...the state of mind that sees and does not demand

To be aware is an extraordinary state of mind---to be aware of your surroundings, of the trees, the bird that is singing, the sunset behind you, to be aware of the faces, of the smiles; to be aware of the dirt on the road; to be aware of the beauty of the land, of a palm tree against the red sunset, the ripple of the water---just to be aware, choicelessly. Please do this as you are going along. Listen to these birds, do not name them, do not recognize their species, but just listen to the sound. Listen to the movement of your own thoughts; do not control them, do not shape them, do not say, 'This is right, that is wrong.' Just move with them.  That is awareness in which there is no choice, no condemnation, no judgment, no comparison, or interpretation, only mere observation. 

See the perfection.

Spiritual healing is done by knowing the perfection that is.  It causes you to let go of the imperfection by seeing only the perfection.

Start being the unlimited being that we really are.

"We are here and now fully a realized being telling ourselves that we are not by saying, "I need this," "I need that," "I am limited by this," "I am limited by that."  All we need to do is stop feeling that we are limited and start being the unlimited being that we really are."

Get Quiet.

Reactions

Reactions can be used as opportunities for growth by seeking their source and thereby eliminating them.

Why are we so fragile?

"Why are we so fragile?" Question asked by professional golfer and golf commentator Nik Faldo during a golf telecast as he noticed how golfers allowed events  to raise them into joy or push them into despair in an instant.


"To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders." (Chuang-tse)


"I saw that all things which occasioned in me any anxiety or fear had in themselves nothing of good or evil except insofar as the mind was moved by them. (Spinoza)


"It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in our soul, for things themselves have no natural power to form our judgements."  (Aurelius)

Our future is the result of what we think and do now.

Wherever we are now, is the result of our acts and thoughts of the past; and whatever we shall be in the future,  will be the result of what we think and do now....When it comes, the higher powers and possibilities of the soul are quickened, spiritual life is awakened, growth is animated. ( Vivekananda)

Retire into yourself.

It is within your power, whenever you choose, to retire into yourself. Nowhere can you retire with more quietness or  more freedom than within your own spirit...Constantly give yourself to this retreat, and renew yourself. Let your principles be brief and fundamental, and when you have returned to them, that will be enough to purify the spirit completely, and to send you back from all discontent. (Aurelius)

You have always been limitless thinking you are not.

Moving toward limitless means moving toward realizing, seeing that we are limitless and always have been.

Appreciating the perfection of our world that we experience now, our life past and present, means appreciating that we, as limitless beings, have created all that we experience or have experienced.

Limitless creating happens two ways. First, is default creating. Default creating is what we have practiced, for the most part, up to the present. Default creating means creating without knowing we’re doing it. It could also be called unconscious creating. This so-called default creating gives us the feeling of being a victim, because we did the creating unconsciously.

Default creating began at the beginning of this dream called our life. Default creating begins with the feeling we are separate from our Godhood which is our first experience of the feeling of limitation. Default creating progresses with thoughts, with thinking. Each thought, being a limitation, makes us that much more limited. We build up countless thoughts and feelings of limitation.

Though the thoughts and feelings are countless, we can bundle-up all those thoughts into one thought called, limitation. That makes limitation easier to delete than trying to locate all those individual thoughts and feelings of limitation.

If we are not able to let go of the one thought of limitation, we may have to go about it with bundles of thoughts at a time, such as the thought, “I can’t” or “I don’t know” or “I don’t know how.”

How can we let go of those thoughts and feelings? We let them go simply by thinking their opposite, “I can,” I know,” “I know how.” Again, seeing it is all a dream, which in itself seems to be millions of thoughts, but it is actually just one thought, called the dream, we can drop and replace those thoughts and feelings.

However, we have practiced this dream of limitation for such a long time most of us cannot drop them all at once, but we can drop them as we see them. This can be called reversing thoughts and feelings of limitation and replacing them with thoughts and feelings of limitlessness.

We can do this reversing by keeping a very close eye on each of our thoughts and feelings as we go through our day. As default creators of our limitation, we have thoughts and feelings of limitation all the time. We can reverse those thoughts and feelings all the time if we stay awake to them, if we remain conscious of them as they come into our awareness, as we think and feel them.

This is called “holding in mind what we want,” rather than holding in mind what we do not want.

In the meantime, we are appreciating, admiring and loving what we experience because we see that we, as limitless beings, thinking and practicing that we are very limited beings, have created everything in our lives with those thoughts and feelings. The creating we have done has been a perfect match to our thoughts and feelings since the very beginning.

The second way of creating as a limitless creator, creating the dream just as we want it to be, could be called intentional creating, or conscious creating.

Actually everyone has experienced conscious creating with so-called coincidences or serendipitous occurrences in our life. We thought about it and it happened. The part we miss in these events is that we did it. It seems like it happened to us. However, remember it is just a dream, and it is my dream, and I did it. I created it.

Conscious, intentional creating is, first, seeing that we did it. We created all that we are experiencing. All that we experience is an out-picturing of our thoughts and feelings. Then, we begin to create consciously by reversing or replacing thoughts and feelings that we don’t prefer to experience.

A way to do this is by “teasing” out of our subconscious mind those thoughts or feelings that we do not prefer, and replacing them with thoughts and feelings that we prefer. In so doing, we replace the “default” creating with conscious, intentional creating.

It is easy for us to know what limitations we have created. All we have to do is think of areas of our life that we do not like, or that wish were different. We can easily see that we have unconsciously dreamed an “I can’t” or “I don’t have,” for example. We can see we have dreamed, “ I am this or that kind of person.” “I have this or that quality or characteristic.”

This is what is meant by, “To create the million use the same process of creating that you used to create the one dollar bill.”

The content of our life is what we dreamed we “should” have, or deserve to have, or want to have. We have created it unconsciously in our dream.

All we have to do is to begin to use the same process of creating that we used to create the content of the life we have. That process is simply holding in mind, or keeping in our mind, the life we would like to have.

For many of us, we have held onto the dream of “anti-thoughts and feelings” for so long, it could seem to take awhile to replace the dollar with a million dollars. (I say, “seem to take awhile” because if we can see it as a dream, we can instantly drop the dream, and replace the entire dream with a dream we prefer).

If we are not yet able to do that, we can use the method of consciously replacing or reversing thoughts and feelings as they arise.

We can hasten this replacement by bringing into our awareness a thought of something we would like to have. In that instant, we begin to see the “anti” thoughts and feelings. Let’s say the thought is, “I have a beautiful house on the hill.” Instantly all the “can’t do” thoughts boil up which is a gift for us because those secondary thoughts and feelings are in the way of our primary thought. As limitless beings we create a lot of mental and emotional commotion, a lot of mental pushing and tugging. Perfect creating though that is, it does block us from having the dream we prefer.

Fortunate for us, as the anti thoughts and feelings come up, we can consciously drop them and replace them with thoughts and feelings of what we prefer.

If we start by keeping aware of the small things we consciously create, we by and by begin to see our Mastership, our limitlessness, our Godhood.

And we see, we can make this dream just as we would like it to be, just as we have perfectly made it to match our thoughts and feelings up to now.

Getting what you want.

"Going around with wrong ideas is as awkward as wearing clothing
several sizes too large. One such idea is to believe that one will
be happy simply by obtaining whatever is desired. There is nothing
like getting what you want to prove that you really did not want it!
Has this ever happened to you?"

700 Inspiring Guides To A New Life, # 442

Argue for your Limitlessness

In the movie Limitless we learn that if we can get the right pill we can become limitless.

Society believes a pill can cure everything.

However, if we look at it closely, we see that the pill is a thing of limitation. There is an “I can’t” attached to being limitless. “I can’t be limitless unless I can get that pill. Without the pill I am the limited being I have always thought I am.”

And there’s the rub---Thought.

Just as we think, “If I can only find that pill, I can be limitless,” we could just as easily pursue the thought, “I am limitless right now. “

I am limitless, thinking I am not limitless.   What if we let go of the thought, “I am not limitless?”

What if we held in our mind consistently and persistently, “I am limitless, I am a being with no limitation, I am unlimited?”

Now, very predictably, comes the ego/mind argument.  It could be ringing in your mind right now.  It goes something like this.  “How ridiculous. You are limited. It’s ridiculous to think you are limitless.”  And it goes something like this, “You’re limited and you know it. It’s a lie to tell yourself that you are limitless.“ 

In the book from the 70’s, “Illusions, the Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah,” the author, Richard Bach, said, “Argue for your limitations and sure enough they’re yours.”

Consider this possibility: “Our mind is only creative. We create that which we hold in mind,” as Lester Levenson said.  Those or similar words have been said in many variations by many people over time.  The thought that, “What you hold in mind is what you get in your life,” is the Law of Attraction.  That thought is the basis of “The Secret.”   Obviously, it is not a secret, it’s just something that we don’t look at and therefore that we don’t see.

Most people believe the world and all the events that come to them in their life are happenstance, circumstances that happen by chance.  They believe “the world” happens to them.  A lot of people like to argue vigorously when any thought comes their way that they are not used to, that takes them in a direction they had not planned to go.  Frankly, it frightens many people to think their world is their own creation.

Were we to look closely and sincerely, we would see that our mind is only creative, that we have created what we have held in our mind. We have created the thoughts that we have consistently and persistently held in our mind.  And one of the main thoughts we have held onto is that we are limited. We are this limited body, this limited mind, this limited personality, this "apparency" of a limited set of circumstances we find ourselves in.

And some of us will argue for our limitations. If pushed, some of us may even become almost violent in our argument for our limitations and our denial of our limitlessness.

However, what if we just as persistently and just as consistently hold the thought in our mind that we are limitless? That we have no limitations. That we are unlimited---limitless--- beings saying we are not.  What if we argued for that set of thoughts?

We’ve been very good about creating this life we have. In fact, it’s an exact copy of what we have thought and felt. We just have never looked at it that way.

Why wouldn’t we be just as good, just as successful and just as perfect creating the life, the dream, we now prefer?  The answer is, we would be, if we just did it. If we only held in mind thoughts and feelings of what we would like to have, of the life we prefer to have, as if it were ours right now, we would have that life.  The proof is easy. The proof is this life that we have already created unknowingly, unconsciously.

Is it possible for everything to change overnight?  Of course, it could. It depends on our willpower.  However, for most of us, we have been practicing being limited for so long, and arguing for our limitations for so long, if could take some time to turn it all around. 

We begin by using our mind to undo our mind. We begin by replacing the thought of being limited---all those thoughts that say, “I can’t” with the thought that, “I am limitless and I can on any subject.”

How long have your practiced limitation, thoughts and convictions of limitation?   It could take some time to switch it around by holding in your mind the thought that you are limitless, thoughts of “I can,”  "I know how."  It takes desire and determination. It takes wanting something different than this life of perceived limitation. It takes watching your thoughts constantly, turning those thoughts around and substituting the thought, “I am limitless.”

It takes using the same mind that you used to convince yourself of your limitation to convince yourself of your limitlessness.   Try it.  Reverse thoughts of , “I can’t” and say, “I can.”

Richard Bach might say, “Argue for your limitlessness, and sure enough, it’s yours.”

You did it.

We are so quick to take credit for things that happen in our life that we don't like. We attribute creating those things to ourselves and beat ourselves up about them at every turn.  Why do we not take equal credit for the good things that happen, attributing to ourselves credit for creating the good things?  Why do we not see and take credit for all we experience in our lives, and realize as a limitless being we created whatever we experience every day? 

Stop Thought

"Stop the stream of thoughts, if you can, and gaze steadily at the thinker.

"Authentic growth toward happiness comes by taking shocks with awareness.

Let's see what this means.

When we are faced with an unwanted truth, we are shocked.

If we resist the blow by repressing it or denying it, we

cannot learn from it, in fact, we are worse off than before.

But if we are aware of the blow, we can see its cause in

the clash between what is true and what we falsely claim

is true. Our willing exposure of our falseness wins release

from its pain."

Pathways to Perfect Living, p. 97

Your experience is you.

"The kind of world you experience outwardly 

is the same kind of world you are inwardly."

                                Cosmic Command, # 1241