“Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.” Ludwig Borne
Over time we have been conditioned to what may be called the paper tigers of unsupported beliefs, baseless fears and unworthiness. There are those who have had reinforced conditioning in that they weren’t good enough, didn’t possess enough passion to fulfill their dreams, didn’t have the right connections, social standing, academic credentials or appropriate abilities. In the last analysis, those who tried to thwart your growth, crush your dreams or sabotage your efforts contracted in selling you a lie about yourself. In the Science of Mind this quote rings quite true . . . “Thoughts are more than things, they are the cause of things.”
While I was growing up, my parents would almost always repeat this phrase that from an early age I never quite understood . . . Change your thinking, and you will change your life. When it finally became part of my DNA, I was able to clarify my thinking, which gave me immense insight into problem solving at a new level. Once that is part of who you are, your experience becomes reality with limitless possibilities. Stepping out of a labyrinth of false perception and perspective cleanses the mind, body and spirit giving buoyancy to the birth of consciousness, perhaps for the first time. It doesn’t make any difference when it happens, just so it happens as Buddha suggests, “The Mind is everything. What we think we become.”
What appears completely disconnected today among a myriad of other things, is the idea that virtual reality substitutes for genuine experience. Absolutely nothing could be further from the truth, and is an illusion. Many of the EDI/Electronic Denial Insensitivity proponents live almost exclusively by their virtual experience. Unless and until you walk the walk of success, failure, joy, happiness, exhilaration, sadness, loss, achievement, honor, integrity, ethics, courage or love you are not conscious of your own being or existence. How could you be? Science of Mind spells it out another way . . . “I can tell you all about the wonders of chocolate but you will never really understand until you taste it.”
No one person can tell you how to live your life, however, there are individuals who become role models where we can watch and learn invaluable character traits, that give us a kind of road map of checkpoints that illuminate the journey. When consciousness is inherent in our existence the words of Seneca resonate another truth, “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” JLR