We are whatever our beliefs and values confirm us to be. And for most of us, the illusions of the world are manifestations of our likeness created from these beliefs. This means we perceive life and others in every detail according to our beliefs and values.
Some of us on the enlightenment path are working on achieving the clarity of mind to understand how we got our beliefs and values. We are willing to let go, stop holding on to our current perspectives of ourselves and others.
On the enlightenment path, many of us are aware that our minds are the source of our beliefs and values. We are aware that our minds are responsible for all our actions, which means we are responsible for them.
This means we must awaken our minds to accept responsibility for our beliefs and values, and the responsibility for creating the clarity to liberate our minds from them. And with this clarity, we become aware that our beliefs and values originated from outside of our minds.
Similarly, we understand that the liberation we seek is found only in our minds. This is not a collective of the masses, nor is it one of acceptability from others. This is strictly an individual action we all must take on our own.
Nevertheless, some of us continue to seek approval or acceptance from others. We seek their counsel on the merits of powers of mind, and if we are doing the right thing. This is done partly from habit, and because it's what we have been taught all our lives to do.
Some of us become easily disheartened by what others have to say about our work. And since we value their opinions, we try to make our work more acceptable to their beliefs and values. We are reluctant to go too far away from acceptable beliefs and values.
One of our greatest obstacles to powers of mind is other people. We must liberate our minds to know we cannot take family, friends, and others with us on this journey. This is strictly an individual, inner-mind journey.
Our social dependency and attachment to others' beliefs and values are responsible for our powerlessness. Whenever we seek approval from others to use our powers of mind, we embark on a heuristic journey into the illusions. And it's within the illusions that we focus our minds on what's happening outside of us rather than inside.
Meanwhile, when we awaken the powers of mind in us, we empower ourselves to create enlightened beliefs and values. These beliefs and values come from our intuitive-unconditioned consciousness. In other words, they come from outside the scope of the world's perspective of who we are.
Awakening our minds begin with the awareness of how we developed our minds. This requires self-discovery, courage, and understanding of the information we received from our parents, society, and experience.
Many of us are unwilling to go this deeply into our minds. We find it too difficult to believe that our parents were victims of their own beliefs and values. Yet this awareness and its corollary effects are the source of our confusion about who we are.
To awaken our minds is an arduous journey on the path less traveled. It's the path that only a few of us are willing to travel. It's a lonely journey. A journey without our Guides or our current beliefs and values.
Nevertheless, powers of mind is the only Guide we will need on this journey. This is our enlightenment.
Powers of Mind is the source of everything we know and will ever know.
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