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Post by Fuzzy on Dec 7, 2004 7:32:31 GMT -5
What a profound statement! Fortunately it only applies to those who choose to believe it.
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Post by Webmaster on Dec 7, 2004 8:00:58 GMT -5
Exactly. People invent this concept of a "soul mate" and choose to believe in it, and even take it as if it was a part of reality... but it's just a concept in their minds.
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Post by Lily on Dec 7, 2004 8:08:00 GMT -5
Carpediam, As I said , I sure did'nt mean to step on any toes! I also would never expect anyone to accept my soulmate requirments over their own. I had hoped just to express my thoughts. Had no intention of opening up a can of hostility. Romance has a place in an intimate relationship! An important one at that. However, in my life I know that romance has to have it's time and place. The love and commitment in my relationship with my soulmate is always evident to me.Romance is the icing on the cake! Mabye the "shit diaper" analogy was a bit harsh but they are a reality. For me it's very romantic when my soulmate tell me to just sit down, you've had a hard day babe, I'll get this round. Yep I love that. I'm important enough to him that he's putting me first. That's a beautiful requirment in a soulmate. At least in my book!
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Post by Lily on Dec 7, 2004 8:25:49 GMT -5
Hey Webmaster! What are your thoughts on this? With a friend as well as a lover, it is very rare to connect with someone, even once in a lifetime- who you can allow to be in that intimate place in your mind where all the weird, strange, excentric parts abide that are truly you. To have someone "get it". Those secret, private parts of you are so easily misunderstood that allowing just anyone inside is a risk. They can stomp on your psyche and not even realise it. But when and if that crazy,wonderful person comes along; that someone who is on the "same page" as you- that person who "gets" your own craziness, who loves and cherishes that inner part of you and is trusted with it. Then you are blessed with what it is to have a soulmate in this wild ride we call life.
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Post by Bluebird on Dec 8, 2004 2:48:10 GMT -5
I believe there can be several soulmates. Somehow it seems logical to me that there are several people on the same level with me, completing me, and we learn and teach each other together. Like a class of pupils with a commitment to teach and support each other. Perhaps one of these is my second half and more important than the rest, but it seems strange to think that there is ONE soul in the whole universe and in all its reincarnations that belongs to me, while everyone else is a stranger.
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Post by CarpeDiem on Dec 8, 2004 4:47:06 GMT -5
Lily,
If you think that you would step on someone's toes, then stand still don't walk forward. Think. Not everyone has the same idea of a soulmate as you. I respect the fact that you have found your soulmate in your life. Wonderful! However, be careful of how you compare your soulmate to those of others. I agree the "shit diaper" analogy was a bit harsh. Unless you know all of us in this forum, and you probably don't, you won't know how anyone else will react. I certainly don't accept anyone's version of a soulmate over mine. This forum should be for comparing of notes and not to say my version is better than yours. Rather, it should be here's my version of a soulmate, and I am happy with it. To those skeptics out there, there is such thing as a soulmate. I choose to believe that there is one out there for everyone. We may not find him or her at 20 years old, 30 or 40 years old, but we will. We may find out soulmate like Richard Bach did, or we may find our soulmate who will change diapers, put kids to bed, or get up for the 2:00 a.m. feeding when he or she does not have to. Not their turn. We never know. Keep the faith and keep searching.
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Post by tonythevegan on Dec 26, 2004 13:58:31 GMT -5
Hi, I'm new here so "Hello" and thanks for making this post possible. I have been a R.B. fan since Jon in the 70's, Bridge and One being my favourites. Most of my friends have received at least one of his books as a present from me!
My requirements for a soulmate would have to be.
Honesty, compassion, ability to laugh till the tears fall (including at our own mistakes), thoughtfulness, intelligence, passion and being Vegan.
Lots of other things would be nice (Stargate fan, a degree in hummous making, beach house) but at the end of the day, differences in taste of music etc may just be an opportunity for growth.
Love and hugs to all
Tony
P.S. If they enjoyed sledging, snowball fights and not be ashamed to go back to being a big kid sometimes that would be a bonus.
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Post by Dwayne on Jan 5, 2005 16:12:01 GMT -5
Messiah's handbook expresses it so well ... "Argue for your limitations, & sure enough, they're yours." Additionally, Donald cautioned, "You'd best be careful how you liven up the evenings. Problems are not jokes & games to the people who come to you, ..." It is too easy to react to your words in this. Given 4 days since first coming across this blunt posting of yours, have given my response. Am needing to look deeper into this website, as this soul questions if he may be in a loving place after all. ~Dwayne~
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Post by l8rpixi on Jan 9, 2005 11:57:25 GMT -5
I don't know if there is a soul-mate. I know that you can fall in and out of love, you can experience a spiritual connection with someone upon a first meeting. My big brother is my best friend, always will be. We didn't talk for years, and we picked up right where we left off. I think we are all connected in some way or another. Some people just recognize a stronger, unmistakeable connection together than others.
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Post by Dwayne on Jan 9, 2005 12:48:40 GMT -5
As it is another 4 days since my expression of needing to look deeper into this website, this is now completed enough for me to conclude that there is most certainly love here in this forum & plenty of it. While not at all caring for how Webmaster Eric came across with his terse statement concerning there being no such things as soulmates, have stated my feelings concerning this in a good way & have since let it go. Yet there remains a certain uneasiness in my self over many of the postings to be found here ... almost as if there be trolls attempting to get their kicks, or to continue to allow certain postings to remain public as if intending harm ... I don't know ... but neither is this soul able to dismiss this intuitive sense that not all is as it appears, many illusions being intentionally cast here & there. Then there are the many gracious, loving & open posts of light made by wonderful & trusting souls whom are not really from here to begin with. What we innately know as the truth Is the truth. We come from a place where greed & hatred do not exist. We accept these emotions pervading Earth at this time though we are not curious about them, for these negative energies can & will bite if we allow them to. Balanced, the spiritual mirror sorts out all with no preferences to anyone. Am no genius. Nor is this artist a prophet, guru or is above or below anyone on the level of the Soul, as it is most certainly level ground. Am not a fully enlightened soul here now as well, though some small steps have been realized which were not intentionally sought, enough to know that I do not know. The fact that this writer even talks about it is enough to prove this. This artist stands in light, releasing whatever minscule amount of light as granted by the higher powers that be. Is a comfort to know that others like us are here now. Our mission is to respect, to teach & to love. Blessings ... ~Dwayne~
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Post by cindyprism on Jan 10, 2005 8:27:24 GMT -5
I would agree that it seems possible for soulmates to not exist. But I for one choose to believe they do. Because all of my experience so far makes it seem like they do, because I can imagine it. Yes, it seems I can imagine it perfectly now, more than I can ever recall. It seems a soulmate is another soul who seems more dependable and fun than any other soul one can recall ever meeting, and more dependable and fun than any other soul one can imagine ever meeting. That's my own personal belief. But it seems you are free, and always have been free and always will be free, to believe whatever you want, do whatever you want to do. Whatever really seems best at the moment. I for one, at least at the moment, would not want to believe that soulmates do not exist. Because when I imagine it, it doesn't seem to make me as happy. At least, at the moment. The next moment, who knows?
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Post by guest on Feb 2, 2005 6:38:54 GMT -5
Hey This is in reply to Webmasters last post "soulmates don't exist, they are just a concept in your mind..." Of course they are just a concept. If we are to believe Richard Bach's writing, EVERYTHING is just a concept in our mind, an illusion, remember? The whole universe is just an illusion. He also says that all lives are one. So if we want to give this name "soulmate" to one particular aspect, that's great, that's dandy, but it's just a concept in our mind. Or an illusion, if your prefer. Great strain, by the way!
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Post by snowyh on Feb 19, 2005 17:01:19 GMT -5
I am my own soulmate.
In the IS I have no gender... being female is a choice I've made in this space-time. Another space-time, another choice, but I'm still genderless in the IS. I think somehow being forced to manifest myself as one or the other gender means that I'm only expressing part of my true identity here. Perhaps another part of me is male in some other dimension--my true soulmate?
Now, this business of recognizing old friends whom we've just met... it's tempting to label these folks, if they are of the opposite gender, our "soulmates." Could it not be just as it feels--that we are reencountering someone with whom we have had a deep and loving relationship before (in a past life)? Love goes beyond the flesh, and beyond the emotions, and won't that eternal part of me recognize the eternal part of a loved one, no matter when & where we may meet again?
P.S.--My guy's gotta love kitties!
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Post by Dwayne on Feb 21, 2005 23:00:45 GMT -5
This artist loves kitties ... www.clean-your-screen-for-free-now.com/... as well as enjoys a good inner-monitor screen cleaning. Patience as the link loads ... up to several minutes for dial-up. Hope you'll enjoy! ~Dwayne~
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Post by Cassiopeia on Feb 22, 2005 12:55:52 GMT -5
Soulmate...hm...What if I live in Europe but my soulmate is in...I don't know,maybe in New Zealand?What should I do? I believe that my soulmate exists, but what if I never reach him...? I think that the best desicion would be to conceptualize soulmate, even if i don't realy love the person, which is my boyfriend or smth. Maybe I need to believe a little bit more...or just to forget this idea... It's like a star, one day it shines, one - falls down from the sky...
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