Life is in darkness. We spend it trying to get toward the light.
We don’t really know what we’re doing here, do we? Being born must be a really weird experience. Imagine having to forget everything. Going into a dark tunnel where you know you’ll come out the other side without any consciousness of reality. Being born as a baby, totally new and facing the task of learning everything again from scratch. Hopefully, learning it in surprising new ways.
Our whole lives, unless we try really hard, are lived in darkness. We don’t have any recollection of our eternal souls. We don’t know why we’re here or where we came from. And the world around us is confusing because there is no signpost, no arrows along the floor pointing us to the exit, and no tour guide waiting at the exit gate as we deboard. We are totally on our own. Except that everyone else is in the same boat, and we are alone together.
We arrive on this planet and we are in the dark.
It’s our own journey. It’s our own responsibility to try to find the light. We come here in darkness but we have the light within us somewhere, and we must spend our days trying to turn our attention toward it.
Where Can We Find the Light?
Sometimes, we find it without looking too hard. Sometimes, it’s an accident. All of a sudden, light illuminates our existence at the most unexpected times. Love comes out of despair. Hope comes out of hardship. In the darkest hour, a nightingale sings out. We light each other up when we extend compassion and unconditional love outward.
Love is the light. Love is how we illuminate life.
Waking life is not the highest level of consciousness. We are multidimensional beings, and parts of you— your soul, or your ‘higher self’ — is more conscious of reality than the version of yourself that is reading this on this page. There’s more, too: there’s a part of you that’s totally plugged into the ultimate consciousness, the all-knowing unity that connects everything in existence. This realm is completely made of love and truth.
You must adopt some kind of practice such as meditation in order to look within and become more conscious of the light. Within, you find reality.
Always Trying to Get Back
As we manifest through the realms of consciousness, into our individual spirits and our minds, we become less and less aware of the all-encompassing consciousness that pervades all things. We become less connected. We separate. We begin to understand the opposite of love: fear.
Furthermore, as we manifest further into the physical realm, and we wake up as babies staring into this strange world, we are nearly completely unaware. Although, I believe that babies have a stronger connection to where they came from than adults. However, as we progress in our lives, we forget. The people and messages around us tell us that there’s nothing more than what’s before our eyes. It almost seems like lots of souls are trying to even profit from this ignorance. Everywhere we turn, there is a veil shrouding the truth from us. Life is a struggle to get back toward truth and light.
Finding the light is beneficial to us all, so it is a shocking aspect of life that some people would be actively selling the idea that we should look for anything else. However, it happens all the time. Whole companies are based on the assumption that fear is our natural state, so we must buy things to protect ourselves. We are constantly being sold things that help us build walls to keep ourselves safe and separate.
Your work on this path is going to be mainly solitary. You must find the light against all odds. It’s within you. It was always there. You must find it and let it shine out.
Overcoming the Darkness
So many people and things will try to stop you. But you know what isn’t stopping you? The universe. Your higher self. All the obstacles being sent your way are actually boosters on your path to try to jolt you into looking for the light. Because Spirit knows that the greatest light comes out of the experience of overcoming human suffering. Your suffering is happening for a reason.
Look within. Look up. Find the light. Wake up. Understand that your dreams are from a higher level of consciousness telling you essential spiritual messages. They are telling you what to look at. Understand that you came here in order to have the exhilarating experience of waking up — and you’ve done it so many times. You came here to experience darkness so that you could try to find the light without even remembering that you need to find it. This would be a miracle if you achieved it!
Miracles as Expressions of Ultimate Love
Miracles are what it’s all about. Life is crazy, and you can view it with the hope that there’s always something there to support you or you can give in to paranoia that life is crappy and always will be. You have to allow yourself to get into life and just let the freefall begin. Something will be there to catch you.
You’ll be caught by something because there’s love all around you. The universe is made of love, and you have that spark of ultimate love within you all the time.
Life. Miracles. Living from the heart. It’s like boarding a rollercoaster. You can be afraid the whole time and even get sick, or you can choose to throw your hands up in the air and scream with joy.
