Seeking Soul

Once, education was thought to be a waste of time. Children were put to work the fields – it is by planting crops that you get your meals, not spending time in classrooms with books and words.

Times have changed, but the elements of our narrow views remain humanity’s biggest obstacle.

Now, we encourage education in pursuit of money for food, shelter and luxuries. Children are placed in classrooms to learn – it is through education that you can get a good job and paycheck to fulfill your needs, not spending time pondering about life and its meaning.

We graduate as soulless processors scrambling to fit ourselves as a cog in the wheel and hoping that one day, we will be at the driver’s seat. Or better yet, to own the vehicle.

We couldn’t see how education and a piece of paper could put food on our table, just as now, we cannot see how finding the meaning to life can nourish us. Even as I type this, I still don’t have the answer – how spiritual pursuits can feed us physically. But I know that without it, I am empty inside. No matter how many smiles I plaster on or how many attempts I put in to be happy, I am not. And just as the children who struggled to find understanding from their parents for their need to feed their minds, I am struggling to find understanding from mine for my need to feed my soul.

“Life is just a chance to grow a soul.” – A. Powell Davies

“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.” – C.S. Lewis

“I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.” – Vincent van Gogh

“The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.” – Oscar Wilde

“When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.” – Chinese proverb

“The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.” – D.H. Lawrence

“Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body” – De Saint-Real

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear” – Daniel Defoe

“Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.” - Walt Whitman

“Our Ego (our connection to the world, our need to prove to this world) keeps the soul imprisoned. Our thirst for money, sex, image, and validation takes away our main purpose in life.

After death the soul chooses to enter another body, take on another life, and continue the search for Divinity. We have already lived many lifetimes; we will continue to do so until we match the conscious levels of the avatars that are the true leaders of this planet. The only difference between you now and the avatars (Lord Jesus, Lord Buddha, Lord Krishna…) is that they have expanded their consciousness and were liberated from the materialism that pollutes the world. When you expand your consciousness, all things are possible.” – Jim Hague