“Expect your every need to be met, expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance at every level, expect to grow spiritually.” – Eileen Caddy
This quote appears in The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, in the chapter on Recovering A Sense of Possibility. It represents the reality that we are entitled to, but it’s often the opposite of how so many of us think – we tend to limit our good. We don’t do it consciously, but rather as having absorbed and thus practiced over a lifetime a mentality of scarcity, of there never being enough. Or thoughts that our good fortune will run out. Or why would we be deserving of having our wishes fulfilled? There are a multitude of variations and we each know our own.
From the time we were small we were trained by our parents, our teachers, our ministers, etc. in specific ways we should always behave, even if we instinctively felt they were wrong. But in order to receive approval, to be a “good” boy or a “good” girl, we acquiesced and changed our behavior, never wanting to be snubbed or punished. Depending on who these figures were/are, they may have filled us with ideas of staying small and not believing in our dreams, with ideas of scarcity and lack.
And so we have grown, but not thrived, always worrying where our next raise, job, mortgage payment or creative idea will come from. The idea that all our positive expectations might be met is unfathomable.
So then, instead of opening ourselves to possibility and gratefully accepting the good we’re offered, we further complicate things and refuse it because it isn’t exactly the way we wanted it. And wanting it only our way is another way of limiting our good.
We are part of a loving, creative, abundant universe … there IS enough but to truly experience it, we first need to change how we think. We need to know that when we change our thinking and open ourselves to all abundance and possibility, and trust that it will come to us in the form we most need it regardless of the limitations we keep trying to impose, we will then be on our way.
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