Awakening from a Deep Sleep by Linda Berry

Sample Passage

Awakening

To walk in the wilds night after night awakens a sense of being that is beyond the limited senses that you cultivate in the human settings. You are opened to an expanse of life that is far beyond your normal ken. You are blessed with the unknown, that which is beyond your normal encounter. You begin to know more of what you are and to connect with more of what is. Primal senses awaken deep within you that have slept in the safe sterile world of the city. You begin to sense life all around you not just stone buildings. And that life flows through you as your life flows through it bringing in a more complete sense of essence beyond your normal levels of awareness.
Take care to dwell both within yourself and within the world around you and within the vast expanses of space as a stepping stone to tapping into and experiencing the universal essence that is within and permeates everything. This awakening is the crossing of a threshold into worlds within worlds beyond the measure of your knowing. This is the blessing of life that all is built both within and around all that is. And you can touch this all as every little bit of it touches you.

Learn to live in connection with everything.
Find the blessedness that resides at the center of everything.
Come to know the center
and to feed it from the light within you.
For each time you send out love to the universe around you
the darkness is dispelled for just a moment.
This is what love is.
To be able to look darkness in the face
and to see the spark of light within it and to nourish it,
is to know a truth of such inner depths
that you cannot even see how far it reaches.
Nothing can exist without the essence within it
and even the dark is part of the light
and sustained by the light.
Remember the dark is but the shadow caused
when the light is blocked from shining.

Think of how the stars shine at night.
The night allows the light to shine forth
from far greater depths than does the Sun.
The night allows us to touch light of such magnificence
that we feel a taste of the infinite
that stretches out beyond all those beams of light
we find in the night.

You contain within you the spark of the infinite and each person you meet contains the spark of the infinite. No matter how distorted or twisted that spark may become, it is still in its core the radiant light and love and joy that sustains each minutest piece of all that is. As you learn to touch that spark in everything around you, you begin to see the strands of light that connect everything to everything else. You begin to live consciously within the network of beingness that stretches like spider webs from everything to everything else. So extensive is this net that it fills all of space and time so lightly and completely that we never know we are even within it. And yet it nourishes all that is in each moment of its existence.
If you dare, focus within that net upon it, bringing its light into vivid form around you, that you may face all that you are – not just what you would like to believe you are, but all of you. Learn to accept and love all that you find. Bring this greater awareness to your every move.

To trod the path through time and space
To know that all is the same place
To touch the infinite small and great
Come and do it now – No need to wait

Whisper upon whisper
Spark within spark
Filling the light
Embracing the dark

Embers that are glowing
Within each soul
Calling out, yearning
To join the whole

Blocked by the pain
The fear and distress
Of holding and clutching
To less and less

Darkness that comes
Before the dawn
Of the radiant light
That goes on and on

Ever we’re called
To find our way back
Through the dark, through the night
Through all that we lack

Back we must come
To where we’ve been
Until we know
That place once again

The core of spirit
Hidden within
Waiting ever
To embrace us again