For What It's Worth

Have you given any thought to my last question, "If you could create anything you wanted, what would you create?" There are so many choices. It's enough to drive a person crazy!

Yesterday we talked about the process of experiencing life. Today we'll talk about learning to create.

You've read elsewhere on these pages that all it takes is seeing, believing, and creating. And in the highest sense, that's correct. But maybe there's a little more going on than meets the eye.

Let's look at this thing called life. It's why we're here, yet we get so caught up in what it brings that we rarely get to look at what's going on beneath the surface. Maybe it's time we do.

The object of all of this is for you to access your own mastery. That's why the emphasis on the inner voice. It will lead you to what is needed next on your journey through this school of life.

With the start of baseball season already here, let's look at our spiritual journey in similar terms. After all, most people consider it their solemn duty to finish first, if not in speed, at least by creating everything in life they want.

Life has often presented me with challenges that I've used to test myself. In fact, sometimes I've accepted challenges I didn't have to meet, like taking the hard way rather than an easy one that was equally accessible.

So much of our lives is spent dealing with others. But the one constant in all of those relationships is us. Or more particularly, our relationship with ourselves.

Most of the time we ignore it, and think little of how we treat ourselves, much less the processes that are going on inside us. Yet, don't they shape our attitudes and beliefs with which we greet everyone else?

Can you break free of the drama of your life to consider something more? Many people can't. The problem doesn't seem to be one of willingness, because in conversation I hear the urgency in your voices for our world -- and your lives -- to change. Instead, it's one of necessity. You're so caught up in what's been created you don't have much time or energy to think about creating anything new.

To borrow a phrase from Yogananda, life is a battlefield. And on it we're fightig the war of our lives. But for those on the path, the question is how? How are we to fight this war? And for that matter, who is the enemy?

There are many who would keep us locked in darkness through fear and self-interest. If we are to build a better future, they must be engaged at every turn. We can no longer abdicate our world to those who would keep us enslaved.