REALISATION 41: THE SOUL’S PERSPECTIVE

(Inspired by The Little Soul and the Sun - Neale Donald Walsch)

Once, in a place where there was no day and no night, a little soul stood before an endless Sea of Light.

The soul asked:

Who am I among all these lights?

And Love-the voice of the Universe-replied gently:

You are a ray of My light. Neither lacking nor excessive.

The soul smiled. A deep peace spread through it. Yet, in the depths, something still stirred:

If I am already light, can I experience the colour of the light that I am?

Love smiled warmly:

To know you are light, you must pass through darkness.

1. The beginning of the journey of forgetting

And so the soul chose a journey. It stepped through the doorway of time and became a human being-fragile, tender, able to cry and laugh, and able to hurt.

That day, with its first cry, it forgot it had once been light.

Through the years on earth, that soul loved and raged; it was cherished and it was wounded. Sometimes it would fall to its knees and ask:

Why does life make me suffer so much?

No one answered. Only the wind whispered:

Because only in darkness can you see the stars.

The soul did not understand. It kept going-lost among dreams, among heartbreaks, among the fear of loss and the longing to be loved. The world taught it how to fight, yet the heart wanted to learn how to understand and forgive.

2. When darkness becomes the teacher

One day, the soul met someone who hurt it to the bone.

That person betrayed it, wounded it, and walked away-leaving behind a cavern of emptiness. The soul burned with anger, then collapsed into despair, then wept until there was nothing left.

Until, in the middle of the night, it heard a small echo in its own heart:

I send you nothing but angels.

It jolted awake.

Angels? Someone who makes me suffer is an angel?

And then it saw: that person had taught it the lesson of unconditional love. For without that pain, it would never have known that forgiveness is the light of the soul.

From then on, it began to see differently:

- The one who hurts me does not come to destroy me, but to illuminate what I have not yet understood.
- The one who makes me cry is the one who agreed to play the role of darkness, so that I might recognise the light within myself.

3. When the soul remembers again

Many years later, the soul sat beside a river, watching its reflection in the water.

This time it did not see pain reflected back, but stillness. It smiled and said to the wind:

*Now I understand. No one is against me.
Only souls helping me learn the way back.*

Every wound is a lesson.
Every meeting is a verse in destiny's song.
And every tear that falls is a drop of light finding its way back to the sky.

When the soul realised this, a wordless peace filled it-not because life no longer contained suffering, but because it had stopped resisting what is.

For it understood: suffering does not come to punish, but to awaken.

4. Words of the light

In a deep meditation, the soul heard its own voice-a voice ancient, yet warm as sunlight:

*I have never left the Light.
I only went far away to know how much I missed Home.
I came down to earth to learn how to love what seems impossible to love.
And when I am grateful even for the darkness, then I have returned.*

From then on, the soul lived an ordinary life while keeping peace within.

It loved without possessing, gave without calculating, spoke without needing to be understood.

For it knew: every soul is on the journey back to the Light-only travelling by different roads.

5. Ending - seeing from the far side of pain

If someone asked that soul, What is the most precious thing you learned after all of it?, it would smile and say:

*There are no enemies anywhere in this Universe.
Only friends who become darkness,
so that I may remember that I am Light.*

And having spoken, that soul dissolved into space-like a ray returning to the Sun, where all the other souls were smiling in welcome.

Because, in the end, no one is ever lost.

There is only Light, taking on countless forms, learning to recognise itself.

Hoàng Nhật Minh
Excerpt from the book: Spiritual Science - A Journey Back To Your True Self

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