Do you believe in soul mates?

[Janus109]

I have never run into mine yet, what about you? I know of people who fell in love at first site and have stayed together through thick and thin.

Plato once wrote about this many years ago..

" And when one of them meets his other half, the actual half of himself, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimancy and one will not be out of sight of the other even for a moment. "

What do you think?

[Eternal Night]

I do believe in soulmates, but have yet to find mine. I think that there is only one person who is truly right for u and if you are lucky enough to meet them fantastic!!!
I don't think it applies not just to romantic love though, I think you can have a soulmate for a friend as well.

[Kalika]

Honestly, I'm not sure. I want to, I think, but I don't know if there is another person out there who would truly 'complete' my soul, in and of themselves. I could be wrong... I'd love to be proven wrong, actually. :lol:

[SoulFire]

Yes, absolutely, I do, and I have met mine.

[Bluewillow]

I believe in soulmates (I married mine), but in a slightly different sense. I believe that we have soulmates on various levels; in other words, a friend can be a soulmate, and we also have romantic soulmates. I believe we could have a number of soulmates on either level, people who we've perhaps known in previous lifetimes and just continue to encounter for one reason or another in different situations for whatever reason, souls with whom we have a very deep bond. I believe that I have met a number of my soulmates, or kindred spirits, if you will. :)

[DaNcInG_WiNd]

I have never run into mine yet, what about you? I know of people who fell in love at first site and have stayed together through thick and thin.

Plato once wrote about this many years ago..

" And when one of them meets his other half, the actual half of himself, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimancy and one will not be out of sight of the other even for a moment. "

What do you think?


It's true...

[RoseKitten]

Sure, why not? I don't believe that you only have one though, or that they are necesscarily a romantic one. I know that I have met one of mine, and he is like a brother to me. ^_^

[Shadow Angel]

Yes I DEFINITELY believe in SoulMates

[Astara Seague]

I believe in soulmates (I married mine), but in a slightly different sense. I believe that we have soulmates on various levels; in other words, a friend can be a soulmate, and we also have romantic soulmates. I believe we could have a number of soulmates on either level, people who we've perhaps known in previous lifetimes and just continue to encounter for one reason or another in different situations for whatever reason, souls with whom we have a very deep bond. I believe that I have met a number of my soulmates, or kindred spirits, if you will. :)
I agree 100 %and I too have married one of mine

[Sage Rainsong]

I believe in soul mates in a sense. I believe that one can have a deep soul bond with other people. This includes friends family and lovers. I do not believe in soulmates in the sense that there is one person out there to complete me and I need to search for him. That idea just rubs me the wrong way personally.

[Moonlight's Daughter]

I believe in soul mates in a sense. I believe that one can have a deep soul bond with other people. This includes friends family and lovers. I do not believe in soulmates in the sense that there is one person out there to complete me and I need to search for him. That idea just rubs me the wrong way personally.


I agree completley!-I complete myself. LOL

[Johnathan Brisby]

http://www.uou.to/soulmates.htm (http://www.uou.to/soulmates.htm)
there is a distinction that explains your differing viewpoints
http://www.helium.com/tm/211998/finding-begins-finding-inner (http://www.helium.com/tm/211998/finding-begins-finding-inner)

[Meirya]

And when one of them meets his other half, the actual half of himself. . .

To me, this implies that one must be incomplete in order to have a soulmate. Now, I do believe that souls/spirits can be split, broken apart, shattered, or otherwise separated into pieces - I think that sometimes happens when people suffer severe trauma, or have multiple personalities, etc - and I think this often happens between lifetimes as well. It's part of the reason soul retrieval exists, in my opinion; sometimes a part of you is separated from the rest of you.

I believe that if this breakage/separation is not repaired, then the pieces of your original soulstuff can incarnate into different bodies. That which is incomplete seeks completion, and so the other incarnations of your soul-pieces are your soulmates. Now, of course your soul may have been broken into only two parts, in which case you only have one soulmate - but I think more often it's in several pieces, so that you have multiple soulmates, and if you find only one, s/he may seem to complete you but is actually only making you more whole, not 100% whole, because there are other missing pieces. I also don't think that soulmates have to be romantic relationships/connections. It often happens that way, because the connection is so deep and instant and whole, but it can be a sibling-relationship or a friendship-relationship too. A friend as close as family.

To me, this also means that some people don't have a soulmate, because some people complete themselves; they aren't in pieces scattered across bodies. I believe I'm one of those people. I look for people to complement my wholeness, rather than complete a lack of wholeness.

I think there are other connections that sometimes get mistaken as soulmate-connections, though. I've had a shock of recognition when meeting someone for the very first time, and it's been like I've known them for ages; I think this is because I knew the person in a past life and formed a connection (a relationship of some variety) with them that's lasted through to this life as well. The strongest of these connections are people I call family - heart-kin rather than blood-kin. Sometimes it's a familial connection, sometimes it's a romantic attraction (once it was both, but he's gay, so! ^^' Familial by default). Only once have I dated someone that I don't have that connection to; I realized, after looking back on things, that even before I believed in reincarnation and the like, I tended to only date people that I "recognized" to at least some degree.

The other sort of connection isn't what I call a connection but a resonance, a harmonization - when your energy resonates or harmonizes with someone else's. Sometimes, just being around certain people (even if I know nothing about them or have never met them, even if they seem/are perfectly nice) itches at my skin; their energy has a dissonance with mine, though it might harmonize with someone else's. Most people are just neutral; there's no clash or resonance at all, or it's so slight as to not be a factor at all. And then there are some people I resonate/harmonize with; it's not connection, it's not recognition, but it's a comfortableness and an ease of being.

I also think you can "tune in" to someone else, that after associating with someone for long enough, your energies start to come into closer harmony, adjusting to each other like musicians tuning to the same note. I haven't tried doing it consciously, but I've observed it before.

Just my $0.99. (More than $0.02; I rambled quite a bit. >_>)

[FeatherGoblinglimmer]

I believe in a sense. I believe we have many soul mates. Some not neccessarily meant to be romantic. Some are just friends, relations, mentors, family. I believe throughout my lives there are people who I am destined to meet and have some kind of bond with. I believe these bonds change life after life. I believe that i have something to gain from all my soulmates.:)

[plumedsnake]

The other sort of connection isn't what I call a connection but a resonance, a harmonization - when your energy resonates or harmonizes with someone else's. Sometimes, just being around certain people (even if I know nothing about them or have never met them, even if they seem/are perfectly nice) itches at my skin; their energy has a dissonance with mine, though it might harmonize with someone else's. Most people are just neutral; there's no clash or resonance at all, or it's so slight as to not be a factor at all. And then there are some people I resonate/harmonize with; it's not connection, it's not recognition, but it's a comfortableness and an ease of being.

I also think you can "tune in" to someone else, that after associating with someone for long enough, your energies start to come into closer harmony, adjusting to each other like musicians tuning to the same note. I haven't tried doing it consciously, but I've observed it before.

>_>)

This was what I understood as a soulmate connection. The whole resonance thing. And I think that there are loads of people who vibrate on a certain spiritual frequency and when they meet they reinforce the vibration and resonate, but not just people but also places and objects and foodstuffs, hence the whole idea of taboos and keeping holy and not coming into contact with stuff that is in dissonance with your own vibration. Plus I totally agree that some people, but not all, have the ability to tune into different frequencies thereby allowing them to access different vibrational levels. These people could be who we call empaths.



To me, this implies that one must be incomplete in order to have a soulmate. Now, I do believe that souls/spirits can be split, broken apart, shattered, or otherwise separated into pieces - I think that sometimes happens when people suffer severe trauma, or have multiple personalities, etc - and I think this often happens between lifetimes as well. It's part of the reason soul retrieval exists, in my opinion; sometimes a part of you is separated from the rest of you.

I believe that if this breakage/separation is not repaired, then the pieces of your original soulstuff can incarnate into different bodies. That which is incomplete seeks completion, and so the other incarnations of your soul-pieces are your soulmates. Now, of course your soul may have been broken into only two parts, in which case you only have one soulmate - but I think more often it's in several pieces, so that you have multiple soulmates, and if you find only one, s/he may seem to complete you but is actually only making you more whole, not 100% whole, because there are other missing pieces. I also don't think that soulmates have to be romantic relationships/connections. It often happens that way, because the connection is so deep and instant and whole, but it can be a sibling-relationship or a friendship-relationship too. A friend as close as family.

To me, this also means that some people don't have a soulmate, because some people complete themselves; they aren't in pieces scattered across bodies. I believe I'm one of those people. I look for people to complement my wholeness, rather than complete a lack of wholeness.

I'd thought about the soul thing before as well but there are so many implications. What part of the soul has the sense of identity. When the soul fractures, are two identities created for the different parts. What does this imply about our sense of identity, I am-ness?


I think there are other connections that sometimes get mistaken as soulmate-connections, though. I've had a shock of recognition when meeting someone for the very first time, and it's been like I've known them for ages; I think this is because I knew the person in a past life and formed a connection (a relationship of some variety) with them that's lasted through to this life as well. The strongest of these connections are people I call family - heart-kin rather than blood-kin. Sometimes it's a familial connection, sometimes it's a romantic attraction (once it was both, but he's gay, so! ^^' Familial by default). Only once have I dated someone that I don't have that connection to; I realized, after looking back on things, that even before I believed in reincarnation and the like, I tended to only date people that I "recognized" to at least some degree. .

This matter of connections. The laws of attraction and repulsions. This probably requires another thread. What would we say as the factors that determine what we find attractive and repulsive. When do opposites attracts and when do like attract (birds of a feather).

[blackluckof13]

yes i do, even though i haven't found mine yet.

[Tanya]

i don't know, and yeah I've been mostly happily married for a number of years.... I wonder if it isn't a juvinile fantasy... that someone.. anyone can be everything to another person is a pretty tall order and its no wonder mere humans fail all the time to live up to those expectations.

that said... I don't know.. any of you who know me know I married my husband after knowing him for less than a week...

maybe that means we are soul mates... maybe that means we knew we were going to have to work and have forgiven each other a lot of times.

[Willow Rosette]

Honestly, I'm not sure. I want to, I think, but I don't know if there is another person out there who would truly 'complete' my soul, in and of themselves. I could be wrong... I'd love to be proven wrong, actually. :lol:

Thats exactly how I feel.

[Kalika]

Thats exactly how I feel.

:p

:hugz:

[Morr]

Yes.

I dont believe it is 100% sweet fantasy and perfect happiness, like say in Disney or Fairytales.

But there are soulmates, and I found mine. Our relationship is not perfect, there are disagreements or arguments, there are challenges. What makes us soulmates is that we love each other to no end, we fight and wor and find a middle ground.

Nothing is easy, but when you find the right person who is your soulmate -- You just know it. You sense the difference.

My husband is a perfect match for me. I realize how wrong other people were for me in the past, now that I am with him (even if at the time, it seemed perfect to be with those other people).

Its when a person completes you on levels you yourself dont realize until you meet this person, is when you realize you have found your soulmate.

I am a whole and complete person all by myself, however, my husband as himself and I as myself create a whole new complete creation.

Does that make sense? LOL

So yeah I believe in it. I think its out there. I dont think EVERYONE finds it in each single lifetime they go through, but I believe we do get to experience such events, and they are very sweet.

Just my 2 cents.

[Kalika]

Yes.

I dont believe it is 100% sweet fantasy and perfect happiness, like say in Disney or Fairytales.

But there are soulmates, and I found mine. Our relationship is not perfect, there are disagreements or arguments, there are challenges. What makes us soulmates is that we love each other to no end, we fight and wor and find a middle ground.

Nothing is easy, but when you find the right person who is your soulmate -- You just know it. You sense the difference.

My husband is a perfect match for me. I realize how wrong other people were for me in the past, now that I am with him (even if at the time, it seemed perfect to be with those other people).

Its when a person completes you on levels you yourself dont realize until you meet this person, is when you realize you have found your soulmate.

I am a whole and complete person all by myself, however, my husband as himself and I as myself create a whole new complete creation.

Does that make sense? LOL

So yeah I believe in it. I think its out there. I dont think EVERYONE finds it in each single lifetime they go through, but I believe we do get to experience such events, and they are very sweet.

Just my 2 cents.

I like that explanation, actually. :)

[Zoey]

I believe in soul mates in a sense. I believe that one can have a deep soul bond with other people. This includes friends family and lovers. I do not believe in soulmates in the sense that there is one person out there to complete me and I need to search for him. That idea just rubs me the wrong way personally.

Stole the thoughts right out of my head.

[Yippm]

I'm not exatly sure where I stand on that Idea, I believe that everyone in our life teaches us a lesson, and makes us grow...but rather we grow positivly or negitivly to that responce is up to us, there for the future is not sure, "always changing the future is" as Master Yoda once said

Recently I discoverd that My Guardian spirit, and My ex boyfriends (recently broke it off) Guardian spirit, are a couple...and they are apparently very happt together, and even after we split, they still are together. I don't know what to say to that.

[LadyCelt]

I believe in soulmates and I have mine. I also believe peole have certain bonds for friendship, teachers, etc too.

[Lyrien]

I have a fairly different view of soul mates. I believe that we have several.

I believe we have soul families that exist in the....[not current plane word of your choosing]. These souls are similar in structure to your immediate family now, all of which incarnate, although not necessarily as your immediate family. These are the soul mates found on earth. Not just one, but several.


Hrm, I can explain it in person, but it's rather difficult using only the written word.

[plumedsnake]

I believe we have soul families that exist in the....[not current plane word of your choosing]. These souls are similar in structure to your immediate family now, all of which incarnate, although not necessarily as your immediate family. These are the soul mates found on earth. Not just one, but several.


In yoruba religion traditions there is the belief that we all belong to certain clubs in heaven. The members are called the egbe orun or heavenly mates. Some of them incarnate at the same time as us while the others remain in heaven but are still an influence in our lives. They inform us and endow us with certain skills that pertain to the interests of the club.

[Aconite]

I believe in two kinds of soulamtes. I believe there is that one tre soul mate love who when you meet them somethign will fall into palce and somehow you'll know it's them.

And I believe int he BEST of BEST friend kind of soulamtes. Who when you see them you also click and know that you will love them and they will love you unconditionally, because before you even know them you feel such a strong connection..

Or maybe y ou only get ONE soulmate in the form of a lover, or friend, or sibling. If taht's the case, yes, I have found mine. If not, No, i ahvn't, But i'm a DEFFANITE Believer.

[WhoseLineBabygirl]

yeah i believe in them. and i think i've found mine although he has a girlfriend at the moment:rant: i believe hes the one i'm gonna be with the rest of my life

[IrishDancer]

Absolutely. I believe you have ONE soulmate. ONE person who will understand you and connect with you like no other. I don't believe this always has to be found in a romantic sort of relationship, though. I think it can also be a family member, friend, even an animal.

[Chariot]

I like the resonance explanation. I also like the soul families thing. My best friend is a past life regression therapist. She's regressed me a couple of times. She says that the "energy is the same" between myself and a recurrent person. Also, in the regressions, my children are my children over and over in different combinations.

At the same time, I'm not sure I know what all of that means. I do know that I have been missing someone my whole life. It was difficult to identify it, but once I sort of dissected the emotions, that is exactly what it was. I knew that before the first regression.

[EnigmaRaven]

I believe in soul mates, because my Mom found hers about 20 years back. As soon as I met the Man My Mom was going to marry I knew he was the one that was to be my Dad. My Mom tells me that I called him Dad from day one.

I have also found my soul mate. I know this because how can some one fall in love with some one that is as sick as I am? Knowing that I might not ever get well or eve die (I hope I will not die:hahugh:).

[Iris]

The japanese have the term 'en', meaning a karmic bond. I believe that it's possible to have an 'en' with someone. But sometimes it's not a good thing :lol:

There is someone I have a weird connection with, but he's not my soul mate in any sense (he drives me nuts and we're utterly incompatible). But we both acknowledge there's a connection of some sort there. Odd. :)

[Storm_Wolfe]

I do believe in soul mates, and I have found mine, we are working on year number 8... You just have to be in the right place at the right time.

:abanana: Dances with bananas.

[Myzterio]

I... I don't know. I really don't know.
I don't believe in anything, I do not believe in Abraham's God, or Allah, the Old Ones, the God and the Goddess, or any other deity; I don't believe in spirits or ghosts. And I have never believed in True Love, in the sense of there being a single person who is destined to complete you - although I have always 'believed' in love and that it's possible to become as though you're meant to be.

But, like I've said elsewhere, I've always felt connections to fate - having déja vus and the like that I found I couldn't alter - and I try to keep an open mind about spiritual, although I've found it near-impossible to actually do so...

And I haven't told anyone about this yet - not even her -but over the last few months I've come to find that there is a person that seems so right, that I've started to consider the possibility of the two of us being 'meant to be together'. I've noticed that I need her more than I've ever needed anything, that I long for her at all times, that I can't stop thinking about her. We share infatuations, interests, background and dreams; she and I both want the same out of life, and I believe that we can fetch them together!
I'm not saying we get along perfectly all the time. We don't. Things are now looking very grim, and I fear for our love, but I also have faith. It's... Odd. I can't describe my feelings right now, as I'm torn between terror and trust.
I just know that things are hard on her right now, but after she straightens things out, I know she'll come to me, and we'll speak, and everything will turn out alright, because I know in my heart that she loves me, and I her.

I may not believe in Gods or spirits, but I believe in her and in our love.
Do I believe in soulmates? I... I think I do.

[HedwigHarfang]

I certainly do, and I've spent thirty years waiting for her to grow up, and almost forty before that waiting for her to incarnate again. And now I've found her she's made an old man very happy :).

[Glowy]

no, I do not.

[Lady_Saslic83]

I do believe in soul mates even though I havent found mine yet

[mayu]

I believe in two kinds of soulamtes. I believe there is that one tre soul mate love who when you meet them somethign will fall into palce and somehow you'll know it's them.

And I believe int he BEST of BEST friend kind of soulamtes. Who when you see them you also click and know that you will love them and they will love you unconditionally, because before you even know them you feel such a strong connection..

Or maybe y ou only get ONE soulmate in the form of a lover, or friend, or sibling. If taht's the case, yes, I have found mine. If not, No, i ahvn't, But i'm a DEFFANITE Believer.


this sits well with me

i belive in soul mates.

[Fluoxetine]

I have seen people come into my life that could be seen as soul mates, but they soon leave.

I guess there will be someone, but not today. but my friends I am with.... I would help them out regardless of how I am. It may be that I just talk, listen or just be there to help them in any way. I just do what I can when needed.

[FaeSpirit39]

I believe we are all soulmates, people we continue to be in contact through-out our many lifetimes.

I believe in TWIN SOULS (the one we are truly meant to be with lifetime after lifetime). I believe with all that I have in me, that my hubby and I are truly ywin souls and Iknow we are having a difficult time right now, but I know eventually we will make it thru.

Something I also believe is, just because you are soulmates with someone or even a twin soul, doesn't mean that the relationship will work itself out, you have to get your hands dirty and be in reality to help maintain any type of soulmate, twin soul relationship, period.