A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body Wisdom and Knowledge Quotes

Here the body compares itself to a young tree that would have grown peacefully in the forest, producing acorns, providing a home for squirrels, living the forest life. Add a soul to this innocent story, however, and the future takes a sorry turn. Instead of flourishing naturally, the tree is shaped and trimmed into a box or a gazebo, forced into being something it doesn't want to be. The underlying point here is that without a soul a body would be more natural, like an animal, free of civilization and all its evils.