HOMEGROWN

Awareness We may feel as though we don’t have a great amount of potential that’s because we are thinking singularly, only in a physical sense not as a complete spiritual human being, we as humans tend to only think in terms of our human frailties. We need to challenge ourselves more fully to find out what kind of potential we do have. We are unlimited when it comes to developing our potential, we just have to keep going and going and going, there’s no end to our potential. As we search we become expanded, then all these new and endearing qualities arise. But there is a warning that comes from spirit, John my spiritual teacher made this point, “There is a danger in becoming committed to developing your potential that you can become so enamored of what you will be, that you forget to enjoy what you already are. And much of true progress happens without and kind of conscious attention on our part doesn’t it. You just respond to whatever life presents to you this day and in the response you make a discovery about yourself that you are no longer afraid or no longer unsure or no longer angry or no longer this or that or whatever. And that becomes very liberating, but freedom demands quite a high price doesn’t it? Because you can’t go back once you’ve had a taste of freedom to bondage, to slavery, to living in the old, mindless, thoughtless, feeling less way. And it seems to you sometimes that the world around you is determined to make life difficult and in many ways it is. Because the very existence of the world depends upon things being a particular way, the economy depends on a certain mentality, politics depends on a certain mentality, religion depends on a certain mentality, medicine depends on a certain mentality, and it can be very difficult to march to the beat of your own drum, when it seems everyone around you is marching to a much different tune. But that is no reason to surrender.” Think of life as Jesus said, “I am the way the truth and the life.” John14:6 Think of everyday as being an opportunity to be aware, to be free to discover and to seek adventure. If we don’t include the soul, in the discovery process, we aren’t including the whole team so to speak. If you don’t play the game with all of its team members how can you expect to be successful? Consider the wholeness of your spiritual essence. We evolve as we grow, we elevate ourselves in consciousness as we learn and understand, and when we include our whole being, all the realms of our existence we delight in this journey of never ending enlightenment now that’s true success. So much relies on you embracing the spiritual life. If you don’t know who you are, what you have deep inside of you then you do what you have to do to become aware. Here’s one of John’s examples, “A thing is because you are conscious of it. Without your knowledge I establish a trust fund for you. I put a million dollars into it. But as a condition of the trust, I say you must never be informed of it. Now what possible good would that trust be if you’re not aware of it, if you do not know about it. But if you’re told you were left a trust, then you can begin to use the trust. I may put restrictions on it I might say you can only use the interest generated by that trust, you can’t touch the principle for ten years. Then in ten years you many withdraw ten percent of the principle. The soul that you are is a trust account isn’t it. If you’re not aware of what it is and what it’s producing and so forth, you’re no better off than someone that doesn’t have it.”