Since life is a mystery and we
may never know how we came about and what happens after we die, we can all
speculate about this brief period of living.
My own interpretation: we are
entrusted with a soul. Our mission
becomes growing this soul during our custodianship. We have choices we can make. We can let our soul stagnate or we can
improve it.
The concept of reincarnation
intrigues me. This would say that after
we die our soul continues but in a different body. Does this really happen? We don’t know and probably never can
know. Some people seem to be in
possession of immature souls and others exhibit the wisdom of a mature and
experienced soul.
It’s said that there are more
people alive today than have ever lived before though the history of
mankind. Thus if souls get passed on,
then a whole lot of new souls keep getting added to the mix. Unless souls are being supplied from some
other location in the universe. That
presents another interesting possibility.
Outsourced souls.
Regarding the reality of this, I
don’t know. But I like the concept of
soul custodianship--that we take responsible for a soul during our lifetime.
This provides a good model for
ethical living. It implies we should do
everything possible to grow our soul during our lifetime. We should contribute to life and not death,
nurture our soul with positive experiences and the beauty of nature, learning
from life’s experiences and doing what we can in our sphere of influence to
make the world a better place.
Since we can each have an impact
either positive or negative, why not contribute to the positive?
Water
your soul, give it light and, sure, a little fertilizer is always getting
thrown on it, but just realize that this also helps your soul grow.
1 comment:
Lovely and thoughtful post, Mike. I like the idea of our purpose being to grow the soul...and if there is such a thing as reincarnation, I'd certainly like to be a librarian in my next life.
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