Each of us has a unique fingerprint and a unique place in this world. Each of us has a very particular and unique soul, distinguishable from all others, even though we are all derived from the same unified wholeness. In my own being I am unique and special, just as everyone else is. Then why is it that I so frequently and stridently attempt to prove my uniqueness to others and myself and to show disdain for other people?
If I have contempt for others or contempt for myself, I am denying the fact that all of us are manifestations of God on earth. We are special because we have a holy origin and are holy beings. Any sense of loss and emptiness I feel inside--even when it seems to be all about my need for connections with people and things-- is an indication that I have lost the connection with my own deeply holy nature, which is something I can't manufacture through my creativity but something I am being invited to seek through communion with myself in stillness and silence.
I'm not sure why but this reminds me of a quote by C S Lewis, "You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
ReplyDeleteThank you, Susan, for sharing this direct statement about what we are. It's absolutely true, isn't it, that what we are is not our bodies? We are our depth, we are our soul.
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