NO LONGER QUESTIONING?

Mediocrity is the resultant state you blindly accept and live when you stop questioning the unfolding of events, occurrences, situations, circumstances and the behaviors of people around you.

You were given the gift of a discerning mind and it is incumbent upon you to use it not only for your survival, but for the thriving of all of humankind.

Step out of mediocrity by questioning authority at ALL times and in ALL places. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

ALL WE HAVE IS NOW!

All we have is NOW! We can reflect on the past and meditate to release its stresses in order to accept the current conditions we are experiencing. We can refract on the future  and contemplate its possible stresses in order to reject possible conditions that could arise in preventing our vision from manifesting. Or we can just allow what is going on NOW to fill us with Divine love by concentrating on the blessings in our lives, meditating to relieve the perceived stresses of our past and contemplating our possibilities into probabilities. This creates a dynamic state of allowing the unfolding of the realization of our Divine purpose in Divine order in our immediate future. We exist in the NOW and we perceive the movement from our past into our future in the perceived dualistic reality.

We project our understandings of the perceived dualistic reality into its dynamic illusion in order to affect our ‘world’. In reality, we only have what we perceive is occurring from moment to moment. Moments turn into minutes, minutes into hours, hours into days, days into weeks, weeks into months, months into years and years into lifetimes. Are you expressing what you were created to contribute to the growth and expansion in this world? Have your moment to moment realizations yielded the inspirations necessary to drive you into expecting the Divine desires in your heart? Or do you just dismiss them and live in mediocrity because you doubt your ability, worry about what ‘might’ happen to disillusion you or fear what you perceive as the ‘unknown’? If so, then it’s time for you to drop all of your doubts, worries and fears and completely trust in the Divine to guide your thoughts, beliefs, words, actions and behaviors toward the actualization of your innermost dreams.

The Divine created you to manifest those dreams and it is YOU that hasn’t effectively acted upon them. It is you that hasn’t had the faith to follow through to their complete realization. It is you that hasn’t seen the reality of the Divine within you to co-create the fulfillment of your Divine purpose in Divine order. The YOU is the smaller ego self that chooses to protect itself from any physical, emotional, mental and spiritual harm. In its zeal to protect, it constricts. In its love of self, it denies SELF. In its desire to please itself, it dismisses your Divine desires. Don’t allow your smaller self to steer the wheel alone. It cannot see beyond itself in order to grow and expand. It does not care about what happens to others. It only does what is necessary to protect itself and ensure its own survival.

Prayer is the first step that tells the smaller self that there is a Divine reality beyond its own purview. Meditation is the second step that tells the smaller self to listen to the still small voice of the Divine within. Service is the third step that shares the guidance from the Divine into contributing to the growth and expansion of all. Realization of your Divine purpose is ‘following through’ with the co-creation and is the final step that allows the smaller self to see that it is a part of a grander scheme and not an isolated island in a sea of obscurity. Be the divine creation that you are by living in the NOW and co-creating a future where we all live in peace and harmony through understanding and sharing love with all. It all begins when you live in the NOW! ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

WHAT IS GENIUS?

What is genius? By definition, genius is an exceptional and ‘natural’ capacity of intellect impressed with intelligence and ingenuity and expressed in creative and original work in science, art, music and humanities. It is the capacity to utilize a ‘natural’ and inherent insight to observe, collate and evaluate events, occurrences, situations, circum-stances and the behaviors of others and to understand exactly what the original motivations and causes were that created these expressions. It acknowledges and accepts the observed ‘truth’ revealed by the senses.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe once said, “The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.” It takes what appears to be a common and everyday occurrence and awakens us to the marvel underlying its manifestation. Goethe expressed this as follows:” It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.” Genius invigorates one’s being with the confidence needed to succeed, even though it might face many challenges in the expression of being successful; take Dr. Stephen Hawking for example. He was told he would die years ago but his drive and determination to seek the truth of our existence literally kept him alive and ‘successful’.

Goethe said, “Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.” A genius implies that in of and as itself, it is special. However, the fact is that we are all special. We all have the capacity to embrace genius when we seek to be greater than we are. True genius is in mastering the whims of the ego and allowing the guidance from the Spirit of God to fulfill the expectations of our inner desires and manifest our Divine purpose in Divine order.

The following statement sums it up: “For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.” ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. Albert Einstein, the most recognizable embodiment of genius, once said, ““Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” He also said, “Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.” Furthermore, Einstein focused on what creates genius in all of us and that is the development and use of our imagination: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

Through the development and freedom of our imagination, we can begin to observe external patterns and rhythms of the perceived dualistic reality and organize them into a workable model of universal impression and expression of all that exists. Einstein sought, through his genius, a Unified Field Theory (a unification of the General Theory of Relativity and Electromagnetism), or a Theory of Everything (explanation of all physical constants of nature without a basis of nature to be ‘fields’), that he never found in his lifetime.

Genius always desires to go one step further in order to discover the truth. It requires us to be committed and to act upon that commitment in a ‘timely’ fashion. When we move toward the realization of our desire to ‘know’ and ‘manifest’ it moves toward us concurrently; not because it actually ‘moves’, but because our awareness opens up from possibilities into probabilities. Once we make the decision to open ourselves up to a greater perspective, things begin to happen that we hadn’t considered or even thought were possible. The secret to opening up to your inner genius is to start moving toward it NOW!

Genius is fully actualized in being bold enough to trust in the Spirit of God and not get in the way of the manifestation of your Divine purpose being unfolded in Divine order. Being a genius imbues many characteristics that are developed in you by making the choice to act on them at critical points in your life. Geniuses are NOT born, they are made as once stated by Dr. Alfred Barrious. He further stated that geniuses have 24 characteristics in common and each and every one of us can develop these traits in ourselves: http://www.jimwestergren.com/24-qualities-that-geniuses-have-in-common/.

Make that step toward unfolding your inner genius as Goethe revealed in the following statement: “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.”  ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

BOLDNESS

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe