Step 1 - Find Your Golden Thread: Who Am I?
The first step, I’ve discovered, to finding "the golden thread of me" is figuring out who I am in the midst of all of these roles I play, tasks I do, and the outer shell I inhabit – finding my voice, and my self . . . getting back to her, really. Per my previous post, I used to know myself well. I used to be in the moment. I was a human be-ing more than a human just do-ing (like I am today).
I read a book by Deepak Chopra called "How to Know God," and the most important point in the book, for me, was where he helped me answer the question "Who am I?" by figuring out what exactly is a soul, anyway? And I thought, "Hmmmmmph." I was a philosophy major as an undergrad, and read contemplative works all through high school as well, and it never occurred to me to ask what a soul is. The more I thought about it, and the more I read of his book, the more it dawned on me that all of who I am can be boiled down into the single point: I am my soul. Yes, that soul is housed in my body, and that body is part of me, too. But my self-awareness, my consciosuness resides in my soul. They are one in the same.
So how do I find this soul? Well, she's a part of you. She's known you and been with you since you were born, sitting on the banks of the river of the flow of your life, watching you, observing you lovingly in triumph and failure, having fun, and having a hard time. She's that "golden thread" of continuity of awareness that's watched everything you've done and knew what the right answer was each time you tried something -- whether it ended up working out for you in the end or not. She's the part of you that doesn't engage in the day to day struggle of good and evil, right and wrong, hard and easy, etc.... It's just aware that its all going on.
Next post? How to draw that golden thread of you into the foreground of your awareness, now that you know who she is. Thanks. Take care, -Jules
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