DESTINY
Eevery person is born with a destiny of potential. You notice I said destiny of potential instead of potential destiny. I believe we have a amount of choice which has an influence on the life's path that we will find ourselves experiencing. As an example, a lot of people are born to be architects. Some will eventually build Empire State buildings. Some will design doorways. Whether a person can design skyscrapers or doorways will be determined by what he or she can handle in consciousness.
The great thing about being a human is that we can start out able to design doorways, and after years of study, practice, patience and the desire that is great enough to sustain the years of study, practice, making mistakes and correcting them, we can eventually hope to someday design a skyscraper that won't come tumbling down on our heads.
Same with arranging music. A person's ability to arrange can evolve from very simple, unpolished arrangements to the more detailed, masterful arrangements that a full symphony would use in their playing.
What is your inner desire? Recognition? Fame? Money to do and go where you want? What if you don't get any of these things? Would you still appreciate the miracle that you had a chance to see and smell the flowers along the way? Would you like to know the best way to accomplish all this and still enjoy the process? Then pay heed to the following words and deny their righteousness if you can.
People do one of two things while living. They either serve or they perform a service. The difference is this: Some people work at a job for security, for an apartment, for the weekend, for the status, for the prestige, for the titles, for a car or any other possession imaginable. These people are performing a service to the universe for what they can get out of it. Their happiness is dependent on getting what they are working for. What about people that work, or serve, for the pleasure of doing? They do not consider their work a burden because they are doing what fulfills their inner prompter.
I used to hear a saying, "Seek ye first theh Kingdom of God and all things shall be added unto you". I have now come to understand this in the following way. Our dreams and desires give us an idea of what we are in potential. Dreams and desires are God's directional signals showing us, each in our own way, what we potentially can express as a contribution to this process that we call life. Seek your inner dream, learn all that you can possibly can about it. Don't worry about the roof over your head of the food for your stomach. You will sleep and you will eat. The important thing is not to compromise learning all you can that will enable you to materialize your dream. Keep sincerely dedicated and sooner or later one thing is certain. You will know more about your chosen desire, vocation, job or whatever you want to call it than 90% of the rest of the people. This is certain because only about 10% of humanity are doing what they love. The rest are doing what they are doing for something other than the pleasure of doing what they are doing. When you have more knowlege that the 90% of the people, guess what happens? The 90% will come knocking at your door. The 90% in your field that are there trying to get something out of the field other than the pleasure of serving in that particular field will beg you to tell them what you know. They will lay gold bricks at your door for you to grace them with your knowledge. They won't want to learn what you know the way you learned it because they are not doing what they are doing for love of serving the universe in that particulat field.
Show me a person in the world that knows more than 90% of the people in his or her chosen profession that can't get money. Of course they can. But what about the people who are working for money? Do they ever have enough? Of course not. You want respect? You want recognition? You want fame? You want fortune? Then do not turn your back on the world you have been in for all these yeats. Use your mind to plan your journey but do not insist to God that your road has to go the was that your ego insists it should.
Don't limit your future by insisting on it being a certain way. Times change, situations change. As your vision of the future will change over the years, sometimes drastically, the same your present vision of the future must be flexible. Just keep your mind's eye focused on the light you have seen for these many years. The beacon far in front of you that has kept you going all these years. You may feel you have been on the road of your life's dream for many years. Have patience, if you are really on the right path, sooner or later, you will see the fruit of your efforts. Have patience and know that when you are ready, you will see the fulfillment of your dreams.
Until then, hope that you do not do too much too soon, it may burn you. It you try and put 220 volts of electrical current through a wire that can handle only 110 volts, what happens? It burns up after a minute or two. You as a human can do what the wire cannot do. You can, by study, desire, application and patience, grow in ability to handle bigger currents and bigger forces. Some wires can handle 1,000,000 volts. That's one million volts of electricity flowing through it. A wire cannot grow in ability to handle larger amounts of current, but you can. The more current you are capable of handling, the more humbleness you must have. Without humbleness, people have a tendency to get burned. The person with the power and the ones around him or her get burned. Anytime your ego starts to puff up it's chest with pride of accomplishment, remind it that except by the greace of God, you cannot even breathe, much less think. We are eaach an individualized expression of the infinite, omnipresent intelligence that is the source of all reality. God is all reality, expressing as reality. The ego likes to think that it is God and can do ANYTHING it sets out to do. The ego will sometimes destroy us rather than acknowledge it is an illusion. The ego is a tool that thinks it is the carpenter. We are the carpenter that uses the tool of ego.
We see our dream through a dark glass. You know of your inner potential by dreams and thoughts that give you an idea of your potential destiny. You have only ideas and dreams. You have the the dreams and the ideas necessary to keep your energies focused in the proper direction, even if the direction sometimes seems to be going differently from what your ego insisted should be happening.
How many times have you had a thought you should go to a certain place for a certain event to happen and when you got there you couldn't do what you thought you were to do? Then you decided you would look around and see what you could do since you were there. As soon as your ego got out of the away of insisting on choosing the reason that you had arrived at the place your thoughts led you to, you then proceeded to learn something or even meet someone and had a wonderful experience.
How many times have you reluctantly went somewhere and once you got there and did what you did once you got there, or once you met someone you met going there, praised God that you went even though you had to be dragged kicking and screaming all along the way to there?
One time when I was very addicted to cigarettes, about two in the morning I went to the bathroom and when I flushed the toilet I accidently dropped my cigarettes in the toilet. Well, I could not wait until the morning to get more cigarettes, especially since I was looking at my cigarettes in the toilet water. I just had to have a cigarette at that moment. I reluctantly got dressed and went down to the corner store to get a pack. On the corner where the store was, I saw a bum that had mental problems going around in circles constantly. I watched him going around and around in a circle for about a hour. In the watching and my reflecting on his circling, my insights about life and myself were astounding. And all this because of my addiction to cigarettes and "accidentally" dropping them in the toilet. I actually forgot for the hour that I went down to get some cigarettes.
Ther was no luck or accident involved. the spiritual process moved the experience along.
Use your inner light as a directional finder. At every junction of your journey, you have a choice of two paths. One will feel colorful and the other will feel dim. One will feel sweet and the other will feel sour. One will feel open and the other will feel empty. One will feel peaceful and the other one will feel abrasive. Guess which way you should go? Go in the direction you feel is right. Go with the first feeling, not the feeling you manufactured after thinking about it for a while. Go with dedicated intensity and an open mind as to what you will discover along the way. Your inner prompter will always give you a sense of direction. It knows best what is the next relevant thing for you to do. Doesn't it sound a trifle egotistical to think that your conscious thoughts about what is the best thing for you to do even knows the whole picture. What happens if you consciously try to direct each movement necessary to drive your car. Until you sorta drove on automatic, you really didn't drive. It was a big struggle. Once you learned enough that your driving was on semi-automatic, you actually drove. When the conscious mind tells the body where it wants to go and then allows the body to get you there, the body usually does a better job of it.
Give the body a good set of clear instructions, then get out of the way so it can serve you as it was intended. How can our conscious mind know all that is relevant for us to do? Leave breathing up to the conscious mind and sooner or later it would forget to breathe. Our conscious mind is for analyzing and instructing. It programs the computer that runs the servo-mechanism that we call our body.
Seeking for money only, for status only, for recognition only, means that our happingess is dependent on achieving these things and then we had better work our butt off to try and insure that we keep them. Serve the universe grateful that you have the potential to be a vehicle for expressing one million volts of universal energy through you, humbly, and you will get more from the universe than even you could bargain for. And we know you can be a good bargainer. Seek fulfillment for the selfish ego motive of getting things and you are destined for frustration, even if you get the millions. Seek ye for the joy of doing and you will be rewarded more than you could ever imagine.
All of us have the urge to serve the universal life force that gave us life, sustains our life, and that is the only force that can insure us eternal life. A lot of potentially great prople sell out to the trinkets of the material world. They sell out to illusions of vanity. It is so easy to forget that all that you have is thanks to the labors of your fellow humans. The car you drive, the speakers you listen to your music through, the pen you write with, the paper you write on, the material for your teeth, the telephone and the telephone line you use to speak to someone across a distance of a thousand miles, all this is for your use thanks to the other travelers on this little planet of ours. I know that they need your money for their products so that they can get what they need and want. Most of what we call modern day reality is dependent on all of us working together for the benefit of all of us. The people on social security today are the ones we have to thank for laying the telephone llines and building the companies that produce all the nice toys that we enjoy. There is nothing wrong in using these toys along our life's journey. Consider them bonuses. Just know that the toys are not the reason you are being so blessed in life. They are like icing on a cake.
As an example, you serve enough people through music and they will shower you with all the trinkets that you desire. You want money for travel, for houses, for relaxation? You want fame, fortune, recognition and respect? Learn all that you can that helps you to serve others through the way that you want to contribute. Serve them for the pleasure that you get out of serving them and you won't be able to stop them giving you fame, recognition, respect and money. A song can inspire a person or drag a person to the depths of hell. A song is the most powerful vehicle for moving people emotionally that you can imagine. Know that you are a vehicle for God to express through and you will gradually be able to handle the power that will be part and parcel of the success that you desire.
The way to enjoy the process without losing your ambition is simple but needs plenty of reaffirming. Appreciate the biggest miracle that you can think of - yourself. You are living in the best dream imaginable - the dream of life. Remember, the MIRACLE of your eyesight. spend five minutes a day walking aroung wherever you are with your eyes closed. Even when you run into something, do not open your eyes, act as if you no longer had the gift of vision. Remember this poem: "They say the sky is a pretty blue; They say the grass is a pretty green. But what is blue and what is green.....to a person who has never seen?" Remember the miracle of being able to taste whatever food you really relish. I know people who have lost the gift of taste. They have to eat but can no longer taste ANYTHING. Kind of unimaginable, isn't it? Some are born without feet, arms or legs. Remembe Helen Keller. Born blind, deaf,and unable to speak. Again unimaginable isn't it? And yet, she actually wrote a book, It is called "My Religion"
Truly recognize and appreciate all the miracles that you already possess. Know that your future contribution to the universe is in whatever field you feel in your heart..Know that everything that exists, exists for the contribution it can make to the universal process. When you truly appreciate the miracle that you are and the miracles that you possess that make all dreams possible, then you will see your life's journey for the magnificent adventure that it is.
When we see our life as the miraculous journey that it is, and when we desire to contribute to the universal source of our life that we call God through dedicating our life here to that contribution, then we are turning the key to the door of paradise itself. We are fulfilling our destiny.
