The Magic In Your Mind

Today I want to share an excerpt from a book by a man named Uell S. Anderson. The title of the book is The Magic in Your Mind and more of it is available online at; http://uellandersen.wwwhubs.com/

 

We exist in order that we may become something more than we are, not through favorable circumstance or auspi­cious occurrence, but through an inner search for increased awareness. To be, to be­come, these are the commandments of evolving life, which is go­ing somewhere, aspires to some un­sealed heights, and the awak­ened soul answers the call, seeks, grows, expands. To do less is to sink into the reactive prison of the ego, with all its pain, suffering, limitation, decay, and death. The man who lives through reaction to the world about him is the victim of every change in his en­vironment, now happy, now sad, now victorious, now defeated, af­fected but never affecting. He may live many years in this manner, rapt with sensory perception and the ups and downs of his surface self, but one day pain so outweighs pleasure that he suddenly per­ceives his ego is illusory, a product of outside circumstances only. Then he either sinks into complete ani­mal lethargy or, turning away from the senses, seeks inner awareness and self-mastery. Then he is on the road to really living, truly becoming; then he begins to uncover his real potential; then he discovers the miracle of his own conscious­ness, the magic in his mind.

Mastery over life is not attained by dominion over ma­terial things, but by mental perception of their true cause and nature. The wise man does not attempt to bend the world to fit his way or to coerce events into a replica of his desires, but instead strives for a higher consciousness that enables him to perceive the secret cause behind all things. Thus he finds a prominent place in events; by his utter har­mony with them he actually appears to be molding them. He moves effortlessly through the most strenuous action, the most per­ilous times, because his attunement with the mental force that con­trols the universe guides him to perform the work that needs to be done.

If you liked that excerpt then I also recommend meditation audios by Kelly Howell which are based on the works of Anderson.

Merry Christmas!