One of the things that I love doing for my own spiritual growth, or Sadhana (on all levels), as this journey is called, is reading and enacting lessons from spiritual texts — whether ancient or modern. For my posts, at least for my first few weeks, I would like to introduce certain passages from books and respond to them. Please feel free to share your comments!
For this week, I wanted to start with a Deepak Chopra passage, but I was led to share something else I ran across earlier this month. Dr. W. Dyer, in his book “Inspiration,” comments on a topic he entitles “creating and holding on to our vision.”He states:
“the desire to find our way to inspiration involves creating a vision of living in spirit 100% of the time, even if we don’t have a clue what we should be doing or what our mission is, we need to practice creating this vision anyway. Our inner picture has to be based on our intention to feel good which is, of course, synonymous with feeling God.”
With the advent of this school year, this little passage seemed to stand out strongly amidst the hustle and bustle — especially for me as I transition quite excitedly and quickly into my first year here at Harvard as an undergrad. We (or at least I) are setting goals, holding visions for a future that lies in a vague area we have not reached thus far. At some moments, I may feel I know exactly what direction I should be moving in, and at others, I feel a lot less secure in that knowledge. Perhaps this rings even more strongly for many of you, particularly you seniors!
Nevertheless, it’s quite easy to get lost in this hustle and bustle, and to forget about creating and holding on to our visions, and of consciously making an effort to live and move through the Spirit every single day. It’s been more than gratifying to be able to remind myself of Dyer’s words, and to ground myself in the Spirit and in God (or whatever name/form that energy takes on for you.) It has been helpful to re-immerse myself in this Spirit and in the knowledge that all things are and always will be as they should be. It’s comforting to know that I can create a vision, whether for myself or for others, and to hold tightly to this vision, despite what the world says; despite what the world expects. I feel that with a focus centered “100% of the time” on living an open, loving, spirit-filled life, maintaining our focus on the mystery of the heavens, and keeping our visions alive in our hearts, we can never “go wrong.”
How powerful can we become if we choose to hold tight to our visions and strive against all odds to uphold and bring them to fruition? And how much knowledge can we attain by letting go of our lower selves — letting go of our worries, self-doubts, judgments, and pity when the future, life, relationships, jobs, and things of the present seem off-base and out-of-whack — in order to succumb to the wisdom that flows and moves freely, without fail, all about us, bringing to us exactly what our innermost selves desire when the time is right? Can we trust this energy, or spiritual presence (if you so choose to see it as such)? Can we make an effort to be-in-spirit on a daily basis, making this our full-time jobs? You tell me.
Hold tight to those visions of yours!
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I like the openness of this post.
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