The Spirit of Soul
When was the last time you closed your eyes and simply paid
attention to the inner world in you? As you close your eyes and
pay attention to your inner self, insight is awakened. You are
able to become conscious of what infuses our external world.
Each of us has individual awareness or ways we interpret the
world around us. Because of our unique experiences of the world,
we take in multiple images across the span of a lifetime. These
experiences are imprinted in our psyche and our soul. The act of
recalling these memories creates expressions or feelings in our
heart. These past expressions are pondered in the inner vision
of our mind and our heart as though we are re-living them in the
present. In so doing, we are retrieving our soul at various
points of interests that have lodged a sense of importance to
our individual awareness. The movement from the world around us
to the world within us is a shift in attention. This shift in
our attention is a conscious choice. Here, we realize that the
world around us has hidden aspects to it reminding us just how
privileged we are to be aware of our awareness. This realization
alone gives us identification with whom we are. You and I are
conscious beings who live in a body, but this isn't our real
home. We inhabit space and time, but our real self, our
authentic self, our individual awareness (soul) is a unique
expression of spirit infusing our lives from an infinite number
of possible correlations. We make choices every day on how our
life will be lived. Each choice creates a pattern. These
patterns become a statement of our character. Our character
becomes a living testimony on the inner processes of our
thoughts incarnating into the world we live in.
As such, the life of our soul is revealed. Every moment, we are
given the opportunity to experience our soul in a variety of
ways. These experiences are facets of our inner world that
manifests themselves from a single expression we call spirit.
The intent to focus on our past, our present, or our future
desires leads us to a path. This path is a revelation of our
soul seeking out an opportunity to live out our purpose. Purpose
gives us meaning and hope beyond our present circumstances. It
is a path into what can no longer be seen and moving our lives
and our soul - into SPIRIT.
Sam Oliver, author of, "A Life in Review" For more information
on this author, http://www.soulandspirit.org