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by skmurphy 1417 days ago
My vote for best quote from the book

“Abbot Zerchi smiled thinly. ‘You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.'”

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“Never tell a child you have a soul. Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body. As we learn to think of things always in this order, that the body is but the temporary clothing of the soul, our views of death and the unbefittingness of customary mourning will approximate to those of Friends of earlier generations.” George Macdonald 1892 ("Friends" here is a reference to Quakers)

via https://books.google.com/books?id=vDMrAAAAYAAJ&dq=george+mac...

h/t https://mereorthodoxy.com/you-dont-have-a-soul-cs-lewis-neve...

It is so realistic too. I know a Prior (similar to an Abbot) who speaks exactly like this at times.