Limited or Limitless?

There's something that is really troubling to me about the way some of those I care about see themselves in life.....

They see themselves as LIMITED.

Limitations, of all sorts are imposed. Either self imposed, mentor imposed, or circumstantially imposed. But....does that mean that because someone or something, or even you yourself make it seem like you are limited in a situation....that you actually ARE?

I don't believe so....not even the tiniest bit....with any bit of fiber in my being.  In any circumstance, the only limit that exists is failure to try.   Even if YOU don't consider your attempt a success.....that is a limitation your own thoughts put on the outcome.  My question to you if you constantly say to yourself....'I failed'.....is, did you learn from what happened? If so, its not a failure....you moved forward.  Even the tiniest realization....down to, well, there's a better way, or even....well, that didn't work.....means you learned you need to look for another door. 

Even in walking with the Lord and Lady.....if you believe in your being that they know you, hear you, and dwell with you.....and you live and walk with that....there are NO limits to what you can do on that path, for those around you....and for this world.  But if you live your path in the light that there is a ceiling.....that you are small, weak, and unable to stand, you simply won't.

I see this being taught EVERYWHERE.....that we are limited in our potential.  Who in the world decided for you that you can't do something?  And why....when you have already come this far in life, do you want to listen to that?  (I'm sick....I can't. Its just not in my make up....I can't.  It's always been that way...it always will be.)

I've learned something about people.....let me share a big glaring truth that people treat as secret....

If someone tells you you can't do something....or when someone tells you you can't rise above something....its because THEY are missing that drive within themselves.  If YOU tell yourself you can't change.....you won't. You have to want to. You have to have the drive to do it.  Limitation is one of the biggest lies people tell themselves....and believe as though there is no other truth.

I have a confession to make.....

I used to sit wallowing in limitations.   My parents had to tell me that 'CAN'T' isnt a part of my vocabulary....and they never stopped pushing me. I fought SO hard to prove them wrong....they'll tell you, I was a royal pain.  I fought against everything that was difficult....with nails and teeth. And it was ME that was wrong.  As I began to grow, people got scared. and I started to get bold. But I was confused too. I would hear things like....

'But what are you going to do if this happens?  You don't have it all planned out.'  

 'I don't think its a good idea if you do that....'

"What are you going to do when there is no one there to help you?'

I let each one of these questions stop me in my tracks even after becoming bold.... for a very long time....and I began to doubt myself again. I began to think....ya know what?  I DON'T have it all planned out. I don't KNOW what I would do in a given situation when I have to rely on myself....so I just can't do it.  

For a long time, I swallowed the feelings others shared that THEY had.....that the fact I DIDN'T know, was something that was unacceptable, and not ok.  And I stopped living. I barricaded myself with the fears and limitations of those feelings. I allowed the bubble to be built around me....because others wanted me safe.  THEIR idea of safe for me.

All these questions and fears were out of love, and were real in THEIR lives.... it was their insecurity coming out.  I made the mistake of letting it block me...not realizing the truth. And, I wasn't at all satisfied with life, with myself, or living with hope for the future. Until one day....I decided it wasn't good enough for me to stay in the bubble.  It dawned on me.....

NO one has life all planned out.....and if they say they do, it doesn't work the way they planned......
Your life is not a good idea for someone else to live.....because its not theirs.

No one has all the answers for every circumstance. 

And the truth is.....

ITS OK!!!!!!

This is true for our sacred path with the Lord and Lady too.  We DON'T have a complete understanding of our own character. That, is what we are here to learn. To love who we are..... and realize that we ARE perfectly made to be exactly what we are.  

Sometimes those in the position of teaching us about our spiritual selves, get stuck in their own struggle to feel adequate.  They get stuck in saying we all have character flaws that we can't overcome....because we're human.  

That's true...IF you look at life as though its something that is pass/fail.   To me, that makes no sense when they also say that God knows the outcome.  It's sort of twisted if you give it thought.....its basically being taught that God knows your life is going to be graded as a failure before you are born.....but you are here to struggle and fail....and you are loved. 

 ?????? 

We're listening to other people, on the same journey....try to teach us the way.

Who really knows enough walking on this earth to judge a Character flaw beyond one they know well in their own life? And if they feel they can't rise above that flaw, it stands to reason due to their self built comfort bubble that they want you to believe YOU can't rise above it either?

My thoughts at this point my my journey are this:

Listen to your heart.

What if there is no FAILURE in this life?  What if the supreme truth is exactly this.....that the journey is toward self love, and love of others....and that through things seen as evil, abhorrent, awful....and as  what we term Character flaws....are what help us turn inward, and see our own inner light?  What's seen as a flaw in me through some eyes.....MIGHT be what is admired through other eyes.....who knows? It's about self perspective....and loving others...as well as ourselves, and our surroundings.

Think about this.....

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

For now we see in a mirror dimly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

And now abides faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

YOU are the light of the world.....

Love and Light.....

Blessed be.....

Namaste

We Shall OVERCOME

Be LIMITLESS in your view of the world around you......and the doors that are closed around you now, will open up to a whole NEW reality.