Making Soul Friends
Upcoming Workshop: June 2nd
Please join us Sunday, June 2, 10:00am PST, for our next workshop:
Making Soul Friends - the kinds of relationships that help us grow
Our script is based on the book, Deep Human Connection, by Stephen Cope.
We’ll have readings and practices and sharing time. Join us.
For meeting details, please click here: Sunday Meetings
Scroll to the bottom of this email for a writing prompt pulled from our book’s Intro.
Could you easily name the people with whom you have most deeply connected with in this lifetime?
Would your list be short? Long? Satisfying? Lacking? Have you had to learn the art of connection intentionally, ploddingly, even painfully? Or have you, perhaps, turned away from connection as too frightening, too risky?
In writing a list of your most meaningful connections, the common trap is to think about who should be on the list based on longevity of the connection.
Consider this, special relationships can be brief and powerful, or long and sustained; they can be highly charged connections, or they could be friendships at school or at work.
Occasionally, a powerful connection might happen with a complete stranger. Maybe there is one individual whom you knew only one night.
There might be people on your list you've never even met, maybe someone who's been dead for several hundred years.
If you really trust your instincts as you make your list, I bet you'll be surprised at who ends up on the page. Go beneath the impulse to sensor. You might end up with someone on your list you may not even actually like that much.
In your journal, write the names of those persons with whom you’ve shared an important bond; the names of those who played an essential role in your psychological and spiritual development.
If you were to write the history of your life thus far, what would be your story of connection?