S.O.U.L. - The Storehouse of Universal Lessons

The Question: What is Soul? How do we get to it? What is it filled with? Often we don’t question because many of us are too busy and comfortable in our physical, mental and emotional states to be curious enough to question where we are, who we are and where we are going. Not to mention many of us were taught not to question anything.

When we don’t stop to question our lives begin to fill up with unnecessary things, such as beliefs. Our bodies, minds, lives and quite literally our souls are filled with clutter. The question that can begin to awaken us lies beneath the clutter of our souls.

Q. What is your soul filled with?

Awareness comes when we are curious and question. Awareness brings insight.

Insight: seeing inside of the Soul and understanding who we really are. Insight in the dictionary is defined as the ability of a person to understand and find solutions to his or her personal problems. While we travel, we will run into problems along the path. These problems are to be examined and not looked over. When they arise, either internally or externally, by being curious and asking questions we will find wisdom in our soul, which will move us through the problem and not enable us beyond the problem.

Insight is the fire that keeps us moving forward. They ground us and keep us alive. They are essential to our process of growth. They come from within, and like a well of wisdom sit in our being. They surface when we need them and we don’t question them, for we know they are truth. Our process does not have to be as hard when we follow the gentle stepping-stones to guide us. Without them we are directionless and stuck.

Insights are our stepping-stones. Stone-by-stone we come closer to the truth of who we are. We expand just a little bit more with each step.

Sacred Space

Many of us have dug ourselves a deep and dark hole, filling it up with all the things we no longer need. But this space is also filled with all we do need to move forward in our lives.

We often say we want more time, but I think what we really want is space- sacred space to be who we are, and also who we are not. For so long we have not had enough space for us to get to know ourselves, which means not enough space to get into our dilemmas and our shadows, which is a necessary part of our spiritual progress. I remember Deepak Chopra saying on his PBS special, A Happiness Prescription that cancer cells are cells that don’t know how to die. In our effort to stay the same, gripping onto what cannot last out of fear, we have not allowed parts of ourselves to die. When we don’t allow parts of ourselves to die, we become clogged in our minds, bodies and souls therefore,
too clogged to invite in sacred space.

The main urging of the soul is to breathe, and be free and easy, getting back to its original state of pure and constant awareness. I had an equine experience, where we were to talk with a horse we resonated with about what was going on with us. We could not lie because the horse could sense the energy going on inside of us. The horses can do this because they, as the trainer said, are quiet on the inside. How many of us are truly quiet on the inside? Beneath the clutter there is the quiet, sacred space of our souls where flow and order reside.