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Breath or Soul?

23/3/2022

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What is breath? Is it air? Is it life? Is it something more than that? We might recognise that there are overlaps in our language that hint at both things — inspire means to inhale, but also give energy to an idea or feeling; conspire literally means to breathe with someone else, but we use the word to express working together to achieve a goal (often nefarious, actually or tongue-in-cheek). The word Atman is a Sanskrit word that means our essence or soul, but can also refer to the breath. And it's related to the Proto-Indo-European word etmen, which is the root of many words across Europe which mean breath. What is it to you?

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