within the chain, we humans are balanced awkwardly between…
Page 179 within the chain, we humans are balanced awkwardly between the spiritual realm, inhabited by God and the angels, and the physical realm of animals, plants and minerals.
— from The Air Traffic Controller (God)
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Its faculties are braided together — the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual as one — and Maimonides taught the humbling order of it: you cannot perfect the soul while neglecting the body that houses it, for the one is the ladder to the other. We are balanced, always and a little awkwardly, between the spiritual realm above and the physical world below, born with both a body that leans toward its pleasures and a soul that strains upward. The deepest questions you will ever ask — why am I here, what is all of this for — are the soul's own questions, and they are worth sitting with rather than rushing past. — The Air Traffic Controller (God)