INSPIRATIONAL NUGGETS

“The mastermind represents a preemptive strike on the human spirit.” The mastermind represents the prevailing body of cultural, religious and political beliefs and values that we are all inducted into from birth. They are designed to overtake our consciousness and define us as humans. However, the secrets of our potential, who we really are, and of our life’s purpose, are all ensconced in our human spirits. The parents’ purpose is to guide us to tap into our spirits to find ourselves. As most have no idea what parenting is all about, we are simply raised to follow cultural norms and expectations. We are high jacked by society to become and perform to sustain their cultural traditions and ideals. We chose to become pawns of society. We are made to live by comparison to gain the acceptance of others, while we deny our true selves. Imagine if Einstein, Beethoven, Michael Angelo and others only tried to live according to the dictates of society. The fact is that those that honestly find all or a part of themselves always move society forward. Those of us who only conform to what is given to us only serve to sustain what is. Such individuals do not typically advance society. We each came here to add some measure of uniqueness to the common human experience that would advance the cause of the planet. However, our purposes are too often high-jacked before they are discovered. The proof that we veered from our path, is that we still yearn for validation from others despite the physical achievement outside us. If we were true to our spirits, all the validation we would crave would be found within us. Life would therefore be a journey of inner peace and happiness despite our external circumstances. This can be better understood by observing the lesson from fish that live in and are surrounded by salt water with no salt within them. “When you avoid responsibility, you void your check.” We are faced with responsibilities every day. They come to help us grow mentally, emotionally and above all spiritually or consciously. When we successfully work through these responsibilities we gain consciousness. We learn more about who we are at the deepest levels, and about others and our world. This is the benefit to us, much like a check represents monetary benefit for work that we have successfully completed. That benefit of conscious growth simplifies our lives as we become more capable of deriving more benefit from our circumstances. In this way, life is designed to benefit us for successfully working through our responsibilities. However, many of us try to push away, suppress or avoid some of our internal issues due to the pain that we feel, the fears that we uphold, or the conclusions that we have made about ourselves about our deservedness of the best. In this way we avoid our responsibilities. This avoidance is registered in us as a lack that grows in amplitude. The feelings of lack and discomfort represent a voiding of the benefits of peace and enlightenment that would come from successfully addressing our responsibilities. In this way we void our check of internal peace that comes to us from the universe, in making it a better place. Procrastinators are skilled in avoiding responsibility and therefore void many of the benefits that were assigned to their lives. They do so as they feel that they are underserving of better in the moment. The universe honors their request as is evidenced by the lack that they experience in their lives. Taking responsibility for all our challenges and successfully working through them benefits us, our families, our societies, nations and the greater universe.