Searching for Power in our Minds

It's never too late to trust ourselves. Even after lifetimes of searching for power in things -- money, people, fame, places, and so on -- we can remain confident that the real power is in our minds.

This power, our unconditioned consciousness -- that part of our mind that remains free of human illusions -- is what connects us to our Creator. Some of us distrust our unconditioned consciousness, because we don't understand how it works,

Nevertheless, it's our unconditioned consciousness, sometimes referred to as intuitive consciousness or inner-power, that allows us to free ourselves from the illusions that are ruling the world. This consciousness exists as just being. It doesn't have to be anything. Yet it can become anything it imagines itself to be.

Throughout human history, we have been taught by the great ones that "The Kingdom of Heaven is within."  Or that to end suffering, we must accept personal responsibility for it, and to clear our minds so that we are able to perceive life without distortions or illusions.

The greatest barrier to clarity or spiritual awakening is found in our beliefs and values. We draw our psychological and emotional sustenance from the beliefs and values taught to us by our parents, society, and confirmed by our illusions.

When we embody confusing beliefs and values honed from centuries of illusory teachings, we lose our connection to the unconditioned consciousness in our minds. And the more we believe in things -- money, people, fame, places, and so on, the greater our struggles become with the illusions.


Similarly, it's important for us to know this world and its illusions cannot provide us with the clarity we seek. It can only provide us with what it has to give to us, which are the illusions it has created for us.

We must remember that the illusions exist to remind us that there is no power, except that which comes from the illusions. Everything we know about ourselves and the outside world came from them. This includes, education, language, religion, ethics, and so forth.

Some of the great teachers of the past taught us to accept that we were "born into a world of sin or suffering." Today, some of us know and accept this as an universal truth. We know we must find the clarity to perceive ourselves with power and remove the prism of distortions causing us to believe the illusions are the only possible reality

Meanwhile, the teachings of the enlightened ones remain plain and simple: the power we seek is within our minds. Some of us make their teachings complicated or out of reach by coloring them with our own beliefs and values.

We must remember that the power they used thousands of years ago is also available and present in our minds today. And contrary to what the illusions tell us, this power is in all of our minds. It is not limited to the few people defined by the illusions.

So as we search for our inner-power, we must also remember that The Creator is not bound by human illusions nor by our interpretations of who can receive this power. We are the ones limiting ourselves by embodying beliefs and values that define us as less than others.

When we gain the confidence in ourselves that is sufficient enough to understand the illusions we believe in, we will know that unconditioned consciousness is not controlled by the illusions, nor by the beliefs and values we hold as sacrosanct.

Unfortunately, too many of us believe we must look to others for our enlightenment. We worship other people and elevate them above ourselves without ever asking ourselves: Who are we? We forget that discrimination is a human illusion.

Similarly, it's our forgetfulness that causes us to play mind games with the illusions. We worship them by denigrating ourselves. In other words, we mitigate the great power in our minds so that we can pretend to be helpless and powerless.

There are no rewards for those of us who allow our minds to be conquered by the illusions of this world. The rewards are for those who are able to conquer the illusions. And to do this we must lose ourselves (beliefs and values) to find ourselves (enlightenment, without the illusions.)

Each one of us has the potential to express this power, if we stop searching for it in things outside of ourselves. The enlightenment we seek is found in our own minds.