Parvati Magazine December 2014/January 2015: Consequence/Beginnings | Page 31

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the right time, may well
experience a moment (or
many moments) where
the usual mind falls away
and what remains is bliss,
love and increased understanding of the meaning of one’s life. At first, it
may seem as though the
whole world is luminous
and everything is simple.
Yet, all too soon, we may
feel that state ebbing
from our consciousness as
our habitual mind creeps
back in and we seem
to be just the same old
person we were, in the
same old life. How do we
go on, knowing that we
have touched something
real and great, yet we
continue to live our habits? This frustration can
lead to anger, despair,
fixating o