Spirit and Soul : Light and Dark

I call the high and light aspects of my being spirit 

and the dark and heavy aspects soul.

Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys

Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there.

The rivers flow like warm syrup.  They empty into huge oceans of soul.

Spirit is the land of high, white peaks and glittering

jewel-like lakes and flowers.

Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances.

There is soul music, soul food and soul love.

People need to climb the mountains not simply because it is there

but because the soulful divinity needs to be mated with the spirit.

Tenlin Gratsom (14th Century Dali Lama of Tibet)