The Awakening of the Point in the Heart

The awakening of the point in the heart is a singularity — a single event that is, by its nature, a one-time occurrence. It comes from Above. It is not something the person generates, seeks, or earns. Because it is from Above and because it knows the human being, and because it chose to believe, it allows itself to happen more than once. But its essential character remains that of a singular event - not a process that unfolds gradually, not something that cycles naturally on its own.

When we realize that the awakening comes from Above, our attention and intention must be directed toward getting the help of that which awakened us. This is the correct response: not to treat the awakening as our own achievement or as raw material for personal spiritual effort, but to turn toward its source. When we do this, we are exposed to the reason and the power of the awakening itself. When we lose the awakening, we tend to want to work in spirituality on our own volition - and sometimes we say it is not for us, and we leave the study, and we leave it there.

At that point, there is an enormous, incomprehensible grace that helps us return - more than once. This grace is not something we can account for or deserve. The awakening is a singularity of a single event that by grace repeats itself two times in the human journey. The two-time repetition is not a natural feature of the awakening - it is grace. And the right orientation, when the awakening returns, is to reach toward the help of that which is awakening us, rather than to treat it as our own spiritual momentum to manage or sustain.