Soul
Connections
“The
soul enters the world with a deep need to connect with other souls. The soul
within you craves intimacy and honesty. Guess what? So does the soul of
everyone around you.”
Naomi
Levy (Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul, p.159, Flatiron Books,
2017)
One of
the things I miss most in this self-imposed isolation during the pandemic is
the opportunity to have long conversations with people I love. I have a hard
time with “small talk” and am no good at all at parties. What almost always
happens in such situations is that I end up spending the evening sitting in one
place, with someone I do not know telling me their life story. I think that is
because what Rabbi Naomi Levy wrote in the quote above is true—we are all
looking for someone with whom we can connect at the soul level. That’s why it
is so popular to say someone is “looking for their soulmate.” When we connect
with another welcoming soul, we feel safe and at home.
It is
nice when this connection comes with the added benefit of romantic love, but it
does not always happen that way, and that is as it should be. Sometimes we have
friends for decades with whom we never connect at the soul level. I don’t
understand the reason except for the fact that our soul knows the difference
between those who are simply friends and acquaintances and those who are soulmates.
Both are valuable, but we connect with the former at a more superficial level,
and with the latter at a deeper, more intimate level. When souls connect, there
is no feeling of distance, no need for subterfuge, no pretense, no desire to
delude or manipulate, nothing to prove, and no desire for power. We become our
authentic selves without the need for ego defenses. If we are lucky, we will have many soulmates over our lifetime.
Naomi
Levy uses the example in her book, Einstein and the Rabbi, of a child
who moves to a new town and a new school. At first that child knows no one—doesn’t
know who to sit with at lunch, has no one to play with on the playground, may
even be a subject of scorn. That child is lost and probably terrified. Then one
single child comes over and says, “Hi, I’m so-and-so. May I sit with you.” Just
that one act of connection makes the world a better place and gives that child
hope that better times are ahead. One soul has recognized another.
We are
all in the market for soul connections. I’m a believer in asking the universe
for what you want. “Pray without ceasing,” as the Bible tells us in 1Thessalonians 5:17. The soul who
wants connections and is open to allowing a higher power to guide them, will
find other souls with whom to connect. The reason for this: all our souls are looking
for the same thing. Let today be your day to connect soul-to-soul.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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