Why Life Feels Hard Until You Align With Your Soul | Gary Zukav

0:00Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

0:12You give an analogy for what the soul is. I'm wondering if you can share around a mothership. That came out in our first interview. Oprah called me a couple of times. I didn't know who she was because we don't have a television station in Mount Shasta. Okay. And she explained and she spelled her name. And then I got a call from one of her producers and said, would you like to come to Chicago and be interviewed by Ms. Winfrey for a little section called Remembering Your Spirit that was part of her show then. So I called Linda, who was in San Diego. I said, what do you think? She said, yes, go. Let's go.

0:51So we did. And I had this experience, Lewis. I felt I was a surfer. I'm not a surfer. I can surf a little bit. Our son's a surfer. But I felt I was a surfer. I was on a board, and the wave was there. I didn't have to wait for it, and I didn't have to paddle to catch it. All I had to do was stand up and ride, and I knew it was going to take me a long way. So we went to Chicago, and Oprah was teaching this book, The Seat of the Soul, to her staff then. and so she met us with her staff her senior people we had a circle we prayed not to god help us just we prayed let's do our best let's give our best let's support the people who are gonna be benefit from this remembering your spirit segment and we talked like you and i are talking right now with a camera over my shoulder and a camera over yours and she asked me good questions and I could tell that she was touched by some of my answers.

2:02And one of the questions, what's a soul? And it was in that moment that this experience of the mothership came as a beautiful metaphor. I love it when this happens. I said, your soul is like a mothership. Imagine a sailing ship that's as big as a city. Gloria, not glorious, but I love sailing ships. and it that's your soul and around your soul are a lot of little ships around the mother ships those of you those are personalities those little ships are your personality the little boats uh-huh each one of them is a personality okay of a soul your soul has lots of personalities got it and each of these little boats has a captain that's you and when you sail your boat in the same direction that the mothership wants to go the trade winds are blowing right the sailing is easy and the water's calm the currents are right the wind's not calm it's blowing just where you want to go it's smooth sailing it's good sailing when you're sailing in the opposite direction the opposite happens it's tough the water the wind's against you the current's not right it's hard you choose which direction you're going to sail and not only that you've got a crew some of this crew love sailing they love sailing with you and when they and when one of them takes the tiller it's good but you've also got part of your crew that doesn't like sailing, doesn't like you, doesn't like where you're going.

3:53These are the frightened parts of your personality. And when you let one of them take the tiller, it's more difficult. So that was how the metaphor was given to me of the mothership. That's your soul. Your soul is not a theoretical entity in your chest cavity or any place else. and you don't have a soul. You are the partial incarnation of a soul. And that soul, the power of it, the capability of it, is the same. But your experiences are calibrated, a step down enormously, into the experience of physicalness. But think of it this way. suppose you think of a soul as something that suppose you're at the ocean and you take a cup and you put it into the ocean well in that moment that cup has become you might say separate from the ocean it's become an individual cup of water you could call it a soul but it's still water it's still the ocean that cup is not changed it's the ocean in that cup calibrated to some experiences that your soul chooses to have prior to your incarnation.

5:16Now this incarnation has been known by billions of people. Hindus, Buddhists, they all know it, but very few of them believe it. If they did, they would never do anything to create

5:35destruction in the world. it's just like in our culture in the United States it's a Christian nation and everyone knows what Christ said is love your neighbor how much? a lot how much is a lot? enough to die for him whoa wait a minute Christ this is something to think about and they do think about it they think a lot about love your neighbor but very few of them believe that or do that if they did What would this world be like if everyone loved you enough to die for you? That's what the Christ was talking about.

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