Joe's Black Dog

Joe's Black Dog
Joe's Black Dog by Marjorie Weiss

15 January 2016

The Law of Pure Potentiality

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'… we are, in our essential state, pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is pure potentiality; it is the field of all possibilities and infinite creativity … Being infinite and unbounded, it is also pure joy. Other attributes of consciousness are pure knowledge, infinite silence, perfect balance, invincibility, simplicity, and bliss. This is our essential nature.'
 
'The experience of the Self, or ‘self-referral’, means that our internal reference point is our own spirit, and not the objects of our experience. The opposite of self-referral is object-referral. In object-referral we are always influenced by objects outside the Self, which include situations, circumstances, people, and things. In object-referral we are constantly seeking the approval of others. Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear based.
 
In object-referral we also feel an intense need to control things. We feel an intense need for external power. The need for approval, the need to control things, and the need for external power are needs that are based on fear … When we experience the power of the Self, there is an absence of fear, there is no compulsion to control, and no struggle for approval or external power.'

Deepak Chopra, 1996, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Bantam Press