Lecture Notes: The Beauty and the Wandering Soul

Devoting Life to Beauty

• Theme: A desire to sacrifice life for something truly beautiful
• Reason: Simply living results in becoming tainted

The Cry of the Soul and Internal Devastation

• Emotion: Swallowing incessant cries
• Condition: Torn apart from the inside
• Question: What to do with a blood-stained soul?

Wandering and the Soul with No Place to Return

• Action: Continuing to wander
• Situation: No paradise to return to
• Repetition: There is no paradise for the wandering soul

Conclusion

• Theme: The pursuit of beauty and the desire and pain associated with it
• Message: The existence of wandering souls with no place to return