When we seek important answers about our lives, we often find ourselves in a struggle between human desire and soul awareness. As human beings, we are all imperfect. Our divine nature guides us toward meaning and fulfillment. But the ego (human personality) frantically blocks us from discovering life’s true meaning. It creates obstacles to enlightenment whenever it can, eclipsing the divine consciousness that is trying to reach us from the soul level.
Divinity expresses itself through human life. You are a manifestation of divine consciousness.
Your life is both messy and meaningful at the same time. It is a paradox. Each of us knows in our hearts that we’re here for some great reason, but most of us don’t seem to be able to pinpoint that reason. There are so many distractions from your divine nature while you’re here on Earth, and it’s easy to forget the truth: that you’re a soul here having a human experience.
Humans Can Be Messy
Many of us fall into traps along the path of life. Addictions, obsessions, sexual desires, appetites for non-nourishing food and drink, and unhealthy mental cycles all tempt us to the wayside of this path. It is also quite easy to feel validated in a victim’s mindset, a mental environment of lack, and negative thought processes. Our society is set up to encourage such things.
It takes a monumental amount of strength to resist walking off the path and away into the wilderness. This is why the human masses seem to be so lost and so out of touch with who they truly are. They have forgotten the path and the fact that there ever once was a path at all.
While each of us carries a connection to the source of creation within us, we seem to easily become ignorant of that fact. As we walk this Earth pursuing vices and giving into our inner demons, we are unable to see the miracle of existing at all.
The Way We Stray From The Path
There are different reasons that we stray from the path and forget our divinity. It’s quite a challenge to stay focused on the best path for our highest good.
Perhaps you were once confident and full of self-love. Then a relationship may have entered your life that forced you to question whether you are sane, strong, or that you know anything for sure. You could become lost by having no boundaries or foundation in reality. Or, perhaps instead, you fall deeply in love with someone. Then, this person pulls their love away from you, causing you to become obsessed with getting them back in your life or with understanding why this happened. You start to question your intuition and whether you ever knew anything at all.
Another possibility is that you were treated poorly as a child. You could have stayed on the path to find your purpose, but instead, you began to seek a feeling of numbness. Maybe you seek love through unhealthy, meaningless physical closeness with others. Or, you ingest substances that alter your consciousness enough to make you forget your problems — and with them, your purpose and the path.
Or, maybe you seek material wealth as an acquisition to boost your self-worth. You become so reliant on material possessions and money that you allow it to create your identity instead of your innate personhood, which is what is real.
But there always comes a reckoning. A time will come when you must face all the deep longing within you and you seek answers. You can’t distract yourself from the pain forever, and you can’t keep deriving meaning from other people, things, and relationships. Eventually, you reach a breaking point and you want to be whole again.
Thus, the search for soul answers begins. The further from the path you are when you begin the search, the harder it will be to find your way back.
Soul Searching
We desperately want peace of mind, so many of us search relentlessly for answers. But to truly find those satisfying answers, we have to be willing to give up ego attachments. We have to be ready to sacrifice something we so dearly hang onto.
The biggest problem facing seekers is that they are unwilling to let go of something. Maybe they won’t let go of the need to be right. Or they won’t let go of the past — or even the future that they expected. Expectations are very hard to release.
Some of us become reliant on advisors and spiritual answers that can be found through various forms of divination and energy work. But these things become frustrating when they, too, can’t provide deep solutions and soothe the soul’s aching for meaning.
People are stubborn. They want to keep relying on their substances, status, possessions, and relationships for their life’s happiness. When these things bring misery instead, they won’t admit it. They want to force these things to work out for them instead of looking within. They may try spiritual means of making their lives change, but unless they can find the esoteric connection of their reality to their minds, nothing will change.
Real fulfillment comes from within. It isn’t found outside the self. People are messy, they search and search in all the wrong places. They want to force the world around them to bring them meaning. But all they really had to do was take a moment to allow the inner truth to be heard.
It’s a hard truth to hear when you aren’t ready. Because it might not be compatible with what you’ve been hanging onto so dearly in your human life. If you realize that you’re a soul, you will find it much easier to release your grip on all of those things, and just trust the universe in flow.
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