Walking Awake

You just have to love any movie that deals with zombies, the walking dead.

Why? Most of us are walking around, not necessarily dead, but in such a deep sleep that if we had the ability to see ourselves from a place of truth, we would appear dead. Even those of us who have had epiphanies and know the incredible gifts life has to offer, spend most of our time asleep.

Being awake requires a constant vigilance, at least when one is first starting. The tendency to fall back asleep (which I am going to define as “not in the now moment”) is so great, I can do so 100 times an hour.

I am always studying mystics. I read of saints from the Catholic tradition, Sufi masters, sages and healers throughout all time, and they all have certain things in common. The first one is this grand awareness that everything is “perfect just as it is”.

It does not matter from which tradition the mystic has evolved; they each share the knowledge that “all is well”.

This is the goal of the peace practitioner; this constant awareness that “all is well”.

You are on this list, because it no longer serves you to sleepwalk. Your soul knows it is time to wake up. It is time to end the nightmare that has told you life is dangerous, or that the world is unsafe, or that someone else has the power to “make you happy”.

Our nightmares are changing to a minute to minute experience of the “now”. Our former, sleepwalking state, is shifting into this miraculous awareness of the beauty in everything. Today when we pass some spot we have previously ignored, we will see a beauty, the depth of which is so amazing; we will wonder how it has ever been overlooked.

This is how the process begins.

Enjoy your beautiful world today.