“Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know, who you are and are willing to work with the power that is greater than ourselves to do it.” —- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When we look deeply into our personal upbringing regarding orientation and environment, it may be quite evident how the choices that were made and the various paths we traversed became part of a pattern. Whatever logic or reasoning was implemented, we are the products of those precipitating choices. Whether we were viably conscious of the how or why . . . we brought about immense change to our existence as we knew it. For some of us, we had a specific vision of who we were very early on, for others that veil was lifted later and then for those select few . . . they are still without that consciousness of being, which may continue for the rest of their natural lives. There is no right or wrong to this aspect of our life’s journey, just another perspective as these words of Joel S. Goldsmith suggest, “You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.”
We have all experienced a myriad of individuals who were resplendent with hopes, dreams, and the focus to climb the summit of those ambitions. They were willing to sacrifice, work and achieve with a determined conscious choice of will, whatever was necessary to reach those goals. We have all met individuals who matched these words of Henry David Thoreau . . . “Dreams are the touchstones of our character.” Sometimes we notice those qualities at a very young age. As an educator, I experienced fourth graders, sixth graders, freshmen in high school, and first year college students with those unique gifts. They exhibited a conscious intent of purpose, wholeness, vision, creativity, a world view of knowledge beyond their years, and a gratitude with humility, which always gave me pause.
Wherever you find yourself in this moment, may be a touchstone of revelation that will bring clarification to your present perception and perspective. Those in your life may be thought of as teachers, and in turn we may bring enlightenment to them as well. It is an exchange that British Theologian Charles Haddon Sprugeon put another way, “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” Whom in your life has made you happy, and in turn whom have you made happy with just your presence in their life?
As we experience the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades slowly slip through the prism of our conscious existence, the realization of life becomes at times, beyond our mortal comprehension. There are those who begin to experience another aspect of consciousness, that is incalculable. Whatever we have achieved, mastered, succeeded in doing or not Oscar Wilde presents another view . . . “The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?” JLR