I’m enjoying a book by Graham Dunstan Martin called Does It Matter? The Unsustainable World of the Materialists. In this passage, he looks at philosopher Henri Bergson’s idea that the brain serves as a filter, turning our experience of “All-in-All” into a more individualized experience.

Since it’s Valentine’s Day, we’ll keep on the ‘love’ theme. Here Robert Sardello discusses how the soul engaged in seeking individuality delights in encountering another soul on the same path, and how we might refine our definition of love accordingly.

An appropriate topic for the Valentine’s “season.” Here Japa (www.pythabacus.com) and I are discussing the power of love as a gift of freedom. As Rudolf Steiner says in Love and Its Meaning in the World, of the three soul forces, wisdom and power are used to affect our future, but love redeems our past. In doing so, it opens up new possibilities for the future.

Love and the Soul by Robert Sardello is a challenging book, and I'm not very far into it yet, but already I have a sense that it is the kind of eye-opening work that will have a deeper effect than words on a page usually do. For one thing, Sardello makes distinctions between words that we often confuse, such as feeling and emotion, and these differences help point to something deeper in ourselves. This passage comes from a chapter in which he discusses the importance of individuality.