When we purchase something that requires assembly, it generally
comes with instructions. I purchased a teapot recently and inside were
instructions, for a teapot! Now the instruction sheet for that Christmas
morning bicycle years ago was considerably longer, and I still maintain
wrong, both the bike and teapot instruction sheets had numbered steps,
the teapot two with the additional warning that hot water is, well, hot,
the bicycle four hundred and fifty seven, in Latin.
Our consciousness requires assembly as well; the question is what
“instruction” sheet we follow. With the exception of some notable
examples directly touched by the Divine, we build our
consciousness, for good or ill, step by step by the actions we take and
the thoughts we entertain, our level of awareness and understanding
waxing and waning dependent on what we say, do, consider and act upon,
experience building upon experience, good and bad. Habits of thinking
and living do not change by simply assenting to them as needing to be
changed; it requires action and perseverance on our part. To borrow from
Wayne Dyer: “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out the window by any
man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.”
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