Today, there's quite a bit of uncertainty in our lives. Few of us seem to know what's going to happen with the economy -- jobs, layoffs, furloughs, etc. While many of us are frighten because it seems like everyone is frighten. For some victims, this is a sad time in our lives.
Our fears about money, jobs, bills, and so forth have plunged us into deep depression. And it's from this prism that we perceive ourselves existing in the world. Like so many others caught in this financial quagmire, we're waiting on things to get better.
Our leaders are extolling us to hold on, be patient, because things will turn around soon. And since we have been conditioned to believe if we are patient long enough, everything will be okay. Unfortunately, many of us are feeling the pains --the realness of unemployment, mounting debts and imaging bleak futures -- that makes patience our enemy.
For some of us, the job market may have passed us by. While for others, changing technologies have created obsolesce in our lives. Many of us have misconceptions about who we are, and what abilities we have to overcome our current doldrums. While others are waiting, hoping, and praying for something magical to happen. This is our own form of patience.
It is our willingness to believe in magical solutions that keep us tied to victim beliefs. We equate patience with waiting on something to happen rather than doing something to create something different in our lives. In other words, we equate patience with powerlessness.
For some of us, we believe patience is a virtuous act that's empowering us to become more holy, more spiritual. It's an escape mechanism we use to procrastinate and to validate our victim status in the world. And as victims, we find patience to be godly assurances of our existence.
From a victim's perspective, life is always hard. So any downturn in the economy is what we expect. We believe we're some to live within the uncertainties of life. By not know what's happening to us, keep us from accepting responsibility for what's happening to us now. We absolve ourselves of it by blaming in on economic vicissitudes.
The most troubling problem victims face is our unwillingness to acknowledge we are victims of our thinking. By believing we are powerless in certain situations, we embrace negative concepts about the real value of our power.
Whenever we reach the point in our development that we are able to give ourselves power, we immediately change how we think about ourselves. In other words, we redefine our conception about victims. This is the point where we begin to define ourselves as beneficiaries of enlightenment (empowerment). And now we clearly know everyone, including those who believe they are victims, has the power to overcome obstacles already present within them.
Meanwhile, we come to grips with enlightenment being that which we already possess. It is not something we are going to get later on in life. Nor is enlightenment an exclusive privilege for certain people. It is the inherent privilege given to all victims.
Obviously, if we are seriously depressed about something it's difficult to believe this great power already exists in us. Moreover, when we're experience great pain and suffering, it's difficult to separate ourselves from our problems. The magnitude of our problems determine who we believe we are in that moment.
Today, for some of us suffering personal grief, financial difficulties, and deep anger over our present conditions, it seems incredulous to think this great power is within us. Somehow, it just doesn't feel right. There's no visceral realness attached to this notion of power. And there's no visible proof to confirm it. So, we doubt its existence.
Whenever we feel something is missing from our lives, we begin to question what we are doing. We want our lives to be complete; free from pain and suffering. So, if we have lots of money, we buy lots of things. If we crave praise, we do things to give us lots of praise. Yet regardless to the things we do we still cannot escape the feeling that something is missing in our lives.
Nevertheless, we continue to search for what's missing by adding more things into our lives. And by doing so, we create more pain and suffering. While we're busy bringing more things -- people, money, places, and so forth -- into our lives, we believe this is the happiness we need to overcome the pain and suffering in our lives. Unfortunately, this is what's causing the pain and suffering.
Many of us believe we live better with things -- money, status, power, fame, etc. -- because it elevates us beyond the victims we are working desperately to escape from. We dress differently, we talk differently, we walk and basically act as differently as we can from those whom society has bestowed the label of poor and powerless victims.
When we think of living victim-free lives, we believe we have an abundance of power. We imagine we will have this power in the future. It will come from all the hard work we are doing now to change our lives. Some of us believe our newly acquired power will empower us to have more things - people, money, places, and so forth -- to ensure we live our lives more abundantly. This type of thinking is what keeps us tied to victim beliefs.
To extricate ourselves from victim beliefs, we must change our visions of our lives from thinking like victims to like empowered. This is done by using the power already present in us. It's not something new, but something discovered. It is the transformation of the power from within victim consciousness into enlightenment.
The decisions we make are what create victims. Regardless to our status, rich and famous or poor and unknown, we struggle with the notion we are still incomplete. There's more to life than where we are now. The sickness from victim consciousness makes no distinctions about our societal status. We all suffer from the same virus. This means the problems faced by the poor and rich are the same. Both are searching for the missing pieces that will make them feel complete.
The poor and powerless are in this position because of what they think of themselves and their abilities to overcome the habits they have acquired over the years. The same goes for the rich and powerless. In other words, we are poor and powerless or rich and powerless because these are the positions we have thought ourselves into.
In the meanwhile, all that's missing from our lives -- poor, middle-class, rich, and so forth -- is the knowledge of how to access the vast power buried deep in our minds. To do this requires us to make a lifetime commitment to overcoming victim beliefs, and to seeking enlightenment (empowerment).
Whenever we stop thinking we are powerless, we open our minds to see beyond our limitations. We place ourselves in positions to see the limitless possibilities existing in the invisible thoughts in our minds. This empowers us to know victims do have power, we just don't recognize we do.
For some of us on the enlightenment road, who feel from time-to-time as victims, we must know we have the power to change within us. Regardless to the duration of our problems, we must remain committed to achieving our goal of enlightenment.
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