Our Spiritual Journey: Finding Our True Selves

      Honor other people as souls. We are not just human beings. We are souls. We are not just what meets the eye. We are all so much more expansive than that. If we could truly see each other not as human brings, but as souls, as divine, infinite beings, without race, beyond family or origin or personal appearance or visible circumstance, our experience of life and of each other would change beyond measure.    ~Karin M. Keyes

           So many of us have become so disheartened by a broken system that we used to think we could count on. There is no system in place that will take the place of who we are individually. There is no one “to take care of us.” There is no greater entity in the form of institution that is greater than us, no degree that puts someone in a greater place of importance, no education that lifts someone up beyond where other people are.       We ask ourselves what qualifies us to step up and act like we are someone who can make a difference. What if we are wrong? What if we don’t know what we are talking about? We look at the state of our lives and ask why we think we have earned the right to act like we have something to say. All the while, we are do desperately needed. There are people who are so alone, feel so alone and scared who couldn’t care less what degree you do or don’t have, whether your life looks ...

         This is not the endpoint of your existence. This is not the final “you.” This is only where and who you are at this particular point in time. Imagine how you want to feel in your future.   Not what you want to do but how you want to feel.   Then maybe images will come to your mind. Maybe not.   But imagine how you want to feel and then look at what either needs to change to be able to move into that or what requires patience.   You may already be doing exactly what is in alignment with your soul.   It may just take a little while for it to all come together the way you would like so that you can feel the way that you want to feel.   "We have to be in charge of navigating our lives  and of setting our sights on what we want our future to look like."       We have to be in charge of navigating our lives and of setting our sights on what we want our future to look like. There is no final prod...

            Cut ties with your past. Whatever you have learned from it has the ability to help you create a more fulfilling future based on a deeper knowledge of who you are and what you want in your life.   Anything that hurts you can only be healed through forgiveness. There is nothing anyone else can do to take away that pain.   And the rest needs to be let go of if we are to be able to live our lives fully in this present moment and in the future.         "Anything that hurts you can only be healed through forgiveness."      We can find so many reasons why we “just can’t let go,” but our inability to let go exists only in our minds. Letting go does not mean no longer feeling pain. It doesn’t mean the grief ceases to exist. But it means that we let go of our constant battle to try to make sense of it in our minds. It means that we let go of the illusion we have held onto that we are somehow...

Being conscious in the present moment is so much more important than what we strive to achieve. We are surrounded by so much beauty. Everywhere we turn is an opportunity to express and receive love and to go deeper into our experience of life.     ~Karin M. Keyes "We are surrounded by so much beauty."

           Allow your boundaries to be non-negotiable. We can be so focused on keeping the peace that we sacrifice our well-being in the process. We don’t want to make waves. We don’t want other people to think we are selfish. We want people to like us or approve of us, and we say yes when we mean no. We tell ourselves that we can overcome whatever harm may come to us. We tell ourselves that it isn’t that big a deal. But it is.  Anything that we do that betrays our own well-being is a big deal. It matters tremendously.      We have to commit to taking care of ourselves. We have to protect ourselves and know clearly where the lines lay with us.  It will not kill us if people are upset with us. We were not put on this earth to make other people happy at the cost of ourselves.  We don’t matter less than a single person on this earth.   "We have to...

Let people have their limitations. No one is meant to be perfect. No one exists to make us happy. We all have our strengths, and we all have our baggage. We all have our points where our behavior does not meet the needs of others. Let that be okay. We meet each other wherever we meet each other.  "No one is meant to be perfect." When we can acknowledge each other’s shortcomings and make room for them in our own lives and our own thinking, we can love each other far more deeply. We need to stop wishing someone would just stop doing something that bothers us.They don’t need to stop doing anything. Everyone is on their own journey. It is for us to love them and not to change them.Trying to change anyone only leads to their misery and our own.   ~Karin M. Keyes