Depression is a gateway into higher clarity, higher awareness and higher consciousness. Its heaviness carries you to ground. It brings you to the foundation of your life and consciousness. It is an invitation to stop all thought, all imaginings, all projected futures, and to set yourself solidly upon the ground to take a loving inventory of want remains.
The fear of letting go into this walk through the labyrinth of depression, is your fear that nothing will be found - that you will be alone, rejected, banished, left alone with nothing but your fears and sorrows and grief. This fear itself carries a propulsion of energy within it and you can use this energy to carefully move forward. If you will simply walk gently forward, one step leads to another and to another. You have the ability to explore this labyrinth, to fully know it, to begin to recognize each step, to begin to know the sacred journey that composes it - for it is composed by your own soul and consciousness. Never do you step outside of the love of God, nor of the presence of the Angels, nor of the wisdom of the Saints and sages of all ages as you progress step by step. It is the very darkness, it is the very emptiness, it is the very cessation of ordinary thoughts, of ordinary preoccupations that carries you into what remains: love and the loving presence of the universe in creation.
Simply allow the darkness, allow the emptiness, allow the quiet, allow the simplicity, allow the space which depression can create within you and around you and continue a loving exploration of the space. Allow this place of darkness, of void, of rest, of quiet, and, if you will allow it to be so, of peace, to be created in and around you, then you do the sacred preparation of the womblike space within yourself. You allow new inspiration, new creation, the new life to be born within your spirit, within your heart, within your mind, with in your life. Life always creates from void and emptiness - new life requires a space be created within, to be nourished, to be allowed its proper gestation, to be protected from outside influence, to be allowed to grow in its own true form.
The art of being in quiet receptivity, of simple patience, of simply allowing the new to be born within you, is of vital importance to shorten your journey through this labyrinth. To refuse the next place of being in your life is to abort this process. Yet the call of the soul will have its way. The call of your soul is much stronger than your ego, much more powerful than your personality, much deeper than your material and sensual desires. The call of the soul simply insists upon been answered. Your soul in its wisdom also knows the proper prescription to advance your consciousness. If you are able to accept this prescription you can shorten your time of difficulty in the same way that taking a prescription medicine properly shortens your illness. Yet often you are only willing to take a portion of this medicine of the soul - and thus make only a portion of the progress the opportunity was providing you with. Willingness, receptivity and your ability to be with yourself exactly as you are in the moment, are the most potent forces at your disposal to hasten your journey through a dark time. Is it not better to take the full course of the prescription in one pass, rather than to repeat the process more times than necessary? Your soul knows when to back off, when to reduce the tension and the pressure you are feeling when your willingness cannot accommodate more light, more truth, and more love in place of the cherished illusion. Be at peace even with this, for your Creator never gives up on the call of your soul to return to greater unity and to greater love.
It is in the time of depression that something new waits to be born within you. Something from the depths of your soul, from the center of your heart, from the very inspiration with which you chose to come into your life.
You are always surrounded by the creative spirit of the living and loving universe. The creative energy, the call to bring life into life, love into life, beauty into life, peace, community, higher consciousness, leads always to a deeper and greater expression of love. Even in the deepest place of depression this remains true.
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