From the Light Seer's Tarot, Judgment; from the Tapestry Oracle, Memories:
Rise up nimbly
and go on your strange journey
to the ocean of meanings.
The stream knows
it can't stay on the mountain.
Leave and don't look away
from the sun as you go,
in whose light
you're sometimes crescent,
sometimes full.
―Rumi
A woman related seeing these words written on a chalkboard in rehab: "I don't know if I had a spiritual experience, but something sure as hell happened." Spiritual awakenings don't simply change the way we feel, they change our motives, our perceptions and our behavior. Such an experience transforms us, altering a self-absorbed mindset into an other-centered one. The heavy yoke of the past (as illustrated in Memory) is lifted. We realize that we don't have to be defined by our worse day - self-created or otherwise. As Søren Kierkegaard wrote, “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
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