It’s so easy to get lost in the details and dramas of ordinary life.
Of course, they only seem like details and dramas if we are caught up in the whirling “Tazmanian Devil” energy of the mind.
In this chaotic, never happy place, the soul of life is completely unavailable to us.
Soul is what makes us feel richly alive, passionately open, and reverently blessed by our earthly existence, and that is something uniquely individual for each of us.
It’s different than Spirit I think, which connects us to the divine, otherworldly realm of formlessness and the source of All That Is where we all originate from, and where we are all the same ONE energy of I AM.
Spirit is our original Home.
Soul is what we have the potential to feed and express in our earthly experience…because we can…because we have physical bodies and wonderfully alive senses…and because it’s fun.
And yet it, in my experience, living with Soul can only happen through the heart.
The deep richness of the Soul is such an awesome, creative, individual, combined expression of one’s unique pattern of energy spanning lifetimes, and if all of that (or even some of it) can be pulled into this earthly life and expressed through the opened heart, then something magnificent has been added to the mix of all time.
When I was hiking this morning, the absolute still calm of the forest and the chattering squirrels and singing birds, were my experience of Soul.
When I write, Soul is being fed and expressed.
When I buy fresh fruit and pile it high in a handmade pottery bowl, Soul is being fed and expressed.
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