Body & Soul

It was Saint Thomas Aquinas who coined the Latin phrase anima forma corporis, which means “the soul is the form of the body.” The soul, as I said previously, is defined as the first principle of life for all humankind. Anima (the Latin word for “soul”) animates that which is alive. 

We are a soul and at the same time a body. We must avoid dualism; human beings are a unity. The soul is in the body, and the body is in the soul. Put simply, we…