To some that may seem sad though, to arrive in this “feeling” place where grief has brought you. But is it really? Perhaps it’s a better thing than you imagined, this place where truth resides within. Perhaps it’s more than you ever bargained for. Sure, grief brought you here, but what else goes on in this place of tender emotion? How about looking around, since you’re already here?

These are your life lessons after all, to have and to hold, until your truths can be borne. How could you ever have a guru do that for you? No such luck! You have to do it yourself. But what a fantastic opportunity to get to know yourself better, to live deep inside your own heart and soul while this grieving process goes on around you.

Let me assure you that you will survive. You will overcome these tragic effects. Because there is truth in there where you live. And that truth will take you somewhere important - for you! This is Your Truth, remember, and only you can assess, experience and benefit from effects it will have upon you.

So do it! Allow yourself to descend to where it hurts and find out for yourself what this experience of grief and loss is, and what it can teach you that might correct your misperceptions about Life, Love & Purpose. Yes, you have access to truth, just as I do, just as we all do. As these lessons arrive, they are yours for taking. We all get them. Grief and Loss are but one more avenue to help us get to our very own Truth. Yes, suffering will eventually pass, but Truth – well, that’s forever!

The Self is not our Ego which has been our symbol of outward expression until this time. The ego has been an integral part of our human journey but is no longer its mainstay. As many Eastern philosophers point out, ego is a stepping stone to this new threshold, arising of Self. This Self is our core which, as we shall see, connects us to Divine. Remember, ego wants to be a God unto itself, totally self-sufficient and isolated, lying at root of all our addictions which take us away from our true Self.

This Self contains and expresses that which we are in our feelings and emotions. This feeling nature has been called Heart and refers to our strongest desires and passions. “Follow your bliss” Joseph Campbell would suggest in answer to such questions as “who am I?” and “what is my purpose here on this earth?” The “recovery movement” has linked this Self with “the lost inner child.” Again, another description that places Self as our feeling nature. I believe that this Self is “true” center of our human personality and when “free” and “actualized” connects us to our Soul, its spiritual counterpart.

Our Soul is our connection to Spiritual and very source of our being. Our Soul takes on human form for its Earthly experience and gives rise to Self which is spiritual in human form. Self and Soul are flip sides of same coin. On one side we see our spiritual nature; on other we see our essential human nature. Expressing Divine through our human form brings God down to Earth and renders this physical experience “Holy.” Our parables, myths and stories recount this journey where hero or heroin always emerges vitally alive, unencumbered and free.

The Self then, is brought forward and nurtured on human plane of experience. Expressing this Self strengthens us in our human drama and leads us back to Soul. Self and Soul work dynamically together to maintain bond between human and Divine. We see that we are Spiritual beings first and foremost. And our humanness is but one expression of Divine that seeks to enlarge Itself through human journey, to once again assert why we are here – which is simply To Grow!