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Witnessing True Reality
Try to see the possibilities in whatever happens. If you don’t get what you expected or wished for, ask yourself, “Where am I supposed to look?” This is a very freeing attitude. On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: Either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you.
Evolution is a win-win, which we can say not out of blind optimism but once again by referring back to the body. Anything happening inside a cell is either part of its healthy operation or a sign that a correction should take place. Energy is not expended randomly or on a whim to see how it turns out.
Life is self-correcting in just this way. As the choice-maker you can act on a whim; you can follow arbitrary or irrational paths. But the underlying machinery of consciousness doesn’t alter. It keeps following the same principles, which are:
To adapt to your desires; to keep everything in balance; to harmonize your individual life with the life of the cosmos; to make you aware of what you are doing; to show you the consequences of your action; to make your life as real as possible.
Because you have free will, you can ignore these principles entirely – we all do at one time or another. But you can’t make them deviate. Life depends on them. They are the ground of existence, and even as your desires come and go, the ground of existence is unchanging.
Once you absorb this truth, you can align yourself with any possibility that comes your way, trusting that win-win is the attitude that life itself has been taking for billions of years.
Adapted from The Book of Secrets, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2004).
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...this is so beautiful and true. i've always thought that when i say the affirmation "everything is working for my highest good" that though it's in the present, it's just a manner of saying it in the present so it will manifest as such in the hopefully immediate future. but reading this, i NOW really know and embrace that indeed, everything IS working for my highest good, here now. whatever is before me, even the ones i do not (yet) appreciate as working for me, for my greatest good, is/are there because it is good for me or there to help me see what will be good for me. this article is both for me!
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Yep! It works exactly that way. Or at least in MY experience it does. :)
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Guessing the key here is to align your desires and such with those of your true self, consciously.
Believing that you will opens up a world of opportunity, I would imagine.
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