Fulfillment

Fulfillment: 

I've always liked the principle of manifesting, first coming across it many years ago through some authors that might be considered "New Age" in their beliefs, and it immediately appealed to me as an almost magical way of fulfilling my desire. My yoga studies at the time explained it in way that seemed to make the most sense, that it's simply a matter of entering an intent, a sankalpa, into the infinite field of pure consciousness and allowing it to align with the potentiality of it's fulfillment. Magical, yes, but also based up sound principles of yogic knowledge. And it worked, right circumstances always seemed to reveal themselves for me to trust the process, patiently detached as the universe cooperated with my intentions and brought my desire to its fruition. 

and yet, there was never fulfillment, or not completely so, as the next desire almost always emerged soon after the first appeared. An endless cycle of desire. Deepak Chopra coined the term "spontaneous fulfillment of desire" and it urges us to follow the synchronicities that naturally appear through the mind that grows quiet with the practice of meditation. Again, into that vast still of consciousness we enter a more general intent of trust, having the good faith that the universe knows exactly what we need for our every need to be met. This has been my practice for many years, it appeals to my growing sense of trust that I am part of an infinite Source that loving guides me on my way through life. 

but even this practice now feels a bit incomplete, as if I am not ultimately trusting that God alone will meet my every need if I just surrender to His love. This is where my long practice of A Course in miracles has led me, that ultimate surrender, complete faith that I am cared for through the love of God. I'll be honest, I'm not quite there yet, close, being on the precipice of this surrender. What I've found, as I'm balancing here on the edge of faith - is that this is now my only true desire, allowing God to be the one fulfillment that has need for another to arise. It's the end of the cycle of desire. Or close to it for me. So as the Course offers in lesson 242:

And so we give today to You. ²We come with wholly open minds. ³We do not ask for anything that we may think we want. ⁴Give us what You would have received by us. ⁵You know all our desires and our wants. ⁶And You will give us everything we need in helping us to find the way to You. (ACIM, W-242.2:1-6)

yes, I'm still on the precipice...

but closer now to finally letting go.

~

I love you, Eric

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