“Our lives and our choices, each encounter, suggest a new potential direction. Yesterday my life was headed in one direction. Today, it is headed in another. Fear, belief, love; phenomena that determines the course of our lives. These forces begin long before we are born and continue long after we perish.”
I sat in a movie theatre Saturday night enthralled, and challenged to follow the six different story lines of six generations of souls portrayed in this wonderful sci-fi’ish movie named Cloud Atlas. It was three hours short, and right up my alley, but I knew most of my loved ones wouldn’t be up for it, so I treated myself. What I call a movie with a message, they would call a movie that made their brains hurt! I was glad I went alone. I got to sigh, and cry, cover my eyes and clutch my heart privately. It was a wild ride for sure in simply keeping up with the story line which randomly raced from one era to another. I got the message loud and clear, early on. Every action we take affects not only our destiny, but others as well. Every breath of our lives has a purpose, and life’s design is for us to grow and learn. It is in our evolution we are not only the student, but the teacher, trading roles with all of those who touch into our lives.
This week was perfect karmic timing for seeing this movie. I’ve had the strongest sense of connection recently, with people, as well as places. Sometimes I seem to possess this eerie ability to look out of eyes, that don’t seem to belong to me; rather this soul inside who is clearly much more loving and kinder when engaging with others. Especially those people who push my buttons or hurt me. Maybe this strange new vision is a bonus; the result of keeping my nose to a spiritual grindstone over the last few years... who knows? I’ve discovered, I like being somewhat detached, being the observer; impartial, and considerate of others journey.
The movie made me think of long lost loves, relationships that ended poorly, and the handful of people who literally, have changed me in profound ways, forever. When I step back and look at them in the big picture rather than caught up in that single snapshot of “that time”, I can see the truth in another quote from the movie, “We are bound together from womb to tomb. Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.” There is a karmic cause and effect energy at play here, in all our lives. We get the opportunity, over and over again, to change the crime and turn it into kindness. Nothing is left undone, and sometimes it just might take more than one lifetime of connection to complete destiny; our own and others. Sometimes we are playing a role in other’s lives, and other times they are playing a part in ours. From teacher to student, we trade off, learning what we need to learn for our spiritual evolution.
This idea of reincarnation, has really made me much more conscious of how I treat others, knowing, sooner or later, the ledger will get balanced. If I have to set boundaries, I do that more gently. I speak my truth kinder without (to the best of my ability) judging another’s truth. I’m fully aware of the energy I bring into others space and try my best to make it positive, or at least neutral. I don’t hurt others feelings intentionally, and if I do, I amend it as quickly as I can. These are some of the tools I have learned in this lifetime that lend to a more peaceful and joyful me.
I believe the Law of the Universe is one of attraction too.... Throughout history it’s been referred to as reaping what we sow, or an eye for an eye, and what goes around, comes around. I really don’t want to spend my lifetimes, making the same mistakes over and over again, or repeating the same story.... same old soul, different bodies.
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| Tom Hanks in Cloud Atlas |
Some heavy-duty thought this election week, but its been a pleasant diversion from the political saturation of mean-spiritedness, opinions, and focus. It puts it in perspective. Everyone... even in this arena is simply acting out their karma.
We are all just souls....... “We cross the ages like clouds cross skies, and although a cloud’s shape nor hue, nor size doesn’t stay the same, it’s still a cloud and so is a soul. Who can say where the cloud’s blowed from or who the soul will be tomorrow?”(Cloud Atlas)
WooHoo to second, third, fourth or an eternity of chances! Remind me if I get too caught up in being more human than soulful, to just be kind, live in the moment, and trust in love as the only constant. I’d like, when I come back next time around, to maybe walk a path of the great thinker, Socrates, or maybe Rumi, the poet. Or, at the very least, the actress, Betty White! She sure seems to be enjoying her ride!
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