You can change a great many things. Or you can change. Same-same. – The Universe

shift

There’s a whole lot we’d like to see change. How will those very things and circumstances change if our perspective towards them changes? What’ll happen if our fundamental outlook towards life and happiness itself permanently shifts? How then will we view the world?

effecting change

It’s one thing to want to change it’s quite another to actually effect that change, especially in self! Many books and treatises have been written on this important topic, some essential learnings follow:

Our whole being must be involved if we mean to change. Mind, body and soul. I call it be~zen~do. We must actualize in mind and soul that which we want to be and only then will we ready to ‘do’ it lastingly. Applying Zen principles to the process, as in ‘Be Here Now’, makes a huge difference. ‘Be’ something first, be present, be mindful and then attempt to cement that idea in by doing it. It does take a habit about 28 days to form; so lets keep that in mind!

Daily Affirmation: Today I look at life differently.

Recommendation: Notes from the Universe by Mike Dooley

We know what we are, but not what we may be. – Shakespeare, Hamlet

self knowledge?

We don’t know what we are either. We live according to a certain concept of what we are and we apply a similar standard to others. We think we know what others are and then paint them with the brush of our expectations of them. That’s a recipe for major disaster because we start with a poor idea of self and match it to a poor idea of others. No wonder relationships are so hard!

what we may be…

Along with a poor knowledge of self we often can’t be sure of our pure potential! Being of divine heritage, the sky indeed is the limit to what we can achieve. This is especially true if we partner with the Universe to achieve divine goals that impact a larger group of people and not just us. That then is the way forward, combine efforts with God and proceed forward! Only true success can result.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM focused on my divine potential!

Recommendation: The Urantia Papers