The I Ching teaches that there is
a place within each of us where the forces of action and receptivity are in
proper balance and one experiences true power. Keep a mental picture of cooking
with a pot of water over an open fire.
― Carol Osborn How Would Confucius
Ask for a Raise?
Elimination of something from
your life is always an indication that something better is on the way.
Elimination not only takes something from you, but it also gives something to
you.
― Catherine Ponder Open Your
Mind to Receive
Given heat and oxygen, the wood
burns and releases heat to the pot. The molecules in the pot become more active
the pot heats, and transmits that heat to the water within. As the water heats,
any food placed within begins to break down so that its nutrients are more
readily digestible. The receptive wood receives the heat and oxygen and becomes
active. The receptive pot and water each receive the active heat energy and
become active transmitters of that heat to the receptive food. The active chef
begins, monitors, and ends the process by serving the food so the receptive
diners may actively receive the benefit of the fire and the food.
All of life requires passive absorption
of data, nutrients, wisdom, and all else, that makes life possible. However,
all of life from the single-celled plants and animals to humans has a balancing
activity and in some way actively seeks what is required. Our prosperity
balance begins as active thought or imaging coupled with receptive thought as observation,
which inspires further action. We may strategically plan, pray, predict, follow
religious signs or oracles, in order to do the right things and be at the right
places to receive our prosperity.
We actively, seek, knock, and
ask, passively find, allow the opening doors, and hear our answers. Then we
actively receive and use what we receive to move us into greater ability to
relax and allow as well as move what we must move to eliminate the blocks to
receiving and allowing and to active seeking.
In my own experience, I am
delighted when I drop a judgment and open my mind to new observation only to
discover that the situation I thought was difficult and time intensive resolved
itself smoothly and beneficially for all. Imagine our ancestors on the ocean
and faced with a curving horizon of water. They thought the world was a flat
circular plain and that it had edges to fall from. No wonder it took so long
for someone to deliberately seek to navigate the oceans to other lands. We
still have an expression that reflects that belief when we say, “all the ends
of the earth,” to describe a long and wandering journey.
When we eliminate our resistance
to passive thinking or to active doing and embrace both with equal interest, we
involve our entire spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical being in our
quest to enjoy all of the prosperity that is ours right here and right now.
Now, I release every
preconception both those I notice and those that I have buried deep in my subconscious.
I open my mind to see the information, facts, and possibilities of my life. I
open my heart to feel the vital intensity of love and peace in every moment. I
open my will to receive passively and to do all that is mine to do. I live now
in perfect prosperity balance with easy grace and so it is.
John
John Lusk
“First
you ask definitely for direction, then it will enter your consciousness as a
definite thought; then in your turn you give it back the thought and it will
give you back the thing. It answers every question, solves every problem; it is
the solution to every difficulty.” Ernest Holmes
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