All quotes from
Derek's book
Your
tomorrow is an extension of God’s today.
This
didn’t mean that my life had to fall apart, just that I had to be willing to
let it; I had to let go of attachment, of my ideas of what should or shouldn’t
be.
Imagination
may take us on a journey to the edge of our known self, but for a true vision
that evolves us to the next level (whether personally, professionally, or
societally), we must cross the border of our conditioned mind and enter an
uncharted frontier that can only be navigated through the sight of our soul.
Emergination
is an inside-out process that transforms you into the person you must be to
handle the next phase of growth with ease, grace, and integrity.
Trust
that what you need to receive and remember, you will, and that even if you
don’t remember, there’s valuable work being done in the deeper recesses of your
consciousness.
True
change – whether in your inner world, outer world, or the world at large,
requires you to go beyond your known self, beyond the stories of your life,
beyond all the excuses that have held you back, and tap into that realm where
your higher vision exists.
The
experience of the senses is an expression of mental and spiritual activity, not
a reality in itself. We don’t see or hear because we have eyes and ears; we
have eyes and ears because seeing and hearing are aspects of consciousness.
Our body
doesn’t actually feel – the mind does, the phantom limb phenomena illustrates
this. When someone loses a limb, they’ll sometimes still feel pain or itching
in the missing limb and reach into empty space to scratch an appendage that is
no longer there. The whole world “out there” is a movie we’re projecting on the
screen of our mind.
When we
don’t consciously identify with what we don’t know, the ignorance remains
unconscious and can manifest as anxiety, procrastination, and all manner of
self-sabotage.
Life
doesn’t always appear to be so generous to us.
When this happens, it’s not personal.
The universe is just reflecting how we’re thinking about or treating
ourselves, such as “undeserving” or “not good enough”.
The more
you give from an awareness of having, the more you have to give.
Sometimes
acting as if something is true activates something inside of us that really is.
Action is
the evidence of belief and the mechanism by which we anchor it on earth.
Action is
belief in work clothes.
Act from
where you want to be, not from where you are.
Act from
who you want to be, not from how you feel.
Do you
want to know what you really believe so you can start from a place of honesty
and authenticity and build upon that foundation? Don’t merely look at what
you’re thinking, saying, affirming, or praying; look at what you’re doing,
especially under pressure.
The urge
to correct something is a form of resistance to what is.
Problems
are symptoms of a particular state of consciousness.
To
evolve, we must take our attention off the problem and place it on the
opportunity.
Rather
than focusing on the obstacle, you need to look beyond it to where you want to
go. And because energy flows where your
attention goes, it will cause you to think, say, and do things that put you
back on the road to success.
Many
people believe that if they don’t “feel like it”, there’s a legitimate reason
not to act. But it’s no reason at all;
it’s an unexamined false belief. It also shows up in less obvious but equally
pernicious self-talk like, “I’m just not inspired”, or “I don’t have the
energy”.
When we
“do it any way”, we have a direct experience that shows that we really are the
source of power in our life.
What
you think and feel can only determine what you do if you let it. On their own, your thoughts and feelings have
no power.
There’s
no such thing as being stuck, there’s no such things as “can’t”. “Can’t” is just a filter the ego puts up to
stop your growth. It’s a limited belief.
When you
say you can’t, what you’re really saying the majority of the time is “I won’t”.
No matter
how far from your destination, you can always take another step in its
direction, even if the step takes place in your mind first, then your emotions,
then your body. There’s always a next
step.
The sad fact of the human experience is that most people lead lives
of quiet desperation, never saying yes to the yes within them, waiting for some
perfect or safe condition to finally act upon their deepest desires – a
condition that never comes.
You don’t experience
reality; you experience your perception of it.
Everything
is conspiring for your good, awakening your deeper potential, and preparing you
for greater things.
You can’t
heal life by repressing it, you can’t have more life by rejecting it, and you
can’t live more fully if you’re at war with it.
Whatever’s
missing is what you’re not giving.
If we
want to heal the situation once and for all, we must make a distinction: are
the emotions of pain suffering coming from what we’re thinking, feeling, and
projecting onto the person or situation? Or are they coming from the actual
conditions of the situation?
Just as
the oak is already in the acorn, everything we’re meant to be and all we need
to fulfill it is already in us – a perfect pattern and divine purpose. And, like the oak from the acorn, when the
conditions are right, this innate potential naturally emerges.
It’s a
trick of the ego to keep you the same while convincing you you’re changing.
The seed
you started as already contained the material and mechanics of its fulfillment
– and the fulfillment of everyone and everything that evolves from your life.
You don’t
need to convince people who aren’t willing or interested….. You just need to
say the course.
Just as a
single acorn contains endless forests, the seed of your being contains all the
ideas, contributions, and impact your life will ever make.
The collective
consciousness of separation, limitation, and self-preservation has created a
false sense of self and a deep disconnect from the seed of our true nature.
The acorn
and its oakhood are perfect ideas that will always emerge when the conditions
are right, so, too, will you.
You can’t
heal what you don’t feel, and you can’t get where you want to go until you’re
honest with where you are.
If we’re
not living consciously, our ego will use every trick in its playbook to keep us
the same, all while making us think we’re changing, convincing us we can’t, or
just dulling our senses.
The ego’s
job is self-preservation, often at any cost.
The only
way to evolve is to go to a higher level.
And the only way to go to a higher level is to access the evolutionary
impulse beyond the conditioned mind.
Money is
rarely, if ever, the issue, even when it is.
The life
you’ve been trying to make happen is already happening inside you, but it needs
you to be conscious of it and congruent with it. You don’t get what you want in life; you get
who you are in consciousness.
The
source within you doesn’t bring more into your life; it pulls more life out of
you. The result is what appears to be
more things coming to you but is really more of you emerging.
When you
practice any goal-achieving technique that starts from a premise that you’re
broken or lacking or something is missing, your growth is determined by the
level of your current self-image – the picture you have of yourself that is
make up of your perceptions, fears, or past traumas as well as the stories you
tell yourself and the characters you play in those stories. At best, this creates superficial
improvements.
When we
recognize that everything we need is already within us and begin to reconnect
to that feeling of innate wholeness and perfection – the way we felt toward
that baby—we lay the foundation for the Law of Emergence to operate a process
that is about becoming (or, rather, revealing) more of who you truly are,
unleashing your infinite, often imprisoned potential.
When you cultivate
your inner conditions, your next evolutionary stage will unfold
organically. And because your next stage
is already within you, it will arrive whole, bringing with it everything needed
for it fulfillment.
As you realize
you’re already who you’re meant to be and you already have the thing you want,
your process will become more about self-realization.
It’s also
important to understanding that self-realization is not a straight line.
The key
is to not become attached to or overly identified with any practice or
condition.
Locked
up in the seed of your soul is not just an image, calling, or pattern of
potential; it is the fully realized Self, formed in the invisible dimension of
your being.
Your soul
is your soil, and if you generate the right inner conditions – mentally,
emotionally, and spiritually – your seed will have the right nutrients to
thrive.
In
order to allow your greatest good to express itself in the most powerful way,
you must identify less as a limited human self that is trapped in time and
instead tune in to the boundless eternal self within.
Once we
know we’re already whole and that everything we need is within us – including
love, respect, validation, power, wealth, and health – we realize there’s no
reason to demand, fight for, or fear the loss of any of this.
To the
extent that you identify with the part of you that is changing – the human self
– you create resistance to the part of you that is emerging – the true Self –
much in the way an acorn would if it identified with its shell instead of the
oak.
Stop
trying to make it happen and instead make it welcome.
