Consciousness
Helps our Choices
By Shelia Shumate
Reprinted with kind permission from
Common Ground Magazine
In the book
Master Yourself, Master Your Life, by Bob Lancer it says "Wisdom
is the conscious control and direction of your forces in the here-now.
It is being conscious of where you are and what you are going through.
By the steady intentional application of awareness throughout your
daily living, a whole new life will gradually open up for you. Through
awareness you will discover your path to inner peace, as a life of
increasing success and fulfillment gradually unfolds. Your actions and
reactions will progressively bring greater peace and order into your
life, and the lives your touch (if they are open to receive these
harmonizing forces)."
Kahlil Gibran
says in his book The Prophet, "No man can reveal to you aught but that
which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.......
And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must
each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his
understanding of the earth."
John Stevens
book, Awareness, "Is based on the discovery that is much more useful
to simply become deeply aware of yourself as you are now. Rather than
try to change, stop, or avoid something that you don't like in
yourself, it is much more effective to stay with it and become more
deeply aware of it.
" Awareness is
to recognize and be mindful of that which comes before one and to have
a consciousness of its existence, according to the Donning
International Encyclopedic Psychic Dictionary.
Know
by Claire Kire
Know that more is possible than you think if you really want and
believe.
Know that your eyes can never see as clearly as your heart
Know that wisdom is in hearing and believing your own voice
Know that giving is never losing and that giving freely is the
semicircle that completes itself in receiving
Know that to
want nothing is as selfish as to give nothing
Know that sharing cannot be true unless you keep enough for yourself
Know that no one can live your pain or joy
Know that sharing both is to recognize and value yourself and the
other Know that no one can tell you who you are and that friends can
only stand by while you make your discoveries
Know that help doesn't always appear in the way you may expect or
demand
Know that what you think you want may be inferior to what you receive
Know that second best may really be second-arrived
Know that no matter who walks with you no one can walk your journey
for you
Know that often you may feel you are walking alone
Know aloneness is a bounty from which you may choose what you want
Know that you are never alone when you know who you are
When you realize
that you are the light of the world, you will also realize that you
are the love of it; that to know is to love and to love is to know.
Each shift to a
higher consciousness makes the next shift easier ...Sanaya Roman
"Consciousness
... is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made
known".. Roger Penrose
Alan Watts once
said "The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality
to be experienced".