For me the soul is the true me...the energy within the body. When my body decays the true me will live on to whatever is next. My mind is sometimes clouded by the things it has taken in around it...but the soul within is always true.
Amazing question. Soul to me is that part of us that exists as complete and utter energy; energy that is connected to all other energy and still detached enough to move independently. Soul is that which never fades; never dies; never withers. The body is a vess...
My understanding of "soul" is this: If the Divine is Light without beginning or end -- infinite and eternally abiding, then the soul is a spark that manifests within the world of time and space. If the Divine were an ocean, then the soul is a wave th...
Definitions are limiting. The things that matter cannot be limited to definitions. Love. Truth. And soul. I know that this does not answer your question. I just can't think of a definition that would suffice so the best response is ...
Invision an ocean. Now, make a lake from it. From the lake make a pond, the pond a puddle, the puddle a drop. That drop is my soul - a piece of the largest aspect of possibility.
In my own limited understanding, my soul is my mind; not my intellectual mind, but the part of me which travels through the vast ocean of time, light and even space, to ultimately re-unite with the greater universal mind/soul which some may call god, some other god/goddes...