Have you ever taken a good look around you? It doesn’t matter what part of the world you live in, or what your social circle maybe, or who your friends are; most people continue to live only in the physical world. The more enlightened few however, are continually involved with the spiritual world. The enlightened realize that it is actually the spiritual world that creates the physical world. If you really think about it, everything is made up of your thoughts, your feelings, and the things you think on that are what organize and determine your experiences. The spiritual world has all the creative power. Everything you see in the world began with an idea, or a thought, all of which are spiritual. Everything in your life right now has been created by your own spiritual state of mind whether you are aware of it or not.
…the outward is the expression of the inward; the earth is the mirror of the Kingdom; the material world corresponds to the spiritual world.
(Abdu’l-Baha, Some Answered Questions, p. 283)
The duality of the mind is often referred to as conscious and subconscious. The conscious being the you that is reading this right now, commanding all your decisions and telling your subconscious what you want. The subconscious doesn’t know right from wrong, or the truth from a lie, it just takes in what your conscious mind gives it, and does as it is told. Learning the truth of this interaction between the conscious and subconscious mind will allow you to transform EVERY aspect of your life!
To change external conditions, you must change the cause of those conditions. Most people try to change their lives by working directly on the circumstances and conditions they are in. This is really just a waste of time and effort, and leaves most just frustrated and exhausted. This comes from a failure to realize that their conditions flow from a cause. To remove whatever it is you are lacking, confused over, or limitations in your life, you must remove the cause of these things. What causes these things is the way you are using your conscious mind with thoughts and images that you continually encourage and focus on.
Change the cause, you change the effect. It is just that simple.
All of us are living in an ocean of infinite riches far beyond anything we can ever begin to understand. You have a subconscious that is EXTREMELY sensitive to your conscious thoughts. It is through your conscious thoughts that the matrix is created through which God, vital forces, wisdom, and all the other powers and energies of your subconscious mind flow. Take that conscious matrix and shape it in a more positive direction of thought, and the infinite energies within you will be redirected to change your life for the better. Baha’u’llah, the prophet founder of the Baha’i Faith, made it abundantly clear that this power is within all of us in the following quote:
This most great, this fathomless and surging Ocean is near, astonishingly near, unto you. Behold it is closer to you than your life-vein! Swift as the twinkling of an eye ye can, if ye but wish it, reach and partake of this imperishable favor, this God-given grace, this incorruptible gift, this most potent and unspeakably glorious bounty.
(Baha’u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u'llah, p. 326)
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