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Soulbyte for Friday August 14, 2026

-Artwork © 2026 Jan Ketchel

We speak often of the power within as the building block of change. But what good is it that we speak of such things if you do not feel any power within? To find that power you have to spend some time alone with what is going on inside you, in your thoughts and feelings about yourself, in your past and your feelings about your past. It’s not a bad idea to take up a psychological study of your inner world, in trying to find out what has you in its grip, in discovering why you do what you do. Going back into the life you have thus far lived and finding what grips you with fear, dread, worry, pain and finding ways to resolve those negative energies within yourself is actually the most important job in a lifetime. To be free of what controls you on the inside is to be free of the life challenges you set up for yourself as you embarked on your earthbound journey so long ago. It is the real goal of a lifetime to be free within. And only you can decide to turn inward and find what needs freeing.

All our love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

A Synchronicity: Attitude

Opened the book, Powers Within, to the following excerpt from THE MOTHER, which we feel supports and reinforces the Soulbyte for Friday August 16, 2019:

ATTITUDE

“If, in the presence of circumstances that are about to take place, you can take the highest attitude possible—that is, if you put your consciousness in contact with the highest consciousness within reach, you can be absolutely sure that in that case it is the best that can happen to you. But as soon as you fall from this consciousness into a lower state, then it is evidently not the best that can happen, for the simple reason that you are not in your very best consciousness. I, even go so far as to affirm that in the zone of immediate influence of each one, the right attitude not only has the power to turn every circumstance to advantage but can change the very circumstance itself. For instance, when a man comes to kill you, if you remain in the ordinary consciousness and get frightened out of your wits, he will most probably succeed in doing what he came for; if you rise a little higher and though full of fear call for the divine help, he may just miss you, doing you a slight injury; if, however, you have the right attitude and the full consciousness of the divine presence everywhere around you, he will not be able to lift a finger against you…

“I have innumerable examples of the power of right attitude. I have seen crowds saved from catastrophes by one single person keeping the right attitude. But it must be an attitude that does not remain somewhere very high and leaves the body to its usual reactions. If you remain high up like that, saying, “Let God’s will be done,” you may get killed all the same. For your body may be quite undivine, shivering with fear: the thing is to hold the true consciousness in the body itself and not have the least fear and be full of the divine peace. Then indeed there is no danger. Not only can attacks of men be warded off, but beasts also and even the elements can be affected.”

-From Powers Within, Selections for the Works of SRI AUROBINDO and THE MOTHER, pp. 65-66