“If you fail to direct your subconscious mind, it produces under a law of averages, and you are a nice, ineffective, sweet person.” — Raymond Charles Barker
Is the above quote what you have become? Are you aware of what you have become? Do you care? Just floating through existence is a plan for some, for others it is their raison d’etre . . . and then you have those individuals who are so disconnected from who they are that this concept is completely off their radar. We have all met extremely nice, sweet people who are completely ineffective, and could care less about their personal consciousness. What profound difference does that make, you might ask. To those who are awakening through the consciousness of their existence, coupled with the reality of who and what they are in relation to a consistently changing set of circumstances in this journey we call life . . . emerges a window of conscious present awareness perhaps for the first time. This is no mistake as we remember . . . when the student is ready the teacher appears. As students in what may be conscious mediocrity, we become the transitional teachers of our conscious mastery. Emma Curtis Hopkins said it another way . . . “The world will persist in exhibiting before you, what you persist in affirming the world is.”
What impact have specific individuals made in your life? Those who were just sweet, ineffective and nice to you, or those who demanded, required and accepted nothing but the very best that you could do in any given moment with tolerance, compassion, understanding, respect and dignity? Growth usually requires discomfort on some level, which can be quite painful emotionally, physically, psychologically and spiritually. There is always choice, and in the last analysis we are are the sum total of our life long choices . . . like it or not . . . we are responsible and accountable. If conscious, we made those choices with the pure intent of good to the best of our ability, or we chose another way as stated by William Blake via ego . . . “Truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.”
Ask yourself if you have time to see, change, learn, focus, and begin the work towards enlightenment and release from your mediocrity. In the flicker of a moment, you can change the entire direction of your conscious life without regret, remorse, concern or fear. Yesterday is gone, tomorrow has not yet arrived but the present is now. How do you now see yourself? Time will eventually be gone . . . and so will you. The words of Stephen R. Covey from his book “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,” shares this idea . . . “We see the world, not as it is, but as we are — or, as we are conditioned to see it.” And now, what consciously do you see? JLR