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Leap in the Dark to Your Success

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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.   Henry David Thoreau

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.   Eleanor Roosevelt

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.  Marcel Proust

The universe has infinite organizing power and, as conscious beings, we have ready access to this realm simply by spending time in stillness and silence.  The same consciousness that orchestrates the myriad rhythms of the whole world dwells within each of us.  As we cultivate present moment awareness and remain open to the many opportunities life offers, we open to the power within us to realize all our dreams with effortless ease.   Oprah Winfry, Deepak Chopra

The two most important days of your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.   Mark Twain

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.  Albert Einstein

The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.  Albert Einstein

When you look in the mirror, what do you see?  Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?  The two are so, so different.  One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses.  The other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.  David Icke

Plural Realities

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Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn’t we really be talking about plural realities?  And if there are plural realities, are some more true (more real) than others?  What about the world of a schizophrenic?  Maybe it’s as real as our world.  Maybe we cannot say that we are in touch with reality and he is not, but should instead say, His reality is so different from ours that he can’t explain his to us, and we can’t explain ours to him.  The problem, then, is that if subjective worlds are experienced too differently, there occurs a breakdown in communication . . . and there is the real illness.   Philip K. Dick

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion.  Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

All problems are illusions of the mind.   Eckhart Tolle

You’re a dream.  Like everything else.  Kelly Creagh

How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by misunderstandings?  How many opportunities have you been denied – or, for that matter, awarded – because someone failed to see you properly?  How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce?  An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.   Kevin Brockmeier

There is an old illusion.  It is called good and evil.  Friedrich Nietzsche

Experiencing Illusion

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My meditation this morning focused on seeing light everywhere.  I was trying to reconcile this statement with my not wanting to be around negative people.  Why do I not see their light?  Why can I not disregard what I see and hear?  Why is my light not bright enough to dispel darkness?  I decided that I’m just not “there” yet.

Towards the end of my meditation, I perceived that negativity is an illusion.  It seems real.  However, as I grow and begin to reflect upon my inner self that is externally expressing, the illusions begin to disappear.  My ego mind may decide not to be around someone or to eat harmful substances.  It may want to be around light or peace or joy or to be more happy and less angry.

In reality, I am coming into awareness of and in accordance with my True Self.  All else – judgment, categorizing perception – is fading away.  I exist.  I observe.  I am beginning to realize that I am not hurting anyone, nor are they hurting me.  Whatever is going on is a perception formulated through the prism of my mind and that of another.  Each and every one of us exists within our own personal reality, which is within a larger Reality.  We are seeing and experiencing what we are ready and able to see and experience.

My feeling that I am around negativity is actually an attachment to what is not real at this point.  It is me not yet being able to express my truest Self, my authentic Self and, therefore, remaining in darkness because my material mind says that I must be attached to my loved ones, my job, my house, my whatever, instead of simply existing in the Essence that expresses itself as form and substance, but is itself not.

All that I hold dear – abundance, health, security, love – is already me, is already available at all times to me.  It does not come and go or diminish or increase.  Therefore, I don’t need to hold onto what or who I think will give these to me.  I don’t need to believe that I am the provider of these to others.  They have already what they hold dear.  If others express anger towards me because of what they perceive that I am not giving to them, I don’t need to feel guilty or match their emotion. I need simply to become aware that they are experiencing an illusion.  They are not aware of the infinity that is instantly and constantly available to them and so they must project that feeling of lack outward.

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Reality and Illusion

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Spiritual and personal growth practitioners often speak of Reality and Illusion.  These can be challenging concepts.  Reality with a big “R” is indescribable, but called by many names.  It is like a fluid, all-encompassing, and malleable energy.  We get a glimpse of this Presence during meditation, in the overwhelming love that we feel for our child, and in the unspeakable and exuberant joy that we sometimes experience.

Reality with a big “R” is Creation.  It is Creative.  It spontaneously creates and actively gives form to thoughts.  Reality is Infinite Possibility.  What we are right now is an Illusion because it does not accurately reflect what we will be and what we can be.

Think of what you currently see, feel, hear, and experience as reality with a little “r.” Little “r” realities can be deemed illusory because they are transient and susceptible to a myriad of perceptions.  For example, in the wonderful book Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a little boy thought something was wrong with an orange that had seeds.  He had never seen or eaten oranges with seeds.  Seedless oranges were part of his reality.

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