As Soul

As Soul:

it's all soul - there is nothing that doesn't somehow fit in this belonging, every bit of earth, from stream to ocean, to surrounding air, and all that make their home here. Everything belongs and it's all soul, intertwined as single life. 

there isn't a measurement of consciousness here, a hierarchy of aware - life is imbued with purpose, it's own inspiration of being, and at no point are we removed from this. Nor are we it's highest achievement. We are an aspect of life granted with a sense of self importance, and have found ourselves believing that our every thought is true. Yet we are always, still, an interdependent aspect of the whole.  We've simply forgotten that we are soul. 

philosophies try and make sense of this existence, explaining and giving meaning to the world. Science offers theories on how things came to be. What we talk of here might be placed in the realm of theology, or dismissed entirely as new-age nonsense. But what we're talking about is simply life, and not just life reduced to its use and function. We're talking something more here, a deeper belonging, a true philosophy of being home within the world. 

of being soul. 

our only mistake is in believing that we are not part of this ecology, that we are somehow apart, and able to control how life flows. We believe our own self-importance. We believe there is a self found separate from the whole. There isn't, and that's what awareness shows us. That's the gift of being aware, awake to who we are and how the world all fits together. 

we are aware.

and it's easy to see how everything belongs. This doesn't mean that everything comes with an explanation, that violence, sorrow, and all that hurts now suddenly makes sense. It doesn't mean we understand the world. Mystery is just too large. What we are is aware, and what we see is our own seamless belonging. We see ourselves as home exactly where we are. This is soul, not some essence that's separate from body, and earth, and life itself. It's everything, all, and we are fortunate to be aware of this. To know ourselves as soul. 

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Peace, Eric