The Soul, The Ego And a Drop of Water

There was a time when a friend asked me, how do you know there is a soul? I felt it, but to describe it I had no answer. After thinking about it for a long time I kept getting a better and better idea of what the Soul was and where it was located. Ah and this is how I discovered what I call the Soul Mind.

(PRWEB) April 23, 2006 -- The Soul is the observer. But it's not a passive observer - it also learns and makes choices. The Soul uses whatever tools it has available for whatever end it deems appropriate. The primary resources available to the Soul in the physical world are the mind and body.

Right or Wrong actions depend on the Soul's level of understanding eternal truths. Ignorance is the mother of evil. No Soul is evil, but some Souls are limited in their understanding, or clouded by circumstance.

The driver of the mind and body is the Ego. Because the Soul is such a subtle energy, it can often become confused and identify with the most dominate energy in the physical world - the Ego. The Soul can exist in both the physical world as well as the spiritual worlds. The Ego can only exist in the physical world. Therefore the Ego is limited, the Soul is not.

The Ego will die when the body does, the Soul will go on. The Soul exists in awareness. Observation happens only in the moment. The Soul can exist in past, present or future - which is decided by what it chooses to focus the mind upon. The Soul can exist in money, in family, in evil or in goodness. It exists wherever it chooses to focus itself. Awareness expands as focus matures on a particular area. This is how new knowledge is "discovered".

The Soul uses whatever resources it has available. The Soul is the mirror reflecting all activity in the physical world. When the Soul begins to focus upon itself - like this writing is causing you to do, it can lead to a rapid form of enlightenment. When the Soul recognizes itself as SEPARATE from the Ego that it has identified with - it's the beginning of having power over the Ego. Because slowly the Soul will learn where the Ego stops and pure spirituality begins. The motivated knowledge seeker will continually question whether it is motivated by pure intention or selfish ambition. The Ego only cares about itself, the Soul will slowly begin to realize the greater whole - the unification with other Souls in a world beyond this one. The Soul then craves that union with all beings in a form of energy called love. True love is outside of the Ego's domain. True love is an eternal bond with the divinity that exists in all people, all creatures, and all things.

It is of the highest priority for all conscious beings to first recognize there is a power beyond their individual self. They are observing their life through the eyes of God. They inhabit a body but they are not that body. They use a mind but they are not that mind. When they recognize these eternal truths, it is then their duty to help others understand. As others begin to understand a world beyond their Ego, the Ego dominated world begins to fall away, shedding more light on a consciously growing world.

The Ego is a tool to help the individual function. Individual rain drops are not the end all. What if every drop of water in the ocean thought itself as separate from the other drops - and tried to struggle to form it's own identity, sought significance, wealth and dominion over the other drops of water in the ocean? We would laugh at it's foolishness. Because we would see very clearly that it was connected with all the other drops that ever have been or ever will be. When the drop itself recognized that truth, it would stop struggling. It would surrender to the vast ocean. The ocean would welcome it back and the waves would still carry it through great adventure and misfortune for as long as it were alive to witness them. And the drop would be happy - knowing that there is no scale of greatness upon which it would ever be weighed. Knowing that as long as it serves the ocean for its purpose, it joins the greatness of the ocean; far longer living and far superior to what it could have ever been by itself. We can learn a lot from a drop of water.

James Rick is author of Full Potential and Editor the James Rick Daily Vitamin. To subscribe for spiritual insights like this one visit www.jamesrick.com.

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