The Power to Liberate our Minds

Let's begin this day by pledging to wake up from the nightmare of victimization and powerlessness.

For us to become enlightened about who we are, and the power we have to overcome pain and suffering, requires an awakened mind. This awakened mind, which comes from self-discovery, provides us with the clarity to perceive ourselves without victim beliefs of powerlessness.

Some of us are aware of the great powers we have to envision ourselves as enlightened individuals free of lack, limitation, and struggle. We are cognizant of the brief moments of clarity we get unexpectedly during certain times of the day. These are the moments when are not focusing on our doubts, fears, worries, and so forth.

Similarly, some of us ignore these moments of clarity, because it's easier for us to deny that it's possible for us to be greater than what we're currently perceiving ourselves as being. And it's this lack of acceptance that inextricably tie us to our current beliefs preventing us from expanding our level of awareness.

As victims of powerlessness, it's never easy to accept ourselves as powerful. We have lived on the bottom of our societies for long that we feel its natural for us to live in this manner. So it's easier for us to accept our powerlessnes than to search for other possibilities to expand our awareness of ourselves and our roles in the world.

Nevertheless, after awhile, and after intense suffering, some of us find it difficult to continue ignoring the sporadic insights of clarity silently exploding within our consciousness. Now we want to know more about these moments of clarity. So we decide to pursue the meaning of this clarity.

As we go deeper into our inquisition, some of us get sidetracked by believing enlightenment comes from others. We want them to tell us how to get enlightenment. And after much time and effort, we begin to believe that it's impossible to completely enlighten ourselves, because we're too besieged by victim beliefs.

While the truth about power is found outside of our victim beliefs, it's still within the vast space of our minds. And unbeknown to many of us is the untapped power we have to conceptualize ourselves in any manner we choose. This is the power of creativity.

The power of creativity is simply the awareness to understand that we are the creators of all our conceptions. A good illustration of this power is to know that we are the ones creating ourselves as victims. The power creating and the created expression, in this case victim, are one; however, the power creating is greater than what it has created.

When we achieve the necessary clarity, we have the limitless power to conceptualize ourselves in any manner we choose. We can envision ourselves with enlightened or victim minds. Unfortunately, many of us are so limited by our current beliefs that we're unable to envision ourselves with power. 

For us to move beyond this point of confusion, we must be willing to enter into self-discovery and understand, basically, what makes us tick.

For us to succeed, we must remain mindful that this is an inner search, not an outer one. Nevertheless, it's one all of us must make if we ever want to discover the limitless power within us.

Meanwhile, our search for authentic power always leads us to self-discovery, which is the path to enlightenment. While enlightenment is our goal, it is also something we already have within us, but we're unaware of its presence.

It's difficult to believe we were born enlightened and taught by our guides to become victims. Yet this is basically what some of us discovered about ourselves after spending several years in self-discovery.

And this is why it's important to remember that we are searching for something we already have within our intuitive (unconditioned by human beliefs) consciousness.

Similarly, we must also remain mindful that the enlightened awareness we seek to express doesn't have its roots in victim consciousness. So it's important to remember we must have compassion for ourselves as we go off on tangents by seeking enlightenment from society or from understanding the environment where we became victims. 

While this type of information is useful in confirming victimization, it's true value is found in leading us to self-discovery. 

Whatever paths we are currently on, we must become mindful of the actions we are expressing to achieve our goal. The intellectual gymnastics of victim beliefs are games we play with ourselves and others who believe in the same things we do.

When we achieve the clarity to understand that there's more to us than what we are currently aware of  being, then we will have found the boundless creative space within our consciousness to express our great power.  For us to  discover this divine treasure, we must search for it while we're in self-discovery.

We cannot overcome victim beliefs by using these same beliefs to liberate our minds.