"At the conclusion of all our studies we must try once again
to experience the human soul as soul, and not just as a buzz of
bioelectricity; the human will as will, and not just a surge of
hormones; the human heart not as a fibrous, sticky pump, but as
the metaphoric organ of understanding. We need not believe in
them as metaphysical entities — they are as real as the
flesh and blood they are made of. But we must believe in them as
entities; not as analyzed fragments, but as wholes made real by
our contemplation of them, by the words we use to talk of them,
by the way we have transmuted them to speech. We must stand in
awe of them as unassailable, even though they are dissected
before our eyes." - Melvin Konner