WINDOWS OF THE SOUL

You are totally absorbed in what you are doing; you lose track of time. Whether you are in love with a person or with a project, it's the same quality. Time may expand --

To be a soulful person means to go against all the pervasive prove-yourself values of our culture and instead treasure what is unique and internal and valuable in yourself and your own personal evolution.

Loss of a soul creates a void, an emptiness that people fill in with addictive activities - because it is the path of least resistance.

The decision to reconnect with your soul is similar to any choice to change things for the better.

Remember and reconnect with what really gave you pleasure when you were younger and had more time, for going back to it may lead you to the soul. When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

When you attend to the needs of the soul, you experience a sense of freedom. In the midst of absorption in a soul-nourishing activity, we are liberated, creative, unaware of time, and in harmony with ourselves. When we attend only to work and neglect the soul, we may dream of being imprisoned and we are often tense, because we carry the weight of our joyless world on our shoulders. Soul-satisfying experiences open us to respond to the beauty around us, in others and in the world.

Appreciation of beauty is access to the soul. With beauty in our lives, we walk and carry ourselves more lightly and with a different look in our eyes. To look into the eyes of someone beholding beauty is to look through the windows of the soul.

Anytime we touch the glimpse of soul, beauty is there; anytime we catch our breath and feel. "How beautiful !" The soul is present.