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Sunday, January 15, 2006

POSSIBILITY OUR ESSENTIAL NATURE


We all showed up in, and are part of a field of Infinite Possibilities. No matter what we contemplate, no matter what we fix upon, something else is always there – available – waiting for us to notice. We live in a multi-dimensional spectrum of available experiences that are waiting for us to choose and say “Yes” to.

A "higher consciousness" is awareness of that field of All Possibilities – infinitely creative, free, unbounded, joyful and powerful. This is our intrinsic nature. It's the stuff we're made of.

You already know this; you once lived in that knowing: at the time you just weren’t aware that you knew it. Then one day someone who loved you very much started selling you on their idea of Limitation. They weren’t being nasty – a condition of limitation was their reality (sold on to them by their parents) and they wanted you to “know the score” so that you could grow up to be at least as happy and fulfilled as they were. Bit by bit you sold out on your possibility and defined a set of boundaries for yourself.

We all did it. We traded unlimited possibility for a more “realistic” condition of Limitation and Lack. Except for rare, fleeting moments of inspiring expansiveness generated perhaps by the presence of a magnificent sunset, the first cry of our firstborn child, an inspiring phrase of music, the touch of a beloved one……..we lost touch almost completely with the grandeur of Possibility -- our very nature.

Looking at it from a wider perspective, however, is it possible that this process was immensely creative?
It has been said that a fish doesn’t know water until it is out of it. It has also been said (by T.S. Eliot in “Little Gidding”) …….”and when we come to the end of our days we will arrive at the place where first we began, and know that place for the first time” Is it possible that there have been no mistakes?
Maybe we deliberately (as distinct from consciously) got lost in order to find who we truly are. Is it not a possibility that what we’re looking for is what we already are, waiting to be re-cognised? What we’ve been reaching for is out of reach – it is too close.

Possibility only needs a “Yes” for it to become accessible. Let go of the desire for it: desire separates you from it (you can only reap more desire from seeds of desire). Release any attachment to what you think the outcome should be. Let life itself take care of the details.

Isn’t it possible, though, that nothing is possible? Sure, if you believe that. Anything is possible, including nothing, if that's the way you want it. Possibility is happening in and around you right now whether you are aware of it or not. What’s separating you from what you say you want is desire, and barrage of filters and firewalls you’ve surrounded yourself with for “protection”.

How do you get out of your self-made prison? Say “Yes” to the possibility that your prison is an illusion, blinding you to the presence of what you thought you’d lost.

Possibility is where you left it -- waiting for you to come home.

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