Revolution of the Soul: Awaken to Love Through Raw Truth, Radical Healing, and Conscious Action

by Seane Corn

So we can unearth the angels buried within the narratives and the teachers we’ve long forgotten — or refused to acknowledge — and repair any separation we’ve inadvertently caused within ourselves and toward others.

Look at events in my life with clear eyes, see how I've actually behaved in relationship, what part was and how 8 can grow through and beyond these instances.

In other words, we must set a place at our heart’s table for all that we are — our joys, sorrows, unprocessed emotions, and individual and ancestral traumas — so we can see, acknowledge, and love others for who they are.

Be still, meditate, be and learn

key to breaking shame

discovering the origins of your own limiting beliefs and biases,

understand myriad pathways that lead to unification ....

the light, and the shadow — each moment and every experience, and know, that in love, we are unified; we are whole. This is what leads to peace.

I can be completely me and bring that, in love, to my interactions.

Part I of this book is about looking within, cultivating various traditional and contemporary tools for personal transformation — especially yoga — and taking responsibility for our own healing, awareness, and growth.

Action must follow.

Part II expands our awareness beyond individual growth. It

framework of self-responsibility, understanding, and love for one reason only: because our collective liberation depends on it.

have the courage to expose that which no longer serves our light.

True. Look clearly at what Im doing/thinking and why. Do they still serve a purpose and if not. How can I adjust my thought/actions?

I tell him about the rituals I used to do to stop the anxiety — the counting and touching and repeating things in even numbers — how they always made me feel better.

“Ignore the story and see the soul. And remember to love. You will never regret it.”

Don't judge a book by its' cover

change my perceptions, and in changing the way I see things, perhaps I can grow.

Key to growth.

make me more compassionate, more forgiving, more loving, and more connected.

know that every person is a teacher and every experience a teaching, and that there are angels everywhere guiding us, reminding us, and helping us return home.

So true.

everything is connected

and our purpose is to see, feel, celebrate, and be in alignment with that connection and to love the whole of this experience and each other, fully, as it is and as we are.

We dont live in isolation. Its unselfish to work on my healing. My attitudes and interactions good or bad affect others.

The themes of interconnectedness, loving-kindness, and mindful actions run all through ancient yogic texts,

yamas and the niyamas — ways in which we can live more consciously and with greater compassion — the

Dos and Donts

yamas is a Sanskrit word that’s often translated as “restraints” or “thou shalt nots”; the niyamas as “disciplines” or “thou shalts.”

yamas focus on the relationship we have with the external world;

niyamas on the relationship we have w...

Practicing ahimsa means extending friendliness, compassion, and sympathetic joy to others and, in doing so, offering ourselves the same gifts.

But to be love, we must see the beauty inherent in others, even — no, especially — those we struggle to understand. We

Loving kindness. Bless them, change me.

when we set up barriers that keep us separate from others and allow us to judge what we fail or refuse to understand. When we judge, we project our fears, shame, and guilt onto others and see them as “other.”

Seeing through the lens of our own fear, hurt and misunderstanding.

when we judge others, we disconnect not only from those we judge but from our highest Self — the God within.

“being One” does not mean “being the same.” Yes,

True. We compliment each other through our differences.

never touched red meat again.

privilege.

you also have a responsibility to be much more compassionate and understanding to those who may not get the opportunities you’ll get in this life. So be nice. Go out of your way to support her. Go out of your way to understand her. Don’t add to the challenges she may already have. Be patient. You don’t need to know where she’s come from or what her story is. You just need to be kind.”

Afterward I feel strangely grounded, even though I had been in the center of a whirlwind.

pranayama (controlling and extending the breath), pratyahara (withdrawing the senses), and dharana (one-pointed concentration).

bar or take my time wiping down the tables near where they were chatting and listen. What I really noticed was that yoga had become a way of life for David and Sharon, especially after they returned from India. They had changed — not physically so much as in their attitude — in ways that made me want to be more like them. The kindness, compassion, and thoughtfulness they exhibited made me feel at ease in their presence. I wanted to feel at ease all the time, especially in my own skin, but I rarely did, so I thought maybe they had a “trick” or two up their sleeve that would help me. At the time, I didn’t think the lessons I was learning had anything to do with yoga. But looking back, I can see that David and Sharon exemplified the core of the yogic teachings: always be kind because when one being suffers, we all suffer.

core of the yogic teachings: always be kind because when one being suffers, we all suffer.

definition of yoga. Yoga means to “yoke” or “to join together and make whole.” (It comes from the Sanskrit root yuj, which means “to join or unite.”)

To join together and make whole is to welcome and begin to accept all aspects of yourself, to notice the good, the not-so-good, and the truly cringeworthy. Yoking also means connecting your individual soul with the Divine, Cosmic Consciousness, God, or whatever else you call this transcendent state of awareness.

there is no separation between your soul and the Divine, between yourself and others, or between all of us and the planet.

Vedas (the oldest known scriptures of Hinduism).

Yoga Sutras,

Patanjali presents the Eight Limbs of Yoga: guidelines for how we can live a happier, healthier, less reactive, and more loving life and how we can liberate ourselves and others from suffering.

begin with what is most tangible: our relationships to others and to ourselves.

then we move on, diving deeper toward the core of our being, our...

start with the yamas, or ethical...

offer five ways to pay more loving attention to ...

The yamas invite us to notice how our actions affect not only o...

Isnt this the 4th step?

the niyamas, or observances, offers five daily practices to help strengthen our connection to ourselves; it invites us to clean up our act to make space for liberation to happen.

willingness to reflect on who we are and the attachments we have to our own stories.

cultivating the power of concentration through dharana,

The entire journey brings us back home to our true nature.