ego state is a difficult one to quantify Rhutobello.  Many of us live in our ego states and pay no heed to our souls.  Meditation in the hectic frenetic world we live in is also relegated to the back burners by western society.

I always thought you can't comunicate with your higherself directly, least thats what i was taught in psychiatry.  I thought it was through dream state and sleeping you could pass messages to our higher state?

I didn't say you came to your Higher self....but Move towards it.

By doing so, our ego's don't take priority we have a wider view...and since the ego don't play main role you will not be offended as before, you have easier to understand other.
But all is how you define it.

Just to make a picture of it....the extreme Ego is the Devil ...your Higher self is a God form (impossible to reach because you can't destroy your ego without destroying yourself)...but this is just my defination not any public one

For me, the Eye represents Physical Life meeting Spiritual Awakening. I sketch tons of eyes in my work, because I see something that is hard to express in eyes, something that no words can describe because they are so essential to life we take them for granted. We live in these bodies and view our physical surroundings with our eyes, but our eyes also let out traces of the beings inside that no one else can fully understand. So, yes, I agree eyes are windows to the soul.

Because of my interpretation of eyes, they symbolize many things for me: grounding, rebirth, emotion, gods and goddesses, focusing energy, etc...

hi, I hope I don't get in trouble for joining in...I am having trouble finding where I should post my introduction. I read these posts, however, and felt a compelling need to share what experience(s) I had during a particularly arduous part of my 'journey.'  While about to be homeless, terribly frightened, and in a very unfamiliar area of a large unfamiliar city.  I was walking fast and furious, head down, determined to not be a victim of ??. Turning a corner, by a bar, a homeless-type, man stepped out of the dark and asked "how are you doing tonight?'.  I had recently received two black eyes from my husband, and was extremely scared and angry.  I took off my tinted glasses, looked straight at him, and said "How do you think I'm doing!" quite rudely.  He took my gaze and matched it without pity, anger, but CALM, and said "you will be alright now, the eyes are the windows to your soul." I later, would come to find out what that would mean.  I bless that traveler, who literally came out of nowhere...linda bb withwolfandraven/  wiccavixen