I have sat in lectures talking about the Purusha and Prakriti that we are made of or all that we are. Until recently, I didn’t quite understand what that all meant. I didn’t have a spirituality not let alone a God or spiritual path. I didn’t understand fully that we are all God’s within.

This has changed the way that I look at people, good and bad. People are not bad. They make horrible choices and hurt people but this is not who they are. It was explained to me once in class that even the murderer is not bad. The murderer even has a soul. When you look at it this way, your enemies are not bad.

They don’t deserve any more negativity that they are not creating themselves. The negativity that they create themselves will torture them daily, nightly and may even torture them for lifetimes ahead. Why bother yourself with something that you have no business or control of? Distance yourself from the person doing bad and let them fall into their own pit of misery and despair.

You can free yourself from an abuser by leaving. You can free yourself from others’ gossip and rumors by knowing your own truth. You can free yourself from negative people by choosing not to associate with them. There is so much freedom that we forget we have when we feel trapped by circumstance, situation and environment.

The truth about my soul is that it is free from all of my experience and all that I even think that I am. The soul doesn’t change profession or emotions. It doesn’t experience sadness or happiness. It treats all of the emotions, experiences and people the same. The truth about my soul leaves me free from everything in this life.