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oneness with God and unity with all life. With great patience, you move vertically by remembering who you really are—Divinity.
Some simple pictorial imagery may help you to better understand this idea. Consider, for example, you are a person who has wandered away from familiar surroundings and has gotten lost in a dense forest on a dark moonless night. Everywhere you turn you see ghosts and goblins. The very breeze that blows through the trees seems to sigh with grief. Somehow you must cope with the darkness until it passes. Only then will you be able to nd your way home. But stumbling about in the darkness, trembling at an owl’s staccato hoots, you consider this impossible and almost reconcile yourself to failure.
But then you wait and watch. The sun begins to rise and light streams through the dark clouds. The moment the rst rays of light appear, the scene changes. Shadows that you thought were ghosts and goblins turn out to be lush trees decked with owers. The giants that you beheld in the overpowering darkness were really mountain summits covered with silvery snow. The whole scene is transformed into a picturesque and inspiring setting.
Much in the same way, the gloom of ignorance can give way to the radiance of Liberation. Con ned to your ego, you are bewildered as you stagger in
