Each choice of fear
-- anger, jealousy, vengefulness -- is a choice to evolve unconsciously through
the painful, destructive consequences that fear creates.
From the perspective
of the universe, the language of comparison is not the language of lesser and
better, but of limitation and opportunity.
The insecurity which
underlies the perception of power as external cannot be healed by the
accumulation of external power.
When we align our
thoughts, emotions, and actions with the highest part of ourselves, we are
filled with enthusiasm, purpose, and meaning.
Life is full and rich. We have no
thoughts of bitterness…. This is the experience of authentic power.
An authentically
empowered person is incapable of making anyone or anything a victim.
Your personality,
like your body, is the vehicle of your evolution.
Only the personality
can judge, manipulate and exploit. Only
the personality can pursue external power.
The personality can also be loving, compassionate, and wise in its relations
with others, but love, compassion and wisdom do not come from the
personality. They are experiences of the
soul.
Your soul is not a
passive or a theoretical entity that occupies a space in the vicinity of your
chest cavity. It is a positive,
purposeful force at the core of your being.
Creating authentic
power requires experiencing within us the differences between fear and love and
choosing love no matter what is going on inside us.
Competition for
external power lies at the heart of all violence.
Multisensory
perception is your ability to see beyond what the five senses can detect.
Every action,
thought, and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a
cause that exists as one with an effect.
If we participate in the cause, it is not possible for us not to
participate in the effect.
In order to become
whole, the soul must balance its energy.
It must experience the effects that it has caused.
Non-judgmental
justice is the freedom of seeing what you see and experiencing what you
experience without responding negatively.
Actions and
reactions in the physical arena set energy into motion, forming our experiences
and revealing in the process the lessons that the soul has yet to learn.
The framework of
karma and reincarnation is impersonal, and provides for each soul, in response
to the actions of its personalities, the experiences that it requires in order
to evolve.
We see Life as
cheap. This perception pervades all of
our perceptions…. We look upon each other as prey to satisfy our emotional and
physical needs.
When we curse a
competitor or strive to disempower another person, we absent ourselves from
reverence. When we work to take instead
of to give, we labor without reverence.
A disempowered
person is a frightened person.
The decision to
approach Life with reverence means acting and thinking as a spiritual person in
a world that does not recognize spirit.
Impatience is the
desire to have your needs met first.
Reverence is
connecting with the true power and essence of what a person is or what a thing
is. It is a holy perception.
When we close the
door to our feelings, we close the door to the vital currents hat energize and
activate our thoughts and actions.
If we are not
intimate with our emotions, we cannot perceive the dynamics that lie behind
emotions, the way that these dynamics work, and the ends that they serve. Emotions are currents of energy that pass
through us. Awareness of these currents
is the first step in learning how our experiences come into being and why.
Reverence is not an
emotion. It's a way of being.
Only through your
emotions can you experience the force field of your own soul.
A splintered
personality experiences the circumstances within its life as more powerful than
itself.
At each instant you
make decisions in the form of your attitudes.
Your dispositions,
aptitudes, and attitudes reflect your intentions. If you are angry, fearful, resentful, or
vengeful, your intention is to keep people at a distance.
If you attend to the
negative aspects of life, if you choose to focus your attention on the
weaknesses of others, on their faults and shortcomings, you draw to yourself
the lower frequency energy currents of disdain, anger, and hatred. You put distance between yourself and
others. You create obstacles to your
loving.
If you direct your
energy into criticism of others with the intention to disempower them, you
create negative karma.
You cannot choose
your intentions consciously until you become conscious of each of the different
aspects of yourself. If you are not
conscious of each part of yourself, you will have the experience of wanting to
say, or to intend, one thing, and finding yourself saying or intending
something else. You will want your life to move in one direction, and find
that it is moving in another.
The choice not to
choose is the choice to remain unconscious and therefore, to wield power
irresponsibly.
Each decision
requires that you choose which parts of yourself you want to cultivate, and
which parts you want to release.
A responsible choice
is a choice that takes into account the consequences of each of your
choices. In order to make a responsible
choice you must ask yourself, for each choice that you are considering,
"What will this produce? Do I really want to create that? Am I ready to
accept all of the consequences of this choice?"
A disagreement
between two friends, for example, is not so much a disagreement as aspects of
each surfacing in order to be healed.
The splintered
personality is not content. The
contentment that it feels in one moment is replaced by anger or fear or envy in
the next moment as conflicting aspects of itself struggle with each other.
When you struggle
consciously with a choice between the wants of your personality and the needs
of your soul, you enter a dynamic through which you are enabled to evolve
without creating negative karma. That is the dynamic of temptation…. Temptation
is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.
Temptations are not
traps. Each temptation is an opportunity
through which the soul is able to learn without creating karma, to evolve
directly through conscious choice.
Temptation is the
gracious way of introducing each individual to his or her power…. With each
choice that you make to align yourself with the energy of your soul, you
empower yourself.
Responsibility is a
sacred word. It means the ability to
respond from love rather than automatically reacting from fear.
When you struggle
with an addiction, you deal directly with the healing of your soul.
Addictions are the
strongest frightened parts of your personality.
Our species is no
longer humble. It has no reverence…. We
take from the Earth and from each other.
If you wish the
world to become loving and compassionate, become loving and compassionate
yourself. If you wish to diminish fear
in the world, diminish your own.
What is in one is in
the whole, and therefore, ultimately, each soul is responsible for the whole
world.
When energy leaves
you in fear or distrust, you experience physical pain in your body near the energy centers that are
losing power.
