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 EAPoe
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 soulmates and imagination 
#15900892 - 03/04/12 10:33 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Well I just finished the book Soul Mates: Honoring the Mystery of Love and Relationship by Thomas Moore.
In this book Moore basically says that the soul is from the realm of the imagination and it is by allowing your imagination control of your life and following it that one cultivates soul and soulful relations with others.
What are your thoughts on soulmates? do you have any soulmates? Have you read the book?
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Re: soulmates and imagination [Re: EAPoe]
#15900956 - 03/04/12 10:47 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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The concept is a bit of a hype IMO. That does not mean two people can't really like each other and get along. But if you are honest and maybe old and wise enough you have to admit that even friendship is pretty rare in this ol bs world of ours. So why try to make it into something totally unreasonable and unattainable at least for most humans. Some decent relationships might have made it but for unreasonable expectations. (for me at least)
I started that book at one time but couldn't get into it.
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Re: soulmates and imagination [Re: Icelander]
#15900999 - 03/04/12 10:56 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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True. The way I look at it after reading this book is that the concept of soulmates makes friendship easier to attain. I am young though and although I have many acquaintances I only have like 4 close people i actually consider friends. 2 male 2 female, 1 female ignoring me for no reason though... females
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Re: soulmates and imagination [Re: EAPoe]
#15901051 - 03/04/12 11:06 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
EAPoe said:
Well I just finished the book Soul Mates: Honoring the Mystery of Love and Relationship by Thomas Moore.
In this book Moore basically says that the soul is from the realm of the imagination and it is by allowing your imagination control of your life and following it that one cultivates soul and soulful relations with others.
What are your thoughts on soulmates? do you have any soulmates? Have you read the book?
15 years ago, i would have thought it all poppycock...but in 2001 I met my soulmate...knew it instantly...been together since.
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Re: soulmates and imagination [Re: Enlil]
#15901105 - 03/04/12 11:17 PM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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amazing! glad to hear! for me, i've been trying to create soulmates rather than meeting them and instantly knowing. are you familiar with the spiritual concept of a twinflame or twinsoul?
last night i went to a show and saw someone who i felt like i knew although i had never met that person, could tell in their eyes. should of approached them
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Re: soulmates and imagination [Re: EAPoe]
#15902266 - 03/05/12 05:42 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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i dont believe in 'soul mates' like some person out there waiting just for you, or who you are here for specifically.
However i do think that two good friends will be 'soul mates'. soul mates, to me, are two people who love eachother. this is not romantic love but friendship love. it is similar to romantic love and family love, kind of in between.
I think it has all to do with imagination, and avoiding judgement. when two people become comfortable with eachother as creative forces, a friendship becomes a matter of inspiring eachother and laughing and supporting and giving feedback and showing interest and being entertained.
however, more mundane friendships involve judgements, sharing views, etc. these sorts of friendships are less stable than soulmateship, because in the end no two people will have all the same views, and if a friendship is build on sharing judgements about the world, then it will crumble if the people realise they disagree about something.
of course ive been speaking generally, all friendships are both, to some degree or another
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Re: soulmates and imagination [Re: Noteworthy]
#15902307 - 03/05/12 06:23 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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i think that the people who go throwing the old cliche of soul mate around, if for some unfortunate reason parted ways with their soul mate would probably meet someone else and begin calling them their soul mate. maybe there is such a thing as a soul mate but i doubt that it has to be one specific person.
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Re: soulmates and imagination [Re: blingbling] 1
#15902359 - 03/05/12 07:16 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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Some of my soulmates turned out to be demons. 
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Re: soulmates and imagination [Re: blingbling] 1
#15902540 - 03/05/12 09:09 AM (1 year, 2 months ago) |
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blingbling said:
i think that the people who go throwing the old cliche of soul mate around, if for some unfortunate reason parted ways with their soul mate would probably meet someone else and begin calling them their soul mate. maybe there is such a thing as a soul mate but i doubt that it has to be one specific person.
I certainly understand that position. I thought the same thing...for 10 years I loved many different people...and that was an intense feeling...but the soulmate thing wasn't about love for me...or even attraction...
When I met the woman who is now my wife, there was no real attraction. There was no sense of sexual tension. I was with someone else at the time. It was a sudden knowledge that I would end up with this person for life...At the time, I didn't even WANT to end up with her for an hour...much less a life. I was completely indifferent to her, and yet I knew that we would end up growing old together, despite what I wanted at the time.
I told people this within 24 hours of meeting her. I've never backed down from that assertion since.
I am not some grand idealist who believes that there is one particular right person for everyone. In fact, I think it is quite rare that people meet a soul mate. I do have to believe they exist, however, because I have no other way to explain my situation.
I don't even believe in a soul, ffs.
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