What is the soul?

I’ve been pondering this question a lot lately. Prior to my spiritual awakening experiences after my dad’s death, I would have answered this question with the idea that our soul is the part of ourselves that is our personality. For example, I am extremely empathetic, and I considered that a part of my soul.

I am coming to see the soul as something more unifying than separating. Personality characteristics define us as separate from one another. They are a part of our labels. Nice, generous, grumpy, or neurotic – these are characteristics that I believe we have taken on due to our life experiences, past and present, but they are not at all our essence.

Knowing one’s soul is to know the part of you with its deepest roots in love and life purpose. For example, I am traveler and of course this is founded in love and the desire to know and appreciate the Earth and all its people. Yet, it is not that being a traveler is my soul. As souls, we already are all travelers, carrying within our spiritual selves a love for our Earth home and all its humans because our soul knows that we are all the same Light. Rather, traveling is the vehicle that has allowed me to grow my soul’s essence, which is to build bridges between people and cultures, and now, the seen and the unseen.

I am Light. You are Light. It is the same Light. We differentiate from each other only by how our Light (or soul) will express its Love through purpose. Find your spirit’s strongest desire to bring Love to the world, and there you will find your soul.