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Litmus Test
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Possibility begets possibility. That's the litmus test
for whether or not what you got is real possibility. There are
actually two degrees of this test for real possibility: the one is
with regard to what you got for yourself, and the other is with
regard to what others get from what you got for
yourself (that's actually articulated correctly, even though it may
not sound like it ie at first).
The first of these two tests is this: whether or not the
possibility you got, continues expanding as if all by
itself in your own life. Possibility has a way, once
gotten, of teasing us to discover it everywhere. Once the
distinction possibility is fully gotten, it can easily
be discovered in places where
nothing
was possible before. The
question
is: is it you discovering possibility in places where
nothing
was possible before? ... or ... is it that possibility
is
showing
up
in places where
nothing
was possible before?
You could say it's either or both. In fact each are accurate, and
each
demonstrates
the hallmark of bringing forth possibility ie its
yardstick if you will: when possibility is gotten then
deployed ie when possibility is
used up,
what results is more possibility not less. Possibility defies the
laws of physics. You can't deplete it. It doesn't come in finite
quantities. It's endless,
vast,
unbounded.
The second test for whether or not what you got is real
possibility, is this: if it continues expanding as if all by itself
in others' lives. Be careful: I don't mean whether or
not, when others get possibility independently, it continues
expanding as if all by itself in their lives, because that's bound
to
happen
just as it did in yours. No, I'm referring to whether or not, when
possibility
shows up
in your life as a result of you having gotten it, it
then
shows up
in others' lives as a result of you
speaking
it. That's not as far-fetched as it may seem: if you look at
your own experience, you'll notice possibility
showed up
in your life as a result of someone else
speaking
it. In this regard, a Lao Tzu dictum "Those who know
don't say, and those who say don't know" at best isn't apropos
inventing possibility, and at worse may be missing it.
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