It is during such moments that something of the heavens comes through.
Thus it is critical that we place more value on those rare moments when we feel inspired or uplifted.
We’ve become so jaded and sophisticated that we’ve lost the sacredness of our being. Returning to the state of the child means to become stripped of all guile, manipulation, intrigue, and deception. The secret to entering the consciousness of the child within is to remember the state we were in before our birth this will kindle heavenly emotions within us. The doorway to experiencing the emotion of the soul is through the child within us-for it is the pure heart that leads the way to a higher attunement of consciousness. This leads to a perspective that attunes our feelings to the emotions of that world-the emotions of the soul. Cultivating these emotional values, rather than killing them with cynicism and mistrust, leads us into a transfigured world that lies just behind the physical world. Our hearts become so bruised and hardened that we begin to lose the capacity to feel the higher ranges of the spectrum of emotion. Part of the task of awakening conscience is to sensitize one’s heart to the more sublime and exalted values of the soul and spirit. Sufis, as I have said, make a distinction between the realization of the heart and the realization of the mind. When we talk about the awakening of conscience, we are also talking about the awakening of the emotions. At the far end of this spectrum are the rare emotions of sacredness experienced during worship or during moments of prayer or meditation. The spectrum of emotion ranges from the extreme, vulgar emotions of violence and lust to anger, jealousy, and resentment, to more ordinary emotions such as the desire for recognition, empowerment, status, and possessions. The task is to watch not only your emotions but also the effects of the emotions of others on us and ours on others.
#Awaken life how to
Thus the important question becomes how to feel once again how to resonate both with the suffering and the joy of the human condition without being so overwhelmed by the enormity of the world’s problems that we lose hope. As a result of this stress, the emotions dry up and the heart burns out, extinguishing the flame of our values and ideals. The drama of life is always woven through with emotions of despair or anger against the incongruity and unfairness of circumstances, as well as exhaustion from the never-ending quest just to survive.
Then, one can begin to see one’s circumstances in the light of the Divine Being-one’s individual intention is corrolated with the Divine Intention, one’s personal understanding is illuminated with Divine Understanding, and one’s personal love is suffused with Divine Love.
As much as one might wish to change one’s individual personality, it can only truly be transformed under the impact of illuminated insights into the meaningfulness of life. As the radiation of the sun powers the unfurling of the seed into a plant, so, too, does the light of spiritual realization alter modes of thinking, dramatically restructuring the formation of the ego. To awaken in life, we first must awaken beyond life.
#Awaken life free
Like St Francis, we cannot free ourselves from our identification with our individual self unless we open ourselves to the infinite dimension of the power of the sacred. The higher and broader the perspective, the more inclusive it is. Spiritual awakening is shifting from one perspective to another, until we finally glimpse meaningfulness where our mind could not perceive it before. Instead, it is how the soul has evolved through it’s passage on earth: what meaning has been extracted from its experiences what archetypal qualities have unfolded as a result of the immense difficulties it has endured and the unique way each soul’s unfoldment has contributed to the evolution of the Universe itself. For the culmination of the soul’s journey is not just returning to its original state. Eventually, we learn to extrapolate meaning from the synthesis of these different levels. By Pir Vilayat Khan: Meditation is the art of moving back and forth between two perspectives-the human and the Divine -downplaying one level in order to highlight the other.
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