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soul searching

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1. soul searching - Noun

2. soul searching - Adjective

3. soul searching - Verb

Meaning

a penetrating examination of your own beliefs and motives

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soul-searching

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Then, once I have lyrics, being able to shape them around a song is nothing new for me, I've been doing that for 25 years. The soul searching part of it, the spontaneous part of it, that was, and remains, a really terrific process. Geddy Lee

After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for. Maajid Nawaz

This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out. Nicole Richie

The Sun has come to represent enlightenment and salvation across many cultures. I think that if we remove such comforting concepts we are required to do more soul searching but eventually our eyes become accustomed to the dark and our lives become richer. Derren Brown

I think we need to do some deep soul searching about what's important in our lives and renew our spirit and our spiritual thinking, whether it's through faith-based religion or just through loving nature, or helping your fellow man. Louis Schwartzberg

When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there easily - it doesn't take a lot of soul searching - and it's a dark, almost sinister place. Stone Sour is more the way I've always written. It's a different tone. Corey Taylor

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