The Art of Manifestation
We should strive to attain a desireless state. As long as we
have desire, we lack. Lack and want are the same thing. Wanting
traps us in a world of limitation. Wanting is the greatest enemy
of joy.~Lester Levenson.
Desire is our enemy.
The more we try and satiate desires, the more we want of them.
There is no way to fulfill them all. And, in fact, it's futile.
We're trying to be our own real selves through some secondary
means.
Desire is either pushing something away from us, as in an
aversion, or it is pulling something toward us, as in an
attachment. We either desire something away from us or toward us.
Desire is an admission of lack.
It is saying that we want something. And because we want it, we
don't have it.
I'm not saying that we should do without anything. We need many
things to live full lives, but there is a superior way to get
them then through desiring them.
I'm saying that we should move beyond wanting something and
instead experience having that thing.
We are souls, and as souls we have everything we need. All we
have to do is think of it and it shows up in our experience.
This is commonly called the Law of Attraction.
However, what people understand as getting what they want is
creating goals and then trying to pull it to them. Eventually,
after picturing and repeating it, it does show up. However, it
takes weeks, sometimes months, and by the time it shows up,
they're interested in something else anyway.
A better way is to be who and what you are.
Then, from the center of that power, you can draw what you want
without desiring it.
Instead of desiring something, accept that you have it now. This
acceptance, this "isness" of a thing will draw it into your
experience faster than any other means.
Most schools of metaphysics and popular psychology create dozens
of steps. This only weakens your magnetic power. They charge
thousands of dollars for their complex processes. And it takes
tremendous dedication and effort to learn.
Some people are so disempowered that they chase after gurus to
help them fulfill their desires.
Just be who and what you are--a soul with a mind and body. Then
think of what you want as if it is yours already.
Wanting and hankering after something, creating elaborate
strategies, and involving yourself in endless struggles and
sacrifice is not a way to get it.
Here is an example. I wanted to go to graduate school to study
psychology. I did not have the money. What I did was imagine
that I was already enrolled. I didn't lust after it. I merely
accepted "mentally" that I was attending school.
A chain of natural circumstances then unfolded where I was able
to enroll and graduate from college with my master's degree.
A consciousness of a thing in its "isness" is enough to draw it
into your experience. Try it, you'll like it.
People seek miracles to improve their lives. Yet they,
themselves, in their divine origin, are the miracle.