64 Marbles
It’s the journey you want. There is no destination that will finally satisfy you. Ever.
Abraham Hicks
In Marble 70 I journeyed into the world of “successful” people who weren’t happy. This made me realize that the destination of success in a writing career won’t make me happy because there will always be something else on the horizon on which to focus. If you equate happiness with a destination, happiness becomes the moving water mirage that you can never quite reach to quench the thirst of desire. I knew I had to shift my framework. But what would I switch it to when all around me I see the idea that achievement/consumerism are the keys to a successful life?
Dukkha, translated as suffering/dissatisfaction/anxiety, is one of the noble truths of Buddhism. Human life is seen to experience Dukkha in three ways: the physical suffering of being in a human form (being born, illness, and dying); the suffering produced by trying to hold onto things that are constantly in flux (like trying to hold onto the dream of a relationship that is long gone); and the lack of satisfaction felt when things don’t meet up to our expectations or standards (I know this one well too). Ugh! Is my suffering and dissatisfaction part of my birthright or is there a paradigm shift that will allow me to be happy regardless of my actual circumstances?
I’ve been pondering these questions over the last few marbles when a friend sent me this thirst-quenching link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaPtFa_9760&feature=share Wow! These were the words that I needed to hear. Thanks to Abraham Hicks who gave this insight into the gap between desire and manifestation:
Abraham Hicks
In Marble 70 I journeyed into the world of “successful” people who weren’t happy. This made me realize that the destination of success in a writing career won’t make me happy because there will always be something else on the horizon on which to focus. If you equate happiness with a destination, happiness becomes the moving water mirage that you can never quite reach to quench the thirst of desire. I knew I had to shift my framework. But what would I switch it to when all around me I see the idea that achievement/consumerism are the keys to a successful life?
Dukkha, translated as suffering/dissatisfaction/anxiety, is one of the noble truths of Buddhism. Human life is seen to experience Dukkha in three ways: the physical suffering of being in a human form (being born, illness, and dying); the suffering produced by trying to hold onto things that are constantly in flux (like trying to hold onto the dream of a relationship that is long gone); and the lack of satisfaction felt when things don’t meet up to our expectations or standards (I know this one well too). Ugh! Is my suffering and dissatisfaction part of my birthright or is there a paradigm shift that will allow me to be happy regardless of my actual circumstances?
I’ve been pondering these questions over the last few marbles when a friend sent me this thirst-quenching link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaPtFa_9760&feature=share Wow! These were the words that I needed to hear. Thanks to Abraham Hicks who gave this insight into the gap between desire and manifestation:
The majority of my work is getting up to speed with my idea…The fact that I’m calling it (the goal) BIG means I’m not up to speed with it otherwise I’d be calling it normal, logical, certain, or inevitable…BIG just emphasizes the gap between where I am and what I want. It’s certain, inevitable, eventual. I’m going to have fun in the honing of the vibration that allows it to come to me and the longer it takes, the more fun I’ll have. If it comes tomorrow, then I’ll be looking for something else.
I like that I’ve given birth to this and I like that it’s mine and I like the journey on the way to it. And when it manifests, I’ll be better for having wanted it. If you’ll let the journey be your goal rather than the destination, then you’re having instant success and the manifestation is certain. But if the destination is your goal and you’re not there, now you’re introducing resistance which will hold it off until you stop doing that.
Let go of the absence of it. Let go of the manifested absence of it before the manifested presence will be yours. Say, “I always get what I want eventually. I now understand the laws of the universe. My singular endeavor is to ready myself for the receiving of it in my grid…I’ve just got to bring my vibration in my grid up to the vibrational level of it and then I will experience the revelation of the path along the way. So much fun.
Hmmm, sounds familiar. I interrupt this to insert a similar viewpoint from Einstein:
"Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics."
Now back to Abraham:
Now back to Abraham:
If we’ve convinced you that it’s the journey you want, then we’re home free, or you are, but if you think that this is a conversation that will lead you more quickly to the destination that you’re unhappy without, then we’ve made no headway at all.
You’re used to focusing on manifestations and having celebrations when a manifestation happens.
The more fun you’re having, the faster your track is unfolding for the manifestation but there’s no rush because the manifestation is certain. But if you’re not uneasy in the pre-manifestation stages then it will come more quickly and you’ll have more fun along the way.
Say, “I’ve done the work. I’m trying to figure out how to bring myself up to speed. There’s nothing that I can do right now that can speed it along because if I offer my action in the attitude that I’m speeding it along then I’m focused on the absence of it and I’m shooting myself in the foot. So if I wait for inspired action then when the inspired action comes then I have that triumphant moment of knowing that it has come.”
Everything you want is so you will feel better so if you can figure out how to feel better before it comes along then you will have it figured out.
Bingo! So my only job is to bring my presence to the journey, day to day, marble by marble. With my focus in the present moment I say,”I am here. You find me.”
Can you switch your focus from the horizon the the place where you are standing? Can you wait for inspired action to inform your next move?
* Check out Tom Shadyac’s documentary, “I Am” http://iamthedoc.com/ available on iTunes
Can you switch your focus from the horizon the the place where you are standing? Can you wait for inspired action to inform your next move?
* Check out Tom Shadyac’s documentary, “I Am” http://iamthedoc.com/ available on iTunes
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