Go deeper within to shed the troubles that hold you from finding and connecting to your true essence, your spirit. In balance, true self and spirit will find that they are actually one and the same, not separate as body and soul but one as true essence. And this true essence is capable of so much that you haven’t even experienced yet. There is so much more to life!
Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
There is no call to panic, no need to stress. Instead, find calmness within the self knowing that all is according to spirit’s intent, for as life unfolds so does it evolve and what you are now experiencing is evolution. With that in mind, make choices and decisions from a place of heart, from a place of quiet knowing, and from a place that is in alignment with evolutionary intent. That is the only path to now take.
Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Participate in life as much as possible, but at the same time do so appropriately so that your energy is not depleted, stressed or neglected. Take care of yourself, even as you must care for others, for you are important to yourself in the life you are in, sent to fulfill whatever you are destined to fulfill by the challenges and encounters you have during your lifetime. Your spirit asks a lot of you, but it is for your own benefit and evolution. So don’t neglect yourself, even as you seek to live life to the fullest. Seek balance in all you do.
Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Look to nature for answers, for nature is as pure as it gets. Her processes prove how adaptable she is to change, how she snaps back to life after a storm, an avalanche, a flood. She adapts to the changes and new life springs forth in the changed environment. Learn to go with the flow of change in your own life and your own world, within and without, keeping constantly in mind the ultimate purpose of life, which is to evolve into the spiritual being you truly are.
Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne
Sometimes we simply can’t believe, can’t accept something on faith alone; though spiritually driven we may need more than faith alone.
Jan has shared with me that the nuns of her grammar school called such spiritual candidates “doubters”, confused souls held tightly in Satan’s grasp of doubt. From their dogma, faith alone is the necessary bridge to spiritual ascent.
From my own earliest childhood inner experience, I qualified as a major-league doubter. In deep shame and horror, my truth was that I did not believe in God. I needed absolute proof, through experience, before I could believe. I challenged God to prove His existence to me.
That challenge was met with an experience that left no further room for doubt, for now I knew. Belief now rested upon the solid foundation of knowing, which has guided my life ever since. I thank doubt for setting the stage for the experiment and resulting numinous experience that has inspired my entire life.
Nonetheless, those Sisters at St. Mary’s knew of the perilous quicksand that doubt becomes when it dominates one’s attitude toward life. Doubt can indeed cast a heavy shadow over the brightness of life. Excessive doubt breeds cynicism, where the interpretation of life events derives from an acute tunnel vision that sees only the negative side of everything. Doubt readily identifies the hidden, self-serving motive behind everything and everyone.
So convincing is the cynic’s perspective, as it casts its shadow of doubt upon the supposed altruism of others, that its resulting negativity is quite infectious. In fact, one can easily lose faith that anyone is truly trustable, and firmly believe that any supposed loving action is really nothing other than a Trojan horse of self-serving narcissism.
Faith then, could be defined as remaining open to the hypothesis that anything is possible, at least until proven otherwise. Life, from this perspective, is sprinkled with optimism and positive thinking. Rather than dismiss a possibility outright, based upon a dogmatic or fixed perspective, we actually allow ourselves to remain open and see what happens.
In a relationship, a doubting attitude might easily judge the behavior of the other to be fraught with self-serving intent, despite their loving persona. This may then lead one to harbor resentment and distrust that precludes any possibility of a deepening intimacy.
If, on the other hand, one were able to suspend their doubting judgment and allow their faith to remain open and see what happens, they might be rewarded with the discovery that indeed, this flawed human being is actually reaching out to truly connect.
On the other hand, one might be led to the discovery that their doubt was actually well informed. They might be led to the fact that their companion is not ready to love another, as their gaze is solidly fixed upon love that is limited to their own reflection. Despite one’s disappointment at this, the outcome of this experimental relationship has proven its untenability, and so, it’s simply time to move on.
Faith allows us to suspend judgment and remain open to possibility. Doubt forces us to refine our relationship with the truth. Faith and doubt are thus a pair of opposites, which, when properly integrated, serve the deepening of our relationship with life, truth, and love.
If we are too one-sided in doubt, our relationships are sterile, calculated and fear based. If we have too much faith, we are easy targets for the con-artists, the prana suckers, and the devious.
The truth is that at different levels of our being we are all both devils and angels. We have good reason to doubt our own authenticity, at all times. We also have good reason to have faith in everyone’s capacity for deep altruistic love, including our own!
The fact that we are both devils and angels makes us human—beings who reflect a composition of both the left and right hands of God. Our challenge in this life is to weave both sides of ourselves into a functional unit that takes us deeper into the truth and love of this amazing journey: Life!
With Faith and Doubt,
Chuck