First, I just want to say that soulmates are frequent and everywhere. They can be females or males. And if you believe in reincarnation there is a completely deeper bucket of worms to dive into, but not right now.

On the surface. Do you think that we, as humankind, are the end all be all of life? If that were true, this whole thing would be pretty lame, don’t you think? But the universe is vast, very cool, and limitless, if you can connect with a belief… Any belief really. Just something grander than yourself. If you want something to come to you, you envision it. This is including love and soulmates. Sounds too good to be true huh?

Mahatma Gandhi said it best, “Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.”

Granted, this only works if your intentions are pure and good. If you are not ready to meet a soulmate, a love of your life, then it won’t happen yet.

You need to be prepared and ready to have that person in your life. If you are searching, then in the process of them coming to you, you may have completely missed them in your intense focus and loss of self.

What needs to happen in your life for a soulmate to enter, is for you to be centered, balanced and taking care of you. Your energies need to be devoted to yourself, your well being, self love without an ego, desire without selfishness, and really be ready for love. You say to yourself, ” But I am ready for love and it still isn’t coming”. Really take a look at who you are, are you ready for love, are you really ready for a relationship? Or do you need to be in a relationship with yourself first to include another? Are you in love with you?

Do you really think that if cannot bring yourself to love you that there is enough to send out to your soulmate? Nope, no way. Now put your energy back into making yourself the best person you can be. Get off the dating website, stop going on random set up dates.

Make a date for you, fall in love with you, figure out what is important in your life. Then the soulmate will come. You may find a spouse, or maybe even a friend that you never thought you could live without. Love will come to you.

Being aware of your self and being aware of your life is the first step to finding love. If the universe knows you are ready, and your intentions are in the right place, what Gandhi said was right. These things will come to you because you are ready to deserve them.

I’ve had it happen, not only with soulmates, but with things I felt that I needed in my life. When I was ready they came to me. It really is an incredible thing to encounter. My dad always says (and I’m sure he got it from someone else) , ” that the universe works in mysterious ways”. It sure does Pop. Just have enough faith in yourself and something greater than the “I” in life and you will be able to reach places you never thought might be possible.

Make sure your inner light is strong enough to share with another soul, and you will eventually draw another light to your own.

Love is great like that. It will find you, when you are ready.

Please let me know if any of this has helped you in your life. I would love to hear stories about the universe giving you what you needed. It’s beyond awe inspiring.

            Nonviolence was an immense moral in Gandhi’s life. Wherever he went, he was trying to convince people that nonviolence and civil disobedience was a better form of protest than weapons. In 1896, Gandhi was attacked and humiliated by white South Africans, after which he started to teach the way of passive resistance and non-cooperation with South African authorities to show the Indian people that they should not be treated like that anymore. (Kamat 1). In 1914 the government in South Africa agreed to Gandhi’s demands by recognizing Indian marriages and the abolishment on poll tax for the Indian immigrants. With his work in South Africa completed Gandhi returned to India to spread his nonviolent nature there. Throughout India, Gandhi was, again, fighting the government, this time the British government in India (Kamat 1).

            Gandhi became the leader of the long and difficult Indian camp campaign for home rule. In 1919 when the British Parliament passed the Rowlatt Act that colonial authorities had the power to “deal” with the outbursts of revolutionary resistance (Kamat 1). Gandhi’s teachings of nonviolence were met with a massacre of Indians at Amritsar by British authorities. (Kamat 2) Gandhi’s teaching spread throughout India and he was gaining millions of followers. Gandhi’s political and spiritual power on the people of India was so influential that the British did not challenge him for fear of provoke the fires of revolt (Kamat 2). The Indian National Congress, the group responsible for the fight for nationalism, in 1921 gave Gandhi the right to choose who will follow his teachings and way of life. But in 1922 Gandhi admitted defeat, in his non after a string of armed revolts against the British; he was arrested the same year. After his release from jail in 1924 Gandhi tried to quit politics and work on a small group of citizens who will follow his way of life. Tried and fail, for Gandhi was drawn in again by calling an act for civil disobedience by not paying taxes on salt and marching to the sea. The march to the sea was a campaign in which thousands followed Gandhi where they made salt by evaporating the salt water. This was less about getting the salt and was more about the symbolism of rising against the British tax on salt. Once again Gandhi was arrested but was released again in 1931. Gandhi stopped the movement once the British made concession to his demands (Kamat 2). Gandhi represented the Indian Nations Congress in London at a conference.  But then in 1932 Gandhi began a new nonviolence movement and then in 1934 Gandhi formally retired from politics and moved on to teach people about treating everyone fairly, no matter what their class is. In 1935 India’s home rule could not be put into use until Gandhi accepted it. India finally got freedom in 1947, without Gandhi none of this would have happened. Getting freedom from the British was a big achievement, but Gandhi also inspired world leaders with his words and nonviolent actions.

            Gandhi’s affect on people went so far it reached Albert Einstein who said boldly of Gandhi, “Generations to come, it may be, will scarcely believe that such a one as this ever in flesh in bone walked upon this earth” (Drouin 3).  Even the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. used Gandhi’s nonviolent methods as a way to protest discrimination. In South Africa Nelson Mandela used Gandhi’s teachings. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world” (Drouin 2). Gandhi not only changed his generation, he changed generations to come. His words and teaching affected the whole word and united people. Gandhi brought nations together and effected lives beyond his own. And impacted the lives of generations to come and gave an everlasting impression upon the world. His affect will be continuations ripple in the pond of life.