Thoughts on "The Secret" Part 2
Saturday, August 25, 2007
I had this email on file, and recently re-discovered it. . . .how interesting that it ties into the same thoughts I wrote yesterday on "The Secret."
Releasing Your Specifications, Gary Zukav
When you depend entirely upon the ability of your personality to determine what is best for you, you may stand in the way of a richness that is waiting for you. How do you know what the Universe has waiting for you if you take off your restrictions? If you are determined to have your life unfold in a particular way, and none other -– if you have your heart set on using your creativity only to accumulate money, for example -- consider that you build your entire reality around that. The Universe cannot help you in the same way that it can if you are trusting of it, because it can neither overshadow nor penetrate your choice.
Yet what if what you are doing is more appropriately regarded in a social sphere rather than an economic one? In other words, what if the enterprise that you seek to develop is more appropriately a way to an avenue that you have not yet recognized? It is now deadlocked because it cannot go down its appropriate path, for you have your hand on a door that you insist upon opening that will go nowhere.
Can you see? Let go of what you think is just reward. Let go. Trust. Create. Be who you are. [...] Take your hands off the steering wheel. Be able to say to the Universe, 'Thy will be done,' and to know it within your intentions. Spend time in this thought. Consider what it means to say, 'Thy will be done,' and allow your life to go into the hands of the Universe completely. The final piece of reaching for authentic power is releasing your own to a higher form of wisdom. [...]
Try looking at life as a beautifully well organized dynamic. Trust the Universe. Trusting means that the circumstance that you are in is working toward your best and most appropriate end. There is no when to that. There is no if to that. It is. Release your specifications ...
--Gary Zukav, From "The Seat of the Soul"
(Sal, isn't this interesting in regards to our discussion about "God's will?")
And to all other friends out there. . . .do you have thoughts on how this quote relates to your life? I'd love to hear from you. . .
Releasing Your Specifications, Gary Zukav
When you depend entirely upon the ability of your personality to determine what is best for you, you may stand in the way of a richness that is waiting for you. How do you know what the Universe has waiting for you if you take off your restrictions? If you are determined to have your life unfold in a particular way, and none other -– if you have your heart set on using your creativity only to accumulate money, for example -- consider that you build your entire reality around that. The Universe cannot help you in the same way that it can if you are trusting of it, because it can neither overshadow nor penetrate your choice.
Yet what if what you are doing is more appropriately regarded in a social sphere rather than an economic one? In other words, what if the enterprise that you seek to develop is more appropriately a way to an avenue that you have not yet recognized? It is now deadlocked because it cannot go down its appropriate path, for you have your hand on a door that you insist upon opening that will go nowhere.
Can you see? Let go of what you think is just reward. Let go. Trust. Create. Be who you are. [...] Take your hands off the steering wheel. Be able to say to the Universe, 'Thy will be done,' and to know it within your intentions. Spend time in this thought. Consider what it means to say, 'Thy will be done,' and allow your life to go into the hands of the Universe completely. The final piece of reaching for authentic power is releasing your own to a higher form of wisdom. [...]
Try looking at life as a beautifully well organized dynamic. Trust the Universe. Trusting means that the circumstance that you are in is working toward your best and most appropriate end. There is no when to that. There is no if to that. It is. Release your specifications ...
--Gary Zukav, From "The Seat of the Soul"
(Sal, isn't this interesting in regards to our discussion about "God's will?")
And to all other friends out there. . . .do you have thoughts on how this quote relates to your life? I'd love to hear from you. . .
Cher -
Love your thoughts, as usual! Don't agree completely with Zukav when he writes, 'the Universe cannot help you in the same way that it can if your are trusting of it, because i can neither overshadow nor penetrate your choice.'
I believe that whether we trust the Universe/God or not, God will move and live and do healing, life-espousing works. If we think we limit divine workings based on our co-creation (or lack of) then we give ourselves too much power. Yes?
Grace and Peace,
Sal
Another thought on God's will from Madeleine:
God's will, no matter how fervent our prayers, is not always done. We human creatures abuse our free will, set it over against God's will. Sometmes when we may truly be doing God's will, it is thwarted because of the abuse of free will by others. My faith is that ultimately God's will will be done, and I know to my rue that when I am willful I am obstructing that will. At my occasional best, I am lovingly obedient to what I pray is the will of God. Loving obedience should never be difficult; we are not being coerced, or manipuated. Loving obedience is doing the Lord's will with enthusiasm - doing the Lord's will filled with the Spirit of God.