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Our Souls Pathway To the Heart

Innocence and peace are states of mind at the very beginning and towards the very end . Everything in between , the mid-cycle , of our lives are what create all the differences , through multiple emotional interaction . The dual mind , positive / negative , and how it effects our behaviors , which ultimately becomes who we project and how we eventually percieve ourselves , or decieve ourselves and others , by not knowing honestly who we truly are internally , our soul being , a spark of light which is that spark of love within' . Our physical being is a shadow of our spiritual self , our shadow becomes an expression , an accumulation of emotions learned through experience . From the moment of our birth into the physical world , our life experiences begin as pebbles . Through the course of time and space , our experiences , our spiritual growth , become larger stones , boulders , or better put , " weights of burden " . Once we begin to understand and recognize , at that moment of facing our heaviest obstacle , at that moment , we have to take an honest look internally and summon the strength and courage to properly remove it . Once we can unlearn to relearn , those boulders , obstacles , begin to get smaller , until they again appear as pebbles . A story in retrospect . Imagine yourself as a fish in the river . One day the river floods over it's embankment , and you the fish , instead of staying in the river , you get caught in the wave of the flood into a pool outside the rivers edge . As the flood waters recede to normal , you now become stuck outside the natural flow of your existence , in an outer pool . In time as the water evaporates into the air from the heat of the sun , you begin to lose sense of your life force , the essence of your being , until the moment comes when you begin to die and as the ground around you begins to dry and crack , so do you , being reduced to dust to be blown in the wind . If the fish hadn't lost his way and had faced the challenge of the flood , and stayed true to itself and stayed the course of his natural existence , he may have avoided such a tragic fate . Like the fish , that monstrous boulder is our challenge to remove and stay on our pathway , our soul journey . The moment we look for the easy way around and head in a different direction , we could possibly be setting ourselves up with the same fate of the fish .

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