The Call from Within: Don't Keep Running from Your Own Soul!

"The more time I spend with people, the more I love my dog!"


That's what the sticker on the back of his truck said.
I can just imagine!

If I'd known the guy, that would have been time for an INTERVENTION! BIG TIME!

Here is a person who is totally not into people, because yes, people have their personalities and things, and they irritate us!

Why can't we ALL JUST GET ALONG?

We're supposed to love everyone in spite of all the stuff they throw at us day after day after day.

Yes. We're supposed to act like Jesus!

We're supposed to give a person our left cheek to smack us, when he's already smacked us on the right!

Tell the average person THAT...and you'd get blows...not only on the right and left cheeks but all over as well. Maybe... not "real" blows of the physical kind... but those that would inflict wounds to...your Soul!

And that's where it all begins. This discussion.

The Soul!

For a few of you...


...One day in the not-too-distant future...if you haven't yet been asked to do so,
you will be!

You will be asked to answer the call of your Soul.


I know some people who say they hear the call... but they ignore it!
I tell you this: Do so...at your own peril!

You WILL be driving around with more than ONE bumper sticker telling anyone who cared to read: "I HATE PEOPLE! PEOPLE MAKE ME SICK!"

That, or the equivalent of that, is what eventually happens to people who HEAR the call of their Soul but keep ignoring it!

I recently heard an interview on National Public Radio (NPR) with a person who is well-known for her work with the stars. Now, she's written a book on her "Clinical Depression." In the NPR interview, the person says that when she heard she had "clinical depression," ...she was relieved! The malaise that had kept her bed-ridden and "house hiding," finally had a name!

Maybe, she does have "clinical depression." I don't know the physiological problems that cause imbalances in a system. But when a previously
normal-functioning individual suddenly hits a "crisis" and gets an unknown "malaise," the first place I'd start to look is in the lack of connection to the Soul!


And what is this...but... a CRISIS OF THE SOUL?



Some people climb every mountain in life that they encounter...going ever higher, reaching places they never dreamed of reaching by simply USING the Power within! Many people do this with a total UNAWARENESS OF THE SPIRIT that lives within them. "The father within me, he doeth the work."




Those people who refuse to acknowledge the Power that fuels their achievements comes from WITHIN them, and not simply through their own EGO-based WILL or determination, WILL eventually IMPLODE!
We can't keep going to the trough of our Soul and depleting it, without trying to fill it back up in some way. We may escape temporarily...for some...it may be a LONG temporarily...by busyness of "good works" and attending church services and things on the superficial level. But eventually, WITHOUT LOOKING INSIDE, life will come "crumbling down" even in the midst OF ALL THE GOOD (S) that have been "acquired!"

So when, and if, you feel your SOUL calling you...RESPOND! It means you may be getting closer to the "danger" point!


It's calling you...for YOUR OWN GOOD!


Your Soul can tell your innermost thoughts, and it can tell when you're headed for trouble! Big Trouble!

So, your Soul is ONLY trying to reach you ...for your own good!

Truly, it really wouldn't bother you, if you were happy and having a good time at your life...without feeling ANY ANGST within. If you're NOT "feeling it," then it'll leave you completely alone to ...enjoy your life, possibly until the next time around.



But if in THIS LIFETIME, you're hearing "The Call," I'd advise you to: ANSWER IT!

"It is within my power either to serve God, or not serve him. Serving Him I add to my own good and the good of the whole world. Not serving Him, I forfeit my own good and deprive the world of that good, whitch was in my power to create."

Leo Tolstoy

The call normally comes before you go down a blind alley or down a road from where there is no return.

You may not even know you're headed for trouble.


But you can "sense" all is not well in your life and in your world.

The call even may come at a time that seems VERY inconvenient to you.

You might be at a crossroads in your life: your career, your marriage,
your interests are waning.

Now WHAT is THIS?

You want me to go down a BLIND ALLEY WITH YOU!? Why NOW?


Yes. When everything else seems dead ended or for the life of the "dead," that's exactly when your Soul is calling to you and saying, "follow me!"

The road ahead will seem unclear. It will certainly be filled with UNCERTAINTY!


You may be tempted to hold on to the circumstances whose worth you're now questioning in your life, as to real VALUE to your life, i.e. your wealth, your health, your life, your wife, everything that hitherfore had brought MEANING to your life. Now, they all feel meaningless.

Follow me.

What?

Follow me.

By the third time, you'll make a decision: to ignore the urging completely or follow its call.

If you do the latter, I promise you, life as you know it, will never, ever, ever be the same.

Say goodbye to waking up every day knowing with predictability about what life will bring that day. Say goodbye to emptiness...the sense of sameness...the sense of meaninglessness to life.


Nothing is predictable following the Soul. But the journey will be filled with hope, meaning and promise.

You will have to be SURE you're ready for the journey. That it's this way, or NO WAY!

Then, you'll have to fortify yourself with prayer, lots of it; meditation, lots of it, and TRUST, lots of it.

For the only thing you will be SURE OF throughout ALL THE FIERY HELLS you may have to travel, sometimes, as you learn to let go of your EGO and all its concommitant obligations...is that it will never, ever, ever leave you or forsake you!


How SURE are you, ANYWAY, about the rest of what you would want to cling to in your life?



What about your friends?


Some of those would be the first to go in a crisis, even without the call from your Soul. Others will "stick closer to you than a brother!"

How about your family?

If you're from one as large enough as mine, there will be one or two who step forward; a few who stick around; a few who stand back and a few who disappear...completely...from your sphere.


How about your...um...the other things...um...like


...your wealth?

Will it sustain you through a health crisis? Will it sustain you when you're down and lonely?





How about your job, i.e. your career?

Will it choose YOU over someone else when it comes to cutting time?

Perhaps. Perhaps Not.

Look again.

Think again.

Who...of WHAT ...can you be sure when any crisis hits?




The comforting PRESENCE of Your Soul. You have got to BELIEVE that the connection to THIS is the ONLY thing that can save you when you're headed for a crisis or are in the midst of a crisis!


So, if it asks you to FOLLOW ME... I URGE you to GO! You don't have to give up your wife or your life; you just make them secondary to the call of your Soul.


The only place it will lead you to ...after you get through some of the bramble and the wilderness of confusion...is into a place of JOY unsurpassed and unknown.

It's not a joy you can describe because it is in your Spirit.


It is not a happiness you can share because it is in your Soul.

It is not a grace you can express because it is in your Spirit and your Soul.

It is not a peace you can give because it is in your Spirit and your Soul.

All you'll KNOW is that one day, MAYBE YEARS LATER, you'll find yourself waking up to each day with a JOY unsurpassed...not knowing what it will bring...but knowing with CERTAINTY THAT no matter what...it will turn out right and that you will be okay...you are ALL RIGHT!

You see, once you connect and align with that Soul within YOU...within your Spirit...
everything else pales in comparison.

You will find little joy in the life of personalities who live only for the external aspects of life. You will find little comfort in the "things" you previously guarded jealously with heart and soul.


What you will get instead is a connection to a LIFELINE that surpasses all understanding. You will tap into a power line fused with love, joy, compassion, caring and sharing...for YOU ... making you in turn want to care about and share with your neighbor ...your community...your world.


You will be RE-connected to your Soul.

Life will be all right.

Can you say that with assurance about anything else in life: about a lover, a best friend, a job, your wealth?


Choose wisely when you hear the call. Welcome it!

The way to respond to let it KNOW that you've heard...is in the Silence.


If you don't know how to meditate, then begin to find periods where you're alone...in Silence. You'll begin to feel its Presence...then you'll know ...in the quietness of your Soul that "daddy" is there!

It is doing so for your own GOOD! It is welcoming you HOME!


Take nothing with you for the journey. It will guide you and lead you ...step by step.

You'll know what to do when you need to do it.

Sufficient unto the day!

Namaste',

Che'
NOTE: Next week, Easter Sunday, we'll look at some of the messages of Jesus, and what he REALLY meant. Then, we'll conclude these special messages on the "Soul" with a profile in May on "The Language of the Soul: LOVE!"

The ARROGANCE of EGO: Don't Let Your EGO Make a "FOOL" Out of YOU!

EGO, our false self, makes a fool out of the best of us. Often, we don't see how EGO causes us to be separated from our very selves, our Soul, and other people. It puts barriers where none should exist, and it also erects facades that we think are not transparent to the world.

But believe me, all the EGO facades put in place cannot block our true reflection in the world. If we're discerning, we should learn over time that those facades really are MIRRORS reflecting our insecurity to the world.

So it's time to tell your EGO: STOP MAKING A FOOL OUT OF ME!

When people are being led by EGO, they often are fooled into believing they are being wise in their truth. What they don't see is that they are so blinded by this "false self" that it only fills them up and puffs them up with PRIDE. Most people cannot get past this exterior to get to know the real person hidden behind this mask of falsehood, until it comes crumbling down through the action of Soul, calling out to be recognized and for authenicity.

I'll never forget the misguided EGO of someone who felt he/she
had lessons to "teach me."


I was so taken back, my first impulse was to laugh.

I quickly excused this...total, complete arrogance...as absolute spiritual unconsciousness!


We all should realize that no personality is here to teach us life's lessons in and of themselves. Yes, the situations and challenges those personalities may bring us will help lead to the Divine connection within our being. But it is our own Soul, through its God center and through the unfolding of Life itself, that teaches us life's lessons.

It is often that very Soul at the center of our being that invites challenging situations into our lives so that we can grow forward into life. We should always remember...that TRY AS IT MIGHT...NO EGO or EGO personality gets to decide who suffers and who prospers, who succeeds and who fails. So, if you encounter one, whom I call "petty tyrants," wanting to withhold its "good will"...in any form...towards you, REMEMBER WELL AND SAY: YOU don't get to decide!

I'm often amazed when people are so caught up in the perfection of themselves. No one adult person should believe that he or she has to "punish" another adult to teach him or her a lesson. But there are some who walk among us, so full of their EGO selves, that they would believe that their purpose on earth is to teach others their truth! These personalities also are the ones that seem to get offended easily at even "gentle truths" revealed to them. Their thinking is that no one has anything to "teach," as in impart, to them, but they are here to "teach," as in punish, others.

People believing in their own perfection are never BIG enough to handle any level of criticism, much less TRUTH! Most conversations with them then have to be relegated to the superficial.
It is pointless to try to penetrate such strong EGO "fortified personas."

So many EGO personalities achieving any level of success in the exterior try to strut like gods in the world. EGO takes over so completely that on a day-to-day basis, we all you bear witness to personalities, filled with such pridefulness, that they attempt to rule the world as lord and savior!

As much as we may try, we cannot always fully escape these personalities. Often, we hope that with the presence of many other decent traits inherent in their Spirit, the EGO would be dimmed through the passage of time. Often, we are not so lucky, and sometimes, it becomes a daily struggle dealing with these personalities...in workplaces, in homes, in our lives.

People who are so sure that they are perfect, never look to change.

Here's what my favorite philosopher, Tolstoy, says on the subject:

"We often try to hide our vices so that others will not blame us.
This is a mistake, because criticism can be useful.

"All temptation comes from pride. To save yourself
from temptation, be humble."

When God finally gets a chance to step in, I can imagine that the toughest challenge for him is to deconstruct the huge mass that is EGO. This mass is constructed solely to keep God out, as well as other men.

Yes, EGO is fearful...of man...and of God! So even when we see these EGO personalities doing good deeds, we need to be cognizant of the reasons.


These personalities sometimes may do kind deeds, but more because of a need to be seen as "good" in God's eyes. Mostly, it is because they fear his wrath! If they were to put EGO aside and view things from the Quantum Mechanics perspective of Connectivity, i.e. that in God's eyes we all are ONE, then they would learn about true "service" and the "common good." They would quickly give up the fear of God and love of pride and would understand very simply that another person is an aspect of him or herself. So doing "good" for another, wishing "good" for another is essentially wishing "good" for himself.

"If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine," says Wiseman Thomas A. Kempis.

I quote Tolstoy yet again:

"The major task in every person's life is to become a kinder and
better person. How can you become better if you think you
are good enough already?

"Humility offers a kind of joy that cannot be achieved by a selfish
or proud person."


I have been humbled, chastened and justified! When you go through those times, pride is the first thing to go.

I don't focus on the past, as I am so focused on being "HERE NOW!" So memories of the past are faded somewhere in the background of my Soul.


People who dwell too long on the past only see the view shining through their own lens! They are myopic, so their perspective on life is very, very narrow. With EGO at the center of all their accomplishments and their personality still imbedded in the traits of yesterday, whatever they see, they perceive it from their reality and their truth!

The true failure in life, I believe, is to make giant steps on the exterior, but not to take even a tiny step towards real growth within!
Harry Palmer of Star's Edge, Inc., says "If someone tells you that they have not committed any transgressions, realize you are talking to either a saint or a liar. Human beings make mistakes. They are supposed to. That’s how they learn. Human knowledge is the product of mistakes. It is only when the mistakes are hidden or become intentional (as in a hidden agenda) that they lead to inflexible viewpoints."

And once we believe so strongly in our own perfection, steeped in EGO, all hope then becomes lost for the long inner journey to begin.






EGO, however, can only make fools of us for so long. God...the Soul within us... eventually, does get the last word!

Tell Your Ego to Go AWAY... and ...Sing as Deniece Williams does:

"You're just a lover out to score
I know that I should be looking for more
What could it be in you I see
What could it be...
Oh, Love, oh, love, stop making a fool of me
Oh, Love, oh, love, stop making a fool of me..."

Namaste',

Che'