The Old Soul's Guide
A Handbook for a Joyous Existence

channeled by Mataare
for Anamika & Carolyn Hawkins
compiled and edited by Carolyn Hawkins

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Timeless words of wisdom and inspiration spoken by loving beings, who reside just beyond the veil of our ordinary awareness, provide comfort and reassurance that we are not alone and that guidance is always available. This book is topically arranged to be used as a quick reference tool for life’s dilemmas, as a daily meditation guide and for pleasure and inspiration.

                                                                                                    Courage
To grow requires absolute courage. There is no movement forward without it. You do not have to be totally courageous all the time, but to grow you have to find absolute courage at some point or another and faith leads you to that point. Faith does not need to be grand. It can be very small, but it can lead to great courage.
                                                                                                                                – Philos

                                                                                                      Faith
It is faith that you function on when you do not believe anymore. It I faith that drives you when everything else is gone.                                                                                                                                – Sun Bear

                                                                                                     Guides
We are here to help you let go of what you no longer need to hold onto as your identity so that you may come to embrace the larger whole and your larger self. We are here to link you with the Source of All Existence. We are not the Source of All Existence in Its entirety, but are here to help link you to that with which we are deeply linked.
                                                                                                                                 – Merlin
                                                                                                       God
You are meant to ride the winds of grace, to sail on the beauty of God’s light.
                                                                                                       – Miriam, Astarte and Devorah

                                                                                                       Love
What brings us here is love. In the presence of love, all other things become unimportant.
                                                                                                                              – Yeshua

The Old Soul's Guide is a compilation of gems of wisdom inspired by the Ascended Masters in spirit as channeled by Mataare, an extraordinary trance channel, and compiled and edited by Carolyn Hawkins. These Spirit Guides began speaking with me in 1989 through Mataare. The quotations you will find herein are from my private readings, and the private readings of Carolyn Hawkins, with the Guides in Spirit through Mataare. The Guides provide penetrating insight with infinite patience, exquisite tenderness, humbling confrontation, and gentle humor. They help unravel and transmute perceptions about self, life, spirituality, and God.

The teachings of the Guides and their life stories shed light on the process of completing our soul's business and the transition into a new dimension of being, thus embracing the radiance of our soul's infinite nature. They refer to this transfiguration as awakening or ascension. These gems of wisdom are shared that you might enjoy the exquisite pleasure of enhancing your own personal relationship with the Spirit Guides and receive helpful insight for your own awakening.

The excerpts from the teachings of the Guides in Spirit through Mataare are presented alphabetically by topic. At the end of each piece, you will find the name of the Guide who inspired it. When several Guides are credited as the inspiration of a piece, they were speaking as a blended consciousness through the first one noted. May these words bring a light of deeper understanding to the magnificent journey of your own soul.

                                                                                                                                                                                        Anamika