Something that can greatly benefit me is the progression of my spiritual awareness.

Accumulation of anything physical never lasts. This small gap of time we are presented with is like a grain of sand standing within a universe. However we become preoccupied with its existence but outside this tiny window stands a far greater world.

By progressing our spiritual knowledge we raise our understanding, awareness and realisation to levels where we are no longer bound by the idea that we have to die. At this stage we come to know and realise eternity.

Realisation cannot be taught, attempted or read about, it has to be experienced.

By transcending the material consciousness while in the physical body, this releases our physical consciousness and the entrapment that bounds us to this realm.

This is not to say we need neglect our life but spiritual advancement in this incarnation will be of much greater use than anything else we could accomplish if we truly want to serve the bigger picture and be free from the wheel of life.

However everyone is at different stages and many will live many more lives serving many different purposes. Once they have served these purposes they will tire of the illusion and seek a greater life from this one. Then a person will seek.

I realise now that nothing I take with me from this life apart from my comprehension of truth will serve me. And so all else seems little in comparison to this truth.

As a person realises this nothing else is as important any more. This is because everything else that was once important a person now understands was simply a stepping stone to reach their realising of the illusion.

There is no going back.

There is a choice in recreating over and over again another play but once the realisation has set in there is no going back. It is then that a person thinks they have a choice, they can release themselves from this incarnation, try to hold onto the old ways or take the natural progression of knowing they are here to serve others.

Currently I am exploring the theme of strength in my life and I find the whole subject really powerful. The mind is amazing when we learn to use it correctly but dangerous when it uses us.

One aspect of strength is the choice to face whatever is using our minds destructively.
Defeat accepted within the mind is destructive. Defeat is squashed by strength but we have to believe in goodness.

Life never took us to a tree to hang us, it took us to show us how to climb. Every obstacle is an opportunity. Life wants to give us the best but we must accept this version while strength requires the belief in accepting this. If life took you to a tree what is it asking you to do?

If you get to the top of the tree, what are you going to see? Think about it.

Life isn’t there to stop you; it just wants to show you another way that you’re presently not considering. It’s the reason why you’re not getting where you want to be. (You don’t always have the answers from your limited human perspective).

Many people in life will have you believe that the rope attached to the tree is there to hang you but it could be there to assist you? Will you ignore the rest and approach the tree without fear but instead faith, or will you reach the finishing point in life that so many succumb to.

Few people choose to accept the positive role of life in helping us to become the best and most powerful we can. It is safer to believe the rest and accept life is bad and nothing but bad happens. Be like the rest and see what happens.

If you want to change you are going to require strength. To use strength requires an acceptance in not always knowing what’s best for you but acquiring a belief that if you show up without fear, life will show you the ropes.

Below are some personal quotes I would like to share on the subject of strength:-

If you don’t know your strength how will you find it? You find strength by using it.

Strength happens when we least expect it. It is “that moment” that demonstrates strength. No amount of planning, conversation or reading can amount to the same level of experience. To know strength is to experience it.

Strength gives us what we need at exactly the right moment; it is our choice to take it.

When we accept the weakness of who we are, can we truly accept our strength.

Sometimes strength is coming out of the person who you are, into the person you were afraid to become.

The strength that I see is the weakness I am. That weakness is my strength to see.

Strength calls for us to take it and move on.

Strength is courage.
Courage is willingness.
Willingness is surrender.
Surrender is strength.