My friend Thomass Jaymess is a famous artist, poet/writer, creative designer, and ideas guru who now lives in Canada, though he traces his roots from the earliest recorded history of Scotland and takes much of his inspiration from that heritage.
Nearly 400 Adland members have joined his forum
Observations for his wonderful prose. You must also experience his
Poetry/writing forum. Thomass is associated with Infinite Increase Institute and is Founder and Director of The Master's Pebble. Learn more through his Adland
profile and also through John Elliott's website http://www.oakwoodgrafix.co.uk.
I have invited Thomass to open a discussion about the spiritual aspects and implications of success. His essay follows. We invite your comments.
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Spirituality/Success
One may ask a question: what does spirituality, humanity, and success have to do with one another, or as a matter of fact, do they relate and if so how?
To answer this question is really very simple. It has to do with a type of science; the science of relativity or physics. In today's world we have discovered that this is a Universal Law of absolute. In other words it can not be altered in any way; it just is. Whether we want it to be or not.
We can work with this law or keep trying to go against it. Going against it is like paddling against the current; eventually you become exhausted and finally surrender to the natural flow.
But be of assurance here, the flow is what you create for your experience in this life; either knowing or not. You can react to life or you can be part of it and act. The universal law governs everything and it is ours to use, activate, to assist everyone of us to be able to have the greatest human experience we could imagine.
This law is the law of attraction. Like attracts to like and this, my dear friends, does not start on the human level. The human level is just a manifestation of the universal law.
It begins with thought; every thought that you have or think creates a ripple effect, big or small, but it still affects everything else. Its liken to, for example, when the monarch butterflies migrate and by the flutter of their wings actually affects the mountains on the other side of the world; believe it or not, it does.
Everything is energy and we have the ability to shape that energy into anything we desire. The more thought and emotion that you give to that energy the more it slows down. And the slower it becomes, it eventually manifests into our reality so that we can experience that. Now this sounds pretty logical, but what has that got to do with success and spirituality?
Everything. The word spirituality is the label that we have given to our essence; our higer knowing if you will, which is directly connected to All; to God, the Source or whatever you wish to label it. It is all the same. We will use the label God here, simply because everyone can relate to that and know what I am referring to.
Now God had an idea; a thought which created everything; even things beyond our human capacity to know in this human form; that's what makes it so wonderous and magical. Also, we are part of all that is; which is part of God. What we think (thought) manifests and how; because we are co-creating with God so that we can experience what we desire.
You can not have success because you will always be wanting it; always be chasing it. What you chase runs away and what you run from chases you; I say STOP and choose. Its that simple. You either already have success or you do not. And it all depends on how you think or what your thoughts on it are.
Everything only happens or changes in the present moment. There is no past nor future; they are an illusion. The only things that exist and have ever existed are right now; right here in the present. You can not wait to be successful or work your tail off to become successful; you are or you are not regardless of your outer appearances. Things do not change until you allow them to in the present moment, and it starts with thought.
Let's do a little experiment here: take a pen (or some kind of an object); place it down in front of you; now try and pick it up. No matter how hard you try you can not. Now you are probably looking at the object in your hand and thinking what am I talking about; I have the object in my hand. And that is my very point; you didn't
try to pick it up ; you just
picked it up and presto, it's in your hand. So it is either on the table in front of you or it is in your hand; it is or is not. All that grey area in between is all just made up to fill the gap.
You see, spirituality is just one aspect of who we are and that aspect is our connection to God; to the Source of everything. A lot of the time we just see things from another aspect of ourselves; our humanity. It is all good, but we must not neglect one to give more energy to the other for if that we do then we're not reaping the many benefits of our human experience; and we would never feel fulfilled; we would always be wanting.
You can not want what you already have by choice. It is like a balancing act, but when in harmony it plays the most wonderful song. As I like to say; we are spirit beings having a human experience so that we can know ourselves and grow to even greater things; to experience the ONE that we all are in the expression of that in the human form.
We are born into each lifetime successful but we seem to have forgotten our connection that allows us to be that. By choice and thought guided by spirit is the grand performance that we all have the power to show the world and by this the world and all of life benefits. As William Shakespeare said; "We are the players on the stage of life." and as well he says; "To thine self be true." Once practiced and mastered (as we all are Masters) then we do have the world in the palm of our hand.
There has only ever been one true power; the power of love. As my motto is: 'Power
with, not power
over.'
Thomass Jaymess