Your Soul Is Not Your Body

We are trying to tell the world that our body is our soul
We found ways to fill our bodies
Change our bodies
Keep our bodies from aging
Dressing younger or older depending on what we are trying to accomplish

And then if someone is disabled we think they are less or need more help than us
And if they are sick we get scared because it could be us
And if they are dressed 'better' than us we actually think they are 'smarter' than us
And a bigger house only reminds us that we are not as 'successful'

Yet, I am writing this and if you didn't know me, you wouldn't know anything about me
All you would hear are my words,
You would feel my feelings for a moment of your life
You would share the love I feel in writing this, as I am writing it

Love doesn't look like anyone
Love isn't meant only for some
Love isn't meant to be looked for
Or "learned" how to be
Love is open and free
Love doesn't have eyes or ears
Love only has feelings and instinct
Love protects all that comes our way
When we know enough about its freedom to let it

I found by writing that my soul is not my body
My heart is my soul
My body is just the way I get around
And everyone else too
Your body is the car of your soul
It takes your intentions, your thoughts, and it drives them into action
Your body will do anything your soul will ask of it
But your soul can not do anything your body asks of it

I remember most, that I always remember, what it felt like when I left someone
More than what we looked like or where we were
We leave with the emotions
That is why at times when we are not dressed and our guard is down,
Those days, they seem to be the best days we have
We are exempt from the race to be anything
Did you notice you are least shy when you are most open?

We can take a lesson from those of us whose bodies can not do what we do,
And still they are happy
Their secret is the truth of their soul's exposed
And we too, can learn
To let the body be a part of us and include our soul
It does not have to be one or the other, we simply can understand our purpose better
When we let the truth of us show itself, rather than expecting our love from the outside in

No one can ever walk away from an open heart
Truth is a magnet for its strength
And truth wears no masks!

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A Glimpse of Self Love

Are you scared to love me?
Does it show that I am scared to love you?
Maybe it is because I don't know how to love me either?

I have been trying to figure out how to love myself
for many years now
I still am not sure what that looks like to say, I love me, I love you too

When I don't love me the most
I get scared that you won't love me either
When I love me the most
I know you will be with me forever

I use to think of loving myself as selfish
Then I use to think it was all in my ego to do that
Then I realized when I was happy inside, selfish and ego weren't an issue
That I just wanted to spend time with you because I love you
Again when I was happy

And then I wake up and I am not so sure how I feel
And I take it out on you
Accusing you of things that were OK the day before
I found out when I am not happy, you will not be happy with me either
As I try to take it out on you so I don't have to face me

How do I love me?
So that I can love you
I was sitting on the floor one morning
On my way to an important meeting
And across from me was a mirror

I took a quick glance only to see myself sitting on the floor tying my shoe
When I looked up, I didn't see me, I saw a person, sitting on the floor, tying their shoe
It was a weird moment, however I realized I WAS a person
I stared at myself from a distance
I realized I looked like the people I see, not the person I know

I started talking to myself
I told myself,
You have a big meeting today,
I wish you well

When I said that I started to cry
It felt so good to care about me
Like the words of a dear friend
I continued talking

As I cried, I said, I am going to take care of you my friend
I am your friend
I see you wake up everyday, rush to get ready,
Yet I realized I never really see you at all

I am sorry I never looked
I judge you so harshly
And you are just making a way for yourself,
What ever that is

I promise to do right by you
From this moment forward
I will understand when you don't think you have done well that you have done your best
And I also promise not to hurt you more with the words in my head that take away from me
I will remind myself that you did your best and maybe it was not meant to be for you

I also promise that when things are going great to let you enjoy those moments for what they are
A part of life that keeps you motivated to do the rest of it
And I will remind myself that every purpose has a challenge and every challenge has a purpose
And that we are a team, My Heart, My Soul and My Mind

I will do right by you,
I will not let myself forget that you care and that I care
As my Heart and Soul spoke to my Mind
I realized still that I am one, yet at times there feels like there are two of me
One that loves and one that is harder on me than anyone I know

I sat on that floor and saw myself new that day
I got up and left feeling like I have a partner within myself
That I can be whole and awake to my actions
That I can do right by myself

And with that, that I understand what it means to do right by others too
They ARE me and I AM them
Just as I have the voice in my head that either cheers me on or stops me in my tracks
Joining myself with myself,
Gives me the path to join myself with you
I can love you more when I know what it feels like to love me more

Love can only propel once it knows that it is there

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Love's Soulvation

You can't know nice until you are nice
You can't know beautiful until you feel beautiful
You aren't happy for others until you feel happy yourself

You don't see the effort of others until you put forth an effort yourself
You won't acknowledge anothers success until you have felt a sense of success yourself
It's hard to have appreciation for anything if you never had to live without it

We can not know how it is to starve when we can't decide what to eat
We can not see a heart until we can feel our own
We can not extend a hand, until a hand has been extended to us

When we know something, then we can share it
We need examples from each other to see how effective it is to share who we are, what we feel
If one of us does something, someone else immediately learns, feels, understands its worth

We are one, we hear this and hear it
WE are one when it comes to respect
To dignity
To feel like someone notices
That someone really cares

It grows our belief that everything has good in it
That when we are angry and someone puts their hand on our back and says it will be OK
That is better than virtual slaps on the face with words and gestures that do nothing but give us reasons to let go

Take your initial reaction to a situation
And do the opposite
Instead of saying You did this or that, said this or that
Say, thank you for showing me what it feels like to take on your anger,
You must really be mad, although it is not obvious why
You are unkind to me, because you already feel it about somewhere else
I know you don't mean what you just said
I am sorry you are having a bad day

It sounds like a lot to say, however it is not
Think it, and it will come to the surface in your actions
All you have to say in truth is, I know you don't mean that
Sometimes that is all you need to say

And leave it to the other person to find in themselves their own motivations
and they can learn that, and have a moment to think about whatever it is in their heart
That is being a teacher
That is showing love when we don't know if we can
This is one way to do it
This is one way to care

WE think we need to wait for a good day to do better
No more wasting time
Time is not relevant when it comes to love

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