Beyond Appearances

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself." Abraham Maslow“To live affirmatively is to live as God lives, so we must plunge beneath the appearance. Here is where the test comes. We are testing ourselves to see whether we can forget evil and conceive more good, let go of limitation and take hold of the limitless, let go of the appearance and embrace reality.”E. Holmes from www.website.lineone.net/~ernestholmes/holmes2.htmI know we live in a world of limitations, barriers, challenges and contrast, we would not want it any other way! We could not create without the contrast of life to point us to our desires! From the contrast, the struggle, the challenges we are called to a higher, wiser, broader experience of life.Often challenges are not wanted, they are painful and we humans will do anything we can to avoid them. We fight, we worry, and we struggle against the flow of life and each other. All the attention to what we don’t want to experience creates more of that experience because that is where our attention is.What is the appearance that we must plunge beneath? Any appearance or manifestation or feeling of lack, separation, pain… It is not real; it is not Truth, it is limiting ideas appearing as real. Today I look beyond the appearance of lack and limitation in my life and affirm that I am a limitless being, living in a limitless universe, with a limitless desire and I will always, always be loved!