“Enlightenment” is akin to being “born again”: finding an unshakeable belief in the existence of a Higher Power.
There’s a reason “Faith” comes first in “1 Corinthians 13:13”: unwavering faith in the existence of God gives rise to boundless hope and love.
Are you suffering? Do you want to find lasting relief? You have within you the ability and power to change your life.
In the Fall of 2015, I found faith and spent the next three years trying to awaken it in others; specifically, people whom I could empathize with: those tormented by anxiety, depression and addiction.
In the Fall of 2018 a master teacher explained that what I’d been trying to do wasn’t possible: that trying to awaken faith in others was like literally trying to get others to see through my eyes.
Unfortunately, faith can’t be taught or transferred; it must be individually discovered.
Faith gives rise to serenity, courage and wisdom. Patanjali outlines a path to find faith in The Yoga Sutras, but here’s the key: contemplate (until it ‘clicks’) upon the distinction between your fickle, ever-changing thoughts (evidence of your very tangible/human mind), and your immutable, never-changing awareness OF your thoughts (evidence of your completely intangible/essentially-divine consciousness).
Consciousness is the only “thing” known to man that’s not subject to the vagaries of time and space: it’s essentially eternal – and it’s inside you.
Wishing you faith, that you may know serenity, courage and wisdom.
God bless.
