A reminder from the great sage...

Emerson said, "As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star of a hundred million miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours."

There is a small and a big in every part of our universe and they are intrinsically and inseparably linked. One cannot exist without the other. And if this wisdom is to be used then the microcosm should be instructed by the macrocosm and the macrocosm explained by the microcosm.

So how can we do that? How can we use this wisdom so as to balance our lives and align them with this apparent law that relates the small to the big? The balance is found as we try to grasp infinity while we realize that this now moment is where we always are. We can use our experience as a guide while realizing that right now is what we have and that we are always at the point of choice.

We can have an overwhelming since of gratitude for the literally countless number of variables that had to fall just right over the eons the of universal experience in order for me to be here to write this and you to be here to read it. Meanwhile in this very moment, there are literally a countless number of little parts within our bodies; each part doing exactly what it was meant to do, exactly the way it was meant to do it without our even thinking about it. We can be grateful for all of this and let that gratitude be our primary attitude no matter if the outer circumstances of our lives look the way we think they ought to look or not. Even what we perceive as a negative experience is still after all an experience and it did not have to be that way.

Think of this: You are only able to stand because the Earth is moving. Sure, we'd have lots of problems if the world stopped turning. And since our balance and equilibrium are based on the rotation of the Earth, the first problem we'd have would be standing up!

There are so many things we can be grateful for! Try making a list of them. At Thanksgiving I enjoy making a list of 101 things that I am grateful for in my life at that moment. I definitely recommend this exercise to everyone and you can do it right now rather than waiting until the next Thanksgiving.

Bottom line: Gratitude is the way! And, each and every moment of our experience comes equipped with an incredible number of points of gratitude, even if it's the moment itself that we are being grateful for.

And finally, here's to the sage of Concord, Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson, for reminding us just how small and how big we truly are!

Whole Faith

I trust you're enjoying taking your action steps. Here's the formula again: Thoughts=>Feelings=>Actions=>Results. As you can see, the final component of our formula is "results". And of course the results you are getting are you living the life that you intended for yourself through your vision backed by purpose. The life of your dreams!

When you are working with the Law of Cause and Effect, you are working with the most magical power that there is! This law calls you to recognize that you have the power to express and experience whatever you want in your life. And, to realize that you already use it and have always used it albeit used unconsciously for most people in most cases.

That said, once you have moved into action there may be a time delay between your taking the action and the results actually showing up. This is because even the most magical aspect of life must work along the established lines of trade and commerce and it always abides by the other natural laws of the Universe. While money does indeed fall from the sky (and does so quite often according to Google), it got up in the sky to begin with somehow.

Through the power of right thinking and taking the appropriate action you may be able to cause large sums of gold to be present in your experience, for example. However, it is not likely that you will sit on your couch meditating and this gold will magically appear on your coffee table to be there when you open your eyes. It is more likely that while you are mediating, the doorbell will ring and the Brinks tuck will be backing up to your front door with the gold because of some action you had taken. The point is that the subject of your plan definitely and absolutely comes into your experience as a result of your actions so long your thoughts, feelings, and actions are in alignment with your vision and purpose. And, of course it does so by established means and not through some sort of hocus pocus. While the arrangement of the means may be or at least seem to be magical, the actual means and the components thereof are certainly natural. And, sometimes their arrangement and orchestration takes time.

This is great because it gives us time to get feedback prior to the results showing up, whether the feedback is internal or external. Knowledge + Experience = Wisdom. As we move along our path by taking action in the direction of our purpose, we are constantly gaining wisdom. Our perspective constantly changes based on this wisdom gained. So we may choose to change directions if for example, we discover someone could be hurt as a result of what we are doing. This wisdom guides us to mold and evolve our plan as we go along.

The down side is that when our results don't automatically and instantly show up after we've taken action, we sometimes feel like they aren't coming. We must admit that most of us pretty much live in an instant gratification culture with instant messages and text messages, emails that come to our phones which we can also use to speak to someone on the other side of the world at any moment of our choosing. I'm not saying these modern conveniences are bad. Just that this cultural evolution may have something to do with our expectation of instant results.

Sometimes we're crystal clear that we have taken action in the direction of what we want. We can clearly see that the action was correct and we expect the desired results to show up. Even in these cases, there is a time delay or "gap" as I have come to call it. It is up to us to fill in these gaps with something and we apparently have two choices. One is that we can fill in the gaps with fear. In other words, we can sit and worry or create the scenario in our heads of how it will never happen or not work out to our advantage. Or we can fill in the gaps with faith. We can know for sure that this is working out to our advantage, that everything goes right for us. The type of faith we use here is called "whole faith".

Whole faith is faith with gratitude. You must remember that the Thoughts=>Feelings=>Actions=>Results process is not four different things. It is ONE THING. This means that by simply having the thoughts and creating the vision, you are automatically connected with the results. Automatically. I cannot emphasize this enough. The moment the thought is born, the result is born also. So your vision already exists. You are now somewhere in the process of it becoming visible in your awareness of life.

Whole faith means, "I am so happy and grateful now that my vision is my reality and it is happening in my life right now. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" It is happening right now. It's not "gonna happen" one day, some day off in the future somewhere. It's absolutely happening right now! So you be grateful for it right now. Someone who can take possession and be truly grateful for what they have, only in imagination, can have whatever they want in life.

And remember that you'll have inspired action to take and you'll also have things that happen that do not look like they match the outcome of your plan. Both of these types of things are in the same category. The name of the category is "the unexpected" and this is one of the most valuable parts of the path. Just remember that the unexpected thing that happens, whether you label it "good" or "bad" is an absolutely necessary part of your growth and you cannot reach your desired outcome without it. So be just as grateful for the "bad" as you are for the "good".

That's the whole story! This is the way life works so far as I am aware. Use this formula to create the life that you want to see when you open your eyes. I know you can do it! I believe in you! And everyone around you will too if you will first believe in yourself.