This world is a world of duality where choices are offered. The measure of a person is based on the choices made. The purpose of life is to experience it at multiple levels... to make choices and deal with the consequences of said choices.
Life is also about discovery. A child begins life in a state of wonder as everything is new, fresh. As the child explores his or her world, the child discovers there is a choice ~ to do this or to do that. And from the onset the child is connected to a sense of wonder.
Then life intrudes and the child's choices are influenced and impacted upon by those who surround it. A sense of wonder may evolve into a sense of dread or curiousity... perhaps rage or perhaps delight. However, in the midst of others influences each individual must find their own way and become self-determined along with taking responsibility for the choices made.
In the course of one's life there is room for thousands of choices ~ all with different outcomes. Yet, somewhere along the way ~ one also has a choice to make a commitment to something greater then oneself (ones limited ego) ~ and instead identify through spiritual awakening ones connection with source or the Godhead... which in reality is love manifested on earth. To choose love is to consciously walk on a spiritual path that I believe is innate for those who choose to walk toward the light. After all, we know from science that are very DNA is wrapped around light and it is the light that our very beingness is made from. This is our spiritual essense... life/love.
Please remember, a sense of wonder is at the heart of beingness and lets one know we are still connected to something much greater then one's own limited (ego) awareness. The mystics describe awakening as a dew drop that slips into the shinning sea ~ meaning each dew drop represents an individual soul and all souls represent the collective cosmic consciousness.
Yet there are others who are committed to stopping something quite wonderful from happening. Personally, I have observed and experienced how striving to know oneself... to experience and explore ones own consciousness is a crime, often considered a criminal offense at governmental levels. Amazing, isn't it?
Death before becoming awake to who one really is ~ is tragic. If there is a Satan or Lucifer... it is those who strive to keep the soul imprisoned as a slave and cut off from source ~ spiritual love.
I suspect the challenge... the true test of one's spirit (character) is to prevail irrespective of those who wish to enslave, control and/or manipulate. It really doesn't matter who the "others" are. One could almost say it is irrelevant. Their intention is identical ~ to withhold freedom. Clearly it is up to each individual to learn how to take freedom into his or her own hands and fly.
Do you not wonder if the quest, the innate drive when free to discover without outside control and manipulation, is to actually experience cosmic consciousness and how we all stem from the one source? Indeed, once this becomes part of one's conscious experience it is easy to understand how we are all just one family ~ little dew drops spinning around in the universe exploring and experience the gifts it has to offer.
