The Spirit, The Soul And The Body (VI)

It is "unattractive" because we do not like it; because it frustrates the hell out of us; because we do not know as yet why it happened or is happening. It is not necessarily evil on its own; it's just how we see it, and this is entirely based on how much of our soul is developed at the time of its happening.

We don't know it all; we only know it one step at a time... like a night rider who has a long journey ahead of him but only sees as far as his headlights allow. But in the times when we really don't know, it is the development of our souls that has occurred so far that will help us understand the situation at hand and subsequently know what to do. No matter how much about life you've grasped so far, there is so much more that is yet to be grasped.

People who have discovered (and are developing) themselves in life, spiritually and mentally, always tell us that the problems that come to us in life have within them the potential of making us better persons; in other words, developing souls. These problems are often described as sandpaper. If problems have the potential of bringing out the best in us, should they then be considered evil? Not at all, but it doesn't make them any less unattractive.

When problems come to us, after a while they lose their ability to hurt us. But that only happens when we do not resist them or find ourselves constantly struggling with them. Many times we don't know how long a problem will last. When problems like these come, we've got to let them, not fight them. But strangely enough, this is a message one can preach only to oneself, for it is far easier said than done. How we see our problems will decide what we make of them, and that in turn depends on how far the development of our souls has gotten over time. Our world's educational system is a perfect analogy for this. You have to be tested on what you know, or what you think you know; and only then can the institution justify what level you're in. The easiest way to find out what you know, or are capable of, is always a test.

The Soul, The Spirit & The Body (V)

For the sake of clarification, I will refer to the things we desire to happen to us as "the attractive" and the things we do not wish upon ourselves as "the unattractive". When our soul is underdeveloped, we find that we are unable to control what we attract to ourselves, which is more often than not the unattractive. This lack of control is why we're very prone to believing that the Devil has visited the evil upon us. I will say here again that the enemy we are so flustered about is the untrained, underdeveloped part of us.

All the things that we know, understand and believe make up a very small percentage of all that there really is, in just the same way that we use up a very small percentage of our true brain capacity. All that we know make up the cognitive part of our existence. But there's so much more about our existence that we do not know. This cognitive part helps us control only a small fraction of our day-to-day lives. For example, knowing that you have a certain amount in the bank helps you control the parts of your life that fall within that range, be they many or few. Knowing how fit you are physically helps you control your reaction in times when defense is needed. With your knowledge, you are able to attract certain things to yourself...like a quality of life because of what you own, or a particular reaction from an attacker when you show that you're able to defend yourself. In other words, our cognitive self (that which we know of ourselves) attracts these things to us. If it's knowing that you have money somewhere, it also attracts things like taxes and bank charges. You don't tax a man on money he doesn't own. If it's knowing you have a car, it also attracts constant fueling, servicing, and obeying of traffic rules (not to mention fines, when not in compliance with the rules). A man who doesn't own a car doesn't attract these things to himself.

Now, there are certain things that come to us that are beyond our control. These things, whether you believe it or not, have a lot to do with what we do not know about ourselves, and this forms a greater part of our existence, far greater than what we already know. These are the things of which we say, "I really didn't see this one coming!" And the truth is, not-knowing does not really stop things that are beyond our control from coming to us.

The Soul, The Spirit & The Body (IV)

I am not going to climb a mountain as high as Everest just to show the world that I can do it, no matter how beautiful that snapshot will look when taken. I'm moving in a certain direction, and whatever does not lie in that path really doesn't matter much to me. If I'm truly moving in the Everest direction, then it'll be because that's what I ought to do, as I believe in my soul. Too often we get caught up in what other people think we should be doing, regardless of who they are and how well we think of them, and then we end up losing sight of what we really ought to be doing.

I've had deep and profound epiphanies in the past that have prompted me to take the decisions that I made at those times. Those were the times I made decisions by myself, for myself, and chose to take my life's journey in certain directions. Those epiphanies are why I cannot blame anyone for the outcomes of the moves that I made, not even myself; they were also the truest experiences I've ever had (See, blaming someone else is like entering into a casket alive. And blaming yourself is like nailing that casket shut. As humans, it's easier for us to cry over spilt milk and feel sorry for ourselves. Falling victim to this kind of response makes us forget that we will get milk again, because we believe in something bigger than ourselves. So the earlier we get up and stop feeling sorry for ourselves about the spilt milk, the better we can think on how to prevent a spillage the next time). These epiphanies are things you just know and most certainly are unable to explain to yourself or another at the time of knowing. Use them to find out as much as you can about the situation or phase as it pertains to you; it's your life, and that means no one else is going to do that for you. No one actually can, to be honest, no matter how much they love you. And this is not a quest for you to spend all your time alone in your privacy or in hiding...as much as it is a quest for you to open up your heart, regardless of where you are, to the never-ending possibilities of understanding yourself better, thereby enlightening and further developing your soul. And every hungry soul shall be filled.

The Soul, The Spirit & The Body (III)

This whole journey called life in this realm is all about the soul. It's not really about the spirit because the spirit is already in full understanding of life, and always knows all things, as said before. The spirit is always content; there isn't anything more for it to want because it possesses all things. The spirit is all it will ever be. The spirit is always God. We will not become any more spirit than this, or any less either, as some have made us believe in days gone by (We can of course become more spiritual, but that truly means we become more aware of ourselves, and therefore less swayed by the flesh). The spirit is the constant guide to the soul; and at the end of the day, it will return to the Source.

It's also not at all about the flesh either, because the flesh will perish with this mortal realm. It cannot exist anywhere else other than this realm. And like the spirit, we are not going to be any more flesh than we already are, or any less. We will always feel hungry, always feel thirsty, always feel physical pain, always have to pass out waste from the body, always feel cold when we're exposed to lower temperatures and always feel hot when exposed to heat. These things will never change as long as we're alive...and this makes the flesh very fickle and susceptible to any changes around us. It would also be very unwise of anyone to spend all their valuable resources taking care of the flesh far more than is necessary, because it is not the real us.

What is (or should be) constantly growing and developing as we grow older is the soul. The soul will always be us, always. It is the essence of us that is able to touch both the mortal and the immortal realms. It connects with the spirit, enabling us be a part of spiritual affairs of all powers and depths beyond what the eyes can see, and with the flesh, enabling us respond to all the various stimuli around us, and with a lot more feeling than animals too, I might add. The soul has the ability to see far beyond what the physical eyes ever could, but that is truly only possible if it is subjected to training by the spirit. Otherwise, it will be as dull and as "blind" as the flesh, except in those sporadic moments of gifted insight, which are more often than not, too quick and too infrequent to depend on solely. And when continuously trained, the soul will eventually begin to see as the spirit sees...which is eternally.

The Soul, The Spirit & The Body (II)

I am God. 

If anything had ever rocked my boat before in all my life, it was nothing compared to this. I was scared to even think of it. But the truth is, we are all God.

The offspring of beast is beast. The offspring of bird is bird. The offspring of fruit is fruit. The offspring of flower is flower. The offspring of fish is fish. The offspring of man is man. The offspring of God is God. And just like all the other examples that we are familiar with, the offspring of God matures slowly but surely, irrespective of how long it takes, and finally becomes like God.

We are all the image and likeness of God, regardless of all the separatist factors that we have applied to our existence here on earth, like race, gender, religion, denomination, level of education, family background, sexuality...the list is endless. No one is any less than the other. And what being God means is that we have the nature, characteristics and ability of God. We are only currently limited by the flesh that clothes us, and our by souls that have various phases of development to complete.

There is so much we need to understand about the truth from deep within us. For it is this truth that affects everything in the world around us. Nothing from within us is really strange, be they desires, needs or feelings. They only seem untrue because we have over time shut (or been taught to shut) our outside world to the reality of certain aspects of the Truth, and then decided that they don't exist. And so whenever we catch ourselves expressing something long suppressed, we tell ourselves it's not us, it's unusual, it's strange.This is stupidity. And this is sin: not willing to confront the fullness of who we truly are; thereby not coming to terms with God (never discovering God), and thus constantly running from our own selves; all the while believing that if we are not living the way that someone else is living, then we are not living right. I tell you, whatever proceeds from the spirit is true, because it is from God. The lie comes, when we begin to twist the truth within us to conform to the world around us.

The Soul, The Spirit & The Body (I)

We are beings (souls) who can with the spirit connect to The Divine (this is my own way of referring to the realm of the pure God) and with the body connect to this mortal realm, matter.

The soul is the very essence of who we are; a culmination of our personality, our emotions, our quirks and how we perceive life, tangible and otherwise. The soul has oftentimes been referred to as the incorruptible flesh. It is also sometimes referred to as the mind, although in reality it's a lot more than just the mind. The mind is really how the soul is interpreted to the world around us. Every soul has a purpose of being, whether it is aware of that purpose or not. Nothing in the entire universe, animate or inanimate, is random or purposeless.

The spirit is the very essence of God within us. People tend to say the spirit of this one is with us or the spirit of that one has departed from us. It is actually the souls they are referring to, because upon death the spirit returns to the Essence from which it came. This part of us is all God, possessing full understanding of all things as does God, and knows all things too. Much of this knowledge is of course hidden from our soul, and therefore our existence (our day-to-day lives). But we come into more and more understanding and truth about life as our soul develops during our days in this earthly realm, and as our soul achieves more and more access into the truly immeasurable depths of God. By reason of this, it is our souls that are in various developmental stages, not our spirit; because by virtue of our spirit, we know all, we understand all, and we are all one and the same.

And our days in this realm are only made possible because of the body we possess, also referred to as the flesh. It is the mortal part of our being; which means that it's existence cannot transcend this life. This does not mean that there aren't other beings present with us in this realm. But it definitely means that we who possess body are the only beings whom this realm can really affect in its entirety, since it is with the body that we respond to the various stimuli around us.