Saturday, October 20, 2007
The Secret of Overnight Success
When you begin on your journey of life and start working to improve the three essential qualifications; desire, will and intelligence, and to intensify your desire to possess powers for the helping of others, then you have finally found your true purpose in life.
One of the most important practices to strengthen the will to get such powers and to steadily improve the intellect is the daily practice of meditation. You should be giving most earnest attention to meditation, for it is through this practice that the most remarkable results may be produced in the transformation of your bodies, both the visible and invisible, through which the ego manifests itself in the physical world.
In the degree that your bodies are organized and made sensitive and responsive they cease to be limitations of your consciousness. You develop sensitiveness and responsiveness through meditation, together with proper attention to the purification of the physical and astral bodies; for purity and sensitiveness go together.
Meditation is a subject so very important to the aspirant that certain instructions should be used. The average person, used to the turbulent life of occidental civilization, will find it a difficult matter to control the mind, and to acquire the power to direct it as he desires, even with all the conditions in his favor. So there are only a few guidelines that you will learn here today.
The serene hours of morning are the most favorable of the whole day for meditation. Regular and persistent practice has a magic of its own and so the hour should be the same each morning. To be alone in surroundings as quiet as possible is another essential. The most desirable time for meditation is soon after awakening in the morning. Before turning the mind to any of the business affairs of the day sit calmly down and mediate upon any wholesome thought, like patience, courage or compassion, keeping the mind steadily upon the subject for at least five minutes. That means five minutes on only one thought, at first you will find many thoughts racing through your brain, but with daily consistent practice you will soon be able to think on only one thought for five minutes. When you have accomplished this great feat, you will soon begin to experience miraculous changes in your life.
Two very important things are being accomplished by meditation. First, we are getting control of the mind and learning to direct it where and how we choose; and, second, we are attracting and building into the bodies we possess certain grades of imponderable matter that will make thinking and acting along these lines easier and easier for us until they are established habits and we actually become in daily life patient, courageous and compassionate. Whatever qualities or virtues we desire to possess may be gained through the art of meditation and the effort to live up to the ideal dwelt upon daily by the mind.
While it is absolutely true that any human being can become that which they desire to be, you can literally raise your self to any ideal you are capable of conceiving. Take heed that you not suppose it can be done in a short time and by intermittent effort. We sometimes hear it said that all we need do is to realize that all power is within us, and then presto, we are the thing we would be! It is quite true that we must realize their existence before we can call the latent powers into expression; but the work of arousing the latent into the active is a process of growth, of actual evolutionary change. It is important to understand that overnight success takes years of actual effort.
Your physical body as it is now is not sensitive enough to respond to subtle vibrations. Its brain is not capable of receiving and registering the delicate vibrations sent outward by the ego, and the task of changing it so that it can do so is not a trifling or easy one. But every effort produces its effect and to the persistent and patient devotee the final result is certain. Understand that it is not a matter of miraculous accomplishment: It is a process of inner growth.
So it is time to decide, you must make up her mind to become what you will to be. While wistful thinking is a good way to start your desire, it is actual effort that will make your desire a reality.
Be Blessed
One of the most important practices to strengthen the will to get such powers and to steadily improve the intellect is the daily practice of meditation. You should be giving most earnest attention to meditation, for it is through this practice that the most remarkable results may be produced in the transformation of your bodies, both the visible and invisible, through which the ego manifests itself in the physical world.
In the degree that your bodies are organized and made sensitive and responsive they cease to be limitations of your consciousness. You develop sensitiveness and responsiveness through meditation, together with proper attention to the purification of the physical and astral bodies; for purity and sensitiveness go together.
Meditation is a subject so very important to the aspirant that certain instructions should be used. The average person, used to the turbulent life of occidental civilization, will find it a difficult matter to control the mind, and to acquire the power to direct it as he desires, even with all the conditions in his favor. So there are only a few guidelines that you will learn here today.
The serene hours of morning are the most favorable of the whole day for meditation. Regular and persistent practice has a magic of its own and so the hour should be the same each morning. To be alone in surroundings as quiet as possible is another essential. The most desirable time for meditation is soon after awakening in the morning. Before turning the mind to any of the business affairs of the day sit calmly down and mediate upon any wholesome thought, like patience, courage or compassion, keeping the mind steadily upon the subject for at least five minutes. That means five minutes on only one thought, at first you will find many thoughts racing through your brain, but with daily consistent practice you will soon be able to think on only one thought for five minutes. When you have accomplished this great feat, you will soon begin to experience miraculous changes in your life.
Two very important things are being accomplished by meditation. First, we are getting control of the mind and learning to direct it where and how we choose; and, second, we are attracting and building into the bodies we possess certain grades of imponderable matter that will make thinking and acting along these lines easier and easier for us until they are established habits and we actually become in daily life patient, courageous and compassionate. Whatever qualities or virtues we desire to possess may be gained through the art of meditation and the effort to live up to the ideal dwelt upon daily by the mind.
While it is absolutely true that any human being can become that which they desire to be, you can literally raise your self to any ideal you are capable of conceiving. Take heed that you not suppose it can be done in a short time and by intermittent effort. We sometimes hear it said that all we need do is to realize that all power is within us, and then presto, we are the thing we would be! It is quite true that we must realize their existence before we can call the latent powers into expression; but the work of arousing the latent into the active is a process of growth, of actual evolutionary change. It is important to understand that overnight success takes years of actual effort.
Your physical body as it is now is not sensitive enough to respond to subtle vibrations. Its brain is not capable of receiving and registering the delicate vibrations sent outward by the ego, and the task of changing it so that it can do so is not a trifling or easy one. But every effort produces its effect and to the persistent and patient devotee the final result is certain. Understand that it is not a matter of miraculous accomplishment: It is a process of inner growth.
So it is time to decide, you must make up her mind to become what you will to be. While wistful thinking is a good way to start your desire, it is actual effort that will make your desire a reality.
Be Blessed
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