Fulfilling work, rewarding relationships, personal power,
and relief from symptoms are all gifts of the soul. They are particularly
elusive in our time because we don’t believe in the soul and therefore give it
no place in our hierarchy of values. – Thomas Moore Care of the Soul
Soul music is playing and singing
with noticeable feeling. I have heard technically perfect singers whose range
and pitch was extraordinary but they lacked the conviction of having
experienced what the lyrics told in song. The greatest art, the greatest
acting, the funniest comedy all come from a person having gotten in touch with the
soul. But what is this soul that we seem so separated from that we have even
lost our belief in it?
Words that answer that question
are in themselves symbols for something that may be indefinable. Soul is the
essence of human uniqueness. It requires our physical bodies for identity but
hides from our intellects, especially if we are highly analytical. I believe
soul is the channel that God uses to speak to us from within. Because God is
everywhere present, that last statement is physically inaccurate but works as a
partial description of our relationship with God.
God the great All-Thing contains
every potential and every actual form within It. We as humans may draw into our
arena those things and ideas that we need through our unity of thought and feeling.
It is this unity, which constitutes our souls. Everyone has soul but many use thought
and logic so intently that they never quite feel their conviction. Many others dwell
or wallow in feeling but never harness that power through reason and logic. Any
truly prosperous person trusts reason and trusts their gut feelings. They
deliberately order their thoughts toward acceptance of a good thing and then
harness their ideal to powerful feelings of gratitude, acceptance, and
appreciation.
Our souls are not conscious
entities in the same sense as our spirit, which is unified God individually
expressed as our identities but our souls directed by our conscious spirits
focused attention, bring to us, and bring us to our desires and our future. It
is highly imperative that we cultivate the unity of spirit and soul through
practical exercises of meditation, self-examination, and the directed intention
of treatments, which align us with our highest and best as revealed to us by
our awareness of our needs and desires, which tell us of the soul’s gifts.
If we continue to live our lives
from the experience of symptoms and problems, we have not yet become soulful.
But as soon as we allow our guts to play important roles in all we do, we begin
to heal, we begin to prosper. Once we get in touch with the soul, it is rare to
lose it again. And, if we make feeling good while doing well at doing good paramount,
we shall always prosper.
I turn my attention to the joys
of my life with gratitude and appreciation. I dwell on the real gifts of life,
those loves, and cherished moments of spiritual and personal intimacy with my
whole self while cherishing others’ gifts to me. My soul follows my spirit into
complete prosperity and attracts it to me in ways of delight and surprise,
which so empowers me that I always prosper. I always live in joy and so it is.
John
John Lusk
“First
you ask definitely for direction, then it will enter your consciousness as a
definite thought; then in your turn you give it back the thought and it will
give you back the thing. It answers every question, solves every problem; it is
the solution to every difficulty.” Ernest Holmes
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