By Sophie Rouméas
Painting by Wen Zhengming, Huishan Tea Party, 1518
Naked before you,
my soul comes forward without fear.
I know my torments,
my strengths, my weaknesses,
my light and my mission.
I anticipate your questions,
even the ones you won't ask.
I don't know everything about you,
but I know enough to recognize you.
I first met you in dreams and
meditations. And today,
in this past-life workshop.
In this reality,
it is not your face
that is familiar to me first,
it is the essence of your soul.
Our energies recognize
and greet each other
before our bodies do.
Then your voice—its vibration—
initiates an ascent of my frequency.
At this moment,
we are soul to soul,
like two old friends.
It will take us four years
to choose intimacy.
There are moments
in our existence
when we encounter synchronicity.
It manifests its presence
to remind us of our divinity.
It gives us signs along the way,
we can choose to perceive them.
The meeting of two souls
is not free from turmoil:
See the ocean and its riptides,
successions of swells,
changes in direction,
crosswinds.
What characterizes a soul’s encounter
is a space free of judgment.
In you, I reveal myself,
in me, you are reborn to yourself.
Life is a sharing.
I become the vase of your ideas
you blossom in my inner waters.
We bring to each other the light
of our past shadows,
primordial matter
that both our souls love to transmute
in a furrow of wisdom.
There is a conceiving force
emphasizing discernment
and unconditional appreciation
of what simply is.
It is said that a spiritual life
is stripped of all uselessness.
With you, my soul-flame,
every flower, every star
every object and
every morning,
becomes a raison d'être.
Living in grace does not prevent
us from embodying
our human experience.
It's a conscious choice
to walk through life
like a garden.
From morning to night,
we scatter our seeds of intention.
The kitchen
becomes a laboratory
wherein we infuse universal tenderness.
The living room,
a place of intellectual emanation,
a dialogue between hearts and minds.
The bathroom,
a place of purification rituals
for all our senses to be accurate
in transmission and reception.
Our bedroom at night,
a sacred space
for our carnal dimension
and rest.
We are happy to support each other,
independent and together in our evolution.
Then, we can enjoy sharing the happiness
with other friendly souls,
from here and beyond.
The outside thus becomes an opportunity
to breathe synchronicity
and to manifest it too,
because when we amplify
this soul energy,
the world around us becomes
an uplifting world.