a turkey meatloaf tonight, but changed her mind – too hot. You would just as soon have a couple of soda crackers and peanut butter for supper. Mid-afternoon. For the record, let’s go over the eight parts of speech. The general definitions are from ‘The Writing Tutor dot com’.
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Noun–is a word used to name a person, place, thing, or idea. A noun can be a proper noun or a common noun.
Pronoun–is a word that replaces a person, place, thing, or idea. Pronouns can act as subjects or objects, and some can show possession.
Adjective–is a word used to describe, or modify, a noun or a pronoun. An adjective describes “what kind,” “which one,” “how many,” or “how much.”
Verb–is a word that shows action or that indicates a condition or a state of being.
Adverb–is a word used to describe, or modify, a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. An adverb describes how, when, where, or to what extent the verb performs.
Preposition–is a word used to show a relationship between a noun or a pronoun and some other word in the sentence. Prepositions often show direction, location, or time.
Conjunction–is a word that connects other words or groups of words to each other. There are three types of conjunctions: coordinating, subordinating, and correlative.
Interjection–is a word used to express emotion that has no grammatical relationship to other words in the sentence. Interjections should be used sparingly and usually only belong in narrative dialogue.
From: www.thewritingtutor.biz/quick_reference_guides/partsofspeech.php
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Suddenly I feel like I am in the book Stranger in a Strange Land, and I am about to ‘grok’ Martian. The Wikipedia definitions below state that ‘Verification is Needed’; however, this works for me as background. I also did some editing.
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Etymology of Grok: Stranger in a Strange Land
Robert A. Heinlein originally coined the term grok in his 1961 novel as a Martian word that could not be defined in Earthling terms, but can be associated with various literal meanings such as "water", "to drink", "life", or "to live", and had a much more profound figurative meaning that is hard for terrestrial culture to understand because of its assumption of a singular reality.
According to the book, drinking is a central focus on Mars, where water is scarce. Martians use the merging of their bodies with water as a simple example or symbol of how two entities can combine to create a new reality greater than the sum of its parts. The water becomes part of the drinker, and the drinker part of the water. Both grok each other. Things that once had separate realities become entangled in the same experiences, goals, history, and purpose. –
To grok is to intimately and completely share the same reality or line of thinking with another physical or conceptual entity. Author Robert A. Heinlein coined the term in his best-selling 1961 book. In Heinlein's view, grokking is the intermingling of intelligence that necessarily affects both the observer and the observed. From the novel Grok means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the observed—to merge, blend, intermarry, lose identity in group experience. It means almost everything that we mean by religion, philosophy, and science—and it means as little to us (because of our Earthling assumptions) as color means to a blind man.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines grok as "to understand intuitively or by empathy; to establish rapport with" and "to empathize or communicate sympathetically (with); also, to experience enjoyment". Other forms of the word include groks (present third person singular), grokked (past participle) and grokking (present participle).
The OED definition is incorrect in that it is incomplete: the given, narrow definition of this term is beset by the challenges of similar, more encompassing terms such as gestalt and quiddity, that reference a much broader frame than we normally recognize.
To grok something is both to comprehend (relate intellectually) and to apprehend (relate emotionally) its quiddity, its essence, its being.
In an ideological context, a grokked concept becomes part of the person who contributes to its evolution by improving the doctrine, perpetuating the myth, espousing the belief, adding detail to the social plan, refining the idea or proving the theory.
Wikipedia
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The above from Wikipedia shows where your mind is before I begin “The Parts of Speech of Heart, Soul, and Mind in Context with the Merlyn Series and this Blog”. This is a good place for a break. Post. – Amorella.
Cereal for supper. You watched last night’s “Closer” and “Zen” on Masterpiece from two Sundays ago. And, now close to bedtime you are curious as to what I am going to say about the grammatical sub-construction of Heart, Soul, and Mind.
Think of each as a construction of a verbal pronoun. The importance is placed on what it does from its gravitational-like position in any given circumstance. Each does loosely fit the Oxford definition of grok: ‘as the heartansoulanmind understands intuitively, empathically and sympathetically by way of an inter-communication’ within a shell of pre-conscious through post conscious state of a holistic human or marsupial being’.
I am thinking I am caught in a “frozen thought”. I am looking for a ‘flow’ of consciousness rather than superficial islands surrounding the flow. If it is as a magnetic charge holding and separating each aspect (heart, soul, mind) in a constant flux of a real and/or imaginary state of “supposed or believed reality” then it would seem to me there is no way a human being could consciously separate one from the other. What would be the purpose of that in the story? How can one make an inner decision based on what cannot be known?
Through understanding, intuition, empathy, and sympathy.
Where is reason?
In the understanding and intuition. The heartansoulanmind is a motor run on passion. All for tonight. Think on it. – Amorella.
An electric motor is something I can create an analogy with.
Yes. We can work on simplifying this tomorrow. – Amorella.
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