Caroline Myss – Everyone’s soul needs melting

Everyone’s soul needs melting. It’s a prayer —-my soul needs melting. My soul needs a lot of melting because sometimes I am among people I cannot love. No wonder I feel stuck—I am with people I cannot love. And so I say again: tell myself to acts of love because my soul needs melting. They don’t need to change. My soul needs melting. That’s why I pray.

Please enjoy this session from my live workshop “The Power of Meditation & Prayer,” from 2011. 

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For all our mythologies and confusion, we are living in a wondrous time: as the world grows more irrational, we become thirstier for an equally “irrational” journey—mysticism. The more logical, intellectual, or left-brain oriented we have been, the more baffling our inner confusion becomes, because the emerging material in us is not intellectual at all. What is arising is a new kind of inner sensory data: a yearning for meaning, for purpose, for awe, for sacred validation—that the chaos in our lives is meaningful and that there is a path within the fog.

This workshop explores that shift. It is for anyone who needs an inner anchor that says, not that you will be safe on earth, but that you can be safe with life while on earth. Through practices of prayer and meditation we will learn to receive and interpret the non-rational signals of the soul, to sit with confusion without demanding intellectual answers, and to find a sense of sacred safety that holds even amid uncertainty.