Posted by Failure is not a fundamental option. The blooming of a rose. The intricate structure of a spider web. The trillions of cells operating simultaneously in your body. Intelligence. The entire cosmos operates through an implicit, supreme Intelligence, which is why you do not have to fail at anything.
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Undeniably, we do fall short of many a goal, dream, aspiration, desire. However to repeat the last part of the last sentence in the above paragraph, we “do not have to fail at anything.” There is nothing about us that – fundamentally – even knows how to fail! Essentially, we learn to fail. Yes, indeed it is laudable to “learn” from our so-called failures and setbacks, however the fact remains that we learn to fail by default because we “drink the kool-aid.”
Early on in our life, we begin to follow the status quo of systemic ignorance. The use of the word ignorance in this context is not derisive or insulting in the least but rather ignorance as defined as unaware. By drinking the kool-aid of our conditioning, we ignore the true, fundamental magnificent and supreme intelligence implicit in our nature. Because of the pervasiveness of this ignorance, there is a tremendous tendency to believe that the paradigm from which we live is actually the true and only paradigm of expression and possibility. Limitation must unfold in its various guises when it is from a limited paradigm. Crudely put, “garbage in, garbage out.” We don’t see what we’re looking at (in terms of the circumstances in our lives); we see what we’re looking from. In other words, if our vantage point is skewed in the first place we’re going to see (experience) things from the disadvantage of the skewed perspective.
If we are not aware of our implicit, supreme Intelligence then we doubt our capacity, doubt our ability, and doubt our possibility. Doubt is actually the culprit hiding within many of our so-called failings, fears and perceived limitations. It is not that succeeding (in love, affairs and life) is difficult so much as it is that our pursuits are so – consciously or unconsciously – informed with doubt that it undermines our capacity to successfully fulfil our intentions and aspirations.
How often are the perceived risk we take (investing retirement money in that start-up) accompanied with a sizeable dose of fear? It is not the risk itself that backfires – it is the potential-choking fear accompanying our intentions that render our actions impotent or arduous. Now, combine that doubt with a skewed perception of who you really are in the first place and you have a pretty good recipe for chronic challenge, struggle, lack or limitation. Hmmm, let’s see here, a cup of doubt, a dollop of pessimism, a half a package of ignorance of my real nature, a dash of fear (be careful with the fear – it’s a very potent ingredient!) mix well and viola! In thirty minutes, you have a fresh dish of Failure! Chef’s Note: If you let past failures bake in your mind, they become the bases for your next dish of Failure! How great is that?!
In all seriousness, you can readily create new “entrees” of fulfilment, success, prosperity, love and well-being if you use a different recipe. A recipe of ingredients that can only be found and procured in the rare regions of your fundamental magnificence and supremely intelligent nature. Let’s face it: If you don’t know what you’re (truly) working with you won’t know what you can do with it!
You are a magnificent, supremely intelligent expression of life. That statement is not in reference to what is termed your IQ or education or learned knowledge. It is in reference to the intelligence that is coordinating all the cells and functions of your body right now unconsciously, mind you – as you read this very article! Right now, no matter what may be ailing you health-wise, the implicit genius within you is still orchestrating and synchronizing trillions of cells in your body without you having even so much as a conscious idea that your body is doing so! If “you” can do this without even thinking about it, how much more difficult should something be for you to manifest that you do think about?! If, that is, when thinking about your desires you are NOT DRINKING THE KOOL-AID of consensus thinking – which must yield evidence that reflects its nature: Worst recession in 70 years! Banks aren’t lending! Nobody’s hiring! Highest unemployment in decades! “I’m just not an outgoing person.” “I’m not smart enough.” “I wasn’t born with a silver spoon.” “I’m too old now.” “It’s not the right time.” And on and on.
So what do you do if you’re ready to put down the glass (or pitcher for some) of kool-aid? You begin the deprogramming process by understanding your true nature. You begin trading the unconsciously cherished limiting ideas of who you think you are and how you think the world operates for ideas that are akin to the essential nature of your nature, which is full of possibility. You begin not to ignore, but to deny all evidence contrary to the fundamental reality of possibility, fulfilment and true success. See all contrary evidence not as a “fact of how it is” but as a reflection of the limited license given to possibility. In other words what you deem failure or limitation is really just a very limited expression of success. You begin to understand that the limiting facts you witness in your life are nothing more than an indication of how embedded erroneous perceptions have become. The limitation you experience is the siphoning of the flow of success that erroneous perception causes and nothing more.
This understanding strips you of the hypnotic spell of lack and becomes an opportunity to mine the rich awareness of your authentic self. This is done by returning to those deceptively simple realities that, while taken for granted, are the very indications that you are more than any limited perception. Even a tree is more than a “tree”; something is causing it to grow – something is animating it, just as something is animating your body-mind right now. And, obviously, this something that is animating your body right now is supremely intelligent, creative and powerful as you consider yet again that there are trillions of cells functioning in your body presently, each carrying out specific functions simultaneously without even so much as a conscious directive or thought! The You that is animating your body-mind is an incredible force! Left up to its own devices it can ingeniously create and manifest any manner of expression that is in harmony with the essence of Nature. You are a wonder to behold!
This is the deprogramming process. This is what begins to make a way out of no way! You can begin right now to trade a conditioned idea of yourself – whatever the conditioning has been – for an authentic idea of yourself. Authentic simply means true to the real thing as can possibly be!
You are not a product of your history. You can indeed be a product of your belief that you are a product of your history, but in truth, you are not a product of what you’ve been through. You are a product of the authentic creative force that caused you to come into being as it synchronized all of the circumstances and conditions necessary for your existence! Your journey may be the means of your life but it is certainly not the essence of it.
The bottom line is that there is an incredible, transcendent Intelligence that is the locus (essence) of your identity and being. Recognize that it IS incredible. Recognize that it IS transcendent. Recognize that it is supremely intelligent and most of all recognize that it is YOU! You then default to this point of reference for every endeavour, desire, seeming problem and vision that you deign to carry out. Stand up and be your own salvation. You are the success you’ve been waiting for.
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