12-Awaken Your Soul with Theodore Orenstein

New Ways of Being

In this episode, Theodore (Ted) Orenstein and I had an interesting discussion about awakening and other aspects of being spiritual. Ted is the author of a book entitled Awaken the Soul: How to Find Your Inner Spirit and Life's Purpose. He told us about his personal experiences with awakening, which he defined as "connecting to the spiritual life within you". He asked the question: Do you believe in (universal) love? If you answer yes, you are awakened. I would qualify that by saying there are many levels of being awake, but permanently being at the frequency or state of consciousness of unconditional love is truly awakened or enlightened. He added that spirit and awakeness are already within you, so it's a matter of opening and allowing that beingness to operate as you. That requires you to get out of ego and into awareness, and to know yourself as a spiritual being. And when you do that, you will know what is truly important to you and what your purpose is. Being awake lets you love people and express love, and that lets you see that all of creation is unity and oneness. And Ted said that his biggest epiphany was that Spirit is eternal and everywhere; it extends through the whole universe; and everything comes from Spirit. I agree totally. You can learn more about him at TedOrenstein.com, and his book is in major online bookstores.

Love yourself always, and choose to awaken!

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