If we change one belief, we can change the feelings and behaviors that come with that belief. If we can change our vision, which consists of a whole set of beliefs, we can alter an amazing conglomerate of feelings and behaviors at once. People can change at any age. Where there is life, there is possibility. Even ancient beliefs can be overturned or replaced in a matter of moments.
We are the river.
We are the river.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be
Abraham Lincoln.
If we’re so smart, why are many of us not happy?
Maybe it’s because we have not yet created a vision to support our reality. But we can if we choose to! Because we are the belief makers!
Each vision brings its own life experience and technology. Sometimes the impact defies our imagination. The search takes us and inspires us to take many adventures. In the light of modern living we can find comforts and luxuries to tickle our appetites for more and more. We can fly to foreign countries, we can make movies, fly men to the moon, we can have delicate laser surgery and build skyscrapers like never before and our technological inventiveness knows no bounds.
Yet the internal vision that drives us seems to be abnormally antiquated. We express anger, we’re judgmental and just as we did hundreds of years ago when we belittle, imprison and kill others whose lives and beliefs differ from our own.
We live with daily discomfort as we play out our fears with disease, drugs, alcohol, suicide, rape and murder. Everything has changed; but nothing is different. We have only become better at making war and more sophisticated at dulling our senses at what we don’t want to see.
In the face of such immense data and intelligence, what could we create in our lives by changing our internal vision and the attitude with which we can embrace ourselves and those around us? Desire, passion and the ingenuity of the mind has given birth to space shuttles, heart transplants, religious freedom and the like.
Could we take some familiar words, like happiness, love, peace, humility and tolerance and use our ingenuity to make them graspable and tangible now? If we did, would we be entering an age of transformation more profound than any other witnessed on the planet? If we take a little of that desire and willingness combined with passion the ingenuity and transfer it to our heart, can we now attain happiness as a sustained and transforming human experience? My own experience tells me so!
We are the river!
We are the river!
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