Soul destroying words and deeds

This phrase really caught me this morning during the divine liturgy.  In our materialistic America, our attention is, almost exclusively, on the physical.  We are paying more and more attention upon what we eat, and drink, the quality of air, going organic and non-gmo.  These things are all good and fine but we are mistakenly focusing on only half the picture.  The concept of the spiritual being anything other than "going to heaven when you die", is almost completely foreign to the average American.  Unfortunately, much of the attention that is paid to things spiritual comes from Hindu or Buddhist thought, in the form of new age. 
The thing to think about is this.  God made man body and soul, as a complete whole.  We need to start paying attention to and addressing, our spiritual selves.  We need to avoid the mistake of even thinking of it as one part of us.  The spiritual is really the other side of the coin.  But don't listen to the world or to other religions, the church has specific teaching on tending to our souls.  We need to start recognizing soul destroying words and deeds. We need to start learning how to avoid them.  We need to learn to repent of them.
Soul destroying words and deeds are actually far more important to address than diet and exercise.  The latter only affects (for the most part) our temporal bodies, but the former affects our eternal souls.  Think about that for a while.