Cultivate your humility and you will shape a situation compatible with your nature.

Cultivate your humility and what is true about, the what-is of you, who you are, will sprout. Cultivate your soil, your humility, and your creativity will happen like a flower on a tree. It will become as irrevocably true of you as the color of your eyes. Cultivate the now and opportunity will sprout. Cultivate your humility and you will shape a situation compatible with your nature. All things will fall into place and you will have what you need. You will have access to yourself and be able to share yourself with the world. This will make a world conducive to this process. You don't have to "do." You will find yourself doing. You simply have to be. The doing is a by product of the being. But being is not easy because who we are is painful as well as magnificent. If you think just being is easy you probably aren't doing it. 

Escape from this process is tempting, subtle, easy to do and hard to recognize. 

When you choose a fantasy of what you wish would be over what is, you cease to function. When you  choose a fear or a memory of what you wish had never happened over what is, you stop perceiving reality. You are not connected to, not even seeing the world around you. You may as well be watching television. Your vision, your dreams, are clues to who you are, markers indicating where to put your energy. But even these can provide escape. When you lift off into hopeful or hopeless tripping on your dream without staying connected to the now, your dream, your precious vision, has turned on you and led you astray. The way to subvert this hijacking of your dreams by the escape mechanism is to cultivate the now, cultivate what is true about you, and to constantly reestablish contact with it through practice. In this way your dream stays rooted in the ground of your being, which is rooted in the Ground of all Being. 

And that's the real trouble with escape: it prevents your god self from emerging. And it's sneaky. It happens without you even noticing. A mind trained to escape will always and habitually seek a way out of the now. Often for no good reason. A mind trained to escape will abandon some perfectly nice experience in favor of a fantasy, possibly even a negative one. This mind is just doing what it does: escape. But if you cultivate the soil of your self by staying connected to it through practice, by enduring the sting of painful self knowledge, the glory and challenge of your destiny and the full revelation of your self-in-the-world will flow out of you like water from a fountain.

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