Your soul is full of words, some inscribed, some engraved. The words inscribed on your soul are not of its essence. Like ink upon a page, they came to you from the outside, from life and its experiences. Eventually, they may fade and fall away, to be replaced by other words. The words engraved are of the soul itself—just as engravings are no more than the form of the stone. When the soul finds quietude, those words are there. If the soul is in turmoil, or soiled by experience, those engravings need only be cleaned and uncovered. But they can never be torn away. Those same words that engraved within the fabric of your soul are...