Anything that awakens your reverence will lead you to soul. Anyone who is acutely alive to the flow of life, who spills over with vitality and genuine responsiveness, will lead you there, too.
I hope people read the horoscopes other than their own there's information that you might have not seen other places and it might help you better understand your friends and the world around you
Oh dear, you have spared me a long, beautiful exercise: to write (or sing) how possible and exquisite it is to feel your soul pulsing through every moment. It’s my greatest love affair, perhaps made even sweeter by our decades-long separation. Trauma and dissociation are not unique. Still I’m so effing grateful for the persistence of that inner light that calls me back home through all the noise of a dysfunctional culture. Blessed be!
PS This essay is so gorgeous! Thank you for being You: soul-led and soul-fed, you nourish so many with universal source manna. More to come.
A friend once said that beauty exists within contrast and while I love your usual flowing poetic creative language, today’s post struck me with its clarity. Thank you for such beauty!
The poem is . . . I really have no words, but gratitude courses throughout my body after reading it aloud to my husband. We think it is a universal love poem encompassing eros, agape, storge, phileo. // The decision to 'know' our soul is a choice. Fourteen years ago, I had an epiphany about it and decided to believe, and with fits and starts, I tend to my own soul in such a way that it reflects my outward intentions in the world as I go forward alongside other people living out their soul's incarnation. I am not the same person today that I was back then because my soul decided to reveal itself to me. To contrast my experience the woman at the outset of today's column, she believes she is the "sum total of the influences in her life" and that she's "without an essential core." As I have struggled to identify my soul and nourish it and allow it to nourish me in return (it must have my permission) I've noticed that the conditioning we receive from others, the positive and negative and the mundane in-between, does condition our response to our soul's awakening. Collectively, they become an inhibition, food for a fattened ego, and consequently, these conditionings and influences become the source of our being and we miss the point of life. (Perhaps that was harsh? It is what I believe.) Honest inspection of these influences (but not persistent navel-gazing) with the intention of understanding our soul and living its incarnation fully has been both an overwhelming and beautiful experience. It has saved my life. I lost both of my children to accident and disease -- one I saw coming, the other I did not. I am not asking for sympathy, but rather to point out that loss and grief and hardship do provide portals for this life-affirming work. I am grateful to Rob for always providing guidance along my path.
Rob! I remember back when I was contemplating on reporting about the existential harm in this life at the hands of non-dual teachers. I was sooo wracked up with this decision about reporting on something I had loved with the ENTIRETY of my heart...but I could, also, no longer betray myself by *not *speaking up.
In talking with an astrologer with whom I had contacted for a free-reading (because I was absolutely broke) she said--and this is quintessential advice -- "When you are no longer in your physical body, and you are looking back upon your life, what would your Soul have wanted you to do." As SOON as she said those words I knew what I *had* to do.
Anything that awakens your reverence will lead you to soul. Anyone who is acutely alive to the flow of life, who spills over with vitality and genuine responsiveness, will lead you there, too.
I hope people read the horoscopes other than their own there's information that you might have not seen other places and it might help you better understand your friends and the world around you
Oh dear, you have spared me a long, beautiful exercise: to write (or sing) how possible and exquisite it is to feel your soul pulsing through every moment. It’s my greatest love affair, perhaps made even sweeter by our decades-long separation. Trauma and dissociation are not unique. Still I’m so effing grateful for the persistence of that inner light that calls me back home through all the noise of a dysfunctional culture. Blessed be!
PS This essay is so gorgeous! Thank you for being You: soul-led and soul-fed, you nourish so many with universal source manna. More to come.
Thank you, Poet! This, all of this, was sublime and encouraging! 🌟
And all the people said AMEN! We got this. Thank you - as ever - for the reminders & direction, Rob.
I love your description of the soul. It feels to me that it is the whole of the universe living inside me.
Yes! A spinning cosmos
Thank you, as always, for your powerful healing love energy and your way with words.
A friend once said that beauty exists within contrast and while I love your usual flowing poetic creative language, today’s post struck me with its clarity. Thank you for such beauty!
✨💛✨ thank you for your beautiful words.
Yessssss. To all of this!! 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The poem is . . . I really have no words, but gratitude courses throughout my body after reading it aloud to my husband. We think it is a universal love poem encompassing eros, agape, storge, phileo. // The decision to 'know' our soul is a choice. Fourteen years ago, I had an epiphany about it and decided to believe, and with fits and starts, I tend to my own soul in such a way that it reflects my outward intentions in the world as I go forward alongside other people living out their soul's incarnation. I am not the same person today that I was back then because my soul decided to reveal itself to me. To contrast my experience the woman at the outset of today's column, she believes she is the "sum total of the influences in her life" and that she's "without an essential core." As I have struggled to identify my soul and nourish it and allow it to nourish me in return (it must have my permission) I've noticed that the conditioning we receive from others, the positive and negative and the mundane in-between, does condition our response to our soul's awakening. Collectively, they become an inhibition, food for a fattened ego, and consequently, these conditionings and influences become the source of our being and we miss the point of life. (Perhaps that was harsh? It is what I believe.) Honest inspection of these influences (but not persistent navel-gazing) with the intention of understanding our soul and living its incarnation fully has been both an overwhelming and beautiful experience. It has saved my life. I lost both of my children to accident and disease -- one I saw coming, the other I did not. I am not asking for sympathy, but rather to point out that loss and grief and hardship do provide portals for this life-affirming work. I am grateful to Rob for always providing guidance along my path.
Perfectly timed, thank you
Thank you, Rob. I love my Leo horoscope!
Oh...man-of-man!!
My Soul saved this Life.
Rob! I remember back when I was contemplating on reporting about the existential harm in this life at the hands of non-dual teachers. I was sooo wracked up with this decision about reporting on something I had loved with the ENTIRETY of my heart...but I could, also, no longer betray myself by *not *speaking up.
In talking with an astrologer with whom I had contacted for a free-reading (because I was absolutely broke) she said--and this is quintessential advice -- "When you are no longer in your physical body, and you are looking back upon your life, what would your Soul have wanted you to do." As SOON as she said those words I knew what I *had* to do.
Thank you always,
-Leslie@ integrityintruth.com
The Mystery of Past Lives:
https://leslieread.substack.com/p/the-mystery-of-past-lives
destinations
Posted on February 22, 2026 | Edit
We all know these things.
They are written, deeply etched, in our moral codes
They are exhorted in our politicians’ speeches
They are preached in our core religious teachings
They are part of who we are
Apparently, oh so saliently, we as well
(as unwell, as insane) are violent
madmen, intent on harm that ripples
back to harden hearts, unhumanize,
unharmonize what could have been,
our kind’s natural, euphorious song.
We know these things, yet seem
to always get it wrong.
Is that how we’re meant to be, to
behave, to twist ourselves in cycles
of depravity, of have/have nots,
commoners and kings, that we lose
our lives to battle?
None of this makes sense.
We know these things.
We pour them out in stories, poems,
murals, public meetings.
Perhaps such incessant ambiance leaves us
deaf to what everybody knows.
Perhaps succedent calls to outrage overtake
what reason, intuition, healing lore
all attest will surely create our better
destiny.
https://om2317.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/destinations/