Soul Qualities Part 6
March 27, 2026
Soul Qualities Part 6: Consciousness and the Divine Message
In the film “Never Look Away,” Kurt, a German teen, sits in deep thought in the boughs of a huge tree while looking at the blue sky. The wind shakes the tree gently as he becomes one with its branches and the wind. Suddenly he rouses, descends the tree and, in a flush of excitement, runs into his family’s farmhouse announcing at the top of his voice to each family member, “Now I understand everything, now I understand!” Each family says in their own way, “Great.” Then they resume their tasks. But after Kurt tells his father that he understands everything, his father asks, “What do you understand?” Kurt’s reply is, “That everything is one.”
Later in this award-winning film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Kurt is a young and rising artist in pre-WW II Germany. Growing in consciousness, he searches for answers about the secretive death of his young aunt who’d helped raise him. In the state of extreme sensitivity, the wind stirs Kurt again by blowing open the shutters of his studio and influencing him as he paints. His painting reveals that a family member in the Third Reich is the secret murderer of his beautiful aunt. This story illustrates the transparency we have to all knowledge once we lift the veils of ego. We are not separate from that knowledge, but we do not know that until we make every effort to be receptive to all knowledge. Little by little, what was shrouded in mystery, comes to light.
Indeed, everything IS ONE and even the answers to our mysteries are “blowing in the wind” — the still, small voice of the Divine. There is a code to life, and enlightenment exposes us to that code at times. Jungian analyst James Hillman refers to this phenomenon in his beautiful work, The Soul’s Code. With the proper intention and keys, we can figure out what on the surface does not seem to make sense. For Kurt, this code included his undying love for his aunt Elizabeth ... a love so indomitable that it opened him to the flow of divine consciousness that expressed itself through his amazing painting.
Spiritual practice: Write about a time when you reached a “coming together” of many things, then your world viewed changed and expanded because of it.
Self-inquiry: If the answer to my question is blowing in the wind, what prevents me from asking that question?
Prayer:
Dear God, I understand now so much more now; Keep me in understanding. Amen.
