Recent Reflections ~ On Being & Becoming

ON BEING - HERE & NOW

I See ~ I Feel ~ I Do -- Fill in the blanks with your ideas, without letting the thinking itself take command and create more mischief and deception. Conscious thought is the servant, not master, of these three most primal functions. What I think depends upon what I see, feel and do and must guide by remaining humble simply performing functions of reality navigation and interpretation or intuition...

In conjunction with "I Do" comes "I Will" (present to future), with "I See" comes "I Know" and with "I Feel" comes "I Believe"... Thought is simply an activity of Spirit (Seeing) of Psyche (Feeling) and of the Body (Doing), which by its very creatively material nature becomes the manifest outer conditions/formations and experiences of my here/now existence.

Having brought the brain-mind into subservience and cooperation, I am most grateful to have this most efficient and creative (intuitive in conj with seeing and feeling) and devoted servant as a guide through the the inner and outer realms of this psychic-physical existence.

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ON BECOMING - DOING & HAVING

Questions to ask myself today - How much do you really want it? How *truly serious* are you about getting down and doing the job till it is done?? What kinds of people and experiences will work well in association with immediate and longer term goals?? Finally, how much are you willing to *allow* a new joyful vision of positive creation into your life, by trusting and aligning with the very Source from which all (good) things come???

Also remembering now and again to simply be and breathe, exhaling feeling gratitude for what already is, inhaling new life and creative potential...
Three things I am most grateful for today... Personal freedom, excellent physical health and much potential/opportunity to create/expand my world intuitively and imaginatively. "Happiness is not in having what you want but in wanting what you have"...

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ON SELF CONFIDENCE

A simple yet profound description of true confidence (below)... I would add courage and a willingness to take bold action, without hesitation....

"With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by ...increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities."
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama

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ON EGO versus HIGHER SELF - CONSCIOUSNESS

JDZ ~ In this life I am born alone, as time progresses playmates and peers become part of my world, but still it is self centered throughout early adulthood. The more selfish I can be in the accomplishing and fulfilling of personal ambition/desire, the closer I become to others, having less left to do, more to give.

Dr Wayne Dyer ~ "In the ego state you generally experience yourself as a separate entity. To move past this conditioning you want to begin to see yourself as humanity itself rather than as a separate form in a body. Very simply put, if you feel disconnected from the rest of humanity, and truly a separate entity needing to prove yourself and compete with others, you will be unable to manifest your heart's desire."

** We can be positively self-centered without having to be separate from humanity, the earth and the vast universe all around us...

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ON POSITIVE ASSERTION & AFFIRMATIVE ACTION

"Some people think, great God will come from the sky, take away everything and make everybody feel high, but if you know what life is worth you will look for yours on Earth, so now you see the light stand up for your rights!" Bob Marley & the Wailers

The more you advocate for yourself, the more you potentially have to give others and humanity at large. So while (obviously) it doesn't serve to be a greedy prick neither does it serve anyone or anything to deny oneself the abundance and the freedom to do as one pleases (within ethical bounds).

Reading Wayne Dyer's "Manifest Your Destiny" is most inspiring to me right now, affirmative yet spiritually aware, taking the whole picture into account yet the primary focus is on positive creation, taking affirmative action aligned with my true nature and heart's desire.

Demand is a strong word... yet for those (not unlike myself) who have difficulty with self assertion it can be an empowering idea... Like Abraham Hicks speaking of anger or desire for revenge as the next step beyond powerlessness, which will then lead to the what you refer to above as calm assertiveness, and of course living within ethical bounds respectful of the rights and feelings of others.

Meaning, sometimes the contrast of going from non-assertive to demanding, or from powerlessness to a feeling of rage, is just the next step which in turn will die out and be replaced by a generosity of spirit that is in no way self-denying or joyless nor is it withholding from others.
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ON EMPTINESS INNOCENCE & ENERGY:

And walking on that road, there was complete emptiness of the brain, and the mind was free of all experience, the knowing of yesterday, though a thousand yesterdays have been. Time, the thing of thought, had stopped; literally there was no movement before and after; there was no going or arriving or standing still. Space as distance was not; there were the hills and bushes but not as high and low. There was no relationship with anything but there was an awareness of the bridge and the passer-by. The totality of the mind, in which is the brain with its thoughts and feelings, was empty; and because it was empty, there was energy, a deepening and widening energy without measure. All comparison, measurement belong to thought and so to time. The otherness was the mind without time; it was the breath of innocence and immensity. Words are not reality; they are only means of communication but they are not the innocence and the immeasurable. The emptiness was alone. - Krishnamurti Notebook 20th October to 20th November 1961

JDZ