Choosing to Awaken

If you want to believe that what your physical eyes can see is all that’s there, then fine, you can. Stay in that small fraction of perceptual reality if you choose. But at some point, even if that point is at the point of death, we all know better. I’ve seen cynics become mystics on their deathbed. We are here as though in a material dream from which the spiritual nature of our larger reality is calling us to awaken.

The magician, the alchemist, the miracle-worker, is simply someone who has woken up to the material delusions of the world and decided to live another way. In the world gone mad, we can choose to be sane. In order to move ourselves, and our civilization, into the next phase of our evolutionary journey, it’s time for all of us to awaken.

I choose to awaken from the delusions of the world.

– Marianne Williamson
Excerpted from A Year of Miracles:
Daily Devotions and Reflections
HarperOne, 2013

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Awakening
• An Extraordinary, Precious Opportunity
• The Task at Hand
• Sufism: A Call to Awaken
• Awakening and Turning
• The Beauty and Challenge of Being Present in the Moment
• Shining On . . . Into the New Year
• In the Garden of Spirituality – Peng Roden Her
• I Need Do Nothing . . . I Am Open to the Living Light
• The Source Is Within You
• A Sacred Pause
• Aligning With the Living Light
• Mystical Participation
• Returning the Mind to God
• Being the Light
• Cultivating Stillness
• Inner Peace
• Be In My Mind, Beloved One
• Your Peace Is With Me, Beloved One
• You Are My Goal, Beloved One
• All ’Round Me Burdens Seem to Fall
• No Other Time, No Other Place
• Home To Myself
• God Rest Us
• Awakenings
• Don’t Go Back to Sleep

Image: Mauna Nada (2018).