Sometimes it's very difficult to think about the magnitude of our problems. We would rather daydream about something pleasurable. Yet it is from the daunting realm of our consciousness, the part where we're afraid to go, that we must begin our journey to overcome the beliefs creating the problems in our lives. And even when we doubt our resolve to confront and overcome our problems, we must extricate ourselves from the muddled miasma of powerlessness.
When we really get serious about working on ourselves, we begin to release the tightness pressing down on our minds and keeping us inextricably tied to victim beliefs. After a while, and after intense personal development work, we can feel the freedom of perceiving the world without the judgments created by years of culturally developed .victim beliefs. While this feeling of freedom has always been available to us, even in those moments when we doubt ourselves, it's exhilarating to experience it in the midst of intense pain and suffering.
The beginning of any journey, particular one to enlighten ourselves, begins with the recognition that we want to travel beyond the place we are now. That is, we want to travel within the spaciousness of our minds to a place where we feel free of victim beliefs. This is the place where we get our tools to burn the victim beliefs growing uncontrollably in our consciousness. It is where we gain the strength and clarity to eliminate our victim beliefs, at least we can understand and not be frightened of them.
Some of us are too afraid to sit in the same place with our victim beliefs. We're too afraid of them. Even though these beliefs represent who we are, we believe they are what make us normal like others. In some situations, we proudly exhibit them as part of our victim entourage. So whenever we show up somewhere, we expect people there to recognize that we have an entourage of victim beliefs manifesting themselves as money, status, intellect, charisma, power, and any other illusions we want to create.
Meanwhile, it is our work that enlightens us. It is our ability to trust that we are greater than the illusions we have created in our lives. Although this is a very difficult task, we can do it if we really want to eliminate the victim waste from our consciousness. We can also decide to entrust our lives to the illusions and remain trapped in the miasma of victim beliefs and powerlessness. However, if we decide to entrust our lives to our enlightenment visions, then we have the opportunity to discover the freedom we need to overcome the illusions causing our problems.
For some of us, we find it too difficult to believe, actually believe, we are powerful. We have been wasting away for so long in the illusions of victimhood that we believe enlightenment exists only in some far away place, which we know nothing about. So whenever we hear someone discuss enlightenment, we interpret this to mean an unattainable place existing outside of us, at least while we're in our current condition of human suffering. This place of enlightenment is where we believe eternal happiness exists. Unfortunately, we don't believe it exists within our consciousness.
Nevertheless, whether we agree or not, we can only search for enlightenment within ourselves. There's no mechanism for us to use in our search, except the beliefs we use to define our behavior as good or bad. Everything we believe is good or bad is within our consciousnesses. It is only within our consciousness that we can discover the limitless power of the universe expressing itself perfectly in our lives.
Every belief within us is perfectly expressed in our behavior. We don't have to struggle to express victim beliefs. We express these beliefs effortlessly and exactly, in every detail, according to the illusions expressing themselves in our behavior. It is here, in the unconditioned consciousness, that we must find the tools to burn away the beliefs causing us to suffer. And it is in our unconditioned consciousness -- the part of us that remains free of our human development -- where we discover the enlightenment to provide us with the happiness missing from our lives.
There are some of us who believe it is blasphemous to say that enlightenment is within us and not in some far away place that none of us can describe with any clarity. Many of us accept this description of enlightenment, because it allows us to remain as victims in the world. The place we are seeking is found within us. It's not somewhere unknown to us. It's not hidden from us, except when we create the illusions to deceive us into believing our happiness is somewhere other than within us.
The deeper we go into our consciousness, the more we're able to see and respect the vastness that's there. There's so much awareness -- limitless expressions of life -- that's hidden from us. We are too overcome by our illusions to search for these mansions -- limitless expressions of life -- available to us. Yet it is from our illusory awareness that we define happiness, the universe, and everything else happening in our lives. So if we change our beliefs -- spiritual and secular -- about the location of enlightenment, then we quickly discover our awareness to be nothing more or less than our beliefs.
Similarly, the happiness we seek is in the enlightenment we seek. We cannot discover enlightenment while we're besieged by victim beliefs constantly reminding us to search for it outside of ourselves.
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