I ASKED SOME STUDENTS I teach the following question:

What is it that you don't want to hear?

These are the answers to that question...

STUDENT: "I don't want to hear that I am unable to understand the nature of my existence and that I am unacceptable."

You need to honestly recognize your value so that you can give to humanity with your ego in the proper place.

STUDENT: "I don't want to hear my own condemning thoughts or other people's condemning thoughts. I heard Dr. Dan say that I need courage and I need to replace condemning thoughts with something positive. My Health Analysis suggested meditating on courage. My inner mind told me I need gratitude for my experiences and compassion for myself and others."

Condemnation closes the heart. Acceptance and compassion open the heart.

STUDENT: "I don't want to hear others tell me I can't do something. I'm working on hearing more of what everyone has to say."

The undisciplined imagination creates fear. It is necessary and important to shine the light of attention on the thoughts or parts of yourself that you would rather not see. Then you can admit, become aware and change.

STUDENT: "I don't want to hear that I am alone."

Everyone is important. It requires honesty to admit the value one has to give to the world. The enlightened world teachers all admitted the value of what they had to give.

Purpose is personal benefit. Choose, create and cause yourself to have purpose in each activity.

Purpose or personal benefit has to change from fear and protection to something higher, greater and more enlightening.

Purpose needs to include learning. The desire to know and learn must be greater than the desire to be right or wrong.

To build permanent learning or understanding in the Self you must build a greater connectedness with life and with people. Permanent learning or understanding is not built by avoidance.

The desire to know, the desire to build understandings, must be stronger than the fear of being destroyed.

The only true solution to life is to learn or receive the lesson and the learning in each experience. Purpose creates a state of mind in which one is open to receive a personal benefit. Therefore, creating purpose helps the mind open to receive.

A productive affirmation to promote purpose or personal benefit thinking is: "I am always learning. Every experience adds to me and gives me more, always more and greater truth, love, LIGHT and awareness."

The evolving consciousness imagines and creates greater and greater purposes. In other words, as you grow in awareness, understanding and enlightenment then your purposes evolve.

A job or money alone may no longer satisfy you. You want more say so or decision making ability in your job and your life. You want more fulfillment. You want to know the meaning of life. These are higher purposes. These are purposes beyond physical, tangible, sensory things. These are purposes or qualities that affect the inner being.

Each and every experience, no matter how seemingly small or insignificant can have a purpose.

Creating a purpose for doing the little, seemingly insignificant or unimportant things for the Self and others prepares the way for the greater and powerful singular ideal and purpose of knowing the whole Self. To know the whole Self is to be enlightened and have the true and lasting fulfillment.

Creating purpose consistently, every day, prepares the way for the singular purpose of knowing the one true reality and transcending entrapment in a physical body and physical life.

• An ideal is an image of what you want to become or be.
• A goal is a visualized benefit.
• Activity is work, energy expended, effort or physical motion.

When creating ideals and meaningful purposes, it is important to be specific. If the imaged purpose is nebulous, you will either get a nebulous creation that is not specific enough to serve you or your creation will be so nebulous that you will hardly recognize it.

It is vital that you see, or perceive, how what you are dong (activity) is going to benefit you and move you closer to what you want to become.

What you are doing, which is activity, should add to your awareness, understanding and wisdom; it should move you forward to what you want to become.

Therefore, each day be consistent in achieving, accomplishing and going beyond limitations. Accomplish a goal. Fulfill a purpose. Discipline your mind and be committed to adding to yourself.

There are two kinds of motivation:

1. Inner motivation
2. Outer motivation

Outer motivation comes from the physical environment. The physical environment provides sensory stimulus. This stimulus then leads to physical desires. When the desires are met, a person temporarily feels good or has a gratifying sensory experience. The rest of the time one has a craving or an unhappiness or a feeling of lack of fulfillment.

Inner motivation comes from purpose. This is because purpose, which is personal benefit, provides desire and desire provides motivation.

The wonderful thing about purpose is you are never dependent upon the environment to provide motivation. You can create your own motivation anytime and at all times.

To be dependent on the outer environment for motivation means that sometimes you will have it and sometimes you will not have it. It is not reasonable to put the control and power outside of yourself. Therefore, create purpose every day. Imagine useful beneficial purposes every day for the things you do.

It is important to have a purpose that is of benefit in the moment, in the now. The present is the only place that one can learn, grow and be fulfilled. The present, the now - the eternal now - is the only time and place that one can gain permanent understandings of Self and creation. The present is the only time one can gain lasting growth and enlightenment.

It is important to be specific in the visualization and imaging of ideal and purpose. This is how real learning can be caused to occur more rapidly. The stronger and more specific the image the more the subconscious mind has to work with.

In being specific one becomes more committed to achieving one's ideal and purpose. It is too easy to generalize and deny you've achieved a goal. Also, by generalizing you may try to take credit for something you really didn't create. So, being specific keeps you honest.

Being specific in imaging, visualizing, and describing your thoughts and purposes helps to build one's self value and self esteem because you have proven to yourself what you have created.

As long as the thought is nebulous it is too easy to allow the mind to be passive and to lose sight of the ideal and purpose. Therefore it becomes harder to gain the learning from an experience.

Being specific with one's ideal and purpose enables one to appreciate structure. This enables one to build greater alignment and flexibility in the physical body.

Ideals, goals and purposes must relate to the present in some way. This is because the present, the now, is the only place one can change, learn and grow in awareness.

Purpose is to be renewed, strengthened, improved and built upon each day.

Each day stretch and reach not only to achieve more but to be more than you were yesterday. To grow in consciousness and awareness is to reach and stretch beyond the accepted limitations of yesterday.

In order for purpose to provide motivation it must be something that is important to you.

Purpose defines the value of your experiences. Creating purpose is a choice. No one else creates purpose for you. Others may provide education, or stimulation, or instruction. Yet, ultimately the individual chooses the purpose.

Creating purpose is an exercise of one's imagination and determines how quickly one will evolve. Have or create a clear image of who you want to become through your effort and activity and the benefit you will receive from that activity.

The Simple, Little Things Lead to the Big Things

Each day each person can make hundreds of decisions or else go on habitual auto pilot and make very few new, original decisions.

To make a decision requires one to choose a thought.

It is the little thoughts and little decisions that lead to successful, great thoughts that lead to great decisions.

Don't wait for the event to arrive and then wonder why you can't handle it. Rather, make conscious decisions each day that cause you to stretch and go beyond previously accepted limitations. In the process you will expand beyond previously accepted limitations and thereby become capable of handling the greater decisions and responsibilities.

Soul growth or reaching one's full potential in many ways concerns expanding one's options, while refusal to change is avoiding options.

Remember, experiences are essentially neutral.

One's thoughts, attitudes and consciousness in relation to the experience determines not only the physical outcome but also the learning and growth in awareness gained from the experience.

It is your thoughts and attitudes
that determine what you get out of an experience.

Mental discipline is the key to overriding one's limitations in consciousness.

Mental discipline produces, over time, a still mind.
A still mind is the key to knowing and fulfilling one's life purpose.

True purpose is always grounded in truth, because purpose aligns with Universal Truth.

Purpose motivates because in gaining personal benefits one has the opportunity to gain greater truth.

Consistent, constant mental discipline leads to eternal, personal and lasting truth, awareness, understanding, and love.

The purpose of Love is to promote
a greater connectedness between individuals.

In order to grow and progress rapidly in the fulfillment of life's purpose, one must grow in love and compassion.

Where does purpose come from? Purpose comes from the imagination of the thinker. Purpose is created by imaging or visualizing purposes in all that you do.

People that are physically minded and rely mostly on memory often feel like life has no meaning or purpose. This is because the purpose of life is not fulfilled in the brain.

The purpose of life is fulfilled by aligning
the conscious and subconscious minds
and attuning them to superconscious mind.

Then the Self can fully experience the present moment as I AM.

To fulfill purpose one must first imagine purpose. Productive imagination requires using and directing the mind.

Purpose helps the individual improve the ability to assimilate the learning in each experience to a higher degree.

Purpose, which is personal benefit, keeps the attention on being able to assimilate the truth into oneself.

As one continues to regularly initiate purposes, the benefits evolve from food, shelter and clothing to great insights into Universal Truth, as well as wisdom, awareness, understanding, love and enlightenment.

As the individual evolves into achieving the great purpose of life and full potential the inner urge to give to others and aid others increases. Over time such a one's giving increases to become a world teacher and a world server. Then the purpose becomes universal.

The greatest personal benefit
is a purpose that adds to the whole, permanent Self.

It is universally true that, as you give so shall you receive. By creating purpose a person is in position to give more and receive more.

As you give to others you receive the great abundance and treasures of high knowledge from the universe.

Because the true nature of reality is connectedness one who gives more aligns with the true reality to a greater degree.

QUESTION: How can I discover my purpose in life?
ANSWER: Still your mind and listen.

Some people are more motivated by thinking about ideals and activities that will benefit other people. How can this kind of person be motivated for personal benefit?

The answer is self value, self worth, self esteem and self respect. By being willing to look at situations and circumstances from a different perspective, one can perceive personal benefits, purpose, in a new way. This can be motivating. Also, by admitting one's value in giving, one finds it is easier to receive higher truths into the Self. Receiving higher truth and understanding is also motivating.

Look for the learning in each experience. Receive the learning in each experience. Learn to find joy in each experience and enjoy the learning. Enjoy sharing your learning with others. Then there will be a stronger desire to learn more because you have more to share with others.

To fulfill one's purpose in life requires discipline, concentration and imagination as well as improving one's memory. It is not necessary that you develop a photographic memory. It is necessary and important that you develop an honest and useful memory.

What is an honest and useful memory? An honest and useful memory is one that can be used to make you a better person, a more loving person, a more truth-filled person, a more enlightened person.

A dishonest memory will blame others for past failures. A dishonest memory will hold grudges.

An honest memory will remember those events, thoughts, situations and words of the past that were productive. The one with an honest memory will seek to emulate these memory thoughts, actions and words. Such a one will seek to build upon what is productive and fulfilling.

It is very important to learn to discipline oneself. There is great value in creatively designing ways to discipline the Self.

One of my Self imposed disciplines was the practice of never saying a not or no. In other words, I practiced the discipline of eliminating all negative words from my vocabulary. I practiced this discipline of choosing positive over negative words for three years. After three years I found that I now had control of negative words. In other words, I could use them when necessary and use them correctly without misusing the words no and not.

Mental discipline gives one the ability to make the right choices at the right times.

People tend to practice avoidance. Sometimes they avoid the things they most need to learn. Everyone needs to learn the Universal Lessons of life. So why do most people avoid them? They avoid the experiences that require extra effort. People tend to avoid the experiences that make them uncomfortable.

An open mind is required to accept something new in one's life and consciousness, especially new ideas. New ideas represent a threat to what has come before to a person with a closed mind. This is why people with new ideas are sometimes attacked or vilified by those entrenched in the status quo.

Thus it is that if you are to be attached to any one thing let that attachment be to growthful change and the expansion of awareness, which is attachment to enlightenment.

Experiences must be received into the Self in order for learning to occur. Lessons of life, lessons of Self, lessons of Universal Laws and Truths can be integrated into one's consciousness each day.

People tend to have an experience or go through an experience without learning the lesson that an experience affords. I have spent over a quarter of a century teaching people how to learn the lessons of mental evolution and enlightenment through their experiences. I have also taught people how to cause experiential learning that affords the Self an opportunity for greater learning.

A key to gleaning the learning in your life is to ask yourself:
"What am I learning in this situation?
What am I learning in this experience?"

Gratitude
Gratitude and thankfulness are very powerful tools for increasing one’s ability to learn.

Gratitude increases one’s ability to receive.

Gratitude increases one’s ability to receive the abundance of the universe. Thankfulness indicates one has already received something of value. Receptivity, the ability to receive, is a powerful key to deriving the essential learning in every experience.

Thought to remember:
Being closed off or blaming others causes one to miss out on the learning in life. Therefore, use gratitude as a tool to open the Self to greater love and greater learning.

What to do:
Improve your listening abilities.

© Daniel R. Condron, 2009

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Throughout this lifetime, Daniel R. Condron has strived to understand the secrets of life and to explain them in a form that is understandable to all. He first accomplished this as a young boy when he gained a connectedness with nature being in the woods and pastures while growing up on the family farm in northwest Missouri. He has devoted his life to understanding what is permanent, lasting, knowing the true reality, and the purpose of life. This he teaches to others through the understanding of the still mind. He resides with his wife Barbara and son Hezekiah on the campus of the College of Metaphysics.