The Soul and the Higher Self
By Andrej Djordjevitch
The journey of the soul is not linear. It is not a straight path from darkness to light, ignorance to wisdom. It is a spiral—always returning, always deepening, always unfolding into greater remembrance. And at the heart of this spiral lies a silent presence, a timeless awareness—the Higher Self.
The soul is the bridge between the human and the divine. It is not the personality. It is not the thoughts we think or the roles we play. The soul is deeper. It is the essence behind the eyes, the breath behind the breath. It is the subtle flame that does not die with the body. It carries the imprints of many lives, not in the form of detailed memory, but as energy, wisdom, and longing.
The soul remembers love. It remembers unity. It remembers the sound of the Divine calling it home.
But within the dream of incarnation, the soul sometimes forgets. It forgets its light. It gets entangled in the world of form—pulled into illusion, attachment, identity, fear. It starts to believe it is the wound, the name, the story. And yet, even in its deepest forgetfulness, the soul never loses its origin. The ember remains. And from that ember, the fire can be rekindled.
Above and within the soul is the Higher Self—not a superior being, not a distant deity, but your original self. Your eternal self. It is not becoming enlightened—it is enlightenment. It does not evolve. It simply is. Pure awareness. Pure intelligence. Pure love.
While the soul moves, grows, chooses, and learns, the Higher Self simply knows. It watches with infinite compassion, never intervening through force, only through guidance. Its messages are not commands—they are invitations. It speaks in subtle ways: a sense of knowing, a deep peace, an inner “yes” that transcends logic. It is the pull toward truth when you are lost. It is the grace that finds you when you are broken.
The relationship between the soul and the Higher Self is sacred. The soul is the seeker. The Higher Self is the source. One is the traveller, the other the compass. The soul cries out for meaning, and the Higher Self responds with silence that speaks louder than words.
As we walk the spiritual path, the goal is not to escape the human and merge with the divine—it is to bring the divine into the human. The soul does not reject this world; it seeks to transform it. And it does so by listening. Listening deeply. Not to the noise of the mind, but to the still voice within.
To align with the Higher Self is to return to the inner temple. It is to act from a place beyond fear, beyond desire, beyond separation. Decisions become clearer. Compassion arises naturally. There is no need to prove, to grasp, to defend. You begin to live from presence, from essence, from soul.
This alignment is not dramatic. It is subtle. It happens in quiet moments—when you choose love instead of judgment, stillness instead of reaction, truth instead of convenience. Each of these small moments is a doorway. Each moment of surrender is a step closer to the Self that never left you.
The Higher Self is not separate from you. It is you—free of distortion. It is the version of you untouched by trauma, untouched by ego. It is the witness behind the story, the calm amidst the storm. And it does not need to be found—it only needs to be remembered.
And so we return, again and again, not by climbing, but by softening. Not by efforting, but by releasing.
We stop. We breathe. We listen.
And in that sacred pause, the soul hears its Source.
And the Higher Self whispers, “I have always been here.”
