If in the Face of Revelation You Allow Yourself to Doubt

If in the Face of Revelation You Allow Yourself to Doubt Ahuman being can experience only an instant of transcendence and then spend the next thirty years thinking back to that one moment. In retrospect they know that nothing could ever come near the precious¬ ness that was revealed to them in that brief instant. An entire lifetime can be spent knowing that that was the only time they were completely alive. Why did they lose touch with that experience? It was because of doubt. When there is aprofound revelation, in the very recognition that "this is revelation," you have to become serious about your own life. The instant you recognize that you are seeing the truth as it is, you must realize the implications of what is being revealed to you. If not betrayed even once then your confidence in that revelation can only grow. The stronger that confidence, the deeper will be your wisdom. But if in the face of that revelation you needlessly allow yourself to indulge in doubt, you begin to walk down aprecari¬ ous road, because by doing so your confidence will be undermined. 2 3 6 It takes along, long time to heal the mess of destructive indulgence in doubt in the face of potential Enlightenment. 2 3 7