Greetings! Following are a series of postcards from the Land of Old Souls, drawing from new experiences, my books and from wayshowers who have walked this path before us. If you are not already a subscriber to this blog, to receive Postcards in your inbox, subscribe HERE.
Scroll to the bottom for an excerpt from my newest book: The Making of an Old Soul: Aging as the Fulfillment of Life’s Promise
–Carol Orsborn
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Postcard #1 from the Land of Old Souls
Greetings,
When the world spins out of control, the Old Souls advise you to do what you can to rectify your part in things. This includes being honest about your limitations and forgiving yourself and life for being what it is and is not.
They’re not saying you have to feel happy about this. But please know that there’s a difference between feeling bad–and feeling bad about yourself. And that difference is everything.
Until next time,
Carol
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Postcard #2 from the Land of Old Souls
Greetings,
When was the last time you experienced a breakthrough from fear to faith and thought you were enlightened? The Old Souls inform us that making the transition from down to up, while always welcome, isn’t the true gauge of psycho-spiritual growth. But neither is the transit from up to down regression.
True progress comes about when you accept the whole of it, and love yourself wherever you are on the cycle. In fact, the lower you feel, the more the call to love yourself whether you believe you deserve it—or not.
Until next time,
Carol
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THE PORTAL OPENS
Excerpt from Carol Orsborn’s “Making of an Old Soul: Aging as the Fulfillment of Life’s Promise”
We who are growing old may well appear to have been diminished by time. But if you think so, you would be wrong. There are some amongst us not dulled but burnished by long lives, twists of fate, impossible choices, and grace into something most unexpected. We have not just become old. We have become old souls.
Burning with invisible passion and purpose, we live largely backstage in an alternate universe both wondrous and dangerous. We are at once inspired, beleaguered, and brave. This is the secret world of aging inhabited by the handful of hardy old souls who have found what we were looking for all our lives in the most unanticipated of times and places.
What we discovered is nothing at all like what we’d anticipated but more than we’d hoped for. It is a state both small and humble and, at the same time, the peak of spiritual development. In this parallel universe, we gain access to the inner workings of the entire arc of life. At last, everything makes sense, and we come to understand that nothing of what we’ve been through from the moment we were conceived to the present was ever wasted. We have, in fact, burst through age to freedom.
The portal to this hidden dimension is hard to find under normal circumstances. Rather, it’s a place that finds you, but only when you have given up trying to find it on your own. Do you have a sense of what I’m talking about? Do you persist in believing, despite the negative stereotypes of aging, that however old you are, there is enough time to get what you came here for? Then be affirmed that your hope is merited and that you are a candidate for the fulfillment of life’s promise. But be forewarned. It will take more than you’ve got, but in the end, you wouldn’t have had it any other way.
Excerpt from Carol Orsborn’s “Making of an Old Soul: Aging as the Fulfillment of Life’s Promise”
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