So near the light...

 To experience the light we have to see it with our souls.
I have given an examples in an earlier blog: Our bodies our souls.
About the joy of watching a great work of art, be it visual, music or lyrics.
The happyness that fills our soul, driving out negative thoughs, is clearly visible in people sharing a comon event, like  a concert. Wether the music apeals to your taste, look at the joy in their faces, look at some of Andre Rieus concerts:
See and listen to  "Life is beautiful" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLGzAiSQTDw
Look  at the extassy and joy of thousend of people sharing a the wonderful moment of music together, their sould so near the light.
Psychologist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker at Harvard University thinks it is completely conceivable that wars between countries might go the way of slave auctions, debtors’ prisons and other barbaric customs.(See BBC URL: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121109-is-world-peace-possible)
Also from that BBC URL:
Steven Pinker told BBC Future about how  we are predisposed to be violent but how we are also predisposed to be peaceful.
There are some parts to the brain that impel us to carry out violence, such as the thirst for revenge, feelings of tribalism, or the quest for dominance. But packed into the same skull there are motives that inhibit us from violence, like empathy and reason that allow us to see violence as a problem to be solved instead of a contest to be won."

The power of art

Art can be so powerful in bringing joy to people because it is often a creation of the soul. Look at the paintings of Van Gogh, although the subject matter is often trivial, the message in these paintings often trascend


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