Soul may be thought of as that aspect of the self that bridges the moment and the entirety of time, that looks toward timelessness without positively attaining it, but embraces the deep past and the deep future. Freedom is not an alternative for soul but a possible expression of it. It is not an emotion or a mood, but is somehow related to certain emotions and moods. You can speak of the soulful and the soulless, of loss of soul and its surrender, its recognition or the failure to recognise it as the language adequate to soul is lost and found (language and soul are a pair), it may be hidden, the language we have chosen may elide it, although soul itself is always present.