Forget About Knowledge: Just Be Yourself

How can I be myself if I don't know myself?

Whether you know or not, you cannot be other than yourself. To be yourself, knowledge is not needed. A rosebush is a rosebush. Not that the rosebush knows that it is a rosebush. A rock is a rock. Not that the rock knows that it is a rock. Knowledge is not needed. In fact, it is because of knowledge that you are missing being yourself.

Knowledge is creating the problem. The rosebush is not confused. Every day it goes on being a rosebush. Not even for a single day does it become confused. It does not start some morning growing marigolds; it goes on being a rosebush. Knowledge is not needed for being. In fact, you are missing your being because of knowledge.

I was reading about a certain man named Dudley: To celebrate Uncle Dudley’s 75th birthday, an aviation enthusiast offered to take him for a plane ride over the little West Virginia town where he had spent all his life. Uncle Dudley accepted the offer.

Back on the ground, after circling over the town 20 minutes, he was asked: “Were you scared, Uncle Dudley?” “No”, was the hesitant answer, “but i never did put my full weight down”.

In an airplane, whether you put your full weight down or not, the weight is carried by the airplane. Whether you know yourself or not is not the point. Knowledge is disturbing you. Just think if there was a rock also on that airplane with Uncle Dudley, the rock would have put the whole weight down. Uncle Dudley is unnecessarily worried. He could have rested, he could have relaxed just like the rock, but the rock has no knowledge and Uncle Dudley has knowledge.

The whole problem of humanity is that humanity knows, and because of knowing, the being is unnecessarily forgotten.

Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rosebush, a rock. Meditation means how just to be and not to think.

When i say to you to be yourself, i mean meditate. Don’t try to be anybody else. You cannot be! You can try, and you can deceive yourself and you can promise yourself and you can hope that someday you will become somebody else, but you cannot become. These are only illusions that you can go on having. These are dreams. They are not going to become realities ever. You will remain yourself whatsoever you do.

Why not relax, Uncle Dudley! Put your full weight on the airplane. Relax. In relaxation, suddenly you will start enjoying your being, and the effort to be somebody else will stop. That is your worry how to be somebody else, how to be like somebody else, how to become like a Buddha, how to become like Patanjali. You can only be yourself. Accept it, rejoice in it, delight in it. Relax.

Zen Masters say to their disciples, “Beware of Buddha. If you meet him on the way, kill him immediately”. What do they mean? They mean there is a human tendency to become imitators. There is a book, Imitation Of Christ. In a way, that title is very symbolic. It shows the whole mind of humanity. People are trying to imitate, to become somebody else.

Nobody can become a Christ. There is no need. Existence will be bored if you become Christ. It wants somebody new, something original. It wants you, and it wants you to be just yourself.

It's all in your mind

To get more prosperity in your life you should affirm that you are prosperous.

How would you feel and act right now if you had everything you wanted? Well, let’s just pause for a moment and visualize this: right now, see yourself acting as if you did have everything you wanted. See yourself acting in that way; capture the feeling of completeness and satisfaction that you would have. Luxuriate in that thought... What a wonderful feeling that is, and it is possible!

But let’s first ask ourselves how do we manifest prosperity? It is a fact that prosperity begins in mind. First as an idea, and then it comes into form. Thoughts are things and your thoughts create your reality. This, then, is absolutely true and in exact correlation with having enormous wealth and prosperity in your life. You can only have things that are in harmony with your thoughts. The great spiritual truth in regard to our wealth and prosperity is that God is the source and substance of your supply and people are merely channels! Well, it’s true on this human plane that it is people who hire us for our jobs, give us our paychecks, our bonuses and the like, but it is God that is the one true source.

When you are aware of this wonderful spiritual truth and incorporate that into your consciousness, you will begin to stop holding onto people, jobs and things so tenaciously and fearfully because they actually represent only one of many, many channels available to us. Stop giving your power away to these people and things and affirm, “This or something better.” Ease up. When we meditate and pray for more wealth and abundance in our lives, we don’t necessarily know where it’s going to come from and we don’t need to know.

To get more prosperity in your life you should affirm that you are prosperous. For those of you who are not familiar with affirmations or why they are important to your success, just think of them as positive statements that we can use to change our mind, belief system, attitudes and actions and therefore get the results we want. A fabulous affirmation for prosperity would be: “By day and by night, i am being prospered in all my ways!” Another great affirmation is, “I am now, in the process of attracting greater abundance, prosperity and success into my life in everything i am undertaking!”

Each one of us has the gift of free will or the freedom to think whatever thoughts we choose to concentrate on most throughout each day. Ask yourself right now what thoughts are you concentrating on right now? Are you thinking about prosperity and success in your life or are you thinking about lack and limitation? Your environment and your feelings will let you know exactly what you are thinking because they are an exact replica of your thoughts and beliefs. It’s true that no one can think of prosperity all day long and we are all in agreement there. As Emerson said, “A man is what he thinks about all day long.” Your primary thoughts, the ones you concentrate on most, will be what you will see in the people you attract to you as well as in your life circumstances. One of the most popular sayings is ‘change your thoughts and change your life,’ but, of course, Rome wasn’t built in a day! It will take time to replace your habitual thoughts that are negative to more positive ones, but you can do it!

Domenic Polifrone once said if we wanted a new car that we needed to go down to the showroom and test drive it. He said it didn’t matter if we didn’t have one penny in the bank. Just go down to that showroom, get behind the wheel of that car and test drive it! Get a few brochures to keep. See and feel yourself driving and owning this beautiful, new car. Get into the consciousness of “i am prosperity and i am in the process of buying and owning this beautiful, new car!” Try it. This experiment works! Your mind is one of your most prized possessions. It has been said that you are the architect of your life.

Ask yourself right now what kind of life are you building for yourself ? A magnificent life or a limited life? Everything that has been available to everyone is also available to you. There is a wonderful quote which underscores this fact. He said, “No one is superior to what you might become!”

Start knowing that the potentiality of one is the potentiality of all. If anybody has wealth you can have wealth; if anybody has a beautiful home, you can have a beautiful home. Life is a state of consciousness. “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” Change your consciousness and change your world.

Spirituality is finding noble purpose

Happiness is a reflection of being positive and there's need to highlight positive news.

DOES leading an ostentatious life impede the quest for spiritualism? Can the two co-exist? Or are these two concepts in conflict? I believe leading an austere life is an easier path to obtaining the larger goal of living life for a greater good. Ostentation makes one turn towards oneself; look inwards, forgetting the greater good. As long as a person remains oriented towards a noble goal, I believe it doesn't matter what kind of lifestyle a person lives. What do we really mean by spirituality? To me, spirituality is about finding a subliminal purpose, a noble purpose in any important thing I do. Spirituality is finding a purpose beyond the mundane, beyond the easily achievable goals and targets.

Every human being has a special mission in their life. When that is fulfilled, it brings joy. I believe my purpose in life is to be useful to those around me. Happiness is interlinked with positive feelings. Happiness, for me, is to see the eyes of those around me light up with pleasure. So many good things happen, but they get lost in the negativity which surrounds us. We are enveloped by events and news, but what gets highlighted daily is negative news, which makes people depressed and unhappy. I think we should begin each day with good news. What would I choose? To me events which are very positive make good news. Economic growth of the country, showcasing the best of human spirit, the good work done by politicians — such news brings happiness to people. People are happy when they see that the events around them can make an impact on a larger chunk of society. Events and news must have an impact for people from all over the country and from all vocations — mothers, housewives, politicians. That brings happiness to people.

The film Chak de India brought happiness to a large number of people. The Chak de experience shows that youngsters want to see India do well, to win. They want a country that is disciplined. That makes people happy. People are happy when meritocracy is rewarded. It makes me happy when all the wonderful lessons life teaches us are conveyed succinctly.

Did you choose your life, or did life choose you?

Not many of us end up where we plan to be. But, is it such a bad thing for plans not to work out? There is no clear answer to this.

HOW many of us can honestly say life has gone exactly per plan and is what we always wanted it to be? Ask around and most will tell you the same story - how they spent a lifetime planning for a career and when it came to the crux, they realized it wasn't something they wanted after all. Or, sometimes what you plan just never works out. How many brides and bridegrooms have had last minute change of hearts?

Did former model and now roadside derelict Gitanjali Nagpal imagine in her heyday that she would be walking the streets in a short while? She possibly planned to be where her contemporaries Sushmita Sen or Aishwarya Rai Bachchan are today.

But, wait a minute. Did even Sushmita and Aishwarya meticulously plan the lives they are living today? No, it doesn't seem so. Sushmita apparently had limited her choices to poet, doctor, linguist, journalist or being a Mother Teresa, and Aishwarya wanted to be an architect! And while Ash's life may well seem every girl's dream come true, her own littlegirl dreams were of blueprints and buildings rather than the Miss Universe crown and Bachchan bahudom!

True, not many of us end up where we plan to be. Consider this. Saif Ali Khan wanted to be a lead guitarist or cricketer; Juhi Chawla, a classical singer; Akshay Kumar dreamt of being a martial art instructor, while Rahul Bose wanted to be a professional rugby player. Both singer Mukesh and director Subhash Ghai nursed ambitions of being leading men! They are not living their lives as they planned them; rather life overtook their plans!

We all know that the last thing Sonia Gandhi ever wanted to do in life is what she is doing today with great élan! None of people's plans for their lives seem to work out. These people did not choose their lives; instead those lives chose them all!

But, is it then such a bad thing for plans not to work out? There is no clear answer to this, though it does feel good to know there's someone out there ready with Plan B! Sure, you may find this scary when you consider cases such as Gitanjali's. On the other hand, Aishwarya and all the rest have not just got a better deal than they planned for, but also seem quite content with lives they never dreamt of giving themselves. Maybe they are even grateful their original plans went awry! I mean, imagine 'Mother Sush Teresa'! Or Ash raising buildings rather than razing hearts!

Does that then mean any planning for the future is doomed to failure? And that one shouldn't plan at all? Not really. The problem is not with the planning; it's with the acceptance. The acceptance of whatever life unfolds for us. Problem is most of the time we are all expending energy trying to fight reality… we just don't accept things as they are — instead, we keep hankering after what could have been or what we had wanted!

Sometimes we get so pigheaded about these things that even when we can clearly see what has unfolded is far better than what was planned, we refuse to be happy. Zen masters nail it right when they say the problem is that most of us tend to go through life doing whatever we do just because circumstance or Destiny have made our life what it is today. They advise you to take your life in control immediately with even the smallest of changes and make the best of what you have.

In short, even if it isn't what you had planned really, make it a life that you have designed, rather than the one that fell to your lot. Do a quick reality check and adapt to Plan B rather than keep bemoaning failure of Plan A. Believe it, more often than not, it works out for the best…

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

As You Breathe, So Shall You Live

The simplest way to build a harmonious relationship with life is to develop a loving, joyful and a friendly relationship with your breath. Understand your breath, its ways of working and develop a friendly relationship with it. Breath is the carrier of vital life force within us that makes our body-mind organisation function and survive.

If you look at breath as life itself, your landscape will change. The love, sanctity and value you give to this great spontaneous phenomenon called ‘breathing’ will tend to completely change the way you breathe. Then if you breathe slowly, just 20 times with a smile, your eyes closed, you will experience deep within a feeling of joy in all those organs where you perceive the smooth touch of breath.

When you look at your breath as if it were your constant and unfailing friend, that quality of relationship brings about a profound change in any breathing method you practise. You will soon realise that the way you breathe, is the way you live. This is how complex life turns simple.

Eight factors that change your relationship to life with reference to the way you breathe are: the flow of breath you allow in your body, the pace with which you breathe, the rhythm you follow, the number of times you breathe or frequency of breath, body posture you hold while breathing, vibrations you produce, the attention and serenity with which you breathe, and finally, your sensitivity to experience the touch of breath in every organ it touches as you breathe.

The way you learn to synchronise all these aspects into one compact process of breathing is what will change your relationship with your body and mind. It is simply profound as well as profoundly simple.

You will begin to like yourself as you feel the pleasing, calming sensation deep breath brings about. You will experience a deep sense of undisturbed peace within. When you pay attention to the beauty with which life rests within you, for the first time, you will experience what it is to feel alive.

Our relationship with breath tends to be simple, direct and proportionate. So if you breathe slowly and attentively you feel the touch of breath as you breathe in and out. You will experience a deep sense of peace. If you breathe with great satisfaction, you will feel the grace of life. When you breathe selectively into each of your organs like kidneys, intestines, heart or head and feel the touch of breath, you will experience great healing. How many times you breathe and how regularly you do it directly decides the proportion of well being you will feel.

If you think of life as a great struggle, or the world as a battlefield where you have to compete with and overcome others, you will turn yourself into a warrior who has no room for peace or reconciliation in life. Then if you seek freedom or happiness, you will look for it beyond this life, not while you are living. The world that appears outside you is in fact a reflection, a mirror image, of how you feel within.

A simple way of changing the way you feel is to learn how to change your relationship with life in your daily half-hour breathing session. You will soon experience that as you breathe, so shall you live.

Move With The Flow, Learn To Let Go

We tend to cling to every object in our lives. We hold on to our profession, relationship or possession as if our entire world depends on them. We are so busy clinging to our own lives, that we have forgotten to live with the flow. We are afraid to move ahead, afraid to let go.

Life in essence is like an unobstructed, unrestrained, uncontrolled flow of a river. Life flows at its own pace and the ultimate source of all our pain and sufferings is our tendency to cling to and obstruct the flow. Professional life stagnates, relationships are broken, possessions are lost; all because we refused to let go when we were actually required to let things take their own course.

Why do we cling? We cling because change scares us; we cling because we are afraid to face the unknown, to face challenges; we cling because we feel secure if the status quo is maintained; we cling because we refuse to believe that life can never be static; because we refuse to accept the transience of everything; we believe that everything is in our hands. We do not have enough faith in life and that higher force which is omnipotent and omnipresent. In the chaos of existence, we have lost touch with our higher self. Most of us lead a life which is similar to that of a child who is lost in a crowd, separated from his guardians. He has nobody to place his faith on. He is afraid, insecure, suspicious about everyone and everything.

We live under the false illusion of having everything under our control. The spirit of getting things done becomes a problem when we continue to cling on even after we have exhorted all our efforts. We are overwhelmed by a sense of despair and disillusion when things move beyond our control. It is at this stage we need to learn to let go. Several times relationships are broken just because we tried too hard to make them work. We didn’t give the breathing space they required to grow. We didn’t let go and let them take their own course.

Professionally or personally, once all the efforts are made towards achieving a goal, we must learn to let go and let life take the best course. It might or might not be of one’s choice, but if we have faith, we will realise that it inevitably is the best course. We need to believe that forces above us are far better equipped to make judgments for us. We must learn to have faith in their judgment. Letting go, however, does not mean turning into a fatalist. One cannot sit idle in life and expect life to take care of itself. Karma, the fulfilment of one’s duties is the ultimate objective of all human existence and if we fail to fulfil our duties towards life, life inevitably fails us.

When God gives us dreams, He shares them with us. Whatever we consider our dreams, are actually His dreams and He gives us the capability to realise them. The part we are required to play is to ensure the optimum usage of the capabilities bestowed upon us. And once we have played our part with utmost honesty and effort, we need to let go, step aside and let God step in to fulfil our dreams. After all, they are His dreams, too.

You Are Not Alone

Every day our interactions with others balance our sense of self with the rest of the world around us.

We hear things such as someone is “on a path of self-destruction” or acts as “his own worst enemy.” Rarely do we hear accolades of emotional rebirth or those rising from adversity or overcoming obstacles. We need to turn our attention and focus to different routes of growth, different methods of self-evolution and I invite you to consider the use of words both actual and coined for the exploration of this phenomenon we call spiritual growth. Destruction — the all-too familiar phrase used tirelessly by our culture to exemplify a person not acting in his own best interest. Perhaps we recognize behavioral patterns which provoke weaknesses or a propensity for failure, or perhaps we point our ever-judgmental fingers at others in order to avoid pointing them at ourselves. When we notice the self-sabotage at work in someone else, it’s only because it’s all too recognizable in our own experience. Nonetheless, destruction surfaces when the demons of fruition of effort begin to rise from the fire of impossibility. We tend to destroy our opportunities through various methodologies which some call coping mechanisms and continue down the spiral staircase of failure. As social beings, we adapt to our environment. In doing so, we select the best part of ourselves to demonstrate our competency to the world as a productive member of society. Perhaps we adopt a likeable laugh or a pleasant appearance to fit in with our immediate social strata. Or, sometimes we may change the language we use to fit in with smaller groups of people who can easily relate to the colloquialism. Undoubtedly, aware of our socio-structions or not, we all mold ourselves into an acceptable façade for the approval of our society at large. While some consider this malleability as selling out or even as disingenuous on it’s face, it remains something we rely on for our survival in a world where adaptation ensures survivability. The other day, I told a friend, “I’m on a fast path of self-construction!” I’m not tearing down anything as with destruction, I’m working with. “Con” means “with” or “together” and our common use of construction conjures up images of building and civil engineering. Why not engineer a new life for yourself ? Work with the structure you already possess and build a new “you” that is positive and makes the best and most of your talents and abilities. When you engage in a process of “with” you cannot simultaneously be destructing anything. Take a look within yourself. In what ways do you put your finest qualities together to create something even greater of yourself ? In what ways do you make the most of your lesser characteristics and work with your strengths to present to the world a surprising, revitalized “you”? When we build ourselves and our lives using affirmative elements, we can bask in the shining accomplishment of a newly created self, standing tall in the world and strong in foundation. Move forward with only the best ingredients of thought and action you can gather and your prostructive efforts will reward you. Like it or not, we don’t go through life alone. We may think we do, but every day our interactions with others balance our sense of self with the rest of the world around us. Sometimes our partners help us to co-struct something far larger than the relationship at hand. Together, we can work toward common goals and build even greater contribution to the world. For example, the labors of Marie and Pierre Curie co-structing their efforts bore scientific breakthroughs which changed the world. The ebb and flow, the Yin and Yang of forward momentum and symmetry allow for a dynamic thread of energy which weaves the cloth of creation that cannot be sewn solitarily. Yes, “two heads are better than one,” but any size group, working in unison holding similar visions with focus and balance can produce exponential and extraordinary results. Consider the many ways — and every way — you’ve structured your life and even when you’re presented with circumstances that don’t fit into the blueprint of your imagination, you’ll never know how they’ll benefit you until you build your life around the impossible to manifest the reach-for-the-sky edifice of you!

Stress out

How stress can affect your body, mind and soul?

YOU can’t hold it and yet it manages to stifle you with its monstrous power. It is a catalyst that can induce a host of ailments in one’s body, mind and soul. We are talking about stress. Not just cardiac ailments and heart attacks, u n h e a l t hy stress, if unchecked, also gives rise to Generation Rx.

Many school children suffering from burnouts due to acute stress, thanks to the competitive academic atmosphere and the constant pressure to live up to their parents’ expectations. Consequently, they are more prone to mental ailments like depression and withdrawal symptoms. Given the intense pressure in one’s life due to blind ambition and reckless consumerism, today there are more Type A personalities in the world. These people are aggressive, irritable and frustrated, and are more susceptible to the pitfalls of stress.

Stress can cause very serious medical ailments too. “For the last five years, there has been a significant increase in the incidence of tuberculosis in the young adult population. And worrying is one of the main causes for it.”

It’s not only the indigent population, but even people working in places like IT, call centres and media, who often deprive themselves of proper food, sleep, exercise and sunlight, are falling prey to TB. “About 80 per cent of them are in their twenties. They mainly suffer from tuberculosis of the lymph node seen in the neck. Add to that the latest fads, specially among young women — to go on a diet, thanks to the proliferation of careers (modelling, anchoring, jockeying, acting) that, while giving an image boost, busts the immunity mechanism”

How most people think ailments like asthma and respiratory problems are primarily courtesy pollution, but in reality, stress is as much responsible. “Suppression of emotions and lack of love and protection, another evolving urban feature causing stress, also results in the incurable but treatable autoimmune disorder like systemic lupus erythematosus (where immunity turns against parts of the body it is designed to protect). A spurt in skin diseases like psoriasis and allergies like eczema even among kids and an increase in the gastrointestinal disorders like peptic ulcer and irritable bowel syndrome (constipation alternating with diarrhoea) are also fallouts of stress”. Today, even young women (18-25 years) are suffering from polycystic ovarian disease, a condition linked with stress. It makes them prone to infertility, mood swings, weight gain and irregular cycles. Then there is obesity, which can be stress-related and can lead to further stress. Stress also aggravates conditions and ailments like acne, alopecia areata (bald patches seen as young as eight-yearolds), hair-fall, breast cancer and muscular spasm.

So, don’t give in to stress, no matter what. There are ways galore to keep it at bay and deal with it on occasions it gets to you.

From dharma to karma

A clear conscience and being able to go to sleep peacefully at night is what matters most to this corporate honcho.

I believe that happiness and spiritualism cannot be a quest in itself. God expresses Himself in all his manifestations. I see God in the bartender who uses all his skills, diligence in serving his customers and making them feel happy and satisfied. In accomplishing his job sincerely, he has served God. Even a simple gesture of following the traffic rules, which prevents accident, or giving way to an ambulance carrying a critically-injured, is an act of God. The diversity of this world observed in all the flora and fauna is God's creation. Walk through a garden; observe carefully. What do you see? Simple acts of pollination, flowering of buds, metamorphosis of a larva to a splendid butterfly — a whole eco system in balance. No human mind could have conceived these millions of creations, with their endless possibilities. What do you call that? Call it what you may — God, supernatural power, but there is no denying the existence.

Our ancient scriptures say that there are four stages of life everyone has to go through —
b ra h m a ch a r y a , grihistha, sanyas, and vanaprastha. There can be no r e nu n c i at i o n (tyag) without i n d u l ge n c e (bhog). Only a person who has seen and indulged in all the pleasures of life can give it all up. We have to go through all stages and live to the fullest. And here I do not mean to sound like a hedonist. In Sarat Chandra's Last Question seeing young boys observing hard penance, the female protagonist questions why is it that these children of a very tender age have to undergo so much hardship in observing brahmacharya? Those who never had any happiness in life, can they ever give happiness to others? Instead of superimposing brahmacharya on them, why not leave them to live a normal childhood?

Trying to be rigid and drawing lines between materialism versus spirituality is an exercise in futility. I think I could be wearing designer clothes, watches, vacationing at exotic places and yet be spiritual. I believe that the more one runs after happiness, the more happiness will elude him. Happiness is an elixir that has to be sieved from our everyday existence. It cannot be a goal or an end in itself.

I personally would not put any representation of God or any religious symbol in my brief or toilet seat for the same reason as I would not do that with, say, my parents’ pictures. It is a question of respect and not any rigid dogma. Spirituality means following my dharma through my karma. Dharma is that essential quality without which an object or a being loses its existence or its characteristics. If I have a sweet, can I ever explain to anyone how sweet that is? Or if my hands were to get scalded, can I ever measure the intensity of pain? That is the
dharma of a sweet or the fire that hurts me. Similarly, my dharma or passion in life has been to nurture entrepreneurs through partnership. That is what I have strived to achieve all my life. My karma leads me to live a life where I am accountable to myself for all my deeds, being able to look myself in the eye straight up in the mirror without any guilt pangs, having a clear conscience and being able to go to sleep peacefully at night. Beyond that, I don't dwell on spirituality much.

Sense and Spirituality

The knowledge of your own spirituality can open doors to places you never thought were possible.

Being spiritual or not spiritual isn’t an option. You were born spiritual and everything you do is spiritual. So what is the deal with trying to be spiritual, trying to find your path of enlightenment? I believe we are programmed to believe we are not spiritual unless we have a religious belief. For centuries believers in organized religion have been trying to recruit non believers and convert them to their faith. The bottom line for them is it’s simply good business and nothing else. Long before there were institutions of worship, there were millions of people who were very aware of their own spirituality and they understood the connection between themselves, others and their environment.

Although many of us are not aware of our spirituality it doesn’t mean we are not spiritual. It is spirit which moves the body, that knows it’s alive and its connection to the environment. Awareness of this is what most people are lacking. The benefits of knowing ones true nature or spiritual connection are many.

If you lived in a dry land and everyday was a great effort to find and gather water, would it not benefit you to know that by digging below your feet you would find all the water you could use?
If you were homeless and you spent your days sitting on the same corner begging for food, would it not benefit you to know that there is a free soup kitchen only two blocks away? If you were in the market for a new car and your local dealer did not have what you were looking for, would it not benefit you to know that in the next town, they have the exact model you’re looking for?

Knowledge is power; the awareness of one’s own spiritual nature is power. The most amazing thing is we do not have to do anything or look anywhere to be spiritual. We simply have to know we are already there. The benefits of this knowledge are infinite opportunity to experience anything we desire. Would this knowledge serve you to know you can have abundance, good relationships, love, or anything you desire simply by knowing that you can?

The knowledge of your own spirituality can open doors to places you never thought were possible. The big difference between believing and knowing is in knowing you already have it, you are already experiencing it. In believing or having faith that you will have a thing, it is something that may occur in the future. In knowing you are the spiritual one who will create what you wish to experience, you have access to immediate delivery and it is not incumbent upon the whims of someone or something else.

The greatest secret to the benefits of spiritual awareness is the power that it holds. Thinking, believing, trusting or having faith that you are spiritual does not take you there-it is the awareness of being spiritual which makes it so. It’s within the acceptance of being this power that you are able to use it. Humanity knew this a very long time ago, but gave up the responsibility for it because it feared its own imagination and the awesome limitlessness of its capabilities.

Power is non-power unless it’s used. The responsibility for this power was too much for primitive man. Instinctively man still knows his connection to this power that never went away. He chose a life of limited power and a lifetime of trying to find it. Man generally fears to think too big. He is still very primitive in his thinking and his concerns are with himself and his little empire. There are other places, other realms yet to be discovered that will require him to be more powerful. Until he is ready to claim back his spirituality and power he will never leave this earth.

The good news is that you can have it all now through complete acceptance of what you truly are. Spirituality is worthless until you know its value and place in your own awareness. As you read this, you would have a greater understanding of why you do not have complete authority over your life or have limited power.

You would know why things do not always work out the way you want them to that you have accepted less because you are not ready to accept what is already yours.