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The Journey of Inner Healing
Inner healing involves moving from darkness to the light. “Light” is a word that has different meanings yet is generally understood as love and understanding. Love nurtures the emotional body; understanding fills the voids created by pain.
As you contact your true self, you will discover that the soul is not passive. Spirit knows more about us than we do ourselves, and it wants to support our every step toward wholeness. The soul journey has been called the pathless path because there is no map.
Light has the power to fill the void afflicted by darkness. Healing yourself comes in two stages–releasing the energy of suffering, then replacing it with the soul’s energy. It is a gentle process, very much like holding on to a thread as it leads you from step to step. What begins as the merest hint of new strength will grow. Your true self is always available to meet any challenge, find any answer, and show you the way out of any dilemma.
What matters is your connection to this true self. In fear and isolation your soul seems aloof, with no power at all. But this is a perception born of following the ego, which all of us have done.
If you take the time to listen to the voice of the soul–where the ego is silent–you will be astonished at the power you have at your command, however long it has been overlooked. No other discovery in life is as joyful as regaining your true self. The unknown makes itself felt, and if you open yourself to it, the meaning of the soul reveals itself as a truth that you never anticipated before the crisis began. In this way every suffering is seen to contain a hidden spiritual message.
Adapted from The Deeper Wound: Recovering the Soul from Fear and Suffering, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2001).
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add your comment »This is beautiful and true. Thank you Deepak once again.
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I believe with Lars K in the fact that God is the only one that can heal the inner hurt. But it does involve God cleaning out that "true self" so that the self is gone and the holy spirit is there.
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Deepak Chopra has some ideas and precepts about how others should tend to live inside of themselves instead of as a communded fellow human being with others. To that end he is wrong. And those that play those games are just wasting their time seeking the god within them which is not there and never will be.
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CONTACT MY TRUE SELF ? NO THANKS - NO WAY I WOULD DO THAT !!! AND YOU SHOULDN'T EITHER.
Why not? Because the bible says: "We are like an unclean thing and our righteousness is like a filthy rag". Isaiah 64:6. And "The heart is perverse above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9
Who in his/her right mind would want to probe into that stinking mess? Instead, if you´re looking for the Truth, look no further - go down on your knees and thank God in earnest, heartfelt prayer that Jesus took the licking that you deserve and died in your stead. And as you welcome Jesus to come into your heart and take charge of your life right now - that's what He will do. Instantly.
People will tell you all kinds of things. But if you truly seek the Truth - go to Jesus. Because He, and He only, is the Truth, the Way, and the Life. And no one comes to God except by Him. John 14:6
Jesus, talking to you and me in these last days, warns us "Take heed that no one deceives you"
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Fredrico and Deepak,
Thank you very much for the beautiful dancing words.
Peace to all who come here to read, share and strive to live these words.
Amen, Aum.
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Extremely beautiful lesson indeed! This inner self is exactly the Divine Monitor mentioned in the Urantia Book. It is a Father's fragment that gently drives us to our best decisions and build our soul in partnership with our mind, always respecting our free will, most times unconsciously, until we fuse with it and become immortal. We will be following a long journey to acknowledge the Father's invitation, to be perfect as He is.
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The seed is love....opens the light within...Love is Light!
Luck, prosperity, longevity, love, light and la la :) :)
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Good to read something like this as I have always beleived in it though I had no proof.
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