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Your Soul is Everywhere
Your soul and your ego are as invisibly mixed as white wine and water. That’s why people are so confused. They wander through life searching for the soul when it’s right there all the time. They talk about losing their soul when that’s totally impossible. They believe their soul will go to Heaven after they die, but the soul is everywhere already.
Your ego tries to build you up. It makes you feel special and protected. But what’s really happening? You wind up being incredibly insecure. Perfect strangers laugh at you, and suddenly the whole facade collapses. There was never any protection. You were never safe. You tell jokes. Jokes catch people off guard and make them laugh. That’s not real happiness, but at least it provides a clue.
Real happiness is being at one with your soul. A soul is everything that the ego is not. When I play a role, I know that the real me isn’t performing. It’s watching, a bit involved but essentially keeping to itself.
You are standing at the doorway. Behind you is the world you know, a world that hides from fear and obeys the desires of the ego. In front of you is the unknown. The question is, will you step through the door?
Adapted from Why Is God Laughing? The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2008).
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You have a masterful way of reframing the way I look at myself, my world and reality. This idea is at the same time simple and most complex and can generate both fear and peace.
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Thank you again, Deepak, for your eloquence and wisdom. You continue to encourage me along my path and I grow in strength and certainty as I live the truth of your message.
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The line is getting thinner with each reading, thanks Deepak, this is indeed enlightening.
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Thanks Mary, is true, my mind likes talking a lot, creates a lot of things that are not of any value, except that keeps on teaching me similar lessons!! I know there is so much more to me than learning the same lessons over and over again. My soul is already free I just have to get the rest of me to get on with the program!! I will try to focus in my lips and see what hapens!! chau for now Cecilia
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Please excuse the misspelling and typos.
PS it is 7:40am local time here in Europe.
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The shift may not have to be so radical afterall.
The soul desires expression so it may be helpful to switch of the minds continous rat tat rat and let the soul speak focusing on the lips when speaking rather than on the mind then real poetry and true being come to life. Thank you Deepak.
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I'm sure that at some point most people ask that question.
- Am I ready to step through the door to the unknown?
I supose that we ask something like that before we die, my question to me is, am I ready to do it now!! and how do I do it with what I know!! am I ready for radical change?
I will like very much to have radical change in my life, I guess what stops me going all the way is FEAR!! any clues on how to do this?? Love the article, food for thought!! Thanks
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You want to learn to embrace the unknown? Become a substitute teacher! Your character will be strengthened and your heart will melt somedays. Your witt will be challenged and your soul will sometimes cry. ?who said: "The philosopher knows what to do, until it happens to him"
Just saying and intending "I embrace the unknown" helps.
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I am all there is. All there is everything. Everything is all there is.I am everthing.
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