Epiphany, as defined by http://www.dictionary.com is a sudden, intuitive perception of or insight into the reality or essential meaning of something, usually initiated by some simple, homely, or commonplace occurrence or experience.
Have you ever had your own manifestation of truth? Here's a story of man who almost died in his sleep. He story was how he almost journeyed to afterlife or actually an alternate reality.
Let's name the man Odin, for more than half of his life, he was living in anger, insecurity, regret and envy. He hated his life too much that he only eases himself form his anger by thinking alternate realities he can rather live by. What kind of life he's rather have, where he lives, the people he know, his ethnicity, social status, anything that's different from who he really is.
Does he hate who he is too much? Why can't he put up with his life? Where does all this anger and insecurity come from? What does he long for? Basically, just does not accept his life and he is unsatisfied.
As he grew older, the pain and void continued to grow, his anger became sadness and emptiness and he sought happiness by surrounding by people, new friends and with the worldly, mundane and superficial things. Until he got so depressed and reached his breaking point.
See what happened to him is simple, if a person does not have true happiness in his life and just feeds him with superficial happiness; if you take away that source of happiness he breaks, because he can't find it within himself. Odin, found himself devastated and restless.
He forced himself to sleep and his heart screaming his need for a slack, a vacation, a break from all his hangs up and angst.
In his sleep, he saw flashes of color, like lasers and pictures of all his memories, even those that he does not recall. He saw his life, the people he knows. He started perspiring and his body froze.
Then a figure of a man like a hologram lay beside him and said, "Ok, I will give the life that you want." Suddenly another flash of memories where being shown to him, his alternate reality, he wanted it to stop. Then the hologram said "This is what the angels wrote that you want."
This was when he realized that his body was being lifted and above his chest was like a vacuum of air pulling his soul out of it. Things happened really fast, part of him wanted it go on and let the change happen, but was he really going to get the life he was asking for? Or was he going to die? He hesitated, should he go through it. Can he leave all the people he knew all his life for a new one he is going to start, will they still know him? Will he still know them? Do they even exist in the new reality he is going to live in?
He called on the greatest power he knows that exist, he called on the great Cosmic Being, and he called on God. He was not ready, he wanted it to stop. He called on HIM really hard and then his eyes opened. He was in tears and he was sweaty. He realized that solution to his problem is not dying or being somebody else. And then he was sorry, he was sorry he despaired, sorry of his dissatisfaction. He became thankful he is alive and that he has a chance to be pull his self together and be better.
That morning he was chipper, animated and truly happy. He shared his experience to people just to let them know that can truly be happy by being thankful to life they are given.
It was truly an epiphany… Be happy! Live life! You are enough and you are worthy.
carpe diem... ü
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