Upturned toward the sun, eyes closed. That color and warmth I see and feel is the soul on fire. If only it remained when again my eyes opened. – Jeb Dickerson, jebdickerson.com

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year? – Horace

The souls impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments. – Epictetus