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The universe quietly calls to people when it’s their time to awaken spiritually. How soon they awaken depends on how receptive they are. The Bible uses the analogy of a farm to represent the human heart. If the soil is fertile, deep, and tilled, the seeds of truth flourish and sprout in it. But if the soil is dry, rocky, and shallow the seeds do not grow properly and wither away. If the seeds do not get buried deep within the soil, they can get washed away and eaten by birds. 
Similarly if a person’s heart is distracted by the cares of the world they may miss the invitation to grasp the opportunity to awaken spiritually. Success and wealth can make a person proud and selfish. When all your mental energy is employed to get further in the rat race, or to portray a successful image to the world, you will lack the willingness and capacity to respond to the call. This is like the seeds falling on rocky ground.

Awakening spiritually usually involves a new desire to abandon vain pursuits and the goals that were laid down by the ego. It is an internal transformation in which old interests and motivations are replaced with more noble ones. You no longer enjoy competition and building material wealth starts to take a secondary place to developing a positive character. 
An awakened person values maintaining a high vibrational energy field. When their energy is disturbed by negative people, they feel it acutely and immediately get the urge to return to their home base where they can recover. Awakening activates a person’s sense of compassion and they start to care more about the moral aspects of their decisions. When they see other people suffer they can feel it too, and they spring into action in an attempt to make a difference. 

One can notice certain shifts in thought when the awakening process starts. For example, one day you attend a concert that you normally would find entertaining. As you’re standing in the crowd observing the mass of people moving to the rhythm of the music, you realize something strange. They all seem to be captivated by their emotions and merged with the movements of the group. You feel as though you’re observing this from another standpoint like someone who is immune to all influences. Your mind becomes fully present and you wonder why you haven’t seen the revelry in this way before. You consider for a moment what your priorities have been and what you’ve been striving for, and it seems unimportant now. You then snap out of your epiphany and return to the music and dance. 

These realizations may be soft at first but over time they add up and lead you to make a decision about your life path. You may notice synchronicities happen occasionally that alert you to the brevity of life or to the fact that you’re living in an illusion. Perhaps you become frighteningly ill, or even come close to a near death experience. This causes you to reevaluate your purpose and what you aim to accomplish in life. Many things we take for granted until we realize that they can disappear in a moment. When we’re grateful for the relationships and physical health we have it decreases the discontentment in our minds and our joy grows.

The more you wake up spiritually, the more you are attracted to the simple things in life. Something as mundane as sitting with a warm blanket on a rainy day looking at the drops of water falling against the window brings comfort to you. The ordinary experiences in life take on a magical quality and your addiction to instant gratification fades away gradually. You’re no longer feverishly chasing after your next “hit” to make you forget about the pain inside. Now you are at peace and it's a kind of peace that’s not dependent on your surroundings. The peace of an awakened person is stable because they know that it comes from within and therefore they need not be afraid of losing something external to them. 

A person who has paid attention to the soft calls of the universe is like the seeds falling on fertile soil. They learn to filter out the noise of meaningless entertainment, and pick out the spiritual gems when they come by. Then when it's time for them to contribute and take part in enlightening other people, they are ready to jump into the fray.

If you’re someone who is already interested in awakening, chances are you're already on that journey. For the person caught up in the matrix, a spiritual awakening usually hits them in the head like the apple falling on Isaac Newton's head. The beer drinking, skirt chasing Joe would need to reach rock bottom before he becomes motivated to research the esoteric methods of enlightening his consciousness. 

The problem is that being a good person doesn't usually bring you immediate worldly rewards. In reality it's the other way round. It's a life riddled with misunderstandings, loss, and resistance. Jesus never invited people to follow Him saying that they'll become rich and have lots of friends. You need to be able to appreciate the positive path for the right reasons.

The universe quietly calls to people when it’s their time to awaken spiritually. How soon they awaken depends on how receptive they are. The Bible uses the analogy of a farm to represent the human heart. If the soil is fertile, deep, and tilled, the seeds of truth flourish and sprout in it. But if the soil is dry, rocky, and shallow the seeds do not grow properly and wither away. If the seeds do not get buried deep within the soil, they can get washed away and eaten by birds. 
Similarly if a person’s heart is distracted by the cares of the world they may miss the invitation to grasp the opportunity to awaken spiritually. Success and wealth can make a person proud and selfish. When all your mental energy is employed to get further in the rat race, or to portray a successful image to the world, you will lack the willingness and capacity to respond to the call. This is like the seeds falling on rocky ground.

Awakening spiritually usually involves a new desire to abandon vain pursuits and the goals that were laid down by the ego. It is an internal transformation in which old interests and motivations are replaced with more noble ones. You no longer enjoy competition and building material wealth starts to take a secondary place to developing a positive character. 
An awakened person values maintaining a high vibrational energy field. When their energy is disturbed by negative people, they feel it acutely and immediately get the urge to return to their home base where they can recover. Awakening activates a person’s sense of compassion and they start to care more about the moral aspects of their decisions. When they see other people suffer they can feel it too, and they spring into action in an attempt to make a difference. 

One can notice certain shifts in thought when the awakening process starts. For example, one day you attend a concert that you normally would find entertaining. As you’re standing in the crowd observing the mass of people moving to the rhythm of the music, you realize something strange. They all seem to be captivated by their emotions and merged with the movements of the group. You feel as though you’re observing this from another standpoint like someone who is immune to all influences. Your mind becomes fully present and you wonder why you haven’t seen the revelry in this way before. You consider for a moment what your priorities have been and what you’ve been striving for, and it seems unimportant now. You then snap out of your epiphany and return to the music and dance. 

These realizations may be soft at first but over time they add up and lead you to make a decision about your life path. You may notice synchronicities happen occasionally that alert you to the brevity of life or to the fact that you’re living in an illusion. Perhaps you become frighteningly ill, or even come close to a near death experience. This causes you to reevaluate your purpose and what you aim to accomplish in life. Many things we take for granted until we realize that they can disappear in a moment. When we’re grateful for the relationships and physical health we have it decreases the discontentment in our minds and our joy grows.

The more you wake up spiritually, the more you are attracted to the simple things in life. Something as mundane as sitting with a warm blanket on a rainy day looking at the drops of water falling against the window brings comfort to you. The ordinary experiences in life take on a magical quality and your addiction to instant gratification fades away gradually. You’re no longer feverishly chasing after your next “hit” to make you forget about the pain inside. Now you are at peace and it's a kind of peace that’s not dependent on your surroundings. The peace of an awakened person is stable because they know that it comes from within and therefore they need not be afraid of losing something external to them. 

A person who has paid attention to the soft calls of the universe is like the seeds falling on fertile soil. They learn to filter out the noise of meaningless entertainment, and pick out the spiritual gems when they come by. Then when it's time for them to contribute and take part in enlightening other people, they are ready to jump into the fray.

If you’re someone who is already interested in awakening, chances are you're already on that journey. For the person caught up in the matrix, a spiritual awakening usually hits them in the head like the apple falling on Isaac Newton's head. The beer drinking, skirt chasing Joe would need to reach rock bottom before he becomes motivated to research the esoteric methods of enlightening his consciousness. 

The problem is that being a good person doesn't usually bring you immediate worldly rewards. In reality it's the other way round. It's a life riddled with misunderstandings, loss, and resistance. Jesus never invited people to follow Him saying that they'll become rich and make lots of friends. You need to be able to appreciate the positive path for the right reasons.

To have faith in someone means we believe in their future prospects and remain confident in their abilities despite apparent failure. We do not give up on them if they take longer to carry out their endeavors than we expected. 

Similarly, when we set out to achieve our own goals we have faith that we will succeed based on our past  experiences and our self knowledge. We might not know precisely how we would go about completing certain objectives but we believe that we'll figure it out when we cross the bridge. 

Faith has this characteristic of not needing clear vision. To have faith we do not need all the calculations to be done, to have all our decisions planned, or to be certain that we'll receive support. Faith is the state of knowing that everything will be okay regardless of the current situation.

Your future might not turn out the way you expect it to, and you may get disappointed but when you have faith it's easier to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. What has happened to you was meant to happen, and if you had a change of heart, that is also meant to be.

We live in times where our spiritual education must be accelerated. I think the reason we don't live hundreds of years is because we can reincarnate more frequently with a shorter lifespan. This way we get more lessons done in a shorter period of time. This may be necessary because the Earth is changing and we're transitioning into a new spiritual era. Our souls need to be ready to graduate, so to speak.

So when the universe gives us difficult assignments and we suffer through them, it's like a catalyst that speeds up our spiritual development. If you only use light weights at the gym when you train, your physical strength will take long to increase.

Similarly if you have an easy life where everything is handed to you on a silver platter, you are not engaging the higher emotional parts of your being such as patience, acceptance, forgiveness, and faith. This makes for a life that lacks a sense of purpose. 

"Don't pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. " Bruce Lee

Synchronicities are signs that are given to you by the universe to remind you that you have a higher purpose. They are like a thumbs up indicating that you're on the right path or that you're thinking in the right direction.

For example, you could be eating your lunch at a usual spot and you get a random urge to look at the time. You see that it is exactly 1:11. Numbers that occur like this in patterns are a classic type of Synchronicity. This happens subconsciously since you do not time yourself for when you'll notice them. Other sets of numbers include 2:22, 12:12, 3:33, 17:17 and so on.

It makes me think of those news suggestions that appear on your phone which are based on your recent internet searches. Let’s say you searched for a camera, and then you got suggestions for articles about how cameras operate or about photography. The big data companies like Google were monitoring your behavior. The universe does a similar thing. 

Let’s do another thought experiment and say one day you wake up and you remember you had a dream about motorcycles. Then the next day you agree to meet up with someone at a restaurant. When you're there, you look around and find that the walls are decorated with motorcycles, but you were not aware of this beforehand. Strange coincidence or a nod from the universe? In this case it could be a message telling you to pay attention to what the opportunity has to offer. Next time this happens to you, stop and ponder it a little. The more you notice them, the more frequently they start to happen.