The further into divine awareness we go, the more futile our efforts to define that journey goes. But this doesn’t mean it’s not genuine and divine. Our ego often wants to define it by words because it has no ability to embrace mystery. In choosing to explain it by words, our egoic self wants to reduce it to an intellectual knowing as opposed to an ongoing and expansive divine awareness.

Part of the reason we do this is we honor the mind more than the soul. The soul is a perspective not a “thing.” The soul is the interpretive space between a person and the events of his or her life. The soul allows us to transform these events into awareness that makes life eternal and abundant.

The soul is also the place where we learn to hold experience and not simply define it and explain it. The soul thrives in reality but withers in religious denial. The soul finds the extraordinary in the midst of the ordinary because the soul is tethered to heaven and earth, “in the world, but not of it.” Where the religious mind wants to separate the two, the soul holds the paradox of both and interprets all from an ascended perspective. This is the only way to experience abundant life where we are as opposed to where we want to be or think we should be.
Stan Tyra