THE MIND BOGGLES!!

Change Your Life | April 16th 2025 No. 908

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Week's Reflection

 

There's something utterly soulless about existing. And, yet, that is how we "cruise" through our day when on Autopilot - "we think we're cruising down the highway when we're really slip-sliding away".

 

What a difference a little attention to the soul might make!

 

Yes, it's not a word that I use very often because it often carries with it "unscientific" connotations and, with them, the possibility of taking our discourse away from the fundamentals of being in the here and now.

 

If I have a soul, is it everlasting? What about the afterlife or past lives? Questions that I do get asked from time to time, people often wondering what my beliefs might be - as if they mattered.

 

These questions are fatuous when you consider that the only place and time that we can be is here and now, when reality only exists in the here and now, from one now to the next.

 

This reality demands that we turn up to our lives, that we stop just existing, that we make our mark, first of all, in our own life and, then, make a difference.

 

That is where something beyond reason comes into play, some inherent knowledge of wisdom that we know - that we normally don't know we know - that is where the inner self, the soul, comes into its own.

 

Many of those with whom I meditate will have heard me suggest that, whilst we meditate together, we choose not to move a muscle - "If anything's going to move you, let the spirit move you" - we need to let that inner font of wisdom flow into our heres and nows.