New Awareness – Part 5 – Remembering Your Past Joy
“You Are What You THINK”
We’ve all heard the old adage, “you are what you eat.” And the yogic philosophy absolutely supports that notion…and adds to it: you are what you THINK and FEEL and PONDER and…
In fact, all mystical traditions are aware of the impact of all that we consume on determining our reality. The book of Philippians in the Christian Bible puts it this way: Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
After all, the macrocosm is an exact duplicate of the microcosm; the way we perceive the outside world is a result of what is going on in our inside world. So in this final installment of the New Awareness series, we move to cleaning up our microcosm, tending and fertilizing the seeds of joy that are already there, and creating the conditions for them to take root and become the predominant species in our internal reality. And then, as within, so without. As above, so below. May it be so.
