Tell me your definition of "soul mate"?

Answer 1

Everyone is a part of God.

Therefore everyone is your soul mate.

We really need to start treating everyone as if this were true.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

I would define "Soul Mate" as the person who, physically, psycholologically, and intellectually, most nearly seems to embody the qualities which are essential to you in an ideal partner and who recognizes you in the identical sense.
Spiritually, I would define one's "Soul Mate" as the person who vibrates upon your frequency, the one who shares your dreams, fantasies, aspirations, philosophies.
In reality, I do not know that such a person exists for every other person, or if there is only one soul mate for each individual. Considering the preponderous of unsuccessful relationships, I am somewhat cynical toward accepting the concept of soul mates at all. I know of a rather famous New Age "star" who has married a series of "soul mates", so perhaps one might attract different soul mates at different stages of one's personality development. Or perhaps the idea is simply invalid. Who knows??

Answer 3

Most of the answers here, while very sincere, are describing a kindred spirit instead of a true soul mate. Kindred spirits are those of a like-minded nature that you can share your life with and be fully comfortable with. They are also likely someone you've already known from a past life.

But a true soul mate, your 'mated soul', assuming you accept the concept, is someone you've been paired with through more than one lifetime. This 'split-apart', as some call it, is your spiritual lifemate who spans many lifetimes back to the beginning of life spans.

You may end up finding and mating with a fellow kindred spirit during your lifetime (this time around) and be completely happy with them (it's very easy to find happiness with a kindred spirit) but they may still not be your true soul mate.

I have a friend I haven't yet met in person and already know we are kindred spirits. If we should end up together in real life I also know instinctively we'll be very good for each other and to each other.

As to our 'soul mates', should we actually meet them again in this lifetime (and sometimes we don't) we'll know, on many levels, when we meet them. Soul mates recognize each other without words or action. They just know when they meet again that they are mated souls. They don't need definitions to understand what their own souls already know.

But the catch with true soul mates is that when they meet again in a lifetime it isn't always roses and tea, it isn't always a grantee of personal happiness. It's all about karma, my friends, and working through lessons we're supposed to learn during our lifetimes. Your true soul mate, during this lifetime, may be in prison somewhere or may be two thousand miles away learning life lessons that weren't learned in a past lifetime. And the life lessons you're supposed to be learning might differ greatly from theirs.

(Rent and watch, if you haven't already done so, a wonderful film staring Robin Williams that deals with true soul mates. That film, called 'What Dreams May Come', will explain far better than I the concept of a true soul mate.)

Answer 4

Someone who knows me better than I do. Someone who can tell me what I'm thinking before I speak. Someone who can see through my smile, and understand me. I'm an addict. When you have something all your life, and understand some pain that you couldn't stop, you learn to live with it. It becomes you, and you can feel that pain everyday, but manage to control it. To me, a soul mate probably doesn't exist, cause once they feel the fires of my pain, they will never be the same, just be burnt. Is it that they don't exist, or that I care for people that much, to let them know, you don't have to burn. I can live, and will live. I am happy, but I do have pains, that I have controlled. A soul mate, would be far fetched in my eyes, but if they do exist, they would be interesting to meet.

Answer 5

Same beliefs, ideology, same likes and dislikes. My husband and I always seem to be on the same wavelength. Seems if one is in the mood for a movie the other is. Sometimes on Friday we go to bed after work at 4 or 5 pm and sleep till whenever. Then we get up and go out to eat. We just jive. There are very few things that we differ on. One is that the likes football on Sunday and sometimes Monday and the other is that I occasionally like a chick flick. Most of all we would rather be together than anywhere else. And this is still after 4 1/2 yrs together.

Answer 6

My definition of a soul mate would be someone that I can share my most inner secrets with.
It is a person I would permit myself to be completely weak in front of and cry if I felt the need.

They are the ones that my nurturing abilities and characteristics would manifest most often towards.

They would be the one that I have waited to find, patiently, instead of rushing into less desirable, cushioned existences with.
We could rest our heads on each others shoulders in times of need, comfort, with the knowledge that we would always be there for one another, in good times as in bad.
This same person would have my full undivided attention when necessitated or desired, I would love them fully without
reserve.
When we made love, it would feel as if every breath that they took was as if it was my own, every quiver of our bodies responding in unison and harmony as if one.

This person would be first and foremost, my best friend.

Answer 7

you ask for faith and technological information so i'm going to offer u the synthesis of the two: philosophy. my widespread definition (it somewhat is declared to have motivated christian conceptions to 3 degree, and remains contemplated in a number of the sought after scientific conceptions of the techniques) is that of the Platonic Soul. The Soul is composed of three factors: The Rational area, the Appetitive area, and the lively area (some thing such as = techniques, physique, and spirit). motive = techniques urge for nutrition = physique Spirit = Animating potential / life tension (as as quickly as we are saying 'a lively horse') Aristotle additionally defined the 'soul', or somewhat, what could be such as Plato's lively component, extra: flowers have dietary 'Souls' Animals have Locomotive 'Souls' people have Rational 'Souls' flowers are alive, they consume food, advance, and at last die, as a consequence they have an animating tension, ie. 'soul'. Animals share this characteristic, yet even have 'bodies', the flexibility to go at as quickly as with the aid of area, and as a consequence have a locomotive 'soul'. people share the two features, yet even have 'minds', the flexibility to reason, think of heavily, and as a consequence have a rational 'soul'.

Answer 8

A soul mate is someone who accepts you after understanding you, and who you would know, really does understand you.

Answer 9

A person's soul that meshes or intertwines with it's counterpart. The battle is finding where it's located on this overpopulated planet.

Answer 10

Rivers running down mountain, slithering, winding through the valleys, cycling in rain. Feathers suffused in streaks of sunshine, climbing straight into the heavens, threshing in rain. Nympholepsy.