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Educated, A memoir by Tara Westover

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Dumbfounded I sit thinking how little I know about the world. The experiences people have/had. How much deep the suffering can really be. I thought I have the deepest scar in my life suffering alone but here this lady has gone through things which stands way beyond my wildest imagination. Everything she wrote in this book felt like a fiction. I could hardly believe it is a memoir. I have heard/seen kids not going to schools because of various reasons. Staying home doing all odd jobs to help get food on the table. But life is still normal. As a kid, go help your father/mother at the construction site or farm to cultivate crops get some extra daily wage for the family for food on table or actually floor. But never did a thought cross mind what goes on in families like these when one of the parents is a bipolar/schizophrenic. It is super hard. A kid not going to school and growing up listening to the random imaginations of a schizophrenic paranoid patient, is almost like living in a cage....

What is soul?

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In my opinion, I think soul is to experience. That is why it lies on the top of all levels of existence namely Body, Breath, Mind, Intellect, Memory, Ego and Self. I don't think we can really define what is soul or self. We can may be use intellect, memory or mind to attempt defining soul but we could still miss out and not complete the definition. The way i try to see is, it is all one conscious. One conscious that has all creation, universe and everything. We start Art of Living courses with "I belong to you" over time i am realizing it is a very profound statement. It is saying everything is just one. You feel no barriers no walls. You feel sad/happy = I feel sad/happy. At that level we might feel others emotions as our own because we are all one. All just one conscious. Self is above ego or identity. When we touch that level of soul there is just no difference between anything. You are everything or you are nothing just doesn't matter.  As a kid I was told god is ...