Your Soul's Plan by Robert Schwartz

Author:Robert Schwartz [Schwartz, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-55643-952-0
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2009-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

Like so many of us, Sharon and Tony designed lives of learning through opposites: they scripted temporary, physical roles that contrasted markedly with their eternal, nonphysical identities. Tony is not the heroin addict; rather, he is a courageous soul who undertook the life challenge of drug addiction to learn self-nurturing. Sharon is neither the frustrated mother nor the nurse who looked at drug-addicted pregnant women and wondered, How could you? Instead, she is a deeply loving soul who planned moments of frustration and judgment so that she might eventually experience and thus know herself as respect, tolerance, and compassion.

Beyond the personal experiences and wisdom they sought, Sharon and Tony planned his drug addiction as a form of service to humanity. Such is the life plan of lightworkers, whose blueprints entail the sharing of inner light for widespread upliftment. Before she was born, Sharon expected she would respond to her son’s addiction by starting a program to help drug-addicted pregnant women. After her birth Sharon could have exercised her free will by hardening her heart and not reaching out to others. Through previous lives, however, she had evolved to a point at which compassion was the most probable response. One can well envision Tony planning the challenge of drug addiction and Sharon saying, “I will be the mother who loves you through this, and I will build upon this experience to help others.”

Sharon and Tony’s story reminds us that the physical plane is one of illusion in which nothing is as it appears. Sometimes, service takes the form of large-scale, public programs. More commonly, it takes the form of opportunities for us to move beyond judgment. Judgment separates us from those we judge. Separation, in turn, creates fear and prevents us from awakening to a truth we knew before we were born: that we are all one. Each of us is a spark of consciousness in a larger, unified Consciousness, a cell in the heart of one Divine Being. To judge is to separate ourselves from our divinity; to release judgment is to remember it.

It is important to ask what aspects of self are called forth by our judgments. If, for example, we judge someone with a drug addiction as weak, then there is a part of ourselves we judge as weak. If we did not see ourselves as weak at certain times or under certain circumstances, then it would be impossible to hold that judgment of someone else. Instead, either we would not notice the behavior or traits that we view as weakness, or we would not see those behaviors and traits as weakness. All judgment of others is cloaked self-judgment. It is necessarily so. Profound spiritual growth occurs when we bravely pull that cloak away and acknowledge how we feel about ourselves. This process is difficult and requires unflinching self-candor, but its rewards are great.

Sharon now personifies nonjudgment of others. Rather than condemn her son for his relapses, she instead reminds him of the many times he chose not to use heroin during his recovery process.

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