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1 Live each day as if it were your last, and realize how valuable those words truly are. At the end of each day, as you go to sleep, take a moment to reflect on the day you’ve just lived.
2 Focus on that moment when you feel drowsy, just before falling asleep. Try to stay awake, even if to observe what that transition feels like.
3 No matter how much you try to hold on and remain conscious, you won’t be able to perceive the exact moment you fall asleep. You’ll feel drowsy, yes—but the precise transition point from wakefulness to sleep is something you won’t experience consciously because that shift between planes of awareness cannot be remembered.
4 That is when, while the body rests, your soul, which never sleeps, will keep on with its journey. What you bring to memory are glimpses of such experiences, which are described as dreams.
5 Once you are there, you are not in control. Tell me when, upon falling asleep, you can consciously wake up in a pre-determined moment and return to (*) “life”? No, you can’t. And it is your spirit that decides to experience another journey on earth as you wake up.
6 It is said that a number of people die while in their sleep. Yet, even those who do not want to live anymore must face the karmic cycle that needs to take place. Some people take it as a miracle of life upon waking up every day, while others see it as a curse. Either way, it is beyond our control. You see?
7 It is not that it is granted as a miracle to some or given as a curse to others—it is that we have no control over it, just as we have no control over many other things we wish we did.
8 Returning to this earthly plane, whether from sleep or a short nap, is living proof that we have no control over life itself. It is an action-reaction element. Life is a cycle, and the process of sleep is a cycle within that cycle and within another cycle.
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Article 5—”Return to “Life”” implies being awake instead of asleep.