<a href=”http://thesoulsource.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/images.jpg”><img class=”alignleft size-medium wp-image-3004″ src=”http://thesoulsource.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/images-300×123.jpg” alt=”images” width=”300″ height=”123″></a>Paradoxes all around . . .
I was driving to the train station during a recent snow storm and saw a man wrapped in a blanket standing outside his tent under a highway overpass. I gasped and uttered “he doesn’t need to be there.” Having worked on behalf of the homeless for half of my social welfare career, I am well aware of the broad range of housing and services that are available. Within a split second of my utterance, I corrected “but his soul does.”
One of the difficult aspects of life is accepting that we – our ego personality – may not be in full control of our life and the choices that we make. Don’t get me wrong, I am not suggesting that we have no influence over what happens in our day-to-day life. But the truth is that our higher self – our soul – crafted a plan for this lifetime before we arrived in our present incarnation.
Our soul plan is built around what we hope to accomplish in each incarnation – our purpose in life. Do we hope to experience total freedom or are we honing our ability to endure despite great adversity? If so, wouldn’t enduring the hardship of life on the streets provide a perfect setting for either purpose to unfold?
Years ago my spiritual counselor urged me to look at the paradoxes in my life, to mine the contradictions for understanding about my soul’s plan for this lifetime. It took me sometime to fully grasp the wisdom of her advice, i.e. that humans learn through opposites. Once I did, I was able to discern how the patterns of my behavior and relationships were clues to my soul’s plan for this lifetime. So if you want to understand what your soul came here to accomplish, examine the aspects of life and your relationships that challenge you the most – look at the paradoxes.
<p style=”padding-left: 30px;”>If you constantly struggle with authority, perhaps your soul’s desire is to learn SURRENDER.</p>
<p style=”padding-left: 30px;”>If you yearn for the active love of a partner or spouse that is never lasting, perhaps you have chosen SELF-LOVE as your life goal.</p>
<p style=”padding-left: 30px;”>If you are overburdened caring for family and friends or it is the nature of your professional life, perhaps you’ve come to balance RESPONSIBILITY.</p>
<p style=”padding-left: 30px;”>If you find yourself too often immersed in drama, perhaps you are seeking TRANQUILITY.</p>
<p style=”padding-left: 30px;”>If you are struggling to overcome great loss or devastation, perhaps you are hoping to find and merge with the BLISS of the GOD-WITHIN.</p>
What themes repeat over and over in your life? What patterns recur time and again in your relationships?
Whatever your particular themes or patterns, they are important clues to discern your soul’s plan. Often we are so focused on our external life purpose — whether we are teachers, healers, caretakers, laborers, lawyers, bureaucrats, diplomats or artists — that we overlook the driving force behind it all. What did your soul intend when it walked into your life? Is it seeking to heal, to learn, to balance karma? If you want to know the answer, examine the paradoxes. Embedded within the patterns and themes of your life is the answer to the question that most of us struggle to answer – what is the purpose of my life. . .
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