Within the depths of mind, held within burning hearts, and acted through physical beings, the Soul is a life proven stronger than any. Through religions, through actions, through thoughts, through creation and destruction, the Soul is bound by no matter. The Soul is a life force that continues generations.

I hold no specific religion as the ultimate, I’m no atheist, and I don’t follow many. What I care most about religions, faiths, beliefs, is the common driving force to be a better person in life. To live for a higher purpose then oneself, and be better for family and community. Some hate those who don’t follow a specific religion, as I’ve been hated by those I respect and love because I don’t 100% follow their chosen religion.

Visiting places of worship and meeting those grounded by a higher power I appreciate and respect. Through my struggles in life, I’ve prayed to higher powers, cried and pleaded for help for the sickness of those I love. Higher Power is said to have a reason for everything, working in mysterious ways, or many other versions of why life happens in ways that life continues. Through sickness, death, disease, war, and the many cruel acts humans bring onto to one another is dishearten, but life continues. The world has great anger, hatred, ugliness, pure evil within all walks of life.

However, life is filled with greatness, beauty, laughter, and wonder. Life is full of people to love, family to grow, nature that bloom, rivers that run. Nature is an amazing part of life, and too few of us “stop to smell the roses” as many say. Few people can watch a burning fire without nearing a hypnotic trance of peace, lost in their thoughts, watching flames dance before them. You become nearly carefree of the world around you, studying its fearless and feral ways of flames, envying its power and beauty.

Oceans also have another meditative state about them. When I lived along the Oregon coast while in 4th grade, the sound of thunderous waves both kept me awake and aided me to sleep. Soft sand around my bare feet as I walked along the coastline, lost in my youthful thoughts of what life should be. My mind has always been a curious and stubborn believer that life is needed to be lived. The very life that keeps so many of us from living, is the life that continually pulls us away to play.

Few days will ever compare to the days I lived at the beach, and though I desire greatly to live along the beach again, life continues to bring me different ideas of where I need to be. Had I continued to live where I did, my life would be different no doubt, but although I may have found my balance far sooner by living along where my soul is most drawn to, my life I’ve lived will always keep me grounded and appreciative of the life I am living for the future. I would not have found financial steadiness had I stayed, neither leadership and business skills, nor a means to continue branching my horizons. The beach town I lived in has become slow growing, economically holding on, and towns around it have fallen to drugs, crime, and lack of joy they once had.

The ocean seems endless in its great emptiness into the horizon, bound by no means, but we all know that over that ocean is more to explore, and does end. Just like no man can be an island, no ocean can be endless. There is always more to explore, good or bad, life needs to be a chaotic beautiful mess of organized nothing and everything.

Souls need to be discovered, destroyed, reborn, united, and continually grow to become an the entity to live on. Whether you believe in reincarnations, past lives, or that death is a cold emptiness, souls continue to drive humanity to be something more. Through generations, dozens, hundreds, if not thousands, of so called religions, cults, etc., humans desire to strengthen something they feel exist, even though we haven’t proven scientifically a life after death.

Does death cause our fear that without religion we disappear? Is religion the reason we fear living as we wish, so that death won’t send us to a place like hell? Why are humans naturally scared of death just as scared as they are to live life? Do we fear living so not to obstruct our created and false boundaries and limitations? Do we fear dying because it may end our life before we ever let ourselves live?

I feel I’ve lived, I feel I’ve died within myself countless times, I fear dying before I live, and I fear living a life I feel dead. For years I’ve had times I felt lifeless, inhuman and cold to the world because of exhaustion to be successful in my career. My career is not my life, but I have let reign great restraint on my life. I have lived, experienced a great deal for my age with all the moving from city to towns to states, to make houses into homes, to having no place I felt home. With my chaos I’ve lived, I feel I have lived life in many fashions, and to that I’m grateful.

But so much of life is left to live, and with that, my 1st SOUL activity is:

What are 3 actions that will help develop the my soul within the next 30 days?

1. Research 6 different religions/beliefs and find what I feel I best relate to and may best grow from its teachings.
2. Light a candle and watch the flame for 30min., letting my mind lose focus, my heart and breath slow, my body ease into relaxing, and listen to what I sense I need to be doing in life.
3. Be with family

Until next time, keep LivingLife, and take care of yourself and those you love!

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