Date: Oct 27 2006 4:11 PM
From: KnightsIntent
Date: Oct 27 2006 12:05 PM
*Karen~Karma*
**~Doing Your Own Will~**
Perhaps the highest expression of religious faith is to believe that you will find that which you seek. What greater religious experience is there then the awareness of an inner power that can change your future according to your inner Will. The second greatest experience is treading the path that leads to that goal.
Almost everyone believes that if one is dedicated and works hard for some goal that it can be attained. This is known because of personal experience as well as knowledge of others who have overcome impossible odds in reaching their goals in life. We are also familiar with the average type person that faces some emergency and does super heroic feats manifesting supernormal strength, stamina, or mental acuity. It is a very common experience of seeing individuals with mediocre capabilities who, when promoted to some higher job, blossom into very capable people. Literature is filled with people with poor health or strength who with their strong dedication and effort are able to transform their bodies into models of perfection for others.
Successful people generally summarize their secret of success as finding a goal in life and then working hard for it. This message is so common, however, that the import of its content is lost. It is stating in no uncertain terms that you control your own future and that you have the power to overcome any opposing forces. If you step back and look objectively at the statement, it is pure magic. You are able to transform yourself and your world through the power of your mind. You do not need outside forces; you have it all within yourself!
The irony of the manifesting of a power that can only be considered as divine is that most religions teach against it. The reason for this is simple in that the churches must place themselves in between such magic or divine forces and you. God, or some exterior force that the churches have special access to, must not be available to the layman. The larger society also joins in diminishing the concept of an inner power of change. Society wants you to find a proper place that fits within the framework of a neighborhood, institution, or religion. Society wants you to be satisfied and secure and to do your assigned duty. Religion wants you to feel dependent upon their priesthood and rites. Both want you to follow the law.
The majority of people fall prey to the opposition of society and religion, and you can find several examples within your own experiences. You have given up some of your goals because they looked impossible from your socially trained position. In general, goals are given up because they seem to require more effort than what you could possibly deliver. One old proverb is, “Many pass up opportunity because it looks like hard work”. The other excuse that is given is that it would require some miracle to find that goal. (This despite the statements of successful people of how miracles happen when needed.)
Our culture has such statements as, “Rome was not built in a day” that are used by the successful people to encourage those who are starting their journey toward some goal. Proverbs (16:9) has another very important teaching, “A man’s heart deviseth his way; but the Lord directeth his steps”. It is in each step toward the goal that miracles happen.
One of the important lessons that is generally learned by most people is that it is very foolish to attempt to control the steps by yourself. One general conclusion is that the harder you try, the deeper you sink into your trouble. In attempting to direct and control your own steps, you substitute your own conditioned mental limited wisdom from the miracle of that which miraculously happens that your brain could have never foreseen.
The journey toward a goal consists of steps. Each step becomes another short range goal which requires the faith that something will happen to give you the proper insights, strengths, talents or stamina to carry you through. This wisdom is likewise well known by you from experience.
When your brain becomes fully aware of the power within yourself to reach a goal, the next concern is your ability to seek the proper goal. It is at this point that finding this proper goal becomes of paramount importance and not the faith that you can reach a goal, especially since you probably already have that faith even though it is not generally acknowledged.
There are two general methods of selecting your goals in life. One is to accept some given goal as your own and the other is to find or create your own. Societal pressure generates a given goal for most people that starts with parental pressures followed by institutional demands and then the duties to maintain your social position. In this case the Will becomes subordinate to society.
Finding or creating your own goal in life is firstly dependent upon looking beyond any socially induced goals. This means that the brain, which has been socially conditioned, is not of much help and an inner search of the mind must be undertaken.
In most seekers it is this search or creation of the inner goal in life that becomes the starting goal in life resulting in steps that may lead you into some very unexpected experiences. This goal is generally manifested initially only as a sense of unrest or some yearning for something more that cannot be defined. It is then faith in the finding of this goal and a great deal of effort that carries you to the next step.
Love KAREN~KARMA
