Where is my true home? How did I/we get here? Where did we come from and where are we going when we die? What are the heights and depths that we may reach in this lifetime through our consciousness and the truth? i.e. How high can we go and what are the methods and knowledge that can assist? Who knows the answers and who can teach me? Not tomorrow, but starting right now! Time is of the essence!
More questions…Am I eternal? Is my path already destined, prescribed by some divine choreographer? Or can I change my direction in a heartbeat, in a moment of understanding, of realization?
So many BIG questions!!! You might say…who could have such definite information to impart? How would I know if it were true or made up by an everyday guru or even a master teacher?
What is the nature of Time? Who am I? What is the true natural essence of the Soul, the mind, the heart? Is there a Heaven and what is Hell? Is it all in my mind or does it really exist? Who can show me the contrast? Who can teach me to move forward in the direction of my inner longings for peace, harmony, love, and justice? Who can teach me with so much Love that it eradicates all sense of loss and doubt?
How long will it take? Am I ready to learn? How can I sustain this body while entering such deep waters of exploration? Will I drown in conjecture or find the answers to life’s deepest and most rewarding “churnings”? Will I reap the nourishing reward of the sweet butter for all my efforts? Or find it has only been a temporary and unsustainable high, or a sedative that blurs consciousness instead of refining it?
Right now, you and many others may find that your mind is much more inundated by questions than answers, by uncertainty than solutions, with fear and anxiety than with love and peace! Will I awaken will I remember, will I be able to step into a vision of promise and hope and guide others as well?
Have you been here in your mind? Do these questions feel familiar, important, worth pursuing? How will I recognize the truth, a path with heart and hope for all? How will I access true love, true peace, true bliss?
Who will fulfill such a “tall order”? Do I dare begin such a trek into the unknown, especially if it means leaving behind cherished beliefs, familiar obstacles, and comfortably uncomfortable dilemmas? How attached am I to my own status quo? How much do I long for my TRUE BIRTHRIGHT of FREEDOM? How much do I value goodness and truth? All are valid questions before you begin. For once you do begin, you will find the world of the perpetual question mark may not have the same appeal as the vistas that can open up the eye of realization which sees answers, knows its own awareness, and finds its immense treasure of inner attainments and self-respect.
For this is where the study begins. The first and last lessons are about and within the self that you are. You, the incognito soul, not you the bodily character you know so well. This journey takes the traveler from a limited world of distractions, attractions, and sense-oriented realities to a heaven-like world of peace, power, knowledge, virtue, courage, and the unlimited assistance of the Almighty One, not Dorothy’s Wizard of Oz, but the One we all have been hoping to truly encounter.
In its essence, the journey begins with two aspects: one of knowledge and the other with the experience and practice of this knowledge which turns the knowledge into wisdom and divine power. But before we begin, sit back comfortably and ask yourself one more question. The ultimate question….
Ready?
(to be continued)
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