Episode 395 - To Not Feel Lost in the Chaos of the World

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Aug 7, 2024

In a fast-paced world, feelings of insignificance can emerge, yet they can lead to profound spiritual growth. The podcast explores the connection between our souls and the cosmos, revealing how navigating chaos can help us rediscover meaning. It emphasizes the journey of embracing both the light and dark within ourselves as essential for growth. Listeners are encouraged to connect with their inner spark and recognize their part in the grand tapestry of creation, turning chaos into a catalyst for transformation.

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INSIGHT

Soul Connects Us to Cosmos

Feeling small arises from losing our sense of soul, not from our size.
Our souls carry a spark connected to galaxies and creation's origins.

ANECDOTE

Feeling Small in Tough Times

Michael Mead felt small in recent situations, alongside others feeling unequal to their times.
People lacked courage or genuineness to stand or seek help in challenging moments.

INSIGHT

Myth Feeds the Soul

Myth and imagination serve as vital nourishment like water for the soul.
Without them, we risk shrinking into a small, unexpressed self.

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In a world that's rapidly changing in ways that can feel chaotic and threatening, it becomes easy to feel diminished, lost and small. Although it is common now to feel like nothing but a speck in a vast, accidental universe; we only feel truly small when we lose our sense of soul. Small and insignificant as we may feel at times, we carry within our souls a spark that is connected to the galaxies and to the origins of creation. When the world becomes darker, more confusing and more chaotic, we have to learn to see with the eyes of the soul or else wind up feeling smaller and smaller when our souls would have us grow in meaningful ways.

When we begin to feel diminished by the chaos and the confusion in the world, there are two places to turn to. We can turn to our innate connection to the stars, to the origins of life and the source of ongoing creation. For that is part of the inheritance of the human soul. And we can turn the opposite way, looking inward where there is also a great expanse of darkness, in which the speck of star, the spark of life and inner light of the soul waits to receive our attention in order that it might grow, and it can only grow from darkness.

It is our nature to be betwixt and between, to be part of both the macrocosm and the microcosm; to be stretched between the mundane and the sacred, between the gravity-bound surface of the earth and the endless expanse of the starry heavens. We are here to grow our souls, despite and because of the darkness around us. For, the world is not a finished place; rather it is always on the verge of becoming. The same is true of our lives; for our souls are always on the verge of awakening further in both small and big ways that can connect with and contribute to creation ongoing.

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