What is the Soul?

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The soul is the unchangeable essence of who you are. It is the part of you that hasn't changed since you were born, and will be with you unchanged twenty years from now and forever. Your body and personality will change, but not you—the soul. It is immortal and can never be hurt by opening your heart. Your ego may get bruised, but that is not the real You.

Wisdom is your radiance not the truth in your head.
When you give up everything, you discover Everything.

The soul is the Self, the Center. The experience of the soul is in the mind. In the soul you live beyond mental reflections because you are both yourself and everything you see. Within the soul is the whole universe.

When you overanalyze the nature of the soul instead of enjoying and witnessing it (explained in Week 18), energy turns to the lower chakras. When you uplift yourself, you draw up the kundalini into the higher chakras. At the crown chakra you experience the soul in its pure state beyond all dualities.

Pause and contemplate the power of these ideas. Divine contemplation* is placing your awareness on the frequency of one unlimited idea without the mind wandering. In deep contemplation, the idea dissolves into the silence of the soul. From this state, listen to your inner voices without talking back, engaging the mind, and losing touch with the present. The voices will become less active but more wise.

Finally, become silence and contemplate your unchangeable essence. Walk through your days feeling connected with everything and every person. Know that your openness will touch everyone, sometimes provoking tremendous fears within people.

As soul, these responses do not diminish your serenity. You simply alchemize people's fears with love. By contemplating the timeless silence of your soul, you will not react to the illusions of everyday life.

*The first two chapters/months of this book are more about contemplation than meditation. The CD for these chapters, on the other hand, has many meditation techniques.