Nourishing the Soul

We go to inspiring seminars seeking to connect to our soul. We attend retreats, go to church, to mass, to temple, or to an ashram, we practice yoga, pray, or chant mantras, meditate, become mindful, and read books by those who profess to move us in the direction of our soul.

And then we walk down the street and see the Eastern European woman holding out her hand (in our Western European country) for money. or we see the South or Central American illegal immigrant working surreptitiously in the garden or house of our neighbour. Or we run into the colleague at work who always has the knack of annoying us. Or we are faced with a recalcitrant teen who happens to live under our roof. Or we have yet another call from our aging parent who once again repeats the same story that we've heard so many times before. Or we are greeted by an out-of-sorts spouse as we arrive at home.

And what do we do? Amazingly, all those inspiring seminars, retreats, church sermons, ashrams, yoga practices, prayers, mantras, meditations, mindfulness, and books fly out of our mind, and we lose our patience. Or we raise our eyebrows and make a face. Or we think thoughts of criticism, judgement, moral superiority, or even anger.

These moments - these situations we run across almost on a daily basis (these or others that are similar) - are our greatest opportunities to nourish and move closer to the soul. Why? Because at these moments we can remember to be kind and then practice it just one more time. As King Solomon put it: your own soul is nourished when you are kind.

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