SPIRIT To the Greeks, spirit was often represented as supernatural, nonphysical, and ghostly. Spirit, as opposed to the flesh, was a timeless, bloodless essence to many Greeks. Because it was nowhere manifested in ordinary experience, one had to believe in, or be reasoned into, accepting the existence of spirit. In Hebrew, on the other hand, spirit was often the word for breath or wind. Rather than being a hypothetical substance, in Hebrew, spirit was a symbol of an experience as universal as weather, and as personal as the breath you are taking right now. In Hebrew, spirit is feminine; which implies not something that makes us, but something out of which we are born. In Greek, spirit was often an abstract idea. In Hebrew, spirit was more like the awareness that our breath is not unrelated to the wind, and that every person, plant and animal share this tapestry of breath. Spirit can mean remembering our home in the tapestry of life. It can mean relaxing our breath and dissolving into pure living.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:49:32 +0000
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