mirror of the soul

Sometimes I think the people we feel drawn to reflect our inner self back at us and we act as a mirror to them too.


People appear to be having innumerable qualities of random combination; the qualities we see in people are directly related to the traits that exist in us.

“Like attracts like” is a universal spiritual law. To put it very simply when we look at qualities in others we tend to see ourselves. When we see beauty, goodness divinity in a soul we see the same qualities that reside in us.

When we see traits in others that invoke feelings of anger, annoyance or hatred we are again seeing reflections of ourselves that we do not like, or maybe would like to disown. For it is easy it see it in others but difficult to accept as part of us. This could link us to our unconscious and unresolved issues.

Seeing someone exhibiting traits is seeing us through our own perceptions and that could be both humbling and an eye opener.

If we could respect and love all, then we would attract people who love and respect us. When we nurture compassion and empathy we could see goodness mirrored through others.

the body in our mind

The body in our minds,


We have such a image of ourselves in our minds that many of us are not able to relate to our pictures.

When I see a picture of myself particularly taken when I am unaware I feel that it is the image of an impostor, she does not match the image I have of myself in my mind.

To me my picture ought to look like a caricature of an inflated colon. So where has woman emerged from, she looks fairly presentable and people are reacting and responding to her.

More than wondering where this woman emerged from I need to be wondering where did the woman in my mind emerge from?

In her book Body Love Ruth Freedman observes most woman nurture negative images of themselves which is very distant from the reality. While in men it is the visaversa.

The conclusion of her research was

“there is hardly any connection between a woman’s physical attractiveness(as rated by others)and her satisfaction with her body image..feelings of self Worth..there is a strong relationship however between body image and self esteem”