Consciousness at work
To be conscious is to see, feel, and experience all of life without judgment. To breathe each breath through a filter of gratitude, to speak each word with full awareness of the power of your word and to do so responsibly as you create the habit of being acutely aware that your unspoken language and inner ponderances are another form of creativity that can sometimes be hidden to a less practiced metaphysical student.
We are the result of our accumulated thoughts, beliefs and decisions. Every choice we make creates a path that we walk upon leaving us standing in the effect of all of this mental, emotional, and spiritual activity. I find that most spiritual teachers make the mistake of claiming that one aspect of the co-creative process is more important than another. I can be guilty of this myself at times, but nothing can be further from the truth.
We are not a paint-by-number creation. While we are one in consciousness, at the level of human form, we are each a unique result of our influences and domestication. How could we possibly think there is only one path, one way of doing things? This is why growing our self-awareness must accompany all other methods of personal transformation. Without it, we will always be limited to the impact and the reach of a single methodology.
Looking around the world right now, depending up the filter you are looking through, you might be seeing a world with pain, suffering, lies, deception, poverty, and violence, or you can look around to see the hundreds of individuals and small organizations attempting to provide food and water to those less fortunate, companies cleaning up the rivers, and others seeking to stop the pillaging of our forests for toilet paper. Your view, your consciousness, determines the filter you see through and that leads to your experience.
If you know me, you know that I will always encourage all of us to see both. To see both is important so we can avoid practicing spiritual bypass or by living a life of doom and gloom. Balance, being grounded, and a healthy sense of self combined with an optimism will leave you as a more potent and meaningful citizen of the planet.
We become more potent when we choose to live in the question and the inquiry of life, all of life. As we remember to question what society has called authority, or reality, we will open a portal within ourselves to be able to be more potent. Your personal power lives at the heart of you and it remains untapped until you do your personal healing work. This work will leave you in a powerful and sacred relationship with the intelligence that lives at the heart of all life. Go consciousness onto the path of your life, bring massive love and compassion with you and you will matter more than you can imagine.
