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Re: soul mates


Message written by

Craig
August 03, 2005 at 22:37:40:

In Reply to
soul mates
posted by
Katie
August 03, 2005 at 06:39:22:

 
Hi Katie,

You asked, "What are your thoughts about soul mates? What are the signs?"

We're all soul mates. Think of life like this. All the people we love and come into contact with are sitting with us in a dark theater. The lights are down, so we can't see each other. On the screen, we're all the actors, being joyful, depressed, active, loving, angry, and all the emotions we feel in life. We achieve goals, have disappointmnts, watch our loved ones die, become ill, and eventually die ourselves.

When the movie is over, the lights come on and we embrace all those who are around us whom we love and talk about the movie. It was a wonderful, and challenging, and tragic movie. But now we walk out with those we love, arm in arm. And as we walk, we discover we know the others so well that when we focus on one of them, we become them in understanding and love, and they become us. We instantly share what we were feeling about each other and the events in the movie, knowing how the other felt as we were feeling; knowing what the other felt as we did things that that person loved or found cruel.

During the story we watched together, we were both participants and creators. We watched it together as both who we are and who those around us are. We were one participating in a story in which we seem to be separate.

Now, among those we're sitting with watching the story unfold are people we marry in the story, or have an affair with, or are our children, or are our parents, or even our pets. They're all one with us watching the story in which we all play. Which of those people are our soul mates? All of them. Which of those people are separate from us? None of them.

Now, those people in the story whom we love romantically are just as much a part of us as those we love as parents or children. When the lights come on and the story is ended, the ideas of romantic love, parental love, sibling love, all fall away, because we have unconditional love without regard for life circumstances.

So as to whether one person is a "soul mate," we'll find that in the story, the physical realm, people will come and go for all kinds of reasons. They'll love us when we're OK for them; they'll stop loving us when the relationsip doesn't work. There's no physical realm soul mate. However, in the greater reality, the eternal reality where we're all one, we're all soul mates.

Don't expect one person to be your destiny. They're physical people in the physical realm. It's a nice story. However, have the unconditional love, agape, that your nature and the Divine mean for you to have for all people who enter your life. They're all your soul mates.

Love and peace, Craig

 



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