When we deny and ignore, we are closed utterly. We are blind and blank, unknowing. We are in the wilderness, lost.

This is deepest sleep.

Here, whole realms of possibility are simply closed to us.

There is a purity in the completeness of this state of being. It is an absolute.

This blindness can be narrow, as when we are unaware of a small possibility, or wide, as when we are closed to large realms of potential. In both cases, the blindness is just as complete.

What can penetrate this utter darkness when we don't know that there is a door to be opened?
How do we see when we have no way of knowing what to look for?

There is no way to act, no path to follow. We continue blindly in the habitual ways, condemned to live out our lives in the way that generations of lives before us have been lived.

It takes an outside force to break through this blindness, this sleep, and waken us to what might be.

Sometimes it takes clarion-call to penetrate, at others, a whisper can open our eyes.

Once they are open, we will never be the same again, even though our vision may blur many times, we will not be so totally blind.

We can live in hope that events will cause us to see things differently. Our work is to nourish the flame of hope.

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