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back, substitute the words “Life Serving.” And if the word “Sacred” brings discomfort, use the word “Important.”
    Thus we see that the Journey you are on is an Important Journey, fulfilling a Life Serving Purpose. What may not be very clear is precisely what that purpose is. Yet your own remembering has expanded to the point where you now see clearly that Life has an intelligence all its own. (The Universe does not need “instructions” on how to run; the tiniest cells of living matter know exactly what they need to do to replicate and survive.)
    A Soul Knowing: The journey you are on is a Sacred Journey, fulfilling a Divine Purpose.
    You can see at a glance that Life is unspeakably magnificent in its design, that it is incomprehensibly sophisticated in its functioning, and that every event and outcome is a part of that design.
    Your intuitive understanding also tells you that Life’s very essence, its foundational energy, can be focused and directed by Life Itself with specific intent to produce specific outcomes—and that, since you are part of the basic intelligence that is Life Itself expressing, you can focus and direct your Life energy with specific intent to produce specific outcomes.
    All of this understanding is the beginning of living in a way that matters. It is by no means the All of it, but it is the Start of it. You merely have to remember how to get on with it.
    That is what you are doing here.

    You have drawn yourself, in this very moment, to an outward writing of your inward knowing .
    Do not be surprised, then, if your experience here is very much like reading your own diary, misplaced long ago, but now found. As you encounter each new paragraph you may have a sense of knowing already what you are seemingly being introduced to now.
    It is your Soul that holds this Awareness—to which your Mind is now being reintroduced.
    The word Soul, of course, is another one of those words that many people resist. Many people do not even believe that they have a Soul. Or if they believe they do, they have no idea what the Soul is , or what it does .
    What is its function? What is its purpose? We know what the Mind does. We know what the Body does. What does the Soul do?

    Some people may see the Soul as sort of a “conscience,” or maybe as a kind of “guardian,” or “angel” (or both)—standing off to the side, with a purpose that is probably good, but whose way of functioning is not at all clear.
    Then there are those who know that they have a Soul, and who feel that the Soul has an agenda (in this they are correct), but who are so mixed up about what that agenda is that they are living lives that create more heartache and difficulty, self-deprivation and lack of joy than they were ever meant to (or need to) experience.
    Still others—you among them—also know that the Soul exists, but are no longer willing to be trapped in Old Stories about the Soul’s agenda. You are ready to call into your Mind the Knowledge of your Soul regarding its True Agenda. There’s an impulse deep within that makes you want to do this now . It comes from that part of you that looks at your life and whispers, It doesn’t have to be this way .
    It is, of course, your Soul itself doing the whispering, and leading the way on The Sacred Journey. Your Soul is not only leading the way, it is showing the way and creating the way.
    It is not, however, directing the way.
    Because the Soul is not the dictator here, demanding this and commanding that, your Body and your Mind may not always be going in the same direction as your Soul. And while this is the very essence of freedom, it can—as one might well imagine—create in one’s life … how shall we put this …?
    Complications .

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    L IFE’S BIGGEST COMPLICATIONS are those that present themselves when the Soul, the Mind, and the Body