No teacher can provide you with what is not already within you. No one confers anything that you already are. The great illusion of teachers and authorities is that they hold something that you, yourself, do not already have. We fool ourselves into thinking this is so through our belief, that we must “get” something from another when all along, it is within us. By no longer seeking to allow another to be the harbinger of that, we actually free ourselves in a way that goes beyond all the old paradigms that place each of us at a disadvantage, however small or seemingly inconsequential. Doing so leads to authentic personal power. This is something so incredible, no one can ever take it from you, for you never entered into any kind of agreement that sought to share that power, or borrow it, or rent or loan it in any way. Some want to call this the warrior path because of how it is so clear, how it takes what is its own, but it is not that. This is the human path. It is the greatest truth never told. To find it, you must search for it yourself. Not just search, but find, then hold and embody it. You do not look beyond yourself for the glory that is your own being. There is nothing quite like it in anyone on this earth. I ask you; why cheapen it by leaping over the fence in your own backyard in favor of the grass next door. Yet we do this constantly. You don’t have to, not anymore. What you win from doing this is immeasurable. And it is yours.
When you get this, you free yourself to see clearly how what is within is without. The world is a mirror of you, for you. You need only look. You need only bear awareness in the moment and really see the world that turns in your day-to-day. What do you see? Now as you see, feel into what you see, seek its innards, its soul, its heart. Seek the world from its insides and what you find there is you. It isn’t that there isn’t anything there but you, but that this universe is just that miraculous a thing that energy attracts its own. Don’t like it? Be the change you wish to see and I promise, it will indeed be. Don’t worry about what anyone else says, for moving out of the prison of your own feeling is but a breath away. What is it that is in us that needs the crutch of others? We do not believe in ourselves. We do not honor and love and even cherish ourselves enough in order to see it, or find it. But it is there. Always.
Not long ago there was a movie about this very issue. I have not seen it, but I know others who have. I know enough about it to know that it is a story about an ordinary man who was a maker of documentary movies who dressed up like a guru and people flocked to him, believed in his made-up stories. He transmitted a blue light to them as a kind of blessing and the people saw the blue light. He told them that the guru was within, all the while his students would ask him, “Yes, but what do you think?” This is the story of Vikram Gandhi. This is perhaps the hardest of lessons for us to learn. It is so engrained in us, to wake up from it is what we each will resist, many of us, until the moment happens. And then it happens again, and again, until we have shed that which keeps us separated from that one great light that exists within ourselves. Knowing it leads to imperishabillity.
Waking The Infinite 