Paradox
The way to personal power is to accept powerlessness. The way to abundance is to detach from the material. If someone special is to remain in our life they need to be free to leave.
Paradox after paradox emerges from personal growth and metaphysical inquiry. At least that is the way it seems to be. The greatest paradox of all is that there is no paradox. All paradox comes from the belief that there is separation between the physical self and the spiritual self.
When we believe ourselves to be physical, and only physical, then all information is processed as a reaction to outside influences. Information that comes in about outside events is processed from a defensive stance of fear, shame and aloneness. Our reaction is to throw our response defiantly back at the world.
Where there is no separation of self, information from outside is carried through our physical being the spiritual being within. Then answers based on inner knowing come back to the physical being and we act on these answers in the outside world.
In the first case, answers are a reaction to a seemingly hostile environment, whilst in the second they come from within, as guidance rather than reaction. Is it any wonder then that, with 'answers' coming from opposite directions, there is an appearance of paradox?
The basic problem is that we, the human race, work back to front. Something happens outside, we make a judgement in the cognitive brain that the event is good or bad, and then apply a standard answer to the event. No free will. We just react to everything that happens with a standard right-or-wrong decision, and the consequences that follow are beyond our control.
War is an automatic consequence of judging right and wrong. So are greed, poverty and prejudice. We have no free will to change the consequence until we forget right and wrong.
If the event is seen without judgement we can then decide what consequences we want, and our inner knowing will guide us to those consequences.
The judgement of right and wrong is a barrier between the physical world and our real self. We are not our brains, we are not our belief system, we are who we are: the ghost in the machine. When our brains make judgements about right and wrong we cannot be heard. The brain simply does not allow our will to be heard in the physical world.
Paradox. We do what we 'think' is right and the results are not what we want. Everybody is right; nobody gets what they want. This is the result of back-to-front thinking. We never get what we want; we can never be happy.
Working the other way around changes that. The first thing that changes is that the person is free to decide what they really want rather than what the outside world tells them they should want. That is a major step forward. The ghost now controls the machine; no longer is it the machine trying to control the outside world without reference to the self (another name for the ghost in the machine).
Having found that what we really want is often quite different from what we are told we want, we can decide how to bring about the consequences we do want. Often what we need to do is opposite to what we think we should do. Follow your intuition.
Paradox. Intuition is seen as a funny sort of feeling from within. We often ignore it and later find we should have listened. It is seen somehow as a mysterious thing.
The reality is that intuition is not at all mysterious; it is the self trying to get past all the mind chatter of right and wrong. We do not have intuition, Intuition is communication from ourselves trying to get past the mind chatter about right and wrong.
The Paradox is that once we learn to listen and act on our intuition it goes away. The funny feeling only comes when we are going to act in a way that is contrary to what we really want. Once we listen to what we really want there is no need to have a funny little feeling as a warning. We become who we are already.
David Young.