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Revising Your Life
 

If we do not challenge ourselves to think new thoughts and revise our past and present ideas, our personal world will begin to shrink. This is typical of aging and a sign that one is getting old, regardless of one’s age.


Every idea and thought we have is sufficient to our needs at the time that we first think them. But all is movement, everything is changing. And if we do not change our thoughts about ourselves and about life, we no longer have thoughts that support our continuous development and growth. In fact the old thoughts inhibit our natural growth processes, and block soul from manifesting its intelligence in the present moment. We thus block our natural creativity and intuition. This is like new wine in old wine skins, as the biblical image is presented. This spoils the new wine.


It is easy to recognize people who think and feel the same way as they have always done in their relationships. Their relationships do not change and they as people do not change through their relationships. These relationships can then become boring, stifling and unloving.


We need to continuously challenge ourselves to learn, to gain new perspectives, to enlarge our vision, to rediscover ourselves because we are different today than we were yesterday. And the changes that go on within us are not the changes of mood and emotion, but of the way soul is seeking to manifest itself in response to ever-changing need in our lives and in our relationships. Soul always responds to need, so as needs change then our response must also change if we are to allow soul its natural expression.

The fundamental relationship that we have is between personality and soul; this is our most important relationship. If we do not allow ourselves to be open and conscious of soul in our lives, we will get stuck in our lower mind and emotions, and not open ourselves to the heart, to intuition and to soul wisdom.

Via: The Soul Journey