Our Beliefs Define Our Limits
The universe is vast, it's dimensions inconceivable, it's
potentialities unimaginable, and we know too that our own
consciousness has depths to it that are virtually infinite, and
yet despite this enormity within and without, we choose to
confine ourselves to beliefs in scarce resources.
These beliefs, like all our beliefs, are not true, yet, because
of the earnestness of our conviction and our genius in
adumbrating the numerous aspects of our impoverishment, we take
our beliefs to be true.
Countless people have shifted their thinking, emerging from
isolation into companionship, from illness to health, and from
poverty to wealth, and we know, in the secret places in our
hearts, that we, too, can rise above the quotidian and touch the
sky of our aspirations.
We live in a limitless universe, and we have the power to
overcome all our obstacles. We can, if we feel truly committed,
change any aspect of our lives through sheer willfulness. What
is unclear to us today can through study and strategy be made
clear tomorrow. And what is weak in us today can through
patience and sustenance of passion be made strong in us
tomorrow.
The process of changing our beliefs is not difficult, but it
does take persistence. Changing our beliefs is literally
changing our minds about how we choose to view and experience
things. Our greater self is only a thought away.
No extraordinary techniques, no esoteric traditions, and no
elaborate process of subconscious cleansing is necessary for us
to change our beliefs about anything.
By simply changing our mind with the same ease with which we
change our socks, we can move from lack to abundance, absence to
presence, persecution to empowerment; and by observing our
internal dialogue and reversing the content, pitch, cadence, and
conviction of our thoughts in another direction entirely, we
can, as an artist before a canvas, paint a whole new reality
before us.
As Marc Allan once said,