Want to search the truth, read this.

So, English is not your mother tongue?

How in the world would reading this tripe lead me to "search the truth"?

Well, to label the whole lot as tripe, is tripe.

It's obviously heartfelt. And it's obviously part of a journey. In some ways, I'd say the OP is a lot further along the journey than any number of people I could think of.

I was commenting mainly on the verb in her headline -- search the truth. Don't you think that another word, e.g. reach or find or discover would have served better? But perhaps Setanta is right -- English does not appear to be the poster's first language.

Fair enough, although I'll point out that 'search' is an action that precedes finding /discovering...and search is very similar to 'reaching' - which preceeds 'gaining'. I'm guessing they may just have left out the word 'Want to search for the truth, read this'

Is it not then, inner-peace that you find when you meditate.

Is it not going out into the world with a positive attitude that allows us to shine as well on the outside, as with positive attitude comes belief and peace in self.

And, if we feel such peace within ourselves, love ourselves, feel positive don't we then freely love others and pass that on....

Is a soul not deeper than inner-peace.

I think Found Soul, that many philophers/mystics equate the 'nothingness' experienced during meditation as the pure essence of the soul. The brain 'thinks', while the soul 'is' (of course, anyone is free to correct me on that).

There was one book I recall reading where the author was trying to convince the reader that people are 'spirit' and that the rest is just illusory. It was quite a good argument he put up, and the view point held a few useful outcomes.

I don't know that I buy into the 'soul' thing. 'Spirit' yes, but for different reasons than any which I've come across in any reading material. I could see the 'soul' as a combination of spirit & the mind (though I don't hold to that conclusively). But to me, rather than assigning meaning to such a thing, I view it as a case of 'it just is'.

'Soul' is just a word. Whether you call it 'soul' or 'spirit' or 'inner-self' or even just 'ego', we're essentially talking about the same thing -- something which is not part of one's physical makeup but, rather, is the core of one's being.

We as humans attach meanings to words. So to each of us, unless we choose to attach the same meaning to all those words/phrases - they have different meanings.

Soul to me entails a rather different concept than spirit. To my way of thinking spirit + body (may) = soul. That's rather biblical in it's view, but I can't see a better one.

The reason I don't buy into the 'soul' thing, is it tends to be associated with I would call 'intelligent spirit' (ghosts, life in heaven after death), which I can't see as existing in that state (as in my version of spirit, there is no intelligence, it just is - a life force if you will)

Ego to me entails a rather different 'thing' again to either soul or spirit.

Where-as, Spirit & Life-Energy I see as much the same thing (but perhaps not exactly the same). Soul & Being I see as much the same thing.

I "personally" do not think that mediation, and soul searching is a wordless thing, and the way it is achieved...

When I have meditated, or prayed for many hours at a time...To a God...

It was the point at which, I reached with God, that all the things I thought about, and asked, and meditated about...Hit me, when he revealed in a split second, all the answers to my questions, by saying, this is how far you can go, do not go any farther, as you can not understand anymore in this life...And you do not need, or want to know anymore...And what took me 6 hrs to pry, and think about, was summed up, in a split second, by him...Instantaneously...I could use every word I possibly knew to sum up the experience...And got an answer to everything I thought about, and asked him about, and prayed for...

So I get your point...But I do not believe, it is a wordless experience...

Rather, everything I could think of, could explain what I just experienced, from God, in a split second...

These experiences, are not wordless for me...

No words were needed, to be heard, to feel what God was saying to me, and revealing my questions and thoughts in a split second...

But I could use every word, and everything I knew, and know, to explain it...

So, I do not really understand the wordless thing?

Are you a Buddhist?

And if you can not explain a wordless experience, how would anyone else know what it is? Or how to get there?

Say an older one, teaching a young one??

It seems to me, if someone else can not explain what it is, or actually feels like, I am not so sure, I would be able to understand, if it happened to me...

Or what and how to actually get there?

And meditation, Or soul searching...Does not answer it for me...

What do you meditate about?

Seems if you do what you do...

I honestly can say, I do not understand how this can be achieved, if there is not a God, who is influencing the very basic concepts and principals that you come to understand, and experience...And how it is expressed wordlessly...??

And even if it happened...If it was not orchestrated by a higher being...

What is the ultimate objective of having a wordless experience??

I think you can love everyone, and not just yourself...And see your soul, by doing what I have done before...

What is the advantage of doing this soul searching, without seeking a God?

Who is giving you this wordless experience, if not a God? Is it orchestrated by your own being? Or soul?

If it is, it would still make more sense to me, that a God would reveal the answers...I can not simply comprehend, how a being, would reveal itself, by itself, to another form of being?? That is you??

Interesting read though!

Just my

Sandy, it seems to me you are experiencing something profound. But be careful not to get hung up in the words, because they will ultimately get in the way of experiencing a holistic perspective.
And don't be discouraged if you cannot communicate those experiences with words. Words, by their very nature, make it impossible. It cannot be explained, but still it is something most people experience in brief glimpses through their lives. Some put greater value in those moments than others.