22/03/2017
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The truth is that no one else can definitively know the path we
are here to walk. It’s tempting to listen—many of us long for the omnipotent other—but unless they are genuine psychic intuitives, they can’t know. All others can know is their own truth, and if they’ve
actually done the work to excavate it, they will have the good sense
to know that they cannot genuinely know anyone else’s. Only soul
knows the path it is here to walk. Since you are the only one living
in your temple, only you can know its scriptures and interpretive
structure.
At the heart of the struggle are two very different ideas of success—
survival-driven and soul-driven. For survivalists, success is
security, pragmatism, power over others. Success is the absence of
material suffering, the nourishing of the soul be damned. It is an odd
and ironic thing that most of the material power in our world often
resides in the hands of younger souls. Still working in the egoic and
material realms, they love the sensations of power and focus most of their energy on accumulation. Older souls tend not to be as materially driven. They have already played the worldly game in previous lives and they search for more subtle shades of meaning in this one—authentication rather than accumulation. They are often ignored by the culture at large, although they really are the truest warriors.
A soulful notion of success rests on the actualization of our innate
image. Success is simply the completion of a soul step, however unsightly it may be. We have finished what we started when the lesson is learned. What a fear-based culture calls a wonderful opportunity may be fruitless and misguided for the soul. Staying in a passionless relationship may satisfy our need for comfort, but it may stifle the soul. Becoming a famous lawyer is only worthwhile if the soul demands it. It is an essential failure if you are called to be a monastic this time around. If you need to explore and abandon ten careers in order to stretch your soul toward its innate image, then so be it. Flake it till you make it.
(~an excerpt from 'Soulshaping')
