Soul Journey to Love

How to use this book:
This book is meant to be read and reflected upon as one passage a day for 100 days. If you wish, you can linger on a passage for more than a day. Do not read it all at once as the information builds upon itself with some repetition. You may also be intuitively guided to open to any page and know that it will be the right one for you. The choice is yours. If you feel that journaling your thoughts will help you, then by all means do so.
The book is divided into three parts. Part I contains general and specific instructions in how to quiet the mind and go within. Part II is more explanatory about the mind of God or universal mind and its relation to us and Part III is more lyrical, consisting of prayers and poems. These sections have some fluidity to them and you will find instructions in Part II, explanations in Part I and hopefully, lyricism throughout.
Day 1
In all things hold yourself true And listen to your inner voice.
The thoughts you are thinking are not the true thoughts of love and peace which are your birthright.
Underneath the toil and activity of your day is a stillness within. Seek the way inward and you will find who you really are.
This book will help you achieve this state. It is up to you to continue its work.
Be vigilant about your thoughts, observe them, be loving toward them and let them go.
There is a new universe within you which only you can find. No book can take you there nor tell you what is there, it is only your experience which will teach you.
Each has his own path on the soul’s journey back to its source of love.
Enjoy the ride.
Day 2
Your magnificence as a being is beyond compare. You hold the entire universe in your mind and heart. Your mind can be your friend or foe in case you have not figured that out yet. When you use the expression, I am of two minds, there is a deep knowledge within of which you are not even consciously aware.
Your mind is split between the habituated thought patterns that you have layered upon yourself from the time you could think, from what you learned from your parents, from school, friends, from society and the other mind.
The other mind is your true self, your true being. It has always been there. It is your unique energy signature but it is the part of you that is always connected to God. You hear this part of your mind talking to you when you watch a sunrise in awe, you hear this part of mind when you meet someone as if it is a coincidence, you hear this part of your mind, connected to something greater than you when you are at peace, sitting in a meadow, a church, a concert and you feel that all is well. This is a feeling you would like to have all the time.
But the first mind, the habituated mind, sometimes gets in the way of what we will call open mind. The habituated mind is full of details and worries, what ifs and what to do next. The habituated mind listens to the outside world and reacts to it. The habituated mind tells you that you will not do anything with your life, that you are ordinary and not good enough, that others are wiser, smarter, more handsome, thinner.
The habituated mind is an illusion, a fabrication of your thinking which comes from a distorted view of who you think you should be. As said before it originates in what others think about you and who you should be. And being the social animal that you are, you have complied.
However, this is not the truth about you.
The truth only lies within. In fact, you won’t get it from a book. You will get it from going within yourself, from listening for the tiny stream that connects to the larger river of the universe, the river of God, so to speak. “How do I do this?” you say. “I live a hectic life, always going from place to place. I barely have time to sleep.” And we say, you can slow down at any time you choose: in your car, on the bus or train, on the way to a meeting, in the quiet of a quick shower or a luxurious bath. You can slow down enough to listen to your open mind. It is always best if you can set aside time to go within, to meditate or reflect. But that is often not possible.
And so, if you find yourself walking somewhere alone, even if it is from one end of your workplace to the other, make it a meditation.
Walk and breathe in: I am walking, I am observing, I am living.
Walk and breathe out: I am alive, I am free, I am one with all.
Let the words come to you for your own walking meditation.
It is in the power of observing yourself just a little bit that you break free of the habituated mind. You can notice that
Day 14
Oneness is achieved not from a longing for it but from a knowing that it can be.
Oneness is all there is. There is no more than that.
Know that you can achieve that sense of Oneness with all by just turning your attention to it and away from the worldliness around you.
In your everyday life, you can bring that sense of Oneness with all by preparing yourself beforehand.
Meditating at the beginning of the day to set yourself off on the right foot is the best way to begin.
Meditate on Oneness, on the unity of all things in this world and others.
Relax and feel within yourself the expansion of all within you and all the possibilities you hold.
Accept all thoughts that come to mind and release them. Go through them and allow them to pass through you.
Focus instead on the Oneness of all. When thoughts distract you return to your breath and the sense of Oneness.
Do not feel you need a mantra, a focus of attention. Accept all thoughts that come to you but treat them equally.
Become quiet, very still. And then allow your mind and soul to enter another place, another dimension.
Allow yourself to be transported to a place with no time, no sight, a blank black space where you sit and can receive.
If you wish to ask a question, you may. Or ask to be prompted by the divine for guidance. Or ask what is your purpose for the day.
Breathe quietly and listen within. It will be given to you, always and with great love.
The answers are always there within you. You must tune to the frequency in which to receive. You must know in your heart that you are open and that you can receive at all times.
When you start your day in this way you will be ready for all that comes your way and you will receive much guidance and loving kindness from your innermost being.
As the day goes on, remember the feeling of sitting alone and bring yourself back to it throughout the day even if you are very busy. Thus you will imprint upon yourself a way to be at all times, a way to allow one thought to follow the other but to treat them all equally. For they are nothing but thoughts and they are random even if you later try to make logical sense of them. These are not the thoughts to listen to. The other thoughts, the ones which are true, come from within, not from the mind you know, the mind with which you are familiar.
The thoughts that are true come from a deeper place within you which you can access at any time, but it takes practice to allow them to come to the fore.
Go within at all times and be refreshed. Be renewed. Be at peace. Be at One with all.
Day 72 Always know that you are lovedWhether you are in pain or in joySoak in the ever-present love of God’s lightAnd be One with everythingLove is the only wayAn open heart and a quiet mindWill lead you within To the loving arms of GodWhere you will be joyful and at peace