One Sign of Awakening: Clear Vision of Cause and Effect - (1263)

See Consequences Before acting

A person who is awakening will see the consequences before they even initiate any kind of action. The egos in us very simply put, don’t see the consequences that will be put into place with their actions or rather reactions. 

This is because, the ability to see ahead in time corresponds to our consciousness and our imagination. Our imagination is a faculty at the service of our will, our consciousness and our free intellect.The ego uses fantasy to see, but as we well know fantasy is seeing using the images of memory to fulfil a an old desire.

Something Hidden: Actions Initiate Processes that Can Sweep Us Up

There is also something else hidden here. A certain truth that we often overlook, and it is that when we initiate an action, it can initiate a process (which can sometimes be storm) and as soon as that process begins the course of that process escapes from our hands and can even come against us.

The processes sometimes initiated by us grow, turn on us and sweep us up and drops us off somewhere we may not have wanted to end up. The ill-willed ego in us may have wanted something or someone else to end where we ended up. For example, we may have wanted someone else to get reprimanded and in the end we get reprimanded.

Cultivate Tomorrow Today

To live wisely is to start cultivating tomorrow today.

Initiate a set of events, actions and circumstances that will build and create a favourable tomorrow!

End (1263).