Lesson from the Spirit

"My Spirit, Shiva, I ask—tell me, how can we help those souls who are now in darkness but wish to come to the light?"
"To open yourself to someone you must first learn the basics of cultivation—the cultivation of thoughts, viewpoints, intentions, the cultivation of your own soul.
The Creator, the Maker, is the one who cultivates. At first a number of forms were selected as names, but none of them justified the trust placed in them.
Trust. Trust is what, once shaken, let the truth slip away.
Everyone who fell lost trust, relying on their own conclusions.
As soon as trust falls, the ego switches on, it reveals itself, it grows.
And as distrust deepens, that ego becomes ever larger.
More personality—less spirit, pushing it out completely without remainder.
"And how then return to the light, if without remainder?"
"Very simply: you must only believe, believe again, through trust in someone. Trust in someone, even in yourself, builds a kind of bridge that connects you with your own soul.
When you grieve, when you worry about something, that bridge of trust begins to shake, begins to crumble, breaks, and you forget the road again—the road to your own soul.
Trust yourself, trust the space, trust people in general, and the whole world, to build strong and reliable bridges of trust to that one existing thing which is an integral part of the universe, to the Soul and the One Spirit. By building bridges in this way, you connect with the threads of these bridges, being the binding substance, establishing the harmony of union in the world as a whole.
Do not be afraid to wake from your own illusions, from the unconscious sleep in which you wandered hoping to find something long lost that has always been an integral part of you, that has always been inside you.
And the more of these bridges you have, the firmer you stand in your beliefs, in your knowledge and your feelings."