Apparently this is an upsetting statement from “Zero Limits” : “You have to give up the idea that people do things for you. They do things for themselves.”

“Joys of Much Too Much” has something similar: “Over the years I’ve learned as both an employer and a job seeker that you can presume nothing nor can you assume that what you think is obvious appears that way to the rest of the world. It rarely does.”

Dooley in “Infinite Possibilities” says: “We live lives that are so personal and individual.”

“Our lives are far more personal, precious and unique, than we’ve been taught and this is because they e fr more a product of how and what we think than they are of evolution or destiny.”

“It’s far more accurate to think that we all sit alone in our own movie theaters. Apart from life’s unchanging principles, we all live by different rules and truths based upon different beliefs.”

But Esther Hicks, Martha Beck and Neale Walsch would counter by saying that in truth we are all one.

So in my life, I use the Ho’oponopono strategy. I no longer try to fix everything. I trust the Divine in me to accomplish what i can’t.

Let’s listen to Martha Beck: “All of us have been taught to make things happen in the physical world. We know what it takes: setting goals, rolling up our sleeves, putting pleasure aside, and working, working, working, working, working. Then it helps if we work harder. Often we need others to help us work, so we must work to find them and work to motivate them with physical rewards (food,money, companionship,
approval) and?or physical punishment (pink slips, prison, breakups, criticism).

All of this is hard. It demands much time and effort from both the body and the calculating mind. As Genesis reminds us: ‘ In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return’. ”

Somber statements. And to make matters worse Ms Beck had to use archaic language to quote the Bible. Lucky for me, several of my favorite books counter the Statements of M. Beck.

“Blood, sweat and tears aren’t what it takes to make real change. Instead it’s your imagination, beliefs and expectations that draw you into action, circumstances and coincidences that make dreams manifest and inevitable.” Mike Dooley’s “Infinite Possibilities” speaks as though there are no obstacles just possibilities.

“You Are the Answer by M Tamura explains obstacles thus: “When we are in resistance, we give our power away to the very object of our resistance.”

“Working on Yourself Doesn’t Work” says: “If you resist something, at best you narrowly define yourself against the thing you are resisting, at worst you become just like the very thing you resist.”

I will end this musing on a positive note: by praying according to the “Artist’s Recovery” : Teach me to trust that I deserve joyfully and peacefully to be my creative self as an act of worship to you.”

“In essence, the only way to grow spiritually, know ourselves, or be of essence, is to embrace the sense of being out of control, just as the caterpillar knows that by entering the cocoon and abandoning the security of his many legs he is being offered the abundant freedom which is the butterfly.” That is from a favorite book: “Spiritual Alchemy” by Dr Christine Page.

I am still inside a cocoon though I’m turning 71 tomorrow. Because of a mild stroke in 2012 I no longer have the security of my left leg and I’m not about to abandon the security of my right leg. I am still not ready for the abundant freedom offered by flying out of control.

I still want to hang on to some of my old, limiting beliefs simply because they they have been of service in the past and are not part of the dark, scary unknown. My many books promise a bright future but Ive always been risk-aversed.

Andrew Weill’s advice is “I am comfortable with uncertainty, and I advise you to learn to be as well. We live in an uncertain universe.”

According to the “Urban Shaman”: “All meanings are made up and the absolute truth is whatever you decide it is”

Dr Page says: “This may sound sacrilegious and I have no wish to trample on anybody’s beliefs. However, I believe that breaking this spell is an essential part of remembering, allowing each of us to reconnect to a deeper, inner truth, the soul of the universe and essentially with the Oneness of the Divine.”