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*The form and color of life, as well as its’ substance, is made possible by the soul–our direct link to the highest form, of which his word is made flesh. What follows cannot be taught–it has to be ingrained. It is my continued pursuit of the truths that revolve around the soul that I want to talk with you today. The most prized gift of the Universe is within you, and freely given to you by the Almighty.*
The mystery that surrounds the true meaning of your existence is so elusive, you can spend a lifetime grasping for it, never once coming into known contact with something that is directly connected to you. Unfortunately, a great number of us go our entire lives not knowing who we really are. When you do not know your purpose in life, or your reason for living, you are much like a self-driving car without any destination in mind. Living aimlessly, merely existing, without any sense of direction, is a depressing way to go about it. Yet all too often, we get off on this exit to nowhere and stay there. If not in park, stuck in neutral, or worse still, in reverse. The only thing worse than having a full tank of gas, or charged batteries, is having nowhere worth going. Life should never be lived this way day in and day out. Every day should be an adventure filled with something to look forward to. You need to be working toward something–a goal–every single day.
So how do we rectify this? Who and what do we go to for advice? When no one is around to lead you, guide you, or support you, how do you overcome this? How does one come to rely on oneself and lead thyself? Well…. your compass is connected to a power you cannot imagine. Even if you saw it, you still wouldn’t believe you have access to it. But you do, even whilst in your lowest point.
First of all, if you feel any constant anxiety or challenge with life, know that is a good sign. You’re thinking as you should. And these thoughts are not from some empty place. They are a ping from your soul to your mind for your contemplation. Without even knowing it, you are being shaped. You are being tugged and pulled. When your thoughts travel to and through this ether of spiritual phenomena, you are being transported to a destination of self-analysis. The soul has to be exercised in order for it to be built. Understand that you are here to be molded. In this life, you pass through the eye of the needle. Who are the realest one’s? God has ways of finding out. Like a spiral staircase that begins at the surface and spirals into the heavens, these obstacles that come up against you must be conquered before you are permitted to ascend further.
If you could picture your soul in a photograph, how would it look? Only you can answer that. Your answer, will always tell you how much work you have to do.
As you do this, in a way, you are unfolding yourself before your eyes. These thoughts on the abstract are only above your mental capacity if you allow that to be the case. Your most poignant growth takes place in the most understated of ways. Explosions of excitement and adrenaline are for roller coasters and skydivers. In those quiet solemn moments when it’s just you and your thoughts–that’s when the real one’s are forged. A wand is not waved and “poof”–you’ve arrived. The path of knowing thyself leads to knowledge of God. It does not take a genius to realize that since God made you, knowing thyself is the first step to knowing him. I do have a caveat that follows down below from personal experience.
You cannot know thyself if all you value is objects. When you value things, you naturally perceive God as someone wholly separate and aloof from you. If that is how you feel, you have wondered away too far. Not merely at the bottom levels of the staircase but beneath it entirely. You have to change direction and reverse yourself which you can easily do by turning the attention of your consciousness inward. In case you do not yet know, this world, and the attractive objects that decorate it, will distract you to the point where you will be running around in more circles than a bowl of Cheerios. Bear in mind that all of this is not about God being seen. God wants to be seeked out. There is a difference.
When you pull back the veil, your true capacity will be revealed to you.
When we live, our souls are exposed to all the appetites of temptation and the affections of this world, of which there are many. Upon arrival, despite arriving from the quarry of the all-knowing almighty God, we come with much work to do. You are issued from this hidden place that remains hidden, because you are not yet permitted to proceed to the throne of God. In this lifetime, your soul is going to go through a lifetime of stages. Being that every stage builds upon the last, permissions to proceed to the next are not permitted until you have been thoroughly tested. If it was easy, we would all be perfect and hence gods among the one true God. Almighty power requires almighty levels of order.
A lifetime is a photo album of ascension.
Now I’m going to tell you about you as follows:
Look into your soul. It will tell you who you are long before anyone else. Your meaning, purpose, and identity–the blueprint of your existence is nestled within your own divine power. Your answers for every inquiry you have about yourself and your life is already within you. The answer itself is so plain and so obvious that it is almost always overlooked. We live in a self-constructed bubble where we convince ourselves that all the answers are complicated–nothing can be this simple. With regard to you, it is. This is why so few of us reach our true potential. We make everything unnecessarily complicated. That, is the way of darkness. This is unnecessary confusion that leads to you dividing yourself and wondering away from you true self and the life you are meant to lead. To be illuminated you must be humbled. You do not receive until you are prepared. The flood of light that results will be invincible to you if you cannot interpret what the beams are telling you.
Light is a language every bit as much as numbers. And that language is interpreted by your subconscious–that all knowing device that records every moment of your life like a hidden hand pencil that is never put down.
The real secret is, you have it all. Your soul was freely given to you by a power you cannot even begin to contemplate measuring. And it was given to you freely. People do not even think on that a mere moment–they would rather spend their time and energy focusing on how to accumulate more man-made trinkets. Where we fail in life is we spend our lives erasing that from our memory, constantly convincing ourselves that we never have enough. This mindset, where we operate from a deficit, as opposed to abundance, is the reason for the disorders in our lives with the ultimate paradox being that it is all unnecessary. It does not have to be this way–Not for YOU!
The Kingdom of God is not to be entered outside of you.
We fall out of order, and fail to utilize our tower of power slowly suffocating it. When material objects and other vices of the world become our purpose, we’ve become a victim of someone else’s programming. If you’re not leading, someone else is guiding. Be mindful of who’s doing the guiding. If you don’t like where you’re going, ask yourself who’s doing the guiding. Is it you or someone else? Wizards and magicians abound, ready and willing to reach into you and market you away from your growth into theirs shattering your spiral staircase whilst enhancing theirs.
Believing in yourself and governing your affairs with above average propriety is an absolutely vital function that must be processed daily so your soul can guide you properly. To extend its range you must empower it so that it can perform its most essential function–guiding you with complete faith and doing so comfortably.
Enlarging the coast of your soul is a necessity, as it is the most competent authority we readily have access to.
There is nothing you can buy that can reliably rescue you from the inconveniences that randomly infringe themselves upon you in life, better than your soul.
Without your soul, you are wholly inconsistent with every degree of fitness and order you are capable of achieving. To live in direct violation of your power guaranteed you by way of the infinite realm, by failing to guard it, your very existence will wilt and fold quicker than a beach umbrella in a gale force whirlwind.
Nothing is more important for you than your direct connection to God.
It breathes for you before you take your first breath. It breathes for you after you take your last. This catapult that transports you to the next life is what you need to get through the eye of the needle. Without it in its entirety, you are unrecognizable before the creator of all. You cannot sit at the bar of God without the mansion he gave to you. By saying “to you,” I want to be clear: You have a sequence that no one else has. This identification is what separates you from every single person on Earth and in Heaven. God does not create two of the same. Just as there is only one true God, there is only one you. Know Thyself.
Your soul is that place in you where God dwells. Without it, you cannot and will not dwell in eternity. In the simplest terms, this world you are in, here and now, is a giant portal of preparation. Your soul, should you be able to keep it, is your gate key to the Eternal. The mind of man is capable of many wonders and good works, just as it is capable of manifesting disasters, sorrow, greed, envy, lust, and even death. It is easy to see how the light of life and the purity of all knowing truth is always under attack. Your body the vessel and your soul the treasure, together, you are the divine representation of weights and measures in the eyes of the Almighty. Remember, you originated from the gateway of the Eternal.
We live a life where we think we need a million things in order to be happy or fulfilled. The ultimate paradox is “The One,” which so happens to be you, is greater than the million. Your soul, being that great house of endless doors is hidden to all except you and the Almighty. This repository of the great truths of the infinite realm is emblematic of the greatest and grandest power that has ever existed. And it is given to you freely, before you take your first breath. I want to drill that into you because again it is not talked about nor revered nearly as much as it should be. That should tell you what kind of world you’re in.
I only desire to be that ear of corn planted near and nourished by the fall of water and the rays of the rising sun. When my own spiritual growth is typified by the harvest of corn and quality thereof, my aspirations of riding alongside that light beam all the way to the city limits of Heaven are further heightened. Remember that if you think you know where you’re going, you don’t know where you’re going until you first know who you are. For too long I chased after the trinkets of man thinking that would garner for me all that I ever needed in terms of validation.
When you’re more concerned about your place in the world instead of shaping yourself for building purposes, you my friend, are lost. Only perfected human souls, which endured until the end–only they are woven into the fabric of the great temple. Some see a temple as a building or specifically a place of worship. That is a surface level observation. When you walk in the temple and when you walk out of the temple, the temple should dwell in you. That’s a connection that should never be severed.
A few rules to keep you in alignment…
- Rule #1: You are not what happened to you.
- Rule #2: Most people wait for change. Be that person who manifests change.
- Rule #3: You have low self-esteem because you don’t need high self-esteem. Put yourself in situations that require you to have high self-esteem.
- Rule #4: If you dwell on what’s behind you, you steal from what’s ahead of you.
- Rule #5: Devote every day like someone else is spending every second trying to take it all away from you.
- Rule #6: Imagine if you treated everyday like Friday how much different YOU would be.
- Rule #7: A woman will pray for a miracle without even realizing that she IS a miracle.
- Rule #8: Ladies… never let a man turn a bad moment into a bad day into a bad life.
- Rule #9: The secret to failure is giving up. The secret to success is failing to give up.
- Rule #10: Be not deceived. You are supposed to be happy.
–Daniel Cousin
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