Let Each Shine By Their Own Light

We can tell ourselves some pretty outlandish and destructive things sometimes. But what happens when those passing pessimistic thoughts of ours become the ideas we decide to give real credence to? Thoughts like I’m such an idiot. Life is unfair. I just don’t have what it takes. Nothing is ever going to change…What we think and believe about ourselves and about the world around us affects our personal life experience. Our thoughts coupled with our beliefs determine what we attract to our life’s situation. Destructive thoughts give birth to unsatisfying life experiences. Therefore, in order to know satisfaction in our lives, we have to be increasingly accepting of constructive life outlooks. We have to take those destructive thoughts we’ve been nurturing and steadily turn them until we are able to see them in a new, more positive, light. Many of the discouraging things we repeat to ourselves, and eventually grow to actually believe in, are pretty common. Let’s explore one.

A common destructive personal thought: Any thought in the nature of, “I lack… (Fill in the blank).” It can be whatever. It’s the false belief that you are deficient in something such as money.

The erroneous world perception which fosters this destructive thought: That there is a limited amount of resources available in the world. Some have more, some have less. And your lot in this is determined by the chaotic law of universal luck or Godly favor. It’s a separatist viewpoint (as in you see yourself as existing separate from the world around you).

What’s more to the Truth on this: That there actually is no limitation of the resources available to us. The only resource of true substance is energy; and this is a supply God is constantly pouring out and showering All of us with. God’s love is the energy that sustains All things and God doesn’t play favorites with this gift. We all have equal access to the abundant love (the limitless energy) of God, it’s what we do with this resource (how we spend this energy) which determines our manifest “lot” in life.

There is no such thing as randomness or luck either. Such would imply that chaos exists in the universe and even a cursory examination of the universe’s design or the consistency of nature should reveal to us how absurd the postulation of a random universe is.

When you grow more cognizant of the holistic nature of the Universe, you gain an increasing appreciation for just how connected you are to everything around you. So the question then becomes how could you lack for anything when you are literally connected to All things (through God)? And from this connection, from this unlimited resource, you create the reality you personally experience in life even while Life Itself is One. Everything outside of you is merely a reflection of something believed to be inside of you. Therefore, any “lack” you perceive in life merely mirrors an area within yourself you believe to be deficient. And this is evidence that this is an area in your way of thinking which needs to be worked on; it’s not evidence that proves that reality is one particular way or another.

Your thoughts on this?