Awakening To Your Path Part Two~ by Alan Cohen
When planting a garden, the earth must be turned over, tilled, and
smoothed out before new seeds can grow; otherwise the old weeds will
overtake the seedlings. In the same way, before a new and shining
building can be erected, the old, dilapidated, and useless structures
standing on the lot must be cleared away.
We must make space for something new and better to enter our lives.
While it may seem that we are out of control or subject to forces
greater than ourselves, it is important to remember that there is a
wisdom in the events that we attract to us. All is for learning,
growing, and healing.
God is very present, and we are not alone. Such a time calls for
faith, the knowing that everything somehow works out for the best. It
is not your world that is shattering, but your illusions. God's world
can never be shattered, for God's world is founded in love, the only
indestructible energy in the entire universe.
If you feel disillusioned, then take heart; dis-illusion means the end
of an illusion. Disillusionment is the best thing that could happen to
anyone. It means that something false has been undone, and the truth
behind it is available to be discovered.
The truth is always healing. Only illusions are painful. There fore be
glad, even proud, that you have had the courage to learn a lesson that
would break your illusions and replace them with greater strength and
wisdom.
Our pains and tribulations are the chipping of the cement off the
Golden Buddha. The armor falls away to reveal the gold. A worthless
image is crumbling, and the treasure is coming forth. It is the end of
the cover-up and the beginning of the radiance.
In such a birth, there is great cause for joy. Peace Must Come Once
you have begun to awaken, you can never really go to sleep again. Oh
we can doze a wink or two here or there, but once the climber has
caught sight of the mountaintop, nothing can stop her from reaching
the summit.
We have come too far to turn back now. We have played out many of our
fantasies and idle wishes. We have been teased, tantalized,
titillated, and seduced by the cheap perfume of shallow dreams, and
somehow the aroma just doesn't turn our heads like it once did.
Now we want peace more than idols.
To dare to be yourself means to live in the spirit of power rather
than weak ness; to proceed from peace instead of clamoring to maintain
defenses; to want the reality of love more than the nightmare of fear.
And we do.
The time has come for us to be released from the burden of living for
dreams other than our own. Armoring is for protection, not expansion.
The Golden Buddha must stand in the sunlight.
We are living in the age on earth when men and women are stepping
forth to claim freedom.
There is a great wave of awakening that cannot be denied, suppressed
or reversed. Those who align with the expansion are empowered and
uplifted by a Force much larger than themselves. And those who resist
or oppose it are gripped in only deeper struggle.
We must choose between love and fear, and learn the truth of the one
and the uselessness of the other. Peace must come to those who ask for
it. Strength must be given to those who claim it. And love must bring
healing to all who open their arms to receive it. The time of
awakening is at hand.
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