Soulmates

In this day and age many of us are looking for soulmates. I believe this relationship term is now commonly used because our consciousness has evolved to the point where our mate is no longer ideal simply defined as breadwinner or housewife, macho man or super woman. We don't want a mate, just to have someone there. We don't just want a ring on our finger to know we are secure. In this day and age we want a soul to mate with.

Our current search for a soulmate is much more spiritually driven than was the case in the past. The basis for relationship and/or marriage is now more than ever, driven by the desire to really know and be known. To know thyself, one must be confronted by a self that you feel safe to reveal yourself to.

Are we not much more capable of finding ourselves through relationship? As J. Krishnamurti calls it, "The mirror of relationship." We are looking for a soulmate that will hold up the mirror for us -- allow us to see ourselves as we never have before. Our desire is for our soulmate to hold up a mirror that is more polished than our own, with a clearer image of ourselves. A mirror less clouded than the one we have been looking through. For, without such a mirror, the other cannot be our soulmate.

The urge for a soulmate is really the urge to become one with God. Our human urge is always to join, and it is forever such, because our growth is always from separateness to union. Our search for our self, and ultimately our deepest Self, is not in error when it seeks The One in human form. All of us are created in the image of God, and ultimately therefore, are one with God. We are pieces of the puzzle. When joined with the right part, we begin to feel the union that we crave.

Just as Walt Whitman informed the world that he would not abase himself (his physical embodiment) to God as spirit, just so, we can more readily come to union with God by seeking source in other bodies--other souls. Are we not made to join? Are not the two genders designed for union? Are we not closer to God embracing our bodies and discovering union with another, through them? And when we discover this union with a soulmate, does this union not point to God?

As spirit is without form, it is hard to imagine union with God. However, in our humanness we can at least imagine union with another person. In our deepest self we know that there is someone out there who will join with us and show us more of who we are. Let us not disparage that-- forsake that, for each is a messenger of Source. There may be many, several, or perhaps just one soulmate, waiting for us. To refuse the outstretched hand of another, or to not reach your hand, is to abandon the search.

So, we set out on our search for our soulmate. If you are looking for your soulmate, whether you realize it or not, you are on a spiritual quest. You are seeking to know God as yourself. And how better to know God as yourself, than by first seeing him in others?

So who is your soulmate? That would be someone who has developed values and insights that are along the same path as yours. Perhaps not the same religion, perhaps not the same practices, but the values and intentions are the same. Your soulmate, you already know, will draw you out, test you, refine you, not to their way, but to the One.

You and your soulmate know that there is no one right path, that all paths lead to The Path. Both of you know that each of your paths leads to the One. There is no unconvincing you that your soulmate is out there. This is because your soulmate is a step, perhaps a large step, on the path to the One. Your true soulmate embodies directions to Source, and is a blessing to know. The one you are searching for is the One Self, the Source of your searching, for the seeker and the sought are ultimately discovered to be one. As Jesus said, I am in you, and you are in me, and we are all in the Father.

This is why no matter what others may say, no matter how they say it, they will never convince you that your soulmate is not out there somewhere. Deep in your soul you know that there is an ultimate Soulmate. And, even though you may not yet know that you are looking for God, for union with your creator, you do know that you must join with someone, that you must experience union to be complete.

So, do not disparage yourself or others seeking a soulmate. For the urge for union, even if only for union with another person, is a spiritual quest. It is not a quest you can drop This quest is ordained by Self from the beginning, ordained by God. It drives all embodied creation to seek return.

You may have found your soulmate once, or several times, and then lost them. But you persist. This is not an urge that you can drop. So bless the desire for your soulmate. All are steps along the way. All are necessary. All are for the purpose of refining your search until you realize that your soulmate has always been with you, and always will be.

You and your soulmate are already one in Source. And when you both become aware of this, neither of you will seek another soulmate, but will live together in harmony, abiding in The One.

Maury Lee 8/29/04

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