Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.
Spend some time contemplating this great quote...
Hello,
A new, dear friend of mine shared this quote with me today, and I wanted to pass it on. I spent some time contemplating this today, and although there were many things I came away with, the most precious gift I received while reading these words was "hope". I would be interested in hearing what you felt after contemplating these words...
"Within you right now is the power to do the things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs."
By Maxwell Maltz
Much love,
Gary.
A new, dear friend of mine shared this quote with me today, and I wanted to pass it on. I spent some time contemplating this today, and although there were many things I came away with, the most precious gift I received while reading these words was "hope". I would be interested in hearing what you felt after contemplating these words...
"Within you right now is the power to do the things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as soon as you can change your beliefs."
By Maxwell Maltz
Much love,
Gary.
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Permalink Reply by Lolly Daskal on -
After contemplating your quote my answer:
....... change is instantaneous.
When a person is truly ready to make a change, when you are ready to change time is not involved. Ask people who have quit smoking or who have walked away from any addiction, and they will tell you. There was a moment where they were addicted, and another moment when they were free.
Time comes after the change occurs, and it is over a period of time that the effects and results of the change appears.
Change is instantaneous.
It takes preparations and work to make a change, large or small, but it does not take time.
Nonetheless, time is needed for us to observe and recognize that the change has occurred. Like magic, change makes what there was there “before” disappear, replacing it with what is there “ after”. A person starts the process as a man who smokes and completes the transformation by becoming a man who is a nonsmoker. The transformation happens in an instant- but of course, it takes us weeks and months to see him in his healthy new, smoke free lifestyle.
In our minds, change happens mysteriously.
However, the results of the change, the outcome you can actually see, unfold slowly. The evidence of breaking a bad habit, for example, shows up over time. As humans, we need proof. We all want to see the results. The important thing is to get into o the right emotional space, the right MINDSET that will allow you to heal and change.
The results, the physical manifestations of the spontaneous change, will become apparent as they unfold slowly through time.
The change itself is magical instantaneous.
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Permalink Reply by Gary on
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That was a beautiful reply Lolly. As usual, your insight is amazing.
Much love,
Gary.
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Permalink Reply by Hank Innerfeld on -
Hi Gary: Here's an interesting Sanskrit quote which can help facilitate change in one's beliefs/consciousness: "Ask not for all things that you may enjoy life... you were given life that you may enjoy all things". Namaste... Hank
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Permalink Reply by Susan Hosken on -
I think we are all born with the power to to do things we never dreamed, I think changing your beliefs helps you to enhance the power.
lots of love from susan in australia
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Permalink Reply by Lisa on -
This is so true Gary. I've come to realize in the past few months that I'd lost hope. Hope is really all any of us have. When it's gone there is nothing. I don't know how, but I plan to get that back. Maybe it's a certain time in my life, maybe it's something more... I have faith in God but I need to reconnect with myself, find my energy again...
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Permalink Reply by Susan Hosken on
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Lisa said:This is so true Gary. I've come to realize in the past few months that I'd lost hope. Hope is really all any of us have. When it's gone there is nothing. I don't know how, but I plan to get that back. Maybe it's a certain time in my life, maybe it's something more... I have faith in God but I need to reconnect with myself, find my energy again...
I hope you get your hope back. I lost mine and a friend kept hope for me. Her prayers were answered. i will keep hope for you.lots of love from susan in australia
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Permalink Reply by Sandra Lucas-Hyde on -
Gary, it is a beautiful quote. My first thought is that it is sad that most people do not realize this early in life. Or, if they do realize it early in life, some well-meaning person pounds them with "practical knowledge" that has nothing to do with beliefs. The practical knowledge has a tendency to stomp out the power of belief if that power is not protected and nourished.
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The 8 States of Consciousness
Waking, dreaming and sleeping. But only by spending time in silence, stillness, or meditation do we experience a fourth state of consciousness where we start to glimpse our soul. When we glimpse our soul, we become a little more intuitive. We start to feel that things are not just what they seem to be; there is something more behind the scenes.
The physical world we normally experience is a shadow of the real world. The real world, the world of spirit, exists behind a veil, and the veil is our own conditioning. In truth, we are not bound by the world of space, time, matter, and causation, but the veil prevents us from seeing this truth. It also prevents us from living in power, freedom, and grace.
In the fourth state of consciousness, we begin to sense the deeper reality that is orchestrating the physical world, and there is a tearing in the veil that separates the physical and spiritual realms. Just as we have to wake up from the dream state to experience waking consciousness, we have to wake up from what we call waking consciousness to glimpse our spirit, our inner self. This is called glimpsing the soul, and it’s the fourth state of consciousness. It’s simply to be in touch with our soul.
This leads to the fifth state of consciousness, or cosmic consciousness, when our soul fully wakes up in waking, dreaming, and sleeping. Our body can be fast asleep, but our soul, the silent witness, is watching the body in deep sleep. Our body can be walking, and the silent witness is watching the body walk. Our awareness is localized in space time, and it’s non-local, or transcendent, at the same time.
If we don’t interfere with nature’s intelligence, then we start to awaken into the sixth state of consciousness, divine consciousness. In divine consciousness, we see and feel the presence of spirit in everything. When we wake up in divine consciousness, we don’t just see a leaf, or a table, or a cloud, or a rainbow; we see the whole universe being all these things.
Next, we waken to the seventh state of consciousness, which is unity consciousness. This is when the spirit inside us, which is now fully awake, merges with the spirit inside objects, which are also now fully awake. The universe is conscious, and because it is conscious, it is conscious of itself. So the eighth state of consciousness, infinite consciousness, is its own observer. The observer is the discontinuity, the gap, the off.
Adapted from Power, Freedom, and Grace, by Deepak Chopra (Amber Allen, 2006).
WHAT IS CONSCIOUS LIVING?
The Art of Conscious Living is about taking the time for yourself to think about and choose the life you want. It is about understanding and changing any negative thoughts, patterns and behaviours we may have. It is about raising self awareness, becoming aware of our thoughts and words, choosing them consciously and carefully, taking back our power. By taking the time to examine our lives, our own needs, and our behaviours we are not only much more likely to achieve the things we seek but also really learn from our past successes and mistakes. In this way, we take back our power and our lives, you are in charge, not your subconscious. But even more importantly, as you live consciously, you are now learning, and can modify old beliefs with your new adult experiences. This means that your automatic responses, which you will always have to rely on for those sudden and immediate responses will now respond along the lines of the person you are today.
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