Sunday, 24 November 2019

A Natural Movement

AA said: Merci pour tes messages du lundi. Toujours agréables et inspirants. 

A Natural Movement

Spiritual practices help us move from identifying with the ego to identifying with the soul. Old age does that for you too. It spiritualizes people naturally.

                                 Thich Nhat Hanh: Answers From the Heart


How would you define the soul? I would put it this way: it is the awareness of being aware.
I live in that awareness when I drop the ego for a while and remain in the present moment, feeling my breath and my aliveness. When I am aware of what is happening inside and around me, without defining it with my mind, that’s when I’m in touch with my soul. That is also when I am most alive.

These insights have come through meditation, reading “spiritual” books – and age. It comes quite naturally now to drop the cravings and strivings of the ego and remain in a state of simply being aware. It is like a natural movement towards that place of pure awareness - which we might call our soul - where we are at one with life itself.





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