109 - Personal Development as a Catalyst for Achievement

Upgrading existential conditions is more fulfilling than simply enjoying them. Facing the challenge to achieve this arouses dormant human faculties. Therefore, the imperative is to upgrade our personal idiosyncrasies. The clue is in matching our personality features with our objectives: envisioning the way circumstances could be improved triggers off envisioning how we ourselves could be.   If we overlook the importance of our personal growth, we get inveigled into the thirst for our own personal well-being, oblivious to the well-being of our kin-sometimes at their cost-and wallowing in our personal aggrandizement. The price we pay is a defilement of our own personality, sometimes burnout and disenchantment, and sometimes a disinterest in undauntedly upgrading our product.

Creativity is only fulfilling if it is meaningful for humanity. Hence the challenge of updating our creativity calls for the upgrade of our personal qualities and the creative upgrading of our qualities has the effect of upgrading our contribution to the progress of the world in which we live.   How can we work creatively with ourselves to unfurl our personal potentials?

The skill is in enlisting the bounty of the universe, invested in our being, while customizing it in our own unique way. The clue is in continually being aware of our relationship with the Universe as a living being, rather than being encapsulated in our personal vantagepoint and identity. The Sufis call this God consciousness. It is enlisting the knowledge that the Universe acquires of itself through the knowledge that we have of it by arousing its archetypal qualities as the features of our personality, and applying these to foster creative action. By our enchantment and bewondering at the marvel of life, we are moved to project a personal representation of what we imagine God to be into a virtual space. To proceed thus, we arouse the very qualities we ascribe to God, which are lying in wait in our being, and even upgrade them by modeling them on visions of cosmic superlatives.

What are these archetypal qualities thus homonized? They are splendor, nobility, authenticity, mastery, love, joy, radiance, serenity and many more. Thus can we translate these into objects, circumstances, behavior, demeanor, the countenance transpiring through the appearance of our human masks, the reality concealed behind our divisive role-playing, the meaningfulness disclosing itself from behind our mind's ponderous explorations.

A passion for achievement! A passion for embodying in ourselves that miracle that is the universe (God)! A passion for the 'aha' breakthrough of awakening to ever more perplexing realizations! The pull of the future is stronger than the push of the past if we stalk it, but the future is not already there. It is inherent in an infinite host of inexhaustible possibilities. We create it by imagining how circumstances and ourselves might be if they would be as they is inherent in an infinite host of inexhaustible possibilities. We create it by imagining how circumstances and ourselves might be if they would be as they could be.
