Power of Clarity

After many years of self-condemnation, it's easy for us to forget that we were not born this way. So it is important for us to remember that we were born fully awaken, whole, perfect and complete. And what's causing us so many problems are our beliefs and values, which are responsible for the illusions distorting our perspective of ourselves and the outside world.

Unfortunately, too many of us contine to search for answers outside of our minds. We are constantly going hither and yonder searching for the next miracle. And until we accept that the search for power is in our minds, we will continue to be victimized by the illusions.

We are responsible for our own beliefs and values regardless of where we got them. The more we ignore this fact, the more we condemn ourselves for having to struggle for freedom when it's not necessary for us to do so.

For some of us, our greatest fear is to examine the origins of our beliefs and values. To go deep into our minds and understand that the beatings, abuse, all sorts of molestations, and self-condemnation originally came from others. Unfortunately, when we claimed them as our own, we forgot the powers of mind we have to remove whatever we allow into our minds.

Similarly, some of us choose to remain victims of our illusions. We are too busy running away from ourselves to spend the time understanding the great power we have in our minds.

We want books, people, history, ancestry, and visual information to liberate our minds. Unfortunately, only we can liberate our own individual minds.

It's important for us to remember that our time on this planet is all that we have. We cannot add to our time. So we must use our time to unleash the power in our minds so we can see ourselves, and others without our toxic beliefs and values.

The things -- money, fame, and power -- we are chasing with our time cannot provide us with the clarity we need to see ourselves without our toxic beliefs and values.

Things only take us further away from our already awaken and completed mind. We become prisoners or slaves to our beliefs and values because we believe they make us feel like we are somebody.

As slaves or victims of toxic beliefs and values, we are always searching for answers outside of our minds. In other words, we want someone to liberate or remove the suffering caused by our own unwillingness to accept ourselves as already complete.

All we need to do to express our awareness of completeness is clarity of mind. We must commit ourselves to doing the work to remove the toxic distortions about who we really are, and unleashing the limitless powers of mind within us.