Biography Of The Soul

A biography is something you write yourself. It is you writing the story of you. This is deeply true in a sense that goes beyond what the words first suggest. We not only write our stories here through the decisions we make, the people we choose to be with, the places we choose to go or not go, and even the events that are beyond our control, but we have already written the story before we ever come here.

Everything that happens to us is for our own growth, and it has meaning behind it. Even the worst events.

If someone had told me this a few years ago, I would have been truly angry. How can the bad events of life be anything but bad? Are they not attempts to derail us, planned by evil entities, or worse, the senseless result of a random, uncaring universe? How can bad times in life be a good thing? How dare anyone say so?

Human beings are spiritual beings first and foremost. We have been here before, and we will be here again. When we choose to return to the world, we do so with a great purpose. We choose to grow into higher beings. We must learn and change, and that requires both light and darkness.

In order to become more than we are now, we must sometimes suffer. Suffering squeezes the soul like a sponge. It brings out what is hidden within us, both good and bad. There is a thread of meaning that runs through our suffering, and it is the same thread that runs through our times of joy and happiness. There is a reason behind it, a theme, if you like, and it is very specific to each individual. This thread can only be found and understood by its author—you.

In order to understand our own lives and find peace with what has taken place in them, we need to see the thread running through our biographies, the theme of our stories. Deliberately looking back over our lives is one way to find this thread of meaning. When we discover the purpose of our existence, the story we are living, understanding begins to emerge from the difficult times of our past. Our lives begin to make sense.

We can grow old with regrets, our time consumed by thoughts of what we should or should not have done. We can go over our decisions again and again, wondering, What if? But what if there were a way to reconcile it all and be free from regret, bitterness, and fear once and for all?

In order to find meaning in our biographies, in the stories we are writing through our own lives, we first have to believe that meaning exists. That is the beginning, the first step. Discovering the theme of our own lives and realizing that we are both experiencing and authoring our biographies here on Earth can bring peace, gratitude, and acceptance to the whole story.