7 Steps to see the light

Many people self-question about the point of fundamental decisions.  They wonder whether they say or do 'the right thing.'  Second-guessing is a synonym for self-doubt. This does not necessarily mean you do not want to experience something, or does it? Part of you asks, what you are doing here how? The answer: you are ready to see the light.

1) Choose to examine your ambivalence. When part of you wants something and another part resists, the underlying reason is struggling to get your attention. 

2) Explore your feelings about duty.  You are someone's beacon of inspiration and light or, feel a sense of commitment to something or someone for whom you provide light.

3) Contemplate the value of change.  Part of you that favors change may wish to avoid fuss, consequences, ripples in a calm sea. What if all this is helpful to more than just you?

4) Pray to the Source.  This could be the source of apparent troubles as well as the Source of all energy, salvation and love.  Divine connections alter forever the progression of existence.

5) Say something, anything.  Participating in dialogue, even with yourself, reminds you of being alive.  Everything is equally adequate and inadequate to explain the indescribable. 

6) Be grateful for what defies explanation. To realize you are not meant to explain or understand everything, is a relief.  You teach yourself what to do and rediscover stillness.

7) Listen to the voice of compassion.  Part of you is forever calm, and gives you the only possible answer worth hearing.  This is the opposite end of the spectrum from the devaluation of self. Pure love fills you and answers the call.

Awaken to your game of life

If Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, Nanak and Zoroaster, and peers of their level, were seated around a table discussing consciousness, you might wonder what matters they would discuss or if everything would be telepathic.  You might also wonder if they play a game of cards, which face images would the cards reveal? Would personality transcend? If all is revealed, then which faces remain?

Their followers formed religions which highlight difference, control and power struggles.  You might evolve to feel such practices deviate from the original tenets that promote wisdom and humility.  Such traits raise conscious awareness beyond superficial levels of dreams.

Its said spirituality is based on three common ideas agreed on by all sages:

1) A sense of a unifying, supreme, absolute Source 

2) Humankind's mortal nature and unlimited energy as a radiation from the Source

3) The possibility of learning spiritual secrets by deconditioning and remembering what you forgot at birth.

Regardless of whether you consciously connect with some God  from within or from outside the human spirit, your consciousness has the potential to expand alongside your evolutionary process.  You may experience biological turning points or changes in psychic energy.  You always have opportunities for different levels of awakening.  What sorts of cards do you hold in your spiritual hand? Which ones will you lay down? Which cards, if any, reveal the true self and decode the ultimate dream?