by queen v

Created on: May 27, 2008

With the beginning of the year-cycle 2008 the world set itself up for a plethora of catastrophic events as well as blessings. If it's not famine in Africa, its global warming taking its toll on the Arctic poles, a devastating earthquake hits China, gas prizes keep rising in the U.S. while new terrorist threats arise, Mexico is hit by a wave of violence, and the trip to Italy I wanted to make this summer didn't follow through. Life is unfair indeed. So the question arises: what am I to do what is my purpose in such a chaotic world, and how do I keep myself from being dragged down with all this tragedy? All I have to do is look within and start building the ideal world I want everybody to live in. Achieving a soulful experience requires that one look at his or her own world and reality and regards it in a sacred way by honoring the divinity of the universe and the self.

To live a soulful experience is to lead a life of purpose, to have peace of mind, to love yourself as well as everything and everybody in your life, and living your dream-life. This requires a sense of belief in the unknown, otherwise known as spirituality, and the belief in the greatest good of all that can only be found within. On that note, the word "spirituality" is not to be confused with religion. Religion and spirituality usually walk hand in hand, and you can say one is the basis for the other. For example, prayer is a religious act in which one speaks to God in gratitude or to request one thing or another. For many years every night I would pray, this little girl that I was, to an invisible force that I did not know whether it existed or not. I prayed for nothing, I prayed because I was told that praying is good, but I never prayed with intention or wholehearted belief that my prayers could be heard.

But what happens when religion cannot fulfill your yearning for the unknown any longer? My quest for spirituality began with the simple question: "what happens to my thoughts when my body ceases to live?" And so the Universe set out to help me find my answer by thrusting me into a world of coincidences, destiny, and most importantly, a world full of meaning. Spirituality became the search for the meaning of the prayers that I blindly believed in; it became a journey of self-knowledge and understanding well beyond the heaven and the hell that the Bible speaks of. It is my own search for peace and love and the God within me. It is, in fact, human nature, to seek the unknown and to attempt to

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