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Soulbyte for Thursday March 25, 2021

Do not be dissuaded from your path of heart, from your truth or your progress toward that which your heart desires. For though there may be a part of you that wonders if you will ever succeed in reaching your dreams, there is another part of you that knows you already have, and yet, that part of you will not let you stop your journey toward wholeness, truth, creativity, and all that your spirit knows you are capable of. Let not yourself be dissuaded from this path of heart that stirs you every day to keep going but embrace it as your true path in this life. With an open and innocent heart, carry on and all will be well.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday March 11, 2021

An accumulation of lessons learned compile into an abundance of truths. With truths, one finally has something to go on, something to trust, for it is only truths that one can count on. The truths of oneself are the basis for processing the past and proceeding into the future. The truths of oneself are the basis for new directions, a path of heart perhaps. Face the truths that emerge from life’s lessons and let them guide you forward now into the present moment with new eyes, ears, and voice. Seeing, hearing, and speaking truths of wisdom, guide yourself onward into new life. You can’t go wrong with your own truths; they are all that matter.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte For Tuesday February 16, 2021

The truth can frighten, but the truth can also heal. The truth has been known to cause havoc but also calm. The truth has been known to stir emotions but also to bring deep peace. The truth has been known to cause great pain but also great healing. Do not be afraid of the truth, for it is the only way to know the self and the world for what it truly is and to be able to advance the cause of the individual and the greater good. Whether you know it or not, the truth is the healing balm you seek. Do not refuse it or let it slip away this time.

Sending you love,
The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Friday August 7, 2020

When all seems lost and hopeless, do not give up. Stay connect to the intent of the one Great Heart, which connects with and is part of all other hearts, for there is only one great beating, loving heart, which you all share. Stay connected to its loving intent that all may find their way to its knowledge and wisdom and find solace in its embrace. Let love be the language that brings light and truth back into each heart. Let the one Great Heart show you the way, for its love knows no bounds.

Sending you love,

The Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck’s Place: Refine the Divine

All is divine…
– Photo by Jan Ketchel

The central question of our time is the future of our world. We are at an obvious transition point, as we grapple with a virus that has fundamentally challenged every aspect of the way we live. Though there be a wide range of opinion on how to proceed, the challenge to every individual’s core sense of security is undeniable.

When I was a young boy, I badly bungled my attempts to memorize my catechism, nearly costing me entree into sacramental rites. However, one thing I never got wrong: God is everywhere and everything. There is nothing that exists that is not God.

From this perspective, everything that exists, from virus to world leaders, are part of that same Oneness often referred to as God. If we accept the notion that we are all part of the divine, we should consider checking our projective tendency to vilify and demonize any part of our collective Oneness.

On the other hand, the current state of our world is such that there are such divisive and opposing viewpoints that, for either side, there is great difficulty seeing the divinity in the other. Perhaps a perspective that views the world as needing to dance through an extreme cosmic upheaval, and remain standing at the end, can free us from our hatred and depression.

Indeed, if my catechism was correct, we are, as a world, suffering one of the infinite permutations of possibility that exists in the infinite journey we are all on. From the place of equanimity, let us not wish it away or dismiss it but instead, live it fully.

The Hindu holy book, known as The Bhagavad Gita, addresses the dilemma the world currently grapples with. In this epic, a war between royals in the same family is being fought. Arjuna, fighter for one side is counseled by, Krishna, a Hindu equivalent to Christ, who tells him he must fight to fulfill his warrior duty to uphold the cosmic law of selfless action. 

Selfless action means acting without attachment to gain or outcome, simply doing what one feels is right. From that perspective all players have the duty to live out their individual truths. The outcome of such a play is in no way guaranteed, other than it reflects the full meeting of these felt truths.

Truths that are actually veiled distortions inevitably peel away, as they cannot be sustained by the greater truth, which must, of necessity, emerge as the true victor. In this process, the divine is refined and purified. On a pragmatic level, balance is restored to the world, as it finds secure footing.

That which peels away in this molting process must be thoroughly valued  as warriors critical to evolution. We don’t always get to play the hero, but without the antagonist there is no story. For evolution to proceed that which once held the truth must surrender to tomorrow’s new reality.

Thus, Love the ‘Other’ as Thyself. Like Arjuna, play your part, no attachment to the outcome other than that it be the greater truth, for now. Appreciate all that lifts us beyond inertia, as collectively we refine our shared Divinity.

Love,

Chuck