Soul and Spirit: An Inner Reflection
Lately, I’ve been sitting with a distinction that feels quietly profound — the difference between soul and spirit.
I’ve come to sense that spirit pulls us upward and outward. It seeks connection to something beyond ourselves: meaning, divinity, the cosmos, the source. Spirit lifts us toward transcendence — toward light, expansion, and reunion with what is vast and unseen.
Soul, on the other hand, pulls us inward and downward. It roots us in the deep terrain of being — in story, shadow, longing, heartbreak, dreams. Soul asks us to feel. To remember. To descend into the raw and often uncomfortable truths that make us fully human.
Spirit says: You are stardust.
Soul says: You are soil.
Both are true.
Together, they make us whole.
The work of integration — the very heart of this path — is not choosing one over the other. It’s allowing ourselves to be stretched between them. To rise and descend. To reach for the stars while staying rooted in the stories that shaped us. To allow soul to make us real — and spirit to make us luminous.