{"id":2106,"date":"2012-11-12T18:22:53","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T18:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flightofthesoul\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2012-11-18T22:26:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T22:26:29","slug":"day-twenty-three-forgive-flower-flourish-soul-force-in-full-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/flightofthesoul\/2012\/11\/day-twenty-three-forgive-flower-flourish-soul-force-in-full-bloom.html","title":{"rendered":"Day Twenty Three – Soul Force"},"content":{"rendered":"

The soul knows where it belongs. Not some of the time. All of the time. When you strip everything away and get bare this fact sings.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t matter what path you choose, what form the exploration, just that you remove any blocks and keep yourself open.\u00a0 Your life to date, the pain and wounds, joy, laughter and love, all the love… you can use as a road map of how to find your way back to the space that knows. That lives in eternal joy and peace. \u00a0That flourishes in a warm embrace.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Like Dorothy at the end of The Wizard of Oz when she says “Why didn’t you tell me all I needed to do was click my heals three times to go home?” to which the Good Witch responds “You never would have believed me.”\u00a0 I remember thinking as a kid, “Mother F-er … Would have been good to know.”<\/p>\n

How much easier would life be if we skipped the drama and those harried flying rabid attack monkeys?<\/p>\n

You can choose to see things differently and take any light bulb moment of truth to change the story you’ve created. To get help. To share yourself. To move from fear to love, from insecure to joyful. You can choose in this moment to open yourself up to the possibility of being happier today than you were yesterday, to be the change necessary so you are delivered from whatever your current circumstance into peace and Love. Simply by choosing to be awake.<\/p>\n

Believe it.<\/p>\n

Today. Right now. I’m giving you a free pass. A pass to forgive yourself and anyone you have been carrying a ‘hate on’ or ‘worry fest’ for. As you read this allow forgiveness to be understood and accepted and make the “journey (without distance) from your head to your heart.” Notice it says without distance, not without resistance. I get that it might be upseting to remember the universe has it covered. I get that people will trigger you. Don’t let it take you around and around the yellow brick road. No matter what comes your way, you always have access to your center, just as Dorothy did, you can click your heals three times and go directly home.<\/p>\n

Release the past. The future has no business today and be willing to have the truth, your truth Lovingly blossom.<\/p>\n

You owe it to the earth. You owe it to yourself.<\/p>\n

Here’s to a magnificent new week!<\/p>\n

smiles,<\/p>\n

Melanie<\/p>\n

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The essence of Satyagraha<\/a> (a name Gandhi invented meaning “adherence to truth”[137]<\/a><\/sup>) is that it seeks to eliminate antagonisms without harming the antagonists themselves and seeks to transform or “purify” it to a higher level. A euphemism sometimes used for Satyagraha is that it is a “silent force” or a “soul force” (a term also used by Martin Luther King Jr. during his famous “I Have a Dream<\/a>” speech). It arms the individual with moral power rather than physical power. Satyagraha is also termed a “universal force,” as it essentially “makes no distinction between kinsmen and strangers, young and old, man and woman, friend and foe.”<\/p>\n

Day\u00a0Twenty Three\u00a0of 100 days of Mel\u2019s 100 days of Love and Inspiration.<\/p>\n

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Melanie Lutz is a screenwriter, author, and poet. For more from Melanie, visit her\u00a0Flight of the Soul<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0blog on\u00a0Beliefnet<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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