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I believe that we are all part of a whole, and that we can't begin to understand the whole. I believe that yes, our spirit lives on, and that there is a universal force that embodies all of us, that unites us in some way we may never figure out while we're in this life. And that we have a reason to be here.

I think of it almost like cells in our bodies. A cell in the bone of our wrist doesn't know what a cell in our heart is doing, but the two are still united, and there is a force bigger than either of those individual cells that creates the unifying system they both belong to. I almost see humans as individual cells in the unifying body of the universe. We are connected, even if we do not know how. We are part of something bigger, even if we are infinitesimal one by one.

The concepts -- the labels -- that we have created for such things as soul, heaven, hell -- who knows if we have it all correct? We are imperfect, and the words, the emotions, the perceptions that we have about our souls have been affected by thousands of years of human interpretation. But I do think that there's more than this.