The Soul Journey

01/17/2020

From a soul perspective in order to grow and release that which limits us, we need to have experiences that challenge those limiting beliefs. Because of this we are somewhat blinded to the real nature of those we love. It is the people that we love that can help us grow the most because we let them into us. Soul seeks out those relationships where love is sufficiently present so that we will be present and learn what we need to learn for the time being.

Relationship challenges require us to be strong enough in our sense of self to meet those external challenges. This is done by recognizing the challenges in your replationship and dealing with their equivalent within yourself. Then you have external relationships that honour yourself and the other without any one being disempowered.

01/13/2020

"You change your life by changing your heart." - Max Lucado quotes from BrainyQuote.com

01/03/2020

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11/07/2019

Aging is that process in life which trains us to let go, whether we cooperate or not. As we get older we lose the abilities of our bodies that we had when we were young. We lose the ability to control and take care of all that stuff we have worked so hard to accumulate throughout our lives. We may get tired more easily, we may forget things, we might get sick, we don’t get around like we used to, our friends die or move away, we are no longer wanted at our job.

As we age our attention is being forced to turn from the attachments of the personality to the inner realities. We are being told to live the life of the liberated Soul while still in this world. We are being taught to trust in life, to celebrate life, to look to the future with faith, and to share our love and wisdom with others. Practice loving detachment throughout the life, and you will have nothing to lose with age.

10/25/2019

1. Presence of Love
- There is acceptance of the other as she/he is.
- There is tolerance of the other’s weaknesses and ‘mistakes.’
- There is respect.
- There is the desire to play together, have fun, and just spend time together enjoying life.
- There is praise of the other’s efforts and contributions.
- There is trust.
- There is faithfulness and loyalty.
- There is keeping one’s word.
- There is a willingness to sacrifice for the good of the relationship and the good of the other.
- There is a respect for one’s own needs as well as for the needs of the other.
- There is commitment to the relationship.
- There is appreciation and expression of appreciation.
- There is intimacy on all levels.
- There is a willingness to shift focus from one another and the relationship to serve or give to others when needed.
- There is an expansion of love from the relationship to embrace others in love and service.

09/13/2019

Without trust you remain disconnected from sources of sustenance and sources of love. Trust enables you to make connection in order to be able to love and to contribute to life. Whenever trust is present fear diminishes proportionately. Whenever fear is present you can be certain that you are lacking trust. This indicates that you are experiencing through the personality rather than through soul. It is fear that sustains insecurity and thereby blocks trust.

It is not possible to trust and still maintain a personality perspective. The movement from lack of trust to a trusting attitude requires shifting perspective from personality to soul. A soul perspective enables you to grasp the essence, see the meaning and sense a purpose.

The soul perspective of trust is a knowing that whatever is being experienced or about to be experienced is right, is meaningful and is purposeful – some greater good is being served, including your greater good. A lack of trust feels that what is being experienced or about to be experienced is wrong, potentially hurtful, and something to be avoided.

08/09/2019

Soul signs are symbols pointing us toward the essence of ourselves, others and all beings. When we learn to read them and recognize them we can, and must, then identify with them. As we do this we activate the soul energies within ourselves, experience meaning and fulfill purpose. Identifying with the soul of anything or anyone also activates the soul energy within ourselves, and vice versa. Soul identification changes perception – i.e., how we see self, life and situations. And changed perception changes the experiences we have – both the kind and the quality of them.

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08/07/2019

Love is not a verb. You are in love or are not in love. When you are in love you are literally in its presence as it is in you. Feeling grateful and expressing gratitude for being embraced by love keeps it alive and nourished.

This gratitude must then overflow into expressions of support, understanding, comforting and compassion toward others who are in real need. Selfish gratitude depletes love. Generosity feeds it.

Unconditional love is soul to soul contact that fully accepts the limitations of oneself and the other without judgment and with compassion.

To be in Love is the greatest privilege any human being can experience. To share that state of being with another is the greatest gift we can give.

06/22/2019

This has been around for a long time but it's a good one.

An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life.

“A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy. “It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity,
guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, cruelty, rudeness and ego. The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence,
empathy, generosity, truth, understanding, compassion and faith. This same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.”

The grandson thought about it for a moment and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”

The old Cherokee simply replied to his grandson, “The one you feed.”

06/11/2019

Faith, on the other hand, is a heart-centred approach to reality rather than a head-centred approach to reality, which is what belief is. Faith is not rational, but neither is it irrational. There is a real neurological connection from the heart to the limbic part of the brain and therefore we do feel this faith on an emotional level to some extent. But significantly, it also connects to the frontal and prefrontal areas of the brain. Here it functions as a guide to our morality in a frontal area and connects to our sense of beauty in a prefrontal location. It is here that we have the heart influencing the brain for greater compassion (a primary soul quality of deep connection).

To say we develop faith or we have faith is in effect to say that we rely on our heart to know what is at a deeper level. This deeper knowing does not require a leap in faith which is what trust might look like. Trust in someone or something then is an appreciation of their inherent intelligence, power and divine nature. It is knowing that they will be or will function according to their real inner nature if we do not block them.

The more we rely on the heart’s knowing, what gradually happens is that heart and head become increasing synchronized in their functioning, rather than perceiving and relating to reality through only one modality – usually the head.

06/07/2019

Believing and having faith are two different things and it is important to distinguish them because in that we have a clue to trust. In this post we'll write about belief and in the next, faith. Belief is something that we have or do in our mind, in our head as it were. What we believe is what we think is true or real, given our past, our conditioning, our desire to have certain knowledge. This is what we rely on to make choices and decisions. It is our guide through reality so that we can feel secure – knowing what is considered to be true, being right about things, putting our expectations in something that we can feel confident will be fulfilled. Our beliefs change, but usually only when we get disillusioned and find that what we believed is not true at all, or is really different than what we thought, or that no longer satisfies our hopes, expectations and aspirations. Then we adopt new beliefs that do fit. In other words, we change our mind about the nature of reality – perhaps in some very small way or regarding some aspect of life. This disillusionment is an inevitable and necessary stage of growth that can be repeated over and over as our consciousness expands.

Doubt is the beginning of changing some belief. Doubt tells you something is different than what you thought.

06/03/2019

7 Ways to Destroy a Relationship

1. Blaming
2. Criticizing
3. Quarreling
4. Minimizing
5. Withholding affection
6. Projection without responsibility to look at it as such

7 Ways to Enrich a Relationship

1. Appreciating
2. Respecting, honouring
3. Accepting
4. Supporting
5. Encouraging
6. Understanding
7. Loving unconditionally