Of soul, and body

I'm very fortunate to have in my life, this wonderful 31 year-old young woman. My young friend is wise beyond her years and a joy to know. On most days she has a bright smile, her face shining, matching her eyes, ready to banter to turn anything into a joke -- but there are days her eyes don't shine the same way, her skin too then takes on a pallor, and the smile is a bit wan. I bumped into her this morning --both our smiles were big, we were mirroring our affection for each other, and so I'm guessing our eyes were shining too, reflecting the joy we both felt in seeing the other, and she asked me how I was. 'F-i-n-e,' I said, stretching it a bit, and asked her how she was. Turning her swivel chair to face me I noticed her smile became a bit smaller even though the light in her eyes was strong: 'My soul is fine,' she said, 'but the body is weary.' Her answer made me laugh out aloud -- she was part serious and part hamming it... but she was spot on, and more honest than me I realized, because I had given her a rhetorical response and was now feeling closer to her answer than my own, at the end of a big week. 'Yes,' I told her, 'me too - but the blessing is that the soul is fine, just fine.'

And what's YOUR sense of what's happening within? Take it from me that if the body isn't fine and the soul is, you don't need to worry -- a bit of rest is all you need. But, if you can't answer how the soul is doing, then there's a good chance that the body is pretty numb, and if you don't know what you're going to do then chances are that you'll find a not-so-nice way to get out of this messy/yucky feeling, and your choice of action will take you away from feeling healed, to feeling more despondent than before.

Choose well, choose right, and find 5 minutes each day to read the entries in this blog, which are geared to help you find answers to life's existential questions and issues, with the larger goal of having a first hand experience of enlightenment... YES, IT'S POSSIBLE - AND YES, YOU CAN DO IT!

Be well,

Kiki;-)
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.