Are you living as if life is a burden? Are you so jaded with the repetitiveness of uneventful days following long nights that you are to the point of wondering if death could carry you to an imagined heaven or someplace where better circumstances might exist? Ye Scribe realizes this is a sweeping statement, a generalization perhaps too broad. Its intent is to stir the conscience of persons mired in a doldrums lifestyle who should, but are not preparing for the future by living responsibly in the here and now. Living responsibly is taking advantage of available opportunities to become useful to self, family and community. Otherwise advantages to learn and grow spiritually rush right on by.
Persons of this nature do not or just barely cope in today’s society as they continually rely on ready-made excuses, a list probably longer than the community hoodlum’s rap-sheet. Making excuses or blaming circumstances generally are bad habits of insignificant meaning to avoid confronting life and coming to terms with the truth to one’s existence: I was not taught any better so I don’t know any better. I am the product of my experiences. I did not have good role models. I got me some bad karma. This is a rotten, redneck society. If I only had the money; etc. These defenses can be helpful only if used to identify one’s problem thus becoming a spring-board for improving conditions. For certain, mental and physical obstacles are problematic, demanding greater effort to overcome challenges; but they can become learned experiences never to be difficult again. Compare one’s self to a quiet stream, a creek. It builds up a force stronger than its normal flow, determined by the restriction, and then moves through, around or over the blockage. If the blockage is formidable, like a huge log jam, the creek builds until it hurdles over the top. Obstacles are lessons in disguise. Nobody, not anything can stop the flow of energized intelligence from universal consciousness when it is sincerely desired.
Never falter in striving for genuine personal success. Prosperity is less of having an abundance of possessions than it is of developing a prosperity consciousness, being open to the universe—an energy system which includes everything necessary for its expression. Force is not necessary in this prosperity process. One needs honest motivation, faith in the process, development of creative talents, and belief in the law of causation (cause and effect relationship) to increase his/her dimension of understanding. Ye scribe believes we are not our bodies or minds; we are consciousness expressing through bodies and minds, and imagination is the innovative ability of the soul. Use creative imagination to expand one’s consciousness to appropriate levels to see all possibilities of self. If a change in lifestyle is necessary adjust one’s state of consciousness to correspond with the needed change. This does requires practice and belief in one’s self to accomplish.
Every desire or intention has within it the seed of its own potential fulfillment. Whatever one desires to experience if one can imagine it within the parameters of one’s understanding and earnestly expect it to manifest, it can unless the desire is suppressed or neutralized. The law of correspondence states—as within so without. Consciousness and mental states (within) are causes; physical states (outside) are effects. If stress management, peace, compassionate relationships, successful ventures, spiritual growth, the cultivation of optimism, and a balanced lifestyle are desired without mental restrictions or resistance to obvious change they will flow into expression.