JANU: The question is: What motivates humanity in so many areas of its existence? The obvious motivations: survival, power, comfort, health, freedom, control. There is a concern that religion is waning in society. More and more, people long for true insight, wisdom, understanding, and the power to re-create their lives. Not finding it in the organized religions and not yet certain as to a more viable alternative, they become compelled to look within and discover their truth for themselves, thereby owning it. No longer dependent upon others that seem not to have their answers.
You ask, “What is within them that holds so much magic and inspiration?” It is their own True Nature, our brother, the consciousness that is in harmony with the deeper, more essential nature of life and the qualities that it contains. Living the outer life without a growing and firm grasp of the truth behind that life seems to leave it at the mercy of misperceptions, misunderstanding, and a certain lack of innate cooperation and reasonableness. The outer life seems more real, more immediate, more consequential. A fuller understanding of the nature of life and their own existence has to come from within through a merging of the inner and outer life, that they become more and each demonstrating the proof of each other. A fuller, richer life includes the incarnate life.
Those who ponder the existence of life elsewhere, and its nature, see no possibility at such great distances and certainly not in their lifetime. But the fuller life, you see, is already there, wherever the interest lies. There are no secrets in life, only occlusions through self-imposed lack of awareness, of consciousness.
How does one move, then, from this to the confidence that more is available should they choose it? The pattern of achievement for the smallest thing is the same for everything. So when one considers achievements on a grand scale as more difficult, they apply that pattern of perception to everything. The smallest gains in awakening prove the achievement of the so-called larger ones.
Confidence is transferable to embracing all of life. Do not paint the moment with the anticipations of the next. Claim with confidence your birthright to know and to be all that you are. It’s always been with you and it is how you got here into this physical life. Your existence is proof of the larger you. Namaste.
May 16, 2015 Copyright © 2015 by Joshua Ross