December 8, 2025
A soulmate is not someone who completes you. A soulmate is someone who inspires you to complete yourself.
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Typical western culture defines a soulmate singularly: one person, your destined other half, the love of your life. For a long time I believed that too. But over the last few years my thinking has shifted. I now resonate with the Kabbalistic view — that we have several soulmates across a lifetime.
A soulmate is anyone who enters your life to help you elevate your soul. They may be a partner, a child, a teacher, a lover, a friend. Regardless of the relationship, their presence is unmistakable — and completely intentional. I can think of all the soulmates who have crossed my path, often at the precise season of life, in my moment of need. Then, when their work was done, they left just as precisely. And I wasn’t the same after. I’d like to think that’s the point.
I am filled with gratitude thinking about the soulmates in my life. After all, what other feeling can you have toward another person who has helped you on your journey, to nourish your mind and your heart, and to raise your consciousness? There is only love. At least I have that in common with western culture’s view.