Has your soul been taken from you? Did you lose it in a dare? Is it locked within a dungeon? Have you forgotten that it’s there? Have you adapted to its absence? Have you learned to live without? Is your life bereft of passion? Do you hear its muffled shout? If your soul was held…
Psychopathy is marked by the disconnection and adversarial attitude of the ego towards the soul. Such an ego lacks genuine empathy. Its own suffering remains superficial for it has built a wall between itself, the soul and God.
Integrity isn’t a word you hear a lot anymore. Perhaps that is because it isn’t given the same value by people it once was. Or, maybe we just don’t like to think about it. If we hold other people to a high standard of integrity we might feel obligated to meet that same standard ourselves.…
There is a song I learned as I child called “The Magic Penny.” The song goes “love is like a magic penny. Hold it tight and you don’t have any, but lend it, spend it and you’ll have so many, they’ll roll all over the floor.” The Magic Penny conveys a simple truth which applies…
Dreams of oppression and protesting often symbolize the need to address egocentricity so as to provide greater expression to the soul.
The bible story of Jonah and the whale helps us understand the reality of destiny and its activity in our lives. Life and God sometimes ask us to do things we don’t fully understand. We may even disagree with what is being asked. You are not always going to understand the “why” behind the things you are asked to do.
Some risks make sense; they are fairly safe, reasonable, or logical. But other risks are gambles we are asked to make for God. They may seem irrational, illogical. But they come from somewhere inside us, our soul, our heart, our intuition. These are irrational risks and they are often the most magical and meaningful.
No need to wait for karma. The quality of your life goes hand-in-hand with the quality of your relationship with your soul. Live your life with integrity and you will experience its deepest value.
Why did Jim feel the urge to water the boulder in hisback yard? Jungian psychology can be useful in helping us to understand our seemingly irrational behavior.