Words from Pep
Looking for Souls…
Before the place where I sit
hundreds pass me by, unique, beautiful beings of mystery and amazement. I look
out through curved windows seeking a glimpse of each soul as if I were God. Now
and then an unknown force draws the eyes of one to gaze into mine and a tiny fragment
of understanding is exchanged. A revelation that together we breathe the one
breath of creation. . . . . . I have taken a moment in this shopping mall to
re-center, to regain a semblance of mindfulness amidst the folly of
consumerism. . . . . . “Looking for souls,” I call it. It is the quickest way I
know to find mine, to bring my scattered being back to center, to hush the
dissonance of my song. By this deliberate invisible reaching out for the beauty
and essence of another, harmony is restored, as love effortlessly rises in my
heart like a warm current in a restless sea. . . . . . Yes, harmony and love,
part of our very nature, shy and polite, waiting to be invited into daily life.
There is nothing peculiar or weird, no hocus pocus required to walk in these
most supreme attributes of life. Harmony and love arrived with you in the same
package at birth. Through our journey scars and wounds unhealed, misunderstood
pain, deception and distraction may shout them into a back corner of our soul
and we may wonder if they were only an illusion. But, fact of the matter is, it
is through the very ebb and flow of the tides of life, the privilege, if you
will, of being hurt, feeling anguish, suffering and our own foolish
self-centeredness, that we learn to cherish the mindful state of harmony and
love. . . . . . I have spent only a few minutes on this bench in the mall. The
clamor of all this commotion and busyness is once again set in its place as I
have made contact with the core of who I am. . . . . . . I invite you to give
it a try. Sit down, step back, imagine you are the Parent of Creation beholding
your children. Judge not. See the beauty and mystery that is every being before
you. Love will effortlessly rise and you will find the song of your soul in
harmony.
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ONE WORLD - ONE FAMILY OF MAN - ONE CREATOR OF ALL
ONE WORLD - ONE FAMILY OF MAN - ONE CREATOR OF ALL
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