"Where there is no vision, the people perish."
-- Proverbs 29:18
Within you, there is a destiny waiting to be born -- a life of such purpose, creativity and contribution that its light would blind you if apprehended it in its fullness. But to actualize it, you must dive beneath the surface tension of the mind's need to control the present. You must project into the future, tap into a vision for your life bigger than your TV screen (or at least your computer screen) and bring your thoughts, feelings, words, and actions into integrity with it.
It sounds difficult to do. But we're all doing it on some level -- although often with less-than-inspired visions. For example, people who walk around fearing economic collapse, nuclear fallout, or any number of impending disasters, are regularly running worst-case scenarios in their mind and commiserating with others about how bad things are. In other words, they're in integrity with a vision of lack and limitation.
And what we're in integrity with becomes our experience.
If this describes you, the good news is it's not even your vision, it's the collective consciousness -- or collective nightmare. It's a thought virus you caught. And there's a vaccination against it, or antidote to it: cultivating a vision rooted in your core values that makes you come alive -- then committing to it as if your life depends on it.
It's not for the faint of heart. As Emerson said, "God will not have His work made manifest by cowards." But the alternative is a life of quiet desperation. Your destiny won't let you rest until you let it express. The pain pushes until the vision pulls. Until you answer the calling of your soul with a resounding "Yes," you'll feel like a puppet in this divine production.
But what does it mean to have a vision? We often think of a vision as something that foretells the future. But that's prediction, based on the cause-and-effect of your dominant thought trend, and can always be changed. In some self-help teachings, a vision is something we create based on what we believe will fulfill us. But that's imagination and is limited, since imagination, at best, is just a rearrangement of what's already known -- or worse, a reaction to a limited self-image.
True vision can't be created or changed; it's part of the changeless fabric of "Ultimate Reality," the realm of perfect prototypes or "ideal forms" as Plato put it. True vision can never be imagined; it comes from a place beyond the mind, revealing something unprecedented. And true vision is never in the future; it's a realization of what is in the timeless dimension of our being.
It may be temporarily obscured like the sun on a cloudy day. But like the sun, our vision is always shining, waiting for us to pierce the weather of our mind and let its warmth and vitalizing power into our life.
Finally, a life of true vision isn't about adding anything to us, but about seeing our "Real Self," releasing everything it isn't, and allowing our life to unfold according to Its perfect pattern. Michelangelo knew this when he created the David. He saw the completed masterpiece in the block of marble then chipped away everything that wasn't it.
That is what we are called to do as artists of our life -- discover the masterpiece hiding in this block of mortal stone and set it free.
Tapping Into Your Vision
Give thanks for this moment of receptivity, regardless of what answers you received. The intention of awakening is enough to start the emergence process.
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How wonderful is God's love that all things work for our good when we surrender to Him only Unlearn to be selfish.
Great work done by you to bring a total transformation in the way we should live
and have a vision in life.Always inspiring.
Peace, Derek
Thanks for sharing -- keep it up.
Peace, Derek
Thanks for your thoughts. It's true that we tend to attract what we deeply believe about life and ourselves. I would just add to that, that what's really happening is that as we create the inner conditions that are congruent with who we REALLY are, what's ALREADY inside us, then that potential begins to 'emerge.' It looks like we're attracting things, but what's actually happening is that our Larger Self is emerging in 'the field' (we're not in our body, our body is in our field of consciousness). So the idea of 'attracting' is a linguistic convenience, much the way that saying the sun rises and sets is. We know now that this isn't what's happening at all. The sun isn't moving, we're just revolving.
Peace -- Derek
Peace, Derek
i am in a ball of light with other souls and i am told it's time to go and i don't want to because i see grey misery ahead.
then a voice tells me that i have a duty to life and off i trudge.
i have had and still have a fairly miserable life and i do wonder if it would have coped beter if i had come here with more enthusiasm. as it is i have had a hard time coping with the abuse and neglect i experienced as a child which i suppose led to a less successful life than it might have been.
then again ; i did not die of an overdose in an alley or something like that.
i struggle on with lots of problems , physical and psychological , mainly because i have children.
that's it in a nutshell.
Beyond that, you're never asked to do more than what you're vibrationally aligned with. The key is to tap into the highest vision that feels authentic to you, that is your sincere desire, then align with that vibrationally...then ask what you are called to do from that place. that's where right-action comes into play.
You're doing great work -- just keep believing in yourself and your vision and saying 'yes' to God's highest Idea of your life.
To Your Emergence!
Derek
Whether any of that means I'll do something different from what I do now, on this plane, I don't know. There is something in the works; maybe it'll happen, maybe not. But ... this is only one short phase of life; proportionally much shorter than the time in utero in a centenarian's life. Spirit doesn't end and that's where we go Home. One might say, it isn't the end of the world if we don't fulfill everything we think we could/should do here. :)
One thing threw me: "And what we're in integrity with becomes our experience. ". The grammar of that sentence was curdled, I couldn't make out what it meant at all. Clarification, please?
In terms of that line, ""And what we're in integrity with becomes our experience." What it means is that what we are in alignment with, in agreement with -- even if it's not supportive or constructive -- ultimately becomes our experience. So when we're walking around 'agreeing' -- and therefore becoming alignment with -- lack and limitation, we are creating that in our life.
Thank you for sharing.
Stay Inspired!
Derek
Some people work well with a vision and a need to be recognized as leaders. Some others have found a different way of sharing leadership.
But if you are a stone, don't look down on bricks. If you're paint, don't look down on nails.
We are all useful, and all spendable!!!
Indeed we are all useful!
Have an inspired day,
Derek