“Be As
Boundless As Your Soul”
Deepak Chopra writes, “When
you give up the idea of “my soul,” you can participate
in an unbounded creation. Countless people don’t
realize that such a choice exists; many more wouldn’t
choose an unbounded life if it was offered. Living
within boundaries offers a sense of security. But this
turns out to be an either/or choice.”
Studying Chopra’s latest book,
Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul is
really causing me to examine my beliefs. Discussion of
the soul has always been nebulous for me. Whenever I
talk about the “soul” I feel uncertain and feel as if I
am on shaky ground. So I am growing as I “try on”
Chopra’s ideas.
This Sunday’s lesson title is “Be As
Boundless As Your Soul.” The title is based on the
title of one of Chopra’s chapters. He considers “being
as boundless as your soul” to be a breakthrough in
awareness and understanding of what our soul is and does
for us. What I believe he is asking of us is to engage
in a conversation about the soul and to question our
beliefs about it. What we are really exploring is the
expansion of our consciousness. Ask yourself this,
“What would it be like for me to be boundless? Would I
feel comfortable and experience a sense of freedom or
would I feel uncomfortable and feel insecure?”
In addition, this Sunday, I am told that
the Leprechauns will be with us. They are planning to
kidnap a special person at each service and will only
release him or her when they receive our coins. I
understand they are compassionate kidnappers, but
nonetheless, they’ll ransom their captive for handfuls,
pocketfuls, bucketfuls, and piggy bankfuls of coins.
There must be something about the sound and sparkle of
coins that they like. Come prepared! And remember
to set your clocks ahead Saturday night as we change
to Daylight Savings time.
Happy Wearin’ of the green…
