The Essence Makes Its Way to You

The Universe got all of its information about what you like
from you,
and it has remembered every piece of it
and has put it together in perfect formation.

And so, the things that are on their way to you
are so much better than you even know that you want.

And as you allow them,
...
the essence of all of these things
that the Universe knows that you are wanting
makes its way to you
and appear
in perfect timing
for you.

Abraham-Hicks

13 Principles of Spiritual Activism

1. Transformation of motivation from anger/fear/despair to compassion/love/purpose. This is a vital challenge for today's social change movement. This is not to deny the noble emotion of appropriate anger or outrage in the face of social injustice.

Rather, this entails a crucial shift from fighting against evil to working for love, and the long-term results are very different, even if the outer activities appear virtually identical. Action follows Being, as the Sufi saying goes. Thus "a positive future cannot emerge from the mind of anger and despair." (Dalai Lama)

2. Non-attachment to outcome. This is difficult to put into practice, yet to the extent that we are attached to the results of our work, we rise and fall with our successes and failures—a sure path to burnout. Hold a clear intention, and let go of the outcome—recognizing that a larger wisdom is always operating. As Gandhi said, "the victory is in the doing," not the results. Also, remain flexible in the face of changing circumstances: "Planning is invaluable, but plans are useless." (Churchill)

3. Integrity is your protection. If your work has integrity, this will tend to protect you from negative energy and circumstances. You can often sidestep negative energy from others by becoming "transparent" to it, allowing it to pass through you with no adverse effect upon you. This is a consciousness practice that might be called "psychic aikido."

4. Integrity in means and ends. Integrity in means cultivates integrity in the fruit of one's work. A noble goal cannot be achieved utilizing ignoble means.

5. Don't demonize your adversaries. It makes them more defensive and less receptive to your views. People respond to arrogance with their own arrogance, creating rigid polarization. Be a perpetual learner, and constantly challenge your own views.

6. You are unique. Find and fulfill your true calling. "It is better to tread your own path, however humbly, than that of another, however successfully." (Bhagavad Gita)

7. Love thy enemy. Or at least, have compassion for them. This is a vital challenge for our times. This does not mean indulging falsehood or corruption. It means moving from "us/them" thinking to "we" consciousness, from separation to cooperation, recognizing that we human beings are ultimately far more alike than we are different. This is challenging in situations with people whose views are radically opposed to yours. Be hard on the issues, soft on the people.

8. Your work is for the world, not for you. In doing service work, you are working for others. The full harvest of your work may not take place in your lifetime, yet your efforts now are making possible a better life for future generations. Let your fulfillment come in gratitude for being called to do this work, and from doing it with as much compassion, authenticity, fortitude, and forgiveness as you can muster.

9. Selfless service is a myth. In serving others, we serve our true selves. "It is in giving that we receive." We are sustained by those we serve, just as we are blessed when we forgive others. As Gandhi says, the practice of satyagraha ("clinging to truth") confers a "matchless and universal power" upon those who practice it. Service work is enlightened self-interest, because it cultivates an expanded sense of self that includes all others.

10. Do not insulate yourself from the pain of the world. Shielding yourself from heartbreak prevents transformation. Let your heart break open, and learn to move in the world with a broken heart. As Gibran says, "Your pain is the medicine by which the physician within heals thyself." When we open ourselves to the pain of the world, we become the medicine that heals the world. This is what Gandhi understood so deeply in his principles of ahimsa and satyagraha. A broken heart becomes an open heart, and genuine transformation begins.

11. What you attend to, you become. Your essence is pliable, and ultimately you become that which you most deeply focus your attention upon. You reap what you sow, so choose your actions carefully. If you constantly engage in battles, you become embattled yourself. If you constantly give love, you become love itself.

12. Rely on faith, and let go of having to figure it all out. There are larger 'divine' forces at work that we can trust completely without knowing their precise workings or agendas. Faith means trusting the unknown, and offering yourself as a vehicle for the intrinsic benevolence of the cosmos. "The first step to wisdom is silence. The second is listening." If you genuinely ask inwardly and listen for guidance, and then follow it carefully—you are working in accord with these larger forces, and you become the instrument for their music.



13. Love creates the form. Not the other way around. The heart crosses the abyss that the mind creates, and operates at depths unknown to the mind. Don't get trapped by "pessimism concerning human nature that is not balanced by an optimism concerning divine nature, or you will overlook the cure of grace." (Martin Luther King) Let your heart's love infuse your work and you cannot fail, though your dreams may manifest in ways different from what you imagine.

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(...from the Satyana Institute)

Forking Off Towards Things You Want

You are the creator of your own reality because you are the chooser of the thought right now.

Don’t be hard on yourself.

If you’re standing in a place
where you’ve been chopped off at the knees,
where you’ve been hit in the gut,
where you’re feeling awful, don’t feel bad.

Don’t beat up on yourself for not being able to choose
the best thought you’ve ever thought.

Just choose the best thought you can find from where you are.

In other words, just fork off gently
in the direction of what is important to you.

And before you know it, your path will get brighter and sweeter,
and brighter and sweeter.

And the people who watch you will say, “You know, you amaze me.
Things go well everywhere you go. Why is that so?”

And you say, “I’ve come to expect it.”

And many of them will say, “Agh.”

They don’t want to hear how you expect things to go well.

They’ll say, “Oh, that’s because you’re rich.
Oh, that’s because you have an entourage that travels with you.”

We promise you, no entourage can buck your current.

There is no one in the world who can prepare your path for you, you see.

You are all as rich as everyone else
because you all have the resources of the Universe
at your fingertips.

And when you take the time,
when you care enough to take the time to find the better-feeling thought, now, you’re moving toward something that will please you.

Every step you take, you are marching toward a manifestation.

And if you feel good while you’re stepping
—you are marching, marching, marching
toward things that are going to delight you
when they get there.

And if you are ornery, if you’re unhappy,
if you are frustrated, if you are blameful,
if you are angry, if you are hateful,
if you are revengeful, if you are fearful,
if you are depressed
—you are marching, marching, marching
toward things that are going to augment
that feeling of depression, of anger,
of frustration.

In other words,
the way you feel must net you more stuff
that feels like the way you feel.

The better it gets, the better it gets, the better it gets,
the better it gets, the better it gets, the better it gets,
...
the worse it gets, the worse it gets, the worse it gets,
the worse it gets, the worse it gets.

You cannot defy the Laws of the Universe—please give it up!

Stop trying to use your words and your action
for the stuff that attitude and mood, and vibration are to do.

In other words, mold yourself into place.

Do the vibrational work before you do the action work,
and the action work will be a fraction of what it has been before.

If you take the time to do the vibrational work first,
you won’t have to offer nearly as much action.

You’ll begin to discover that the things
that are important for you just unfold for you
because the Universe is at your fingertips.

The fairies of the Universe are there for you.

You are the center of an enormous entourage that means to please you.

And when you, through your magnificent deciphering of contrast,
give birth to a rocket of desire,
that rocket of desire is duly noted, understood,
and absolutely agreed with by all of the resources
of the Universe.

And now all you’ve got to do,
is to get in the vibrational compliance
with what you are asking for.

(Isn’t that nice to know?)

There are 3 steps to the Creative Process:

Step One, you don’t have to worry about;
contrast makes you take that step.

Contrast causes you to desire or focus, or prefer.

Step Two, not your work, anyway.

Source and all of the resources of Source answer your request.
That’s that vibrational alignment.
That’s that one point of vibrational relativity that happens instantaneously.



So, your only work is Step Three.

And Step Three is: Can I find a thought right now that feels a little better than the thought I’ve been thinking?

That’s all Step Three is.

Finding a thought that causes me to feel a vibration (or a feeling) of relief.

So, there is allowing of what I want, or disallowing of what I want.

There is allowing of what I want, or resisting what I want.

You are either practicing the art of allowing, or the art of resisting.

When you’re forking off toward things you want,
you’re practicing the art of allowing.

When you’re forking off to things you don’t want,
you’re practicing the art of resistance.

And every day, and every moment of your life experience
is a perfect reflection of how you’ve been forking. (Good.)

Abraham-Hicks

Spend Fearlessly, With Wisdom

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Many people are in ignorance of the fact
that gifts and things are investments,
and that hoarding and saving invariably lead to loss.

"There is that scattereth and yet increaseth;
and there is that withholdeth more than is meet,
but it tendeth to poverty."

For example: I knew a man who wanted
to buy a fur-lined overcoat.

He and his wife went to various shops,
but there was none he wanted.

He said they were all too cheap-looking.

At last, he was shown one, the salesman said
was valued at a thousand dollars,
but which the manager would sell him for five-hundred dollars,
as it was late in the season.

His financial possessions amounted to
about seven hundred dollars.

The reasoning mind would have said,
"You can't afford to spend nearly all you have on a coat,"
but he was very intuitive and never reasoned.

He turned to his wife and said,
"If I get this coat, I'll make a ton of money!"
So his wife consented, weakly.

About a month later, he received
a ten-thousand-dollar commission.

The coat made him feel so rich,
it linked him with success and prosperity;
without the coat he would not have received the commission.

It was an investment paying large dividends!

If man ignores these leadings to spend or to give,
the same amount of money will go
in an uninteresting or unhappy way.


For example: A woman told me, on Thanksgiving Day,
she informed her family
that they could not afford a Thanksgiving dinner.

She had the money, but decided to save it.

A few days later, someone entered her room
and took from the bureau drawer
the exact amount the dinner would have cost.

The law always stands back of the man
who spends fearlessly, with wisdom.

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...from the book, "The Game of Life and How to Play It,"
by Florence Scovell Shinn

All You'd Need

If all you did was just look for things to appreciate
you would live a joyous,
spectacular life.

If there was nothing else that you ever came to understand
other than just look for things to appreciate,
...
it’s the only tool you would ever need
to predominantly hook you up
with who you really are.

That’s all you’d need.

Abraham-Hicks

It's Time to Stop Being Unhappy

When the desire is born,
right away you start counting yourselves a failure, because you've got this desire that hasn't been satisfied.

Know that you never get it done! And since you never get it done, it's time to stop being unhappy about what's undone, because most of it is undone! You are an eternal being. Most of it is undone. Instead of taking score about what's been achieved -- we want you to start feeling anticipation about what is still to arrive...

Abraham-Hicks

Your Vision

You have sole ownership of your vision.


And the Universe will give you
what you want
within your vision.






What happens with most people is that
they muddy their vision with "reality".

Their vision becomes full of not only what they want
but what everybody else thinks about what they want, too.


Your work
is to clarify
and purify your vision
so that the vibration
that you are offering
can then be answered.

Abraham-Hicks