Signs Along The Path To Awakening. David John Modica

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      To my best friend, Dawn Howard,

      without whom my path would be incomplete.

       And

      To my dear cousin, Rocky Muzzin,

      you are missed deeply by many

      and you live on in our hearts.

      Signposts & Pointings

       The Path Of Life

      This book is about the path you are on, the path of life. It seems to be a twisty road with pitfalls and waterfalls, sunshine and rain, joy and pain. It is filled with many seasons in which we are meant to learn and grow. In our experiences we are meant to transform so we become our own light and a light unto humanity.

      Think of each writing in this book as “signposts” or “pointings,” as I like to call them along this path. As you reach the signpost, pause and ponder what the writing is pointing to. Remember this is your path, and it is the path of your life. You are on it right now. What are you thinking? What are you feeling? Are you aware you are even thinking and feeling at all?

      We experience heartache and loss, happiness and attainment, and triumph and disappointment. We experience a myriad of trials, tests, and tribulations. We may pass, and we may fail, and we have done both. All the while, whether pass or fail, we then continue to the next venture, be it a struggle or joy, and we continue this path that we call our life.

      This book may come to you because you have reached the point on your path where you are questioning the purpose of it all. It may be that you have yet to ask what the meaning of it all is or if a meaning even exists. Well, I have great news for you. There is a meaning and there is a purpose to it all. YOU are the meaning, and YOU are the purpose!

       A Higher Level Of Consciousness

      The pointings in this book are meant to draw you into a higher world, a higher level of consciousness. This is not done with the mind, rather it is realized in and with the heart. At the very center-point of being we are the very aspect of an awareness that is alive in the consciousness of love.

      The consciousness of love does not think about itself. It is a spontaneous ever-evolving creation that is an omnipresence of benevolence, compassion, empathy, kindness, and inspiration. In other words, it is everything good, and yet it is actually much more than that. For the sake of this book and what I am pointing to this is a good foundation to ignite an understanding of who and what we are. As we get closer and closer to this understanding, meaning and purpose will be revealed to you.

      This is an experiential understanding that takes place within your heart. The pointings in this book are to remind you of your true self which lies within the center-point of being. It is within everyone. It is the center-point of humanity, the heartbeat of life.

       What We Have Forgotten

      This book was written in a way that you can pick it up and read any page in it at any time and just sit with what it is pointing to. Again, these pointings are to remind us of who and what we are. They are at a higher level of “conscious being” rather than the current understanding that brings us heartache, disappointment, and pain. This current understanding resides in thought and thought only, and thought is unaware of itself. How can something that is unaware of itself ever rest in the peace of knowing itself? It can’t.

      As an example, you pick up the book as you are struggling with a crisis of some kind, and you read “The more you can learn to be an observer of thought rather than identifying with it the less it has its hold on you.” This one sentence is enough to reexamine and even end the crisis which began in our mind. We suffer because we are unconsciously identified with ourselves absorbed in thought. We think it is actually us thinking and it is not. This is what we have forgotten.

      Maybe you read “The peace you seek lies in the consciousness of your heart. Let love's consciousness awaken you to abandon all thoughts you have about yourself and of life. Surrender. This is the path of negation. This is the path of love's conscious transformation.” This pointing speaks to the heart of who and what you are. You are the consciousness of love, not a product of thought in a moment of time. Allow this pointing to penetrate your being, and let it act upon you. It is meant to take you out of the time world of thought to the door of who and what you are. Here, meaning and purpose are revealed to you. This meaning and purpose is not of the mind but of the heart, the consciousness of love.

       The Consciousness Of Love

      You have a soul. It is the connecting point between the heavens and the earth, that which is immortal and mortal. You are a spiritual being temporarily in the form of a body on this planet called earth. We are called to love by the consciousness of love itself for the sake of our soul’s development. We are meant to live as fully awake, conscious human beings in union with the divine. We have been designed to create for the good of humanity, not to destroy.

      Ultimately, we are to discover we are pure love created by pure love. Humanity has strayed from this understanding, which is the original meaning of the word “sin,” or the Hebrew word “hata,” which literally means “going astray” or “to miss the mark.” This book is meant to point you in the direction of your purpose and meaning in this life. It is not to tell you what your meaning and purpose are, rather for you to discover and allow it to be revealed to you.

       Your Awakening

      Your path is of the consciousness of love, whether you realize it or not. Your existence on this planet at this time is temporary, but the consciousness of love will always be, for it is eternal. The consciousness of love will always beckon you. It speaks directly to your heart, for it exists within your heart. We are meant to understand our lives from and within this higher consciousness rather than the non-understanding of the one we suffer in and from currently.

      As you ponder the pointings in this book and do your best to be aware of the signposts along your path with earnest effort, you allow your heart to receive and your mind to follow. You will experience a transformation.

      It is the experiential transformation and the transcendence of a heart now guiding the mind in union with the divine, the consciousness of love. Here, it is revealed to you that your path is a creation in alignment with God. Meaning, purpose, contentment, and joy all reside within your heart with the awareness that belongs to the consciousness of love.

      1 ~ Waking Up From a Dream

      Waking up in this life

      is no different than waking up from a dream.

      Everything in the dream is over

      and going back to serve the dream has no meaning

      and serves no purpose.

      Embrace your awakening!

      2 ~ This Is Our Calling

      Suffering will cease when you fully serve your heart.

      Your heart is the center-point of being.

      The mysterious truths of the cosmos all lay within your heart

      for that is where you come from.

      The cosmos, your heart, they are identical.

      Serve your heart and you serve the cosmos.

      This is our calling.

      Each individual actuated by the divine cosmic multiverse,

      the consciousness of love.

      The cosmos is divinity in action and has given rise to you.

      Know this and rest in its serenity of being.

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