The Ways of the Soul

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Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on December 5, 2025 at 5:48pm

Comment by Luna Arjuna on December 5, 2025 at 6:05am

'Slowing downwards' refers to more than simply moving slowly, it means growing down towards the roots of one’s being. Instead of outward growth and upward climb, life at times must turn inward and downward in order to grow in other ways . . . . Slowing downwards creates opportunities to dwell more deeply in one’s life, for the home we are looking for in this world is within us all along.

Michael Meade
Art: Allison Adams

Comment by Eva Libre on December 4, 2025 at 2:16pm

Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry, or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur to us, unless we stumbled on a book or a person who explained it to us, that we were in fact in the process of change, of actually becoming larger, spiritually, than we were before.

Whenever we grow, we tend to feel it, as a young seed must feel the weight and inertia of the earth as it seeks to break out of its shell on its way to becoming a plant. Often the feeling is anything but pleasant. But what is most unpleasant is the not knowing what is happening. Those long periods when something inside ourselves seems to be waiting, holding its breath, unsure about what the next step should be, eventually become the periods we wait for, for it is in those periods that we realize that we are being prepared for the next phase of our life and that, in all probability, a new level of the personality is about to be revealed.

Alice Walker

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on December 3, 2025 at 5:49pm

That is so true, sometimes we even surprise ourselves, and we do not know whom we are, how could anyone else know us?

But we all have all the possibilities, within!

Comment by Luna Arjuna on December 2, 2025 at 2:14pm

Life is a matter of perspective. There are many people who may know you, but there are very few who understand who you are.

Kristen Butler
Art: Thomas Dodd

Comment by Carmen Elsa Irarragorri-Wyland on November 19, 2025 at 12:13am

Thanks for the Welcome, Luna, I have been here before, but somehow I could not get back to the group!

Comment by Luna Arjuna on November 17, 2025 at 5:16pm

Welcome John, and all other lovely people too... thanks for joining the group...

Comment by Luna Arjuna on November 17, 2025 at 5:06pm

In truth, shedding our many layers of beliefs, habits and defensive practices built over the decades, especially those developed from our earliest traumatic experiences, takes a long, long time. It is a slow, infinitesimally gradual process as we painfully remove one tightly wound skin after another . . . .
If we can accept this then we can ease up on ourselves and sink into a lifelong journey of release and growth. At times it feels like we’re making no progress. But in fact, when we look back with self-compassion we can see just how far we have come. Yes, there's probably still a long way to go but that’s the point: it’s the journey of a lifetime to become who we truly are. To remove our many skins of pretence, falsity, protection and harmful self-beliefs and behaviours is a gradual revealing of our true, fullest rainbow colours once more.

Angela Dunning
Art: Carlos Quevedo

Comment by Luna Arjuna on November 17, 2025 at 5:04pm

Welcome to the group, Carmen!

Comment by John Savlove on November 17, 2025 at 5:04pm

Thank you!

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