The Light from the Darkness of our Minds

When we stop the busy work and quiet our minds to hear beyond the victims' voices, there's a deep pain in the darkness of our minds that's screaming for our help. This unbearable pain lives and thrives in our victim consciousness.

Now that we are working diligently to overcome the pain and suffering in our lives, the cancerous victim cells can no longer thrive in our minds. That's why, suddenly, they are screaming, albeit silently, for us to release them from our illumined thoughts so they can seek new hosts (victims).

Whenever we hear the silent screams in our minds, we know we have found the passage to our intuitive consciousness -- that part of our minds that remain unconditioned, unchanged by our dysfunctional victim behavior.

From this awaken position, which most of us have already achieved, we can now become our own spiritual enablers. This action means we are now responsible for changing our actions. And with this level of responsibility, we must remain awake to know that we must change our emotional, psychological, spiritual and physical diet and exercise programs.

Furthermore, when we assume responsibility for our actions, we also assume responsibility for overcoming the deleterious victims' beliefs causing us to think we are too helpless to solve our own problems.

From the personal responsibility perspective, we know that God, the Creator, has endowed us with the power to make choices about what we eat, the types of people we associate with, the manner in which we treat others, and the type of jobs or careers we devote our life hours.

The road to enlightenment (empowerment) runs through our minds. It's not in another person, place, or thing. It's not on television, in a best-selling book or in a building. The truth about us is found only in our thoughts and actions. Our actions are exact impressions of our thoughts.

For many of us, our thoughts don't seem that important when we are deciding to attach ourselves to some person, place or thing. We do it so naturally; as effortless as blinking our eyes. Yet it this effortless action that causes us to become slaves (victims) to our thoughts.

In the meanwhile, we can accept ourselves as victims or we can act to free ourselves by becoming masters of our thoughts. For us to master our thoughts, we first must understand how they function, where they get their power, and what's their purpose.

We can begin by examining our own thoughts to see how they are functioning. We clearly know they get their power from us, and we also know their purpose is to create pain and suffering in our lives. With this awareness, we are in a position to change how we think and live.

The first thing we need to do is change the purpose of our thoughts from thinking as victims to thinking as empowered individuals. To do this, we must establish a clear goal (vision) of us existing without pain and suffering. We must focus on this goal until we feel the realness of it. Now we can embrace it, nurture it to life. And we must work on this everyday in much the same manner as we work on our jobs.

Similarly, since this is our job, and we are accustomed to being paid for our work, we must change our thinking about compensation. In our new jobs as enlightenment-seekers, we are compensated based on the hours we work each day. If we spend eight hours working on our vision, we will be compensated with more enlightenment insights than if we work only thirty minutes.

Nevertheless, when we seek enlightenment (empowerment), the rules of life change. We must be willing to embrace the new rules without comparing them to the old ones. They are what they are, different and more rewarding.