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March 2009 
Thomas Moore on the Soul's timing
Posted on Feb 24th, 2008
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Rather than come up with new understandings and new and improved ways of doing things, the soul prefers to get what it can gradually, taking its nourishment from what already is present. Like a cow chewing its cud, like grapes slowly fermenting into wine, like tobacco ripening into flavor, the past gives the soul its fodder, its stuff, the source of its particular kind of understanding and progress. Insight and change blossom from the soul like a flower coming into bloom after a long period of incubation. The soul's fertility is slow and organic, in comparison to the more spirited ways in which we pursue insight and transformation. ...the soul does not advance in a straight line, but by an "ascension of state," like the movement "egg to worm to fly."
Soul-work, therefore, demands patience and loyalty, virtues not in vogue in our fast-changing times. The soul asks that we live through our attachments, rather than try to make swift, clean breaks...
from SOUL MATES: HONORING THE MYSTERIES OF LOVE AND RELATIONSHIP.
Soul-work, therefore, demands patience and loyalty, virtues not in vogue in our fast-changing times. The soul asks that we live through our attachments, rather than try to make swift, clean breaks...
from SOUL MATES: HONORING THE MYSTERIES OF LOVE AND RELATIONSHIP.
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