Discover Your Soul’s Purpose

Module #14 — The Soul Cannot Fail

with Neale Donald Walsch
Neale: Welcome back, here we go again. Another module, my fifth individual module in this
online course. Today, I'm gonna focus on how to move forward with what you want to be, which
we've been talking about now for many modules, but how to move forward with something you
want to be when it looks like you can't, like life won't allow you to, how to move forward with
that especially when it looks like you can't. I'm going to begin this exploration by making a
statement that may be unnecessary for me to make, but I want to make sure that all the
participants in this program are clear about something. What I'm sharing here is based on the
messages found in Conversations with God. As I assume, most of you know, this is a series of
dialogues, which cover nine books totaling between them over 3000 pages. So if you've read one
or more of those books and some of what you're hearing here sounds familiar, don't be surprised.
My intention in this course has not been to present you with something new, something you've
never heard before, but to place before you a capsule of the elements of those dialogues, that
relate to the idea that we're discussing here.

The idea that we have a soul, that the agenda of the soul has been designed by God and that each
of us has been given the opportunity to wonderfully enrich our lives by discovering and creating
our soul's purpose in a way that advances that agenda. Now, at this point in our program, I think
it's important to share with you what I've come to understand about why it can sometimes be
difficult to do what I've just said and how those difficulties can be overcome. That of course is
the important information. The truth is your soul cannot fail to achieve what it came to this
lifetime to achieve. Yet, sometimes it can look that way. So let me share with you one of the most
life impacting truths I've encountered on my own spiritual journey, here it comes. You may want
to write it down.

The moment you declare yourself to be anything, compassionate, creative, kind, loving,
abundant, giving, joyous, happy. The moment you declare yourself to be anything, its exact
opposite will present itself in your awareness. This is called the law of opposites. And if we are
not aware of this immutable law of the universe, we could be tempted to withdraw, to pull back,
to surrender, to avoid stepping out, to even avoid even trying. We could wind up being
apprehensive or hesitant if not actually frightened or scared to death. This is in fact, how many
people live. They live in some level of fear from morning to night because everything, but what
they're seeking and hoping for, is arising all around them.

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The law of opposites, however, is nothing to be afraid of. Its effect brings us to a place of power
over the course of direction of our lives. For when we witness this effect, the effect of the
opposite of what we want appears. We can finally be assured that we are moving in the right
direction at last. Let me explain that because I know, I know that all I just said probably sounds
completely counter-intuitive. When we see the opposite of that, which we are choosing to create,
we may imagine that we're moving in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing, attempting to
produce the wrong outcome. More often than not, that's not true, actually. More often than not,
the opposite is true. That's why this is called the law of opposites.

Let's take a look at how it actually works. The law of opposites is merely a label that was given
to me in my Conversations with God, to allow me to understand why in the moment that I come
to a decision about anything, I suddenly seem to encounter all sorts of obstacles or blockage.
Apparently showing me all the reasons why I should not move forward with my idea. What most
people don't understand and what I didn't understand either before I learned about this, is that life
must do this. It's an imperative in order for life to create a contextual field within which we can
experience what we are choosing.

Now, let me explain that term in the contextual field, as I'm using it, you cannot experience up
without knowing about down. You cannot experience big without knowing about small, fast,
without knowing about slow, without a specific context in which to consider it. Nothing has any
meaning in particular, nor is anything experienceable. Understanding this, we do well to ignore,
or if you please, to disempower those things, which appear to be obstacles in our life. Those
obstacles are merely signposts, indicating that we are moving in precisely the right direction.
They are notices, notices that a contextual field has been produced in which we can experience
what we have chosen to manifest in our reality.

Let me give you a kind of a dramatic example of what I'm talking about. I know this does sound
a bit dramatic, but let me use the example. If in our lives, the darkness comes, we can see it as an
opportunity to know ourselves as the light. People who have chosen to be the light have not been
stopped when they find themselves facing the darkness. No, in fact, that's when they really get
started, that's when they really touch and change the world around them in meaningful ways. So
if you see obstacles pop up on your life path, I invite you to recognize them for what they are.
Proof that you're on the right path. And then I invite you to keep moving ahead. Now let's
remove the whole process I've discussed here from the realm of metaphysics and place it inside
the container of what we would call normal, on the ground, everyday life. Looked at from this
perspective, we would label all of this as simple determination, sticktuitiveness or standing by
our convictions or having perseverance.

Metaphysically, this is called knowing the truth, understanding that nothing can be achieved,
expressed or experienced outside of a contextual field in which its opposite exists helps us to
deal with that opposite in a strikingly different and beneficial way. Rather than being repelled
backward, we're compelled forward. Rather than being turned off, we're turned on. Rather than
feeling that the plug has been pulled, we feel that we've been plugged in. And so we advance, we
advance with deliberate speed, racing toward the glory and the goal of our soul's purpose.

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Now, there are those who might ask, is it very fair, by the way. What about when the opposite of
what we are attempting to experience presents itself repeatedly over a long period. I've got to
look at this question myself in my own life, I'm certain we all have had to do that. So, it's fair to
observe that there is a nuance here around this law of opposites that deserves exploration.

In my own life, if the arising conditions and circumstances continue to make it increasingly
difficult for me to achieve what I've set out to do, I look at two things immediately. Number one,
is there something that I'm holding as part of my basic beliefs that prevents me from working
with the law of opposites in a helpful way? Am I turning opportunity back into opposition? The
opposition that I at first thought that I was seeing. So you see that the law of opposites provides
me with an opportunity to check my beliefs. What am I holding as part of my inner most reality
that may not allow me to be, do and have what I now seek to be, do, and have?

Now, if you truly have no such beliefs, I mean, if you're one of those who is free of that, it would
be unusual by the way, most of us have limiting beliefs of some kind, but to be fair, if you're one
of those who says now, I don't have those limiting beliefs, beliefs that would prevent me from
going where I wish to go in my life. Then you ask it to ask yourself that second question that I
was talking about. Is it possible that you're not moving in the wrong direction? You're not doing
the wrong thing. You're not attempting to produce the wrong outcome, but simply going about it
in the wrong way or at the wrong time. Is it possible that that's what's happening?

This often takes me to a place that I had previously not considered, which is that what may be
needed is not a change of destination, but a change of direction. The two are not the same thing.
When you change direction, you are not abandoning your destination, but simply choosing a
different way of getting there. So, if the opposite of what you seek to experience presents itself in
your life, move right through that apparent opposition by seeing it as opportunity and do so with
perseverance, determination and commitment.

I've done so in my life and I can promise you that this approach can be powerful. Understanding
a law of opposites will discourage us from being discouraged. It'll stop you from being stopped.
It'll prevent you from preventing the soul's purpose from being the focus of your life. Remember
always, you are an individuation of divinity. The experience of that is the agenda of the soul that
God has designed.

As we've said here now repeatedly. Let the purpose of your soul be to serve that agenda and
watch your life provide you with one perfect opportunity after another to do exactly that. Even
when it looks as if you can't do that, especially, I want to say again, when it looks as if you can't
do that. Or to put this in one simple sentence, let nothing stop you. But in fact, take a look at
maybe I should be going in a different direction. Maybe I should be doing this a little bit
differently.

That's how the soul works with your mind and with your body, to move you through some of the
most difficult and challenging times of your life. So when you confront the law of opposites, let
yourself know exactly what's happening and why, and you can find it to be one of the best

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friends you've ever had. So, before Reverend Michael and I conclude this course and say our
goodbyes together, we will explore one more individual module just with me. And it might be
one of the more fascinating ones of all, we will explore life's perfection.

See it, that's what I'm trying to get to here. Even when we're seeing the opposite, even when it
looks like we can't somehow conclude or be, or do or have what we wanna be, do or have, even
that is perfect. So I want to end my sharing with you in this wonderful course, by taking a look at
that aspect of all of life's perfection. And I'm going to share with you a tool that can make life
seem even more perfect than it ever did. So this final concept will help us step into the living of
our soul's purpose. And we'll look at it more closely in our next module. See you then.

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