The soul is what guides us to experiences that bring us peace, tranquility, and complete fulfillment. It is that state when we are so excited and happy, yet completely calm. No, that is not passion. Passion is a physical drive that gives us initial excitement and momentum, but leaves a sense of emptiness and dissatisfaction after the thrill is gone. After fulfilling a passion, there remains a hunger for repeated and greater satisfaction of that passion. It does not bring complete fulfillment. When we satisfy one of the needs of our soul, we feel a pleasure that brings us a sense of peace and fulfillment. We have experienced something that our soul came to experience, and then peace and tranquility follow. We do not need to experience it again because we are complete, and that is a feeling that does not fade. When we have a sublime experience, it remains forever within us with the same intensity. We have experienced it and feel it with the same intensity as at the first moment. The satisfaction does not diminish; it lasts as long as we are alive.
We are all born with a certain call of the soul, with a certain joy that we must experience, and with some work that we must accomplish. It doesn’t have to be just one experience or one deed. It can be several things that we need to experience, but what is common to such experiences is that when we experience them, we are not hungry for the same experience again.
Passion is like a drug. It brings supreme pleasure in the moment we surrender to it, but as soon as it ends, we feel restless and have to consume it again, or we feel anxious, hungry, worthless, and empty. Life then has no meaning and becomes dreadful. We cannot face reality, and passion gives us that apparent escape into a world that is more beautiful. And all this lasts only as long as the drug flows through our veins or the adrenaline from passion lasts, and when the concentration of adrenaline disappears, there is desolation. The problem is not that desolation remains, but the hunger that drives us to do it to ourselves again. And we do it again. We soar in a brief moment and then fall faster than the speed of light, even lower than we were. And that fall is harsh and ugly. And then we think we need more passion to fly higher, but a flight in such a way only takes us to the clouds, and no further. The fall is just more intense, and the heights we want to reach become inaccessible in that way.
Flying above the clouds is only possible when we follow the call of our soul. When we do something that pleases our soul, not our lowest animal instincts. When we do something that brings us incomparable greater satisfaction but keeps us at the heights we reach through that work. And when that deed is done, we remain high above the clouds, we no longer fall. There, at that level, we see all the beauties we received as a gift because we followed the part of ourselves that alone can elevate us so high. Neither the mind nor physical drives can lift us even to the clouds, and the soul has no limit to how high it can lead us. It leads us to realms unknown even to astrophysicists. And only at those heights can we feel those sublime ovations of our being, that complete joy, that complete satisfaction, and the peace they bring. And then you just calmly observe your work and enjoy its existence. There is no hunger because that experience provides you with everything you need to feel eternally satisfied and fulfilled. Bliss. That is an eternal feeling. That is the peak that the soul came to achieve, and it is timeless and spaceless.
Every physical or mental drive is temporally and spatially limited. They are those calls that if we do not achieve something immediately, we will be worthless, not worthy of attention, not worthy of love… The soul is not what is harsh, but our mind is, our lowest physical drives are, which is why we can never satisfy them. Our mind and physical drives will never be fully satisfied because they always demand more and more. The mind and physical drives function just like a drug. They offer seemingly great pleasures that are short-lived and leave behind eternal hunger and dissatisfaction.
The soul is what infallibly leads us to true and eternal satisfaction. The one that fills us completely. The satisfaction that brings joy to every part of our being. It is the satisfaction when every cell in our body vibrates with happiness and tranquility. The call of the soul is that voice within us that leads us to the meaning of our entire existence. When we follow that call, everything makes sense, everything is clear, and everything shines. Then we understand how a person can truly be happy and satisfied, not just temporarily gratified.
Being gratified and being satisfied are different dimensions of the same need. Being gratified is the need of the mind and physical drives because they know no more and cannot offer us more. Just temporary gratification of a drive or an idea. The mind and our physical being do not know that there are higher pleasures, a higher level at which we are both gratified and satisfied. This is the level at which every part of our being is completely filled with a joy that cannot be measured by rejoicing over something or someone. It is an eternal state that then permeates all aspects of our lives. Then everything is complete, and then we simply enjoy our existence in the circumstances as they are. Then we see beauty and joy in everything because we see a broader and complete picture of every aspect of our life. Then we realize that all circumstances, that all people in our lives have a specific purpose and that all this leads us to fulfill the purpose of our existence.
How do we recognize the call of the soul and distinguish it from the needs imposed by our mind or those that result from physical drives? This is the main question that we reveal through a multi-day program in beautiful locations. Initially, we learn to hear our soul, to recognize its voice. We learn to distinguish it from the voice of the mind and the voice of physical drives. They are loud and very often deceive us into thinking they are the voice of the soul. We practice daily, little by little, to listen to our soul until we reach the moment when we can clearly recognize and follow it. When we clearly hear the call of our soul and recognize it within ourselves, we then realize how it has always been there and how it has always been familiar to us.
From the moment we were born, our soul has been repeating the same thing to us every second, but we have constantly prioritized the mind and physical needs. We left that gentle whisper aside and took care of the “more important” things imposed by our mind. We had to do a job we didn’t love to earn money, we had to feed the body so we wouldn’t “die of hunger”… not realizing that the soul was providing solutions for all this all along but in a way where we would truly enjoy it. Every day it guided us in the direction that leads to a higher existence, but we silenced it because of what we thought was more important and would bring us what the soul offers. And that is a vicious cycle we put ourselves in and from which we break free the moment we firmly decide to listen only to the soul and retire our mind and physical drives. Then you will understand all the ways in which the soul lets us know when we are on the right path or when we have again strayed into the quicksand, served to us by our mind and our lowest drives. Everything will then be clear to you, and you will easily follow your path. The path that is the only possible one and the only path that leads each of us to where we experience complete fulfillment and total satisfaction, peace, and tranquility.
The most wonderful experience for every human being is the moment when they establish contact with their soul and hear the voice of their soul. These are magical moments that provide indescribable satisfaction. Like the greatest miracle you have ever had the opportunity to see, and now you feel it within yourself. The greatest miracle that has always existed within us, and now we have discovered it and become fully aware of its existence and being. There are no words that can describe the moment of encountering your soul and the moment of first conscious contact with your soul. It is a magical, magnificent experience that surpasses human understanding of emotions and feelings. It is stronger and greater than anything.
The call of the soul is those magnificent and exalted experiences destined for us by God (Allah, the Universe,…) to live for ourselves. These are the experiences the soul itself wants to experience. Every soul has a sublime experience it aspires to from the moment of conception. These are the experiences that are constantly in our minds from early childhood. Experiences that, at their mention, make our whole body tremble with joy, our eyes shine with full brightness, becoming clearer and visibly happier. These are the experiences we rush into the arms of every time we hear about them and to which we cannot instinctively resist. No matter how much we mentally convince ourselves that it is nonsense, that it is impossible, that it does not bring profit… we will never be able to resist them, and we will never forget them. We will keep them deep in our soul as the greatest treasure, and the longing for them will only grow. And as we mentally distance ourselves further from these experiences, the pain will become increasingly unbearable. If we decide for even a second to give them up in life, our whole body will start to fall apart. Every cell will try to escape from the mind that decided something like that. The body will start to fall ill from the boycott, and we will receive diagnoses overnight that prevent us from continuing on the path that goes against what we were born for and what we owe to ourselves and our soul to experience. The more persistent we are in our intentions to resist this call, the more everything around us and our entire being will be against us. It will sabotage us because there is no other path for us except the one our soul leads us on.
That is the only path to our well-being and our true happiness. What awaits us if we completely renounce our calling and our soul is a hell that we will experience on earth. If we surrender to physical, mental, and material pleasures, our life will then become our greatest enemy. It will punish us cruelly. Our body will rapidly abandon us until it silences our mind and until we are able to clearly hear our soul. It is the soul that constantly gives us signs of whether we are on the right path or if we have gone astray. Every illness we have is the soul’s attempt to make it clear to us that we are working against ourselves. No, it’s not the fault of genes, accidents, or air pollution… nothing but our decisions to forsake the soul and chase after something that brings us only despair and misery. The sooner we understand the language of the soul and the ways it tries to divert us from our own destruction, the sooner we will turn to what is destined for us. And what the soul has destined for us is more beautiful and exalted than anything our mind can conceive. The beauty and level of happiness that await us cannot be reached by the mind because it transcends the logical, the tangible, the visual… it transcends the human. And it is precisely this exalted divine experience that we have all come to experience on earth during our lifetime, and it is given to all of us. These magnificent experiences and feelings cannot be lived by following the mind and human logical, physical, and material laws. We must rise above that and surrender to the spiritual guidance of our soul. And that doesn’t mean we will be deprived of human well-being; on the contrary, we will be rewarded with that as well, but more easily and abundantly than we could ever create with the mind. When we surrender to the plan of our soul and follow it, we move into other higher dimensions where nothing is impossible anymore, where everything is created with ease and multiplies in ways the human mind cannot explain.
It’s all a matter of guidance and the path we choose. If we choose the mind as our leader, we limit ourselves to the capacity of our mind, which isn’t that great, no matter how intelligent we are. We may be highly intelligent, but our souls are infinitely intelligent. There is no knowledge that the mind can have that the soul hasn’t already known since the time when our mind was just in its infancy. If we simplify this and imagine that we have the task of choosing a director to whom we should entrust the leadership of our company, would we give it to someone who has a formal education and a heap of high formal titles but, in practice, has no particular results, or to someone who doesn’t boast about formal qualifications but, in practice, his deeds show that he has created wonders countless times and made great magical giants out of nothing? Why do we choose better for our company than for our own life? Why is it easier for us to trust the mind that is just hyped up but has never led us to a better place than the soul, which has guided us to the highest good in a million ways? The existence of intuition is known to us all, and we have all tasted it at least once when it saved us from extremely bad situations without any scientific basis, situations the mind could never have predicted. And intuition is just one of the languages of our soul. Don’t we then have a clear and material proof that our soul knows more and better than our mind? Isn’t that proof that our soul wants to guide us to a place where we will be better off?
