‘Awakening is the easy part’ a Spirit Guide once said to me.
I didn’t understand at the time, looking back at when and how I became spiritually aware I could neither put a time nor a certain date on that event.
As a child I’d had known implicitly that nature contained God and that the more immersed I was in the trees and the sea and the little birds singing in the hedgerows, the safer and more wholly embraced I felt.
That all pervading, all knowing and sensing ‘something’ had always been there, but not in the recitation of hollow prayers in school assembly or visits to church.
But to awaken wholly, to unfurl and burst open to the Truth of everything means that not only the Light rushes in.
We make space too for the darkness. Oh, the darkness. Becoming aware of the entire picture of things will, at times, take your breath away, as if you’ve been punched in the stomach, winded. When you have your Third Eye opened it not only sees the good, the just and the beauty of all things, but the horror, the injustice and the grotesque that usually remains hidden from sight.
The darkest corners of ourselves and others are revealed and it can be heart breaking.
To be awakened is to feel all of it.
The horror that lives right alongside the beauty. To be made aware of the blinding light of Truth means that the Light also shines on those things which were hidden and sometimes we may wish that they had remained so.
The difficulty spoken of by my trusted Guide is that we don’t allow the darkness to swallow us whole.
We may acknowledge and accept Maya (‘Measurer’) that appears as stark duality in our everyday, yet our task once aware of it is to limit its effect on us. Darkness and Light are polarities of the One continuum. Darkness was the void, the formlessness out of which creation occurred.
How we each reconcile this is essential to our journey (and ultimately to our Karma).
Awakening is the easy part.
Now you are awake, what are you going to do?
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