"Our deepest
fear
is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest
fear
is that we are
powerful
beyond measure. It is our
light,
not our darkness that most
frightens
is."
... Marianne Williamson
"Consider
it so ... and it is" is not just another
locker room banterhypothetical about life and
living.
It's the defining ability we each have which, for the most part (if we
tell
the truth
about it), has become obfuscated by all our concepts about what we're
made up of. So as an ability, it's been left largely unexercised.
Actually here's a better
way
of articulating that, since we really do exercise it all the
time
(we can't not exercise it): "So as an ability, it's
exercised all the
time,
albeit unknowingly.".
The dilemma we
live
with as
human beings,
is whether to
intentionally
rehabilitate that ability and to exercise it to the max (that's the
extraordinarychoice),
or whether to perpetuate the way we wound up, and to allow it to remain
obfuscated. That's the
ordinarychoice
ie the status quo.
At first glance, it
looks
like we may strive to surpass the status quo because we're
afraid
of
being
small. Given the reality of
"Consider
it so ... and it is", it may instead be that what we're really
afraid
of, is
beingbig
ie it may be that what we're really
afraid
of, is
howbig
we could become. That could account for
whypeople
don't
intentionally
surpass the status quo earlier.
Grok the
possibility
that everything you and I do as
human beings,
everything, is
poweredby our consideration
alone.
That's by no
means
the typical
view
of things. Generally our explanations of
how
we do what we do, are more cerebral, intellectual, and rote (and
erroneous) than that. Instead,
consider
yourself making
breakfast:
Voila! You're making
breakfast.
Consider
yourself
walking
... and you're
walking
(listen:
never
mind
that tired, old "I put one foot in front of the other, and then ..."
explanation of
how
you
walk,
because then you have to explain
how
you put one foot in front of the other - so "I put one foot in front of
the other, and then ..."
fails
ie is patently insufficient / inadequate as an explanation of
how
you
walk).
You
consider
yourself addressing a
meeting
... and you're addressing a
meeting.
Like that.