I used to believe that I could manifest things in the universe I could manifest positive things
in my life I could manifest negative things if I thought about it it could happen and it sort of
rules your life so a few times this week you've talked about being surprised at how the universe
will cooperate so I'm trying to understand the connection between that and awareness and I'm
wondering if if you're saying that if you approach people and situations from awareness as awareness
you'll just get a different you'll just get a response that is positive I guess I'm just
trying to clarify whether and I don't think this is true whether awareness will or me as awareness
will still manifest situations or relationships or people that cross your path that are you know
serendipitous situations that are good for you that you can learn from or whether awareness is
basically just it doesn't matter I'm just trying to get that connection or even the other there is
one I think more in this way that the the universe is obviously one whole everything being connected
to everything else and that there are no real discrete separate objects or entities anywhere
in existence the separate object or the separate entity is just a concept a thought a belief so
every every desire or every thought or every action that takes place is truly the action of
the entire universe taking place at that moment so if we have a desire that is informed by this
understanding not just in form but if we truly feel that about ourselves that we are not a
fragment that we are not separate from the other or from the object or from the world and then the
thoughts the feelings and the subsequent desires that we have are impersonal desires they are not
desires of a fragment wanting to unite with an object in order to get happiness for itself
they are truly desires that are on behalf of the whole and because that they are on behalf of the
whole they are fulfilled by the whole it is very easy for the universe to fulfill those
desires but if we have a desire on behalf of a fragment the universe I'm calling it
the universe rather than awareness because to make it more tangible and practical that the
universe can't really fulfill a personal desire so that's why all personal desires are thwarted
we don't we don't get what we want if if our desire comes from a fragment but it's true that
if our desires impersonal the universe tends to fulfill them because they are its own it created
them and it has the power to fulfill them so when I when I would use thought to I I thought that I
was manifesting positive and negative things and then they would happen so I'm still I'm trying
I hear what you're saying about awareness the universe will will things will appear yes but
I should try to have thoughts and and therefore desires that are in line with your deepest love
and understanding when you have a desire just as it arises before you rush headlong to fulfill it
just pause ask yourself on whose behalf is this desire arising does it truly come from from love
from intelligence from peace or does it come from a sense of lack that is seeking through the desire
to acquire an object a substance and activity a state or a relationship in order to give this
fragment happiness and if the desire is coming from that place instead of seeking to fulfill the
desire through the acquisition of the object turn around and question the fragment the sense of lack
or disease or discomfort from which the desire is arising because what you are really seeking
through the acquisition of the object is in fact lying just behind the discomfort you have to go
back through the discomfort this way in order to find what you're truly looking for in the object
out there but if the desire does come from a sense of fulfillment then feel free to act on the desire
and and you can pursue the desire and if the desire is not fulfilled
you won't mind in the least because it was coming from fulfillment you were already
fulfilled so it doesn't matter to you in the least if your desire is not fulfilled
it leaves no trace of longing or disappointment in you thank you