Saying the word

“And God said, 'Let there be light; and there was light.'' Genesis 1:3. Here, God demonstrated the power of word to bring about any change we want in life. Remember that God has the ability to create the light without having to say a single word. What then is the significance of saying the word?

His word was his command.  God has given everyone of us the ability to command anything we want into our lives. We use the power when we say the word associated with what we want. That is what I think Dr Wayne Dyer described as the Power of Intention. Saying the word generates the energy. The energy directs the forces of nature to align with our being.

The alignment creates everything and everyone we need and bring them into our lives in order to make the change happen. However, the word we use in the command can be either positive or negative. What word are you using to command what you want into your life?

The Reality of God

I believe that living a Value-life-balance lifestyle is to know, understand and recognise the nature of God and His truth in everything and actively seek, through prayer, meditation and charity,   to live life on a daily basis according to His reality.

Use of power

On the senselessness of exercising undue power over others, one of my favourite Igbo proverbs has this to say, “The Igwe can choose the site of the market, but he cannot choose who sells in the market.”

Compassion

"To be compassionate is to want more for others than you do for yourself." Dr Wayne Dyer

Living in the present.

Living your life in the past is an obstacle to living it in the present. The present is all you have. Tomorrow is not yours. If you live to see it, your creative inexhaustible originating Source is there to supply all your needs. When you live your life in the present, you begin to let go of blaming the people in your past life who you think were responsible for creating your present.  Because you keep thinking and living in the past, it is impossible for you to see any opportunity that comes your way in the present. When you live in the past, your physical body is in the present, but your mind is in the past. Living your body in the present with your mind in the past is like a house that is divided against itself. How can it survive? Learn to live your life in the present.

The art of self-learning

A great teacher, to my mind, is the one with the creative ability to recognise the natural talents of each learner; able to guide the learners to discover those hidden talents, help raise their level of self-awareness of what they can do, be or have, and leave them alone to get on with the art of self-learning.

Learning to become like the Great Master

"The Master does nothing, yet he leaves nothing undone. The ordinary man is always doing things, yet many more are left to be done.”  This inspiring quote from the 38^th verse of the Toa Teh Ching has been my lifeline during moments of despair when I become overwhelmed with thoughts of where my life is going. This has become the subject of my meditation especially during the onset of distress and before anxiety and panic set in.

The paradox of this verse illustrates the dilemma inherent in the paradigm of how people succeed in life: Through hard work. This presupposes that hard work alone is the prerequisite for achieving success. That is why we are all involved in the rat race striving for success. We do not know when to stop striving. By our continuous striving and re-striving, we let in stress, depression and dis-eases into our life.

Hard work is great for success. However, letting in the grace of the Great Master brings real meaning to human success. Although we can control our work, we cannot control the outcome. That is in the hands of the Master. That is His grace.   

The creative Source does nothing, yet everything He created works in perfect completeness leaving nothing undone. The universe is in complete harmony with the Creator. When we interference with nature and suffer the consequences, we blame the Master for causing it or for not preventing it.   

As the Master is perfect, he completed His creative work to His perfection. He does not therefore need to interfere.

This verse has application in many areas of life. For example, when the work is complete, the worker steps aside and allows the outcome to flow in like river. It also has application for business. For example, when the boss issues an instruction to his employees, he leaves the stage and allows them to get on with the job.

When you practice the habit of allowing, you do nothing, yet you leave nothing undone. You let go of your struggle and let God take control. At the point when everything in your life seems to be at a complete standstill, I ask you to surrender all to the Great Master, the universal Power, the Source of your inexhaustible supplies, who does nothing, yet leaves nothing undone. When the Master created you, He left nothing undone. He created you to perfection leaving nothing.

This verse teaches me to become an observer of events in my life. As you step out of your door each morning, begin to notice everything and everyone you come across on your way to and from work, from shopping, from your place of worship, etc. Begin to notice what each event brings into your live or what it takes away. Always let your mind be on the positive side in all of such events. Begin to learn to see the blessing in every encounter. Even when someone steps on your toe, it is for a reason. Perhaps just to test your level of tolerance, or to learn more about forgiveness.

The greatest joy for us as humans is that we are all destined for success. We let success manifest in our lives by knowing when enough is enough in everything we do. The Master does not strive for success, He is the success. He does not strive to be great, He is the Great. Begin today to learn to become like the Master who does nothing, yet leaves nothing undone.