The Answer to Two Difficult Questions of The Soul

CipherLine Open Edition - 9 Nov 2025

The cover image of this week’s Cipherline™ was created out of the answer to two very difficult questions so this week I thought I would step out of our regular ChapterKey™ format and explore the answer a little further because it speaks to the root essence of who we are. If you understand who you are, you’ll find dynamic harmony.

For those of you who haven’t read much of my work about the soul, please don’t think I’m going off on a religious tangent with what I’m about to expand upon, because I’m not. I am agnostic so please read this Cipherline as it is presented, that is, a neutral solution to most of our problems.

Decode

In my book “Decode Your Diagnosis” I refer to The Soul as one of the three elements of our being, and I postulate the need to find dynamic harmony between the elements that define us, and the forces that impact us.

Of the three elements of Mind, Body & Soul, I would have to say Soul is by far, the hardest one to decode. So if you can’t decode the soul, finding dynamic harmony within a chronic diagnosis will be like riding a three wheel bicycle with a flat tire.

Too often the soul is shrouded in ritual or enshrined within belief structures, when in all essence the soul is actually our definition, our reason for being, it defines who we are. It’s the who that is so difficult to find when most of our focus is on why (our mind), and how (our body). If you don’t know who you are then surely you are lost and there-in lies the core of our constant internal conflict.

But trying to align life in dynamic harmony, the soul itself is not the answer to the two difficult problems I was talking about because it is the vessel to find the answer in. To find the answer you need to find the source of energy.

Reflecting on those two difficult questions I alluded to in my note.

The first is a question I get asked a lot, like during my recent presentation in Geelong. In that presentation, the question came from a carer of an aged mother suffering cancer. The carer was genuinely struggling with the answer to helping her beloved mother find her soul in the face of a mature aged cancer diagnosis.

The second question came at the end of a global address I witnessed, when a practitioner in New Zealand asked the guru of heartfulness, how could one possibly find the answer when they hate the person sitting across from them.

Ok you say, these are quite easily identified as problems and with every problem there is a solution but how does that relate to a beautiful Jelly Cake like the one shown in the cover image of this CipherLine Edition.

Align

The answer to all three of these instances, and quite possibly where you will find out who you are is in, Love.

Now, before you slam this post or email shut, hear me out because the explanation Daaji gave in his Q&A was actually incredibly simple and amazingly insightful and may be the answer to your problems.

In answer to the question, Daaji suggested love was a source of energy like electricity. Electricity is one of the main sources of energy driving modern civilisation, without it, where would we be?

For the sake of brevity I’ll call electricity power.

Daaji’s analogy suggested that power has many different uses and intensities but is one form, just as love has many different uses and intensities but is the one form.

Our mobile phones have power saved up to run them, an air-conditioner mounted on your wall at home has power that is much more intense than that of a phone or a battery operated drill, but it is still the same form of energy. Solar panels generate power for homes and are yet another source of power for multiple intensities on everything from room heaters to fridges, to the low voltage LED lights in the kitchen used to help the artisan make the Jelly Cake I put on the cover of this post. All different forms and intensities of power serving a common purpose. They provide electricity for everything to run.

Love is the same for the soul.

Love is one form of energy source used with varying intensity to power who we are and how we resonate with ourselves and others.

The unconditional love a mother has for her children is different to the love of a father. The love for your parent’s, is different to that of your spouse, and the love of your neighbour is yet again different to that of the love you find in a passion project or for yourself. In the case of belief and religion, Daaji cited worship as the highest form of all love. I’m still a step removed from faith and belief but I do worship my wife and believe the science of Gaia keeps us alive in this world, both very different forms of worship, but each with their own undeniable source of love.

Thrive

So how do we allow our soul to thrive in the current world and life climate, where it seems we are heading head long into self destruction individually and globally?

Find love.

It sounds simple doesn’t it and I’ll be the first to admit I fail often. Like the time I fell out of favour badly with a new neighbour. He moved in and immediately planted a series of densely hedging trees on our shared boundary that would clearly block our expansive river view, of twenty five years. I tried impassionately negotiating it with him, but that didn’t work and in one sentence I shut down the relationship and in time the trees did in fact grow to block our view.

Instead of loving thy neighbour we hated each other. He put up trees so we put up an obnoxious corrugated iron fence along the rest of the 100 meter boundary turning his drive way into a narrow steel funnel (to remind him of his foibles every day of his life). For years it became a tit-for-tat exchange and eventually we sold our home of thirty years and left the dysfunctional relationship.

I’m sure you have a similar situation that resonates.

In the case of the carer with a mother diagnosed with cancer I suggested she look for the thing her mother loved when she was a child, before the carer was even born. Often life before children is where our core interests and desires lie. I asked the carer to talk to her mother and find out what she loved or would have loved doing when she was young if she had the opportunity. A woman in her eighties with severe cancer is not going to find her soul and change her life path, but she will find happiness in her dreams, in the dreams of her early childhood love of things.

All my adult life I’ve been an engineer out of obligation to provide for my family and lifestyle and it nearly killed me literally because it was against my true occupational love. I have only recently found who I am in my love of becoming a portfolio creative.

The young woman, who created the rose water gelatin and coconut cake, clearly loved her passion for culinary art work and the heartfulness centre.

So if you want to find the answer to who you are, look for it in your soul, and start thinking from a perspective of love as your source of energy in any situation, and you’ll find it much easier to attain dynamic harmony in life with a chronic condition if you find love in life.

Namaste

Key Insight

Love is not just an emotion, it’s a form of energy that fuels the soul. When we treat love as an active source rather than a passive feeling, we give ourselves the power to move through conflict, illness, and uncertainty with grace. Whether you’re facing a diagnosis, a difficult relationship, or an existential crisis, love, in its many forms, can become your most sustainable inner fuel.

Practical Reflections

• Think of someone you’ve struggled to love lately. What would shift if you viewed love as energy, not emotion?

• Reflect on a moment in your life when love for a person, passion, or belief carried you through adversity. What made it so potent?

• If your soul were powered by love like a device is powered by electricity, what’s been draining your battery lately? What could recharge it?

Fama’s Nudge

Sometimes the clearest answers aren’t the ones that come from thinking harder, they’re the ones that rise when we soften. From this perspective, Love isn’t just a feeling we give away; it’s a current we choose to flow with. When you feel stuck, start there and choose love not because it’s easy, but because it moves you forward.