Be
unattached to all who come into your life by not demanding
that they stay, go, or appear, at your whim. Discontinue judging
yourself or others for being too fat, too tall, too ugly—too
anything! Just as the power of intention accepts and reflects
you without judgment or attachment, try to be the same with
what appears in your life. Be like a mirror! 3. Expect beauty. This suggestion includes expecting
kindness and love along with beauty to be in your life by
deeply loving yourself, your surroundings, and by showing
reverence for all of life. There’s always something beautiful to
be experienced wherever you are. Right now, look around you
and select beauty as your focus. This is so different from
habitually being alert for ways to feel hurt, angry, or offended. Expecting beauty helps you perceive the power of intention in
your life.4. Meditate on appreciation. Cherish the energy that
you share with all living beings now and in the future, and
even those that have lived before you. Feel the surge of that life
force that allows you to think, sleep, move about, digest, and
even meditate. The power of intention responds to your
appreciation of it. The life force that’s in your body is key to
what you desire. As you appreciate your life force as
representative of the power of intention, a wave of
determination and knowing surges through you. The wisdom
of your soul as it responds to your meditation on appreciation
assumes command and knows every step that must be taken. 5. Banish doubt. When doubt is banished, abundance
flourishes and anything is possible. We all tend to use our
thoughts to create the world we choose. If you doubt your
ability to create the life you intend, then you’re refusing the
power of intention. Even when nothing seems to indicate that
you’re accomplishing what you desire in your life, refuse to
entertain doubt. Remember, the trolley strap of intention is
waiting for you to float up and be carried along. Shakespeare declared, “Our doubts are traitors, and
make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
And Ramana Maharshi observed, “Doubts arise because of an
absence of surrender.”
You may well choose to doubt what others say to you
or what you experience with your senses, but banish doubt
when it comes to knowing that a universal force of intention
designed you and got you here! Don’t doubt your creation
from a field of energy that’s always available to you. In the following chapter, I offer what may seem to you to be unusual
methods for polishing the connecting link between you and this enthralling
energy field we’re calling intention. OceanofPDF.comCONNECTING
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INTENTION
“The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of
things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally,
and then intelligently asking why they did so.”
 
— Thomas Troward
Examine this observation by the great mental-science practitioner of the
early 20th century, Thomas Troward. In the early days of shipbuilding,
ships were made of wood, and the reasoning was that wood floats in water
and iron sinks. Yet today, ships all over the world are built of iron. As
people began studying the law of flotation, it was discovered that anything
could float if it’s lighter than the mass of liquid it displaces. So today, we’re
able to make iron float by the very same law that makes it sink. Keep this
example in mind as you read and apply the contents of this chapter on
connecting to all that you’re intended to become. The key word here is contemplating, or what you’re placing your
thoughts on, as you begin utilizing the enormous potential and power ofintention. You must be able to connect to intention, and you can’t access
and work with intention if you’re contemplating the impossibility of being
able to intend and manifest. You can’t discover the law of co-creation if
you’re contemplating what’s missing. You can’t discover the power of
awakening if you’re contemplating things that are still asleep. The secret to
manifesting anything that you desire is your willingness and ability to
realign yourself so that your inner world is in harmony with the power of
intention. Every single modern advance that you see and take for granted
was created (and creating is what we’re doing here in this book) by
someone contemplating what they intended to manifest. The way to establish a relationship with Spirit and access the power of
this creating principle is to continuously contemplate yourself as being
surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce. I encourage you to
emphasize this idea by underlining the previous sentence both in this book
and in your mind. Dwell on the idea of a supreme infinite power producing
the results that you desire. This power is the creative power of the universe. It’s responsible for everything coming into focus. By trusting it to provide
the form and the conditions for its manifestation, you establish a
relationship to intention that allows you to be connected for as long as you
practice this kind of personal intent. The Wright brothers didn’t contemplate the staying on the ground of
things. Alexander Graham Bell didn’t contemplate the noncommunication
of things, Thomas Edison didn’t contemplate the darkness of things. In
order to float an idea into your reality, you must be willing to do a
somersault into the inconceivable and land on your feet, contemplating
what you want instead of what you don’t have. You’ll then start floating
your desires instead of sinking them. The law of manifestation is like the
law of flotation, and you must contemplate it working for you instead of
contemplating it not working. This is accomplished by establishing a strong
connecting link between you and the invisible, formless field of energy—
the power of intention. Entering into the Spirit of Intention
Whatever you intend to create in your life involves generating the same
life-giving quality that brings everything into existence. The spirit ofanything, the quality that allows it to come into the world of form, is true as
a general principle, so why not activate it within you? The power of
intention simply awaits your ability to make the connection. We’ve already established that intention isn’t a material substance with
measurable physical qualities. As an example of this, think of artists. Their
creations aren’t merely a function of the quality of the paint, brush, canvas,
or any other combination of materials they use. To understand and grasp the
creation of a masterpiece, we have to take into account the thoughts and
feelings of the artist. We must know and enter into the movement of the
creative mind of the artist in order to understand the creation process. The
artist creates something out of nothing! Without the thoughts and feelings of
the artist, there would be no art. It’s their particular creative mind in
contemplation that links to intention to give birth to what we call an artistic
creation. This is how the power of intention worked in creating you,
someone new, entirely unique, someone out of nothing. Reproducing this in
yourself means encountering the creative impulse and knowing that the
power of intention is reaching for the realization of all that it feels, and that
it is expressing itself as you. What you’re feeling is a function of how you’re thinking, what you’re
contemplating, and how your inner speech is being formulated. If you could
tap in to the feeling of the power of intention, you’d sense that it is ever-
increasing, and confident in itself because it’s a formative power so
infallible that it never misses its mark. It’s always increasing and creating. The forward movement of spirit is a given. The power of intention yearns
toward fuller expressions of life, just as the artist’s feelings pour out in a
fuller expression of his or her ideas and thoughts. Feelings are clues about
your destiny and potential, and they’re seeking the full expression of life
through you. How do you enter into the spirit of intention, which is all about feelings
expressing life? You can nurture it by your continual ongoing expectation of
the infallible spiritual law of increase being a part of your life. We saw it
through our imaginary capacity to see higher vibrations, and we heard it in
the voice given to it by spiritual masters throughout the ages. It’s
everywhere. It wants to express life. It’s pure love in action. It’s confident.And guess what? You are it, but you’ve forgotten. You need to simply trust
your ability to cheerfully rely upon Spirit to express itself through and for
you. Your task is to contemplate the energies of life, love, beauty, and
kindness. Every action that’s in harmony with this originating principle of
intention gives expression to your own power of intention. Your Will and Your Imagination
There’s no disputing the existence of your free will. You’re a being with a
mind capable of making choices. Indeed, you’re in a continuous state of
deliberate choice-making during your life. This isn’t about free will versus
predetermined destiny, but look carefully at how you’ve chosen to rely on
your ability to will yourself toward whatever you desire. Intention, in this
book, isn’t about having a strong desire and backing it up with a pit-bull
kind of determination. Having a strong will and being filled with resolve to
accomplish inner goals is asking ego to be the guiding force in your life. I
will do this thing, I will never be stupid, I will never give up. These are
admirable traits, but they won’t reconnect you to intention. Your willpower
is so much less effective than your imagination, which is your link to the
power of intention. Imagination is the movement of the universal mind
within you. Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to
participate in the act of creation. It’s the invisible connecting link to
manifesting your own destiny. Try to imagine willing yourself to do something that your imagination
doesn’t want you to do. Your will is the ego part of you that believes you’re
separate from others, separate from what you’d like to accomplish or have,
and separate from God. It also believes that you are your acquisitions,
achievements, and accolades. This ego will wants you to constantly acquire
evidence of your importance. It pushes you toward proving your superiority
and acquiring things you’re willing to chase after with hyperdedication and
resolve. On the other hand, your imagination is the concept of Spirit within
you. It’s the God within you. Read William Blake’s description of
imagination. Blake believed that with imagination, we have the power to be
anything we desire to be. I rest not from my great task!To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal
Eyes of Man
Inwards into the Worlds of Thought;
Into eternity, ever expanding
In the Bosom of God,
The Human Imagination
— from Jerusalem by William Blake
Now go back to the idea of willing yourself to do something when your
imagination says no. An example of a fire walk comes to my mind. You can
stare at those hot coals and will yourself to walk across them, and if you
rely exclusively on your willpower, you’ll end up with severe burns and
blisters. But if you imagine yourself divinely protected—in Blake’s words,
in the Bosom of God, and can see yourself in your imagination able to be
something beyond your body, you can accomplish the fire walk unscathed. As you imagine yourself impervious to the heat of the red-hot coals, you
begin to feel yourself as something beyond your body. You visualize
yourself as stronger than the fire. Your inner picture of purity and protection
lets you will yourself to walk across the coals. It’s your imagination that
allows you to be safe. Without it, you’d be scorched! I recall imagining myself being able to complete my first marathon run of
26-plus miles. It wasn’t my will that got me through those three and a half
hours of continuous running. It was my inner imagination. I tuned in to it
and then allowed my body to be pushed to its limit through my will. Without that image, no amount of will would have been sufficient for me to
complete that endeavor. And so it is with everything. Willing yourself to be happy, successful,
wealthy, number one, famous, the top salesperson, or the richest person in
your community are ideas born of the ego and its obsessive self-absorption. In the name of this willpower, people run roughshod over anyone who gets
in their way; cheating, stealing, and deceiving to accomplish their personal
intention. Yet these kinds of practices will ultimately lead to disaster. You
may achieve the physical goal of your individual intention. However, yourimagination, that inner place where you do all of your living, won’t allow
you to feel peaceful. I’ve used this power of imagination over my will in the production of all
of my life’s work. For instance, I see myself as having already completed
this book. This thinking from the end causes me to behave as if all that I’d
like to create is already here. My credo is: Imagine myself to be and I shall
be, and it’s an image that I keep with me at all times. I don’t complete a
book because I have a strong will to do so. That would mean I believe that
it’s me, the body named Wayne Dyer, that’s doing all of this, whereas my
imagination has no physical boundaries and no name called Wayne Dyer. My imagination is my very own “chip off of the old block” of intention. It
provides what I need, it allows me to sit here and write, it guides my pen in
my hand, and fills in all the blanks. I, Wayne Dyer, am not willing this book
into reality. My picture of it is so clear and precise that it manifests itself. In
ancient times, a divine being named Hermes wrote:
 
That which IS is manifested;
That which has been or shall be, is unmanifested, but
not dead;
For soul, the eternal activity of God, animates all
things. These are significant words to ponder as you think about reconnecting to
intention and gaining the power to create anything that’s in your
imagination. You, your body, and your ego, do not intend, do not create, do
not animate anything into life. Set your ego aside. By all means, have an
aim in life and be full of determination, but rid yourself of the illusion that
you’re the one who’s going to manifest your heart’s desire through your
will. It’s your imagination that I want you to focus on throughout the
reading of this book, and view all of your determined goals and activities as
functions of your imagination working, guiding, encouraging, and even
pushing you in the direction that intention had for you while you were still
in an unmanifested state. You’re looking for a vibrational match-up of your
imagination and the Source of all Creation.Your imagination allows you the fabulous luxury of thinking from the
end. There’s no stopping anyone who can think from the end. You create the
means and surmount limitations in connection with your desires. In
imagination, dwell on the end, fully confident that it’s there in the material
world and that you can use the ingredients of the all-creative Source to
make it tangible. Since the Source of everything proceeds with grace, and
its alluring seven faces, then you too shall use this method and only this
method, to co-create all that you were intended to be. Become indifferent to
doubt and to the call of your will. Remain confident that through continued
reliance on your imagination, your assumptions are materializing into
reality. Reconnecting to intention involves expressing the same seven faces
that the all-creating Source uses to bring the unmanifest into the manifest. If
imagination works for God, then surely it works for you, too. Through
imagination, God imagines everything into reality. This is your new strategy
as well. Applying the Seven Faces for 
Connecting to Intention
Having been in the business of human development for most of my life,
the question I most frequently hear is: “How do I go about getting what I
want?” At this juncture of my life, as I sit here writing this book, my
response is: “If you become what you think about, and what you think about
is getting what you want, then you’ll stay in a state of wanting. So, the
answer to how to get what you want is to reframe the question to: How do I
go about getting what I intend to create?” My answer to that question is in
the remaining pages of this chapter, but my short answer is this: “You get
what you intend to create by being in harmony with the power of intention,
which is responsible for all of creation.” Become just like intention and
you’ll co-create all that you contemplate. When you become one with
intention, you’re transcending the ego-mind and becoming the universal all-
creative mind. John Randolph Price writes in A Spiritual Philosophy for the
New World: “Until you transcend the ego, you can do nothing but add to the
insanity of the world. That statement should delight you rather than create
despair, for it removes the burden from your shoulders.”Begin to remove that ego burden from your shoulders and reconnect to
intention. When you lay your ego aside and return to that from which you
originally emanated, you’ll begin to immediately see the power of intention
working with, for, and through you in a multitude of ways. Here are those
seven faces revisited to help you to begin to make them a part of your life. 1. Be creative. Being creative means trusting your own purpose and
having an attitude of unbending intent in your daily thoughts and activities. Staying creative means giving form to your personal intentions. A way to
start giving them form is to literally put them in writing. For instance, in my
writing space here on Maui, I’ve written out my intentions, and here are a
few of them that stare at me each day as I write:
• My intention is for all of my activities to be directed
by Spirit. • My intention is to love and radiate my love to my
writing and any who might read these words. • My intention is to trust in what comes through me
and to be a vehicle of Spirit, judging none of it. • My intention is to recognize the Spirit as my Source
and to detach from my ego. • My intention is to do all that I can to elevate the
collective consciousness to be more closely in rapport with the
Spirit of the originating supreme power of intention. To express your creativity and put your own intentions into the world of
the manifest, I recommend that you practice Japa, a technique first offered
by the ancient Vedas. Japa meditation is the repetition of the sound of the
names of God while simultaneously focusing on what you intend to
manifest. Repeating the sound within the name of God while asking for
what you want generates creative energy to manifest your desires. And your
desires are the movement of the universal mind within you. Now, you may
be skeptical about the feasibility of such an undertaking. Well, I ask you to
open yourself to this idea of Japa as an expression of your creative link to
intention. I won’t describe the method in depth here because I’ve written
about it in a small book with an accompanying CD by Hay House calledGetting in the Gap: Making Conscious Contact with God Through
Meditation. For now, just know that I consider meditating and practicing
Japa essential in the quest to realign yourself with the power of intention. That power is Creation, and you need to be in your own unique state of
creativity to collaborate with the power of intention. Meditation and Japa
are surefire ways to do so. 2. Be kind. A fundamental attribute of the supreme originating power is
kindness. All that’s manifested is brought here to thrive. It takes a kindly
power to want what it creates to thrive and multiply. Were this not the case,
then all that’s created would be destroyed by the same power that created it. In order to reconnect to intention, you must be on the same kindness
wavelength as intention itself. Make an effort to live in cheerful kindness. It’s a much higher energy than sadness or malevolence, and it makes the
manifestation of your desires possible. It’s through giving that we receive;
it’s through acts of kindness directed toward others that our immune
systems are strengthened and even our serotonin levels increased! Low energy thoughts that weaken us fall in the realm of shame, anger,
hatred, judgment, and fear. Each of these inner thoughts weakens us and
inhibits us from attracting into our lives what we desire. If we become what
we think about, and what we think about is what’s wrong with the world
and how angry and ashamed and fearful we are, it stands to reason that
we’ll act on those unkind thoughts and become what we’re thinking about. When you think, feel, and act kindly, you give yourself the opportunity to
be like the power of intention. When you’re thinking and acting otherwise,
you’ve left the field of intention, and you’ve assured yourself of feeling
cheated by the all-creative Spirit of intent. — Kindness toward yourself. Think of yourself like this: There’s a
universal intelligence subsisting throughout nature inherent in every one of
its manifestations. You are one of those manifestations. You are a piece of
this universal intelligence—a slice of God, if you will. Be good to God,
since all that God created was good. Be good to yourself. You are Godmanifested, and that’s reason enough to treat yourself kindly. Remind
yourself that you want to be kind to yourself in all the choices that you
make about your daily life. Treat yourself with kindness when you eat,
exercise, play, work, love, and everything else. Treating yourself kindly will
hasten your ability to connect to intention. — Kindness toward others. A basic tenet of getting along and being
happy, as well as enlisting the assistance of others toward achieving all that
you want to attract, is that people want to help you and do things for you. When you’re kind to others, you receive kindness in return. A boss who’s
unkind gets very little cooperation from his employees. Being unkind with
children makes them want to get even rather than help you out. Kindness
given is kindness returned. If you wish to connect to intention and become
someone who achieves all of your objectives in life, you’re going to need
the assistance of a multitude of folks. By practicing extending kindness
everywhere, you’ll find support showing up in ways that you could never
have predicted. This idea of extending kindness is particularly relevant in how you deal
with people who are helpless, elderly, mentally challenged, poor, disabled,
and so on. These people are all part of God’s perfection. They, too, have a
divine purpose, and since all of us are connected to each other through
Spirit, their purpose and intent is also connected to you. Here’s a brief story
that will touch you at the heart level. It suggests that those whom we meet
who are less than able to care for themselves may have come here to teach
us something about the perfection of intention. Read it and know that this
kind of thinking, feeling, and behavior empowers you to connect to
intention through matching its kindness with your own. In Brooklyn, New York, Chush is a school that caters to
learning-disabled children. Some children remain in Chush for
their entire school career, while others can be mainstreamed
into conventional schools. At a Chush fundraiser dinner, the
father of a Chush child delivered a speech that would never be
forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and itsdedicated staff, he cried out, “Where is the perfection in my
son, Shaya? Everything God does is done with perfection. But
my child cannot understand things as other children do. My
child cannot remember facts and figures as other children do. Where is God’s perfection?” The audience was shocked by the
question, pained by the father’s anguish, and stilled by the
piercing query. “I believe,” the father answered, “that when God brings a
child like this into the world, the perfection that he seeks is in
the way people react to this child.” He then told the following
story about his son, Shaya. One afternoon Shaya and his father walked past a park where
some boys Shaya knew were playing baseball. Shaya asked,
“Do you think they’ll let me play?” Shaya’s father knew that his
son was not at all athletic and that most boys would not want
him on their team. But Shaya’s father understood that if his son
was chosen to play, it would give him a sense of belonging. Shaya’s father approached one of the boys on the field and
asked if Shaya could play. The boy looked around for guidance
from his teammates. Getting none, he took matters into his own
hands and said, “We’re losing by six runs, and the game is in
the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team, and we’ll try
to put him up to bat in the ninth inning.”
Shaya’s father was ecstatic as Shaya smiled broadly. Shaya
was told to put on a glove and go out to play in center field. In
the bottom of the eighth inning, Shaya’s team scored a few runs
but was still behind by three. In the bottom of the ninth inning,
Shaya’s team scored again, and now had two outs and the bases
loaded, with the potential winning run on base, Shaya was
scheduled to be up. Would the team actually let Shaya bat at
this juncture and give away their chance to win the game? Surprisingly, Shaya was given the bat. Everyone knew that it
was all but impossible because Shaya didn’t even know how to
hold the bat properly, let alone hit with it. However, as Shayastepped up to the plate, the pitcher moved a few steps to lob the
ball in softly so Shaya could at least be able to make contact. The first pitch came in, and Shaya swung clumsily and missed. One of Shaya’s teammates came up to Shaya, and together they
held the bat and faced the pitcher waiting for the next pitch. The
pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly
toward Shaya. As the pitch came in, Shaya and his teammate
swung the bat, and together they hit a slow ground ball to the
pitcher. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could
easily have thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shaya would
have been out and that would have ended the game. Instead,
thepitcher took the ball and threw it on a high arc to right field
far beyond the reach of the first baseman. Everyone started
yelling, “Shaya, run to first. Run to first.” Never in his life had
Shaya run to first. He scampered down the baseline wide-eyed
and startled. By the time he reached first base, the right-fielder
had the ball. He could have thrown the ball to the second
baseman who would tag out Shaya, who was still running. But the right-fielder understood what the pitcher’s intentions
were, so he threw the ball high and far over the third baseman’s
head. Everyone yelled, “Run to second, run to second.” Shaya
ran toward second base as the runners ahead of him deliriously
circled the bases toward home. As Shaya reached second base,
the opposing shortstop ran to him, turned him in the direction of
third base, and shouted, “Run to third.” As Shaya rounded
third, the boys from both teams ran behind him screaming,
“Shaya, run home.” Shaya ran home, stepped on home plate,
and all 18 boys lifted him on their shoulders and made him the
hero, as he had just hit a “grand slam” and won the game for
his team. “That day,” said the father softly with tears now rolling down
his face, “those 18 boys reached their level of God’s
perfection.”If you don’t feel a tug in your heart and a tear in your eye after reading
this story, then it’s unlikely that you’ll ever know the magic of connecting
back to the kindness of the supreme all-originating Source. — Kindness toward all of life. In the ancient teachings of Patanjali, we’re
reminded that all living creatures are impacted dramatically by those who
remain steadfast in the absence of thoughts of harm directed outward. Practice kindness toward all animals, tiny and huge, the entire kingdom of
life on Earth such as the forests, the deserts, the beaches, and all that has the
essence of life pulsating within it. You can’t reconnect to your Source and
know the power of intention in your life without the assistance of the
environment. You’re connected to this environment. Without gravity, you
can’t walk. Without the water, you can’t live a day. Without the forests, the
sky, the atmosphere, the vegetation, the minerals—all of it—your desire to
manifest and reach intention is meaningless. Extend thoughts of kindness everywhere. Practice kindness toward Earth
by picking up a piece of litter that’s on your path, or saying a silent prayer
of gratitude for the existence of rain, the color of flowers, or even the paper
you hold in your hand that was donated by a tree. The universe responds in
kind to what you elect to radiate outward. If you say with kindness in your
voice and in your heart, “How may I serve you?” the universe’s response
will be, “How may I serve you as well?” It’s attractor energy. It’s this spirit
of cooperation with all of life that emerges from the essence of intention. And this spirit of kindness is one that you must learn to match if connecting
back to intention is your desire. My daughter Sommer has written from her
experience about how small acts of kindness go a long way:
I was getting off the turnpike one rainy afternoon and pulled
up to the tollbooth while fumbling through my purse. The
woman smiled at me and said, “The car before you has paid
your toll.” I told her I was traveling alone and extended my
money. She replied, “Yes, the man instructed me to tell the next
person who came to my booth to have a brighter day.” That
small act of kindness did give me a brighter day. I felt so movedby someone I would never know. I began to wonder how I could
brighten someone else’s day. I called my best friend and told her
about my paid toll. She said she’d never thought of doing that,
but it was a great idea. She goes to the University of Kentucky
and decided to pay for the person behind her every day on her
way to school as she exits the toll road. I laughed at her
sincerity. “You think I’m kidding,” she said, “but like you said,
it’s only 50 cents.” As we hung up, I wondered if the man who
paid my toll even fathomed that his thoughtfulness would travel
to Kentucky. I had an opportunity to extend kindness at the supermarket
one day when I had my cart filled to the top with food that my
roommate and I would share over the next two weeks. The
woman behind me had an antsy toddler and not nearly as much
in her cart as I had. I said to her, “Why don’t you go first? You
don’t have as much as I do.” The woman looked at me as if I’d
just sprouted extra limbs or something. She replied, “Thank you
so much. I haven’t seen many people around here be thoughtful
of another person. We’ve moved here from Virginia and are
considering moving back because we’re questioning whether
this is the right place to raise our three children.” Then she told
me that she was about ready to give up and move back home,
even though it would create a huge financial strain on her
family. She said, “I’d promised myself if I didn’t see a sign by
the end of today, I was going to demand that we move back to
Virginia. You are my sign.”
She thanked me again, smiling as she left the store. I was
flabbergasted, realizing that such a small gesture had impacted
a whole family. The clerk said as she was checking me out,
“You know what, girl? You just made my day.” I walked out
smiling, wondering how many people my act of kindness would
affect. The other day I was getting a breakfast sandwich and coffee
and thought my co-workers might like some doughnuts. Thefour guys I work with at the stables live in the little apartments
at the front of the barns. None of them has a car, but they share
a bike. I explained to them that the doughnuts were for them. The look of gratitude on each of their faces was rewarding in an
immeasurable way. I haven’t worked there all that long, and I
think that those 12 small doughnuts helped break the ice a little
bit. My small act of kindness turned into something huge as the
week went on. We started looking out for one another more
carefully and working as a team. 3. Be love. Ponder these words thoughtfully: God is love, “and he that
dwelleth in love dwelleth in me, and I in him.” That is God talking, so to
speak. Keeping in mind the central theme of this chapter, and in fact, this
entire book, that you must learn to be like the energy that allowed you to be
in the first place, then being in a state of love is absolutely necessary for
you to reconnect to intention. You were intended out of love, you must be
love in order to intend. Volumes have been written about love, and still we
have as many definitions for this word as we have people to offer them. For
the purposes of this chapter, I’d like you to think about love in the following
two ways. — Love is cooperation rather than competition. What I’d like you to be
able to experience right here in physical form on planet Earth is the essence
of the spiritual plane. If this were possible, it would mean that your very life
is a manifestation of love. Were this to be true for you, you’d see all of life
living together in harmony and cooperating with each other. You’d sense
that the power of intention that originates all life cooperates with all other
life forms to ensure growth and survival. You’d note that we all share the
same life force, and the same invisible intelligence that beats my heart and
your heart, beats the heart of everyone on the planet. — Love is the force behind the will of God. I’m not suggesting the kind of
love that we define as affection or sentiment. Nor is this kind of love a
feeling that seeks to please and press favors on others. Imagine a kind oflove that is the power of intention, the very energy that is the cause behind
all of creation. It’s the spiritual vibration that carries divine intentions from
formless to concrete expression. It creates new form, changes matter,
vivifies all things, and holds the cosmos together beyond time and space. It’s in every one of us. It is what God is. I recommend that you pour your love into your immediate environment
and hold to this practice on an hourly basis if possible. Remove all unloving
thoughts from your mind, and practice kindness in all of your thoughts,
words, and actions. Cultivate this love in your immediate circle of
acquaintances and family, and ultimately it will expand to your community
and globally as well. Extend this love deliberately to those you feel have
harmed you in any way or caused you to experience suffering. The more
you can extend this love, the closer you come to being love, and it’s in the
beingness of love that intention is reached and manifestation flourishes. 4. Be beauty. Emily Dickinson wrote: “Beauty is not caused. It is . . . ”
As you awaken to your divine nature, you’ll begin to appreciate beauty in
everything you see, touch, and experience. Beauty and truth are
synonymous as you read earlier in John Keats’s famous observation in Ode
on a Grecian Urn: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” This means, of course,
that the creative Spirit brings things into the world of boundaries to thrive
and flourish and expand. And it wouldn’t do so were it not infatuated with
the beauty of every manifested creature, including you. Thus, to come back
into conscious contact with your Source so as to regain the power of your
Source is to look for and experience beauty in all of your undertakings. Life, truth, beauty. These are all symbols for the same thing, an aspect of
the God-force. When you lose this awareness, you lose the possibility of connecting to
intention. You were brought into this world from that which perceived you
as an expression of beauty. It couldn’t have done so if it thought you to be
otherwise, for if it has the power to create; it also possesses the power not to
do so. The choice to do so is predicated on the supposition that you’re anexpression of loving beauty. This is true for everything and everyone that
emanates from the power of intention. Here’s a favorite story of mine that illustrates appreciating beauty where
once you didn’t. It was told by Swami Chidvilasananda, better known as
Gurumayi, in her beautiful book, Kindle My Heart. “There was a man who did not like his in-laws because he
felt they took up more space in the house than they should. He
went to a teacher who lived nearby, as he hadheard a lot about
him, and he said, ‘Please do something! I cannot bear my in-
laws anymore. I love my wife, but my in-laws—never! They take
up so much space in the house; somehow I feel they are always
in my way.’
The teacher asked him, ‘Do you have some chickens?’
‘Yes, I do,’ he said. ‘Then put all your chickens inside the house.’
He did what the teacher said and then went back to him. The teacher asked, ‘Problem solved?’
He said, ‘No! It’s worse.’
‘Do you have any sheep?’
‘Yes.’
Bring all the sheep inside.’ He did so and returned to the
teacher. ‘Problem solved?’
‘No! It’s getting worse’
‘Do you have a dog?’
‘Yes, I have several.’
‘Take all those dogs into the house.’
Finally, the man ran back to the teacher and said, ‘I came to
you for help, but you are making my life worse than ever!’The teacher said to him, ‘Now send all the chickens, sheep,
and dogs back outside.’
The man went home and emptied the house of all the animals. There was so much space! He went back to the teacher. ‘Thank
you! Thank you!’ he said. ‘You have solved all my problems.’”
5. Be ever-expansive. The next time you see a garden full of flowers,
observe the flowers that are alive, and compare them to the flowers that you
believe are dead. What’s the difference? The dried-up, dead flowers are no
longer growing, while the alive flowers are indeed still growing. The all-
emerging universal force that intended you into beingness and commences
all life is always growing, and perpetually expanding. As with all seven of
these faces of intention, by reason of its universality, it must have a
common nature with yours. By being in an ever-expanding state and
growing intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually, you’re identifying with
the universal mind. By staying in a state of readiness in which you’re not attached to what
you used to think or be, and by thinking from the end and staying open to
receiving divine guidance, you abide by the law of growth and are receptive
to the power of intention. 6. Be abundant. Intention is endlessly abundant. There’s no scarcity in
the universal invisible world of Spirit. The cosmos itself is without end. How could there be an end to the universe? What would be at the end? A
wall? So how thick is the wall? And what’s on the other side of it? As you
contemplate connecting to intention, know in your heart that any attitude
you have that reflects a scarcity consciousness will hold you back. A
reminder here is in order. You must match intention’s attributes with your
own in order to capitalize on those powers in your life. Abundance is what God’s kingdom is about. Imagine God thinking, I
can’t produce any more oxygen today, I’m just too tired; this universe is big
enough already, I think I’ll erect that wall and bring this expansion thing to
a halt. Impossible! You emerged from a consciousness that was and is
unlimited. So what’s to prevent you from rejoining that limitless awarenessin your mind and holding on to these pictures regardless of what goes
before you? What prevents you is the conditioning you’ve been exposed to
during your life, which you can change today—in the next few minutes if
you so desire. When you shift to an abundance mind-set, you repeat to yourself over
and over again that you’re unlimited because you emanated from the
inexhaustible supply of intention. As this picture solidifies, you begin to act
on this attitude of unbending intent. There’s no other possibility. We
become what we think about, and as Emerson reminded us: “The ancestor
to every action is a thought.” As these thoughts of plentitude and excessive
sufficiency become your way of thinking, the all-creating force to which
you’re always connected will begin to work with you, in harmony with your
thoughts, just as it worked with you in harmony with your thoughts of
scarcity. If you think you can’t manifest abundance into your life, you’ll see
intention agreeing with you, and assisting you in the fulfillment of meager
expectations! I seem to have arrived into this world fully connected to the abundance
attributes of the spiritual world from which I emanated. As a child growing
up in foster homes, with poverty consciousness all around me, I was the
“richest” kid in the orphanage, so to speak. I always thought I could have
money jingling in my pocket. I pictured it there, and I consequently acted
on that picture. I’d collect soda-pop bottles, shovel snow, bag groceries, cut
lawns, carry out people’s ashes from their coal furnaces, clean up yards,
paint fences, babysit, deliver newspapers, and on and on. And always, the
universal force of abundance worked with me in providing opportunities. A
snowstorm was a giant blessing for me. So too were discarded bottles by the
side of the road, and little old ladies who needed help carrying their
groceries to their automobiles. Today, over a half century later, I still have that abundance mentality. I’ve
never been without several jobs at one time throughout many economic
slumps over my lifetime. I made large amounts of money as a schoolteacherby starting a driver-education business after school hours. I began a lecture
series in Port Washington, New York, on Monday evenings for 30 or so
local residents to supplement my income as a professor at St. John’s
University, and that Monday-night series became an audience of over a
thousand people in the high school auditorium. Each lecture was tape-
recorded by a staff member, and those tapes led to the outline for my first
book to the public, which was called Your Erroneous Zones. One of the attendees was the wife of a literary agent in New York City
who encouraged him to contact me about writing a book. That man, Arthur
Pine, became like a father to me and helped me meet key publishing people
in New York. And the same story of unlimited thinking goes on and on. I
saw the book fromthe end becoming a tool for everyone in the country, and
proceeded to go to every large city in America to tell people about it. The universal Spirit has always worked with me in bringing my thoughts
of unlimited abundance into my life. The right people would magically
appear. The right break would come along. The help I needed would
seemingly manifest out of nowhere. And in a sense, I’m still collecting pop
bottles, shoveling snow, and carrying out groceries for little old ladies
today. My vision hasn’t changed, although the playing field is enlarged. It’s
all about having an inner picture of abundance, thinking in unlimited ways,
being open to the guidance that intention provides when you’re in a state of
rapport with it—and then being in a state of ecstatic gratitude and awe for
how this whole thing works. Every time I see a coin on the street, I stop,
pick it up, put it into my pocket, and say out loud, “Thank you, God, for this
symbol of abundance that keeps flowing into my life.” Never once have I
asked, “Why only a penny, God? You know I need a lot more than that.”
Today, I arise at 4 A.M. with a knowing that my writing will complete
what I’ve already envisioned in the contemplations of my imagination. The
writing flows, and letters arrive from intention’s manifest abundance urging
me to read a particular book, or to talk to a unique individual, and I know
that it’s all working in perfect, abundant unity. The phone rings, and just
what I need to hear is resonating in my ear. I get up to get a glass of water,
and my eyes fall on a book that’s been on my shelf for 20 years, but this
time I’m compelled to pick it up. I open it, and I’m once again beingdirected by spirit’s willingness to assist and guide me as long as I stay in
harmony with it. It goes on and on, and I’m reminded of Jelaluddin Rumi’s
poetic words from 800 years ago: “Sell your cleverness, and purchase
bewilderment.”
 
7. Be receptive. The universal mind is ready to respond to anyone who
recognizes their true relationship to it. It will reproduce whatever
conception of itself you impress upon it. In other words, it’s receptive to all
who remain in harmony with it and stay in a relationship of reverence for it. The issue becomes a question of your receptivity to the power of intention. Stay connected and know you’ll receive all that this power is capable of
offering. Take it on by yourself as separate from the universal mind (an
impossibility, but nevertheless, a strong belief of the ego), and you remain
eternally disconnected. The nature of the universal mind is peaceful. It isn’t receptive to force or
violence. It works in its own time and rhythm, allowing everything to
emanate by and by. It’s in no hurry because it’s outside of time. It’s always
in the eternal now. Try getting down on your hands and knees and hurrying
along a tiny tomato plant sprout. Universal Spirit is at work peacefully, and
your attempts to rush it or tug new life into full creative flower will destroy
the entire process. Being receptive means allowing your “senior partner” to
handle your life for you. I accept the guidance and assistance of the same
force that created me, I let go of my ego, and I trust in this wisdom to move
at its own peaceful pace. I make no demands on it. This is how the all-
creating field of intention creates. This is how you must think in order to
reconnect to your Source. You practice meditation because it allows you to
receive the inner knowing of making conscious contact with God. By being
peaceful, quiet, and receptive, you pattern yourself in the image of God, and
you regain the power of your Source. That is what this chapter, and indeed this entire book, is all about. That is,
tapping in to the essence of originating Spirit, emulating the attributes of the
creative force of intention, and manifesting into your life anything that youdesire that’s consistent with the universal mind—which is creativity,
kindness, love, beauty, expansion, abundance, and peaceful receptivity. A beautiful woman born in India in 1923 named Shri Mataji Nirmala
Devi arrived here on Earth in a fully realized state and lived in the ashram
of Mahatma Gandhi, who often consulted her on spiritual questions. She’s
spent her life working for peace, and discovered a simple method through
which all people can receive their self-realization. She teaches Sahaja Yoga,
and has never charged for this instruction. She emphasizes the following
points, which are a perfect summary on this chapter on connecting to
intention:
• You cannot know the meaning of your life until you
are connected to the power that created you. • You are not this body, you are not this mind, you are
the Spirit . . . this is the greatest truth. • You have to know your Spirit . . . for without
knowing your Spirit, you cannot know the truth. • Meditation is the only way you can grow. There is
no other way out. Because when you meditate, you are in
silence. You are in thoughtless awareness. Then the growth of
awareness takes place. Connect to the power that created you, know that you are that power,
commune with that power intimately, and meditate to allow that growth of
awareness to take place. A great summary indeed, from a fully realized
being, no less. Five Suggestions for Implementing the Ideas 
of this Chapter
1. To realize your desires, match them with your
inner speech. Keep all inner talk focused on good reports and
good results. Your inner speech mirrors your imagination, andyour imagination is your connecting link to Spirit. If your inner
speech is in conflict with your desires, your inner voice will
win. So, if you match desires with inner speech, those desires
will ultimately be realized. 2. Think from the end. That is, assume within
yourself the feeling of the wish being fulfilled, and keep this
vision regardless of the obstacles that emerge. Eventually
you’ll act on this end thinking, and the Spirit of Creation will
collaborate with you. 3. To reach a state of impeccability, you need to
practice unbending intent. This will match you up with the
unbending intent of the all-creative universal mind. For
example, if I set out to write a book, I keep a solid picture of
the completed book in my mind, and I refuse to let that
intention disappear. There’s nothing that can keep me from that
intention being fulfilled. Some say that I have great discipline,
but I know otherwise. My unbending intent won’t allow for
anything but its completion to be expressed. I’m pushed,
prodded, and propelled, and finally almost mystically attracted
to my writing space. All waking and sleeping thoughts are
focused on this picture, and I never lack for being in a state of
awe at how it all comes together. 4. Copy the seven faces of intention on three-by-five
cards. Have them laminated and place them in crucial
locations that you must look at each day. They’ll serve as
reminders for you to stay in fellowship with the originating
Spirit. You want a relationship of camaraderie to exist with
intention. The seven reminders strategically placed around
your living and working environment will do just that for you. 5. Always keep the thought of God’s abundance in
mind. If any other thought comes, replace it with that of God’s
abundance. Remind yourself every day that the universe can’t
be miserly; it can’t be wanting. It holds nothing but abundance,
or as St. Paul stated so perfectly, “God is able to provide youwith every blessing in abundance.” Repeat these ideas on
abundance until they radiate as your inner truth. This concludes the steps for connecting to intention. But before you make
this somersault into the inconceivable, I urge you to examine any and all
self-imposed obstacles that need to be challenged and eradicated as you
work anew at living and breathing this power of intention that was placed in
your heart before a heart was even formed. As William Penn put it: “Those
people who are not governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.” Remember
as you read on, that those tyrants are often the self-imposed roadblocks of
your lower self at work. OceanofPDF.comOBSTACLES 
TO CONNECTING 
TO INTENTION
“Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so? He replied, ‘All poets believe that it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removed mountains;
But many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.’”
 
— from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
W illiam Blake’s passage from The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is the
basis of this chapter about overcoming obstacles to the unlimited power of
intention. Blake is telling us that poets have an inexhaustible imagination
and consequently an unlimited ability to make something so. He also
reminds us that many aren’t capable of such a firm persuasion. In the previous chapter, I gave you suggestions for making positive
connections to intention. I deliberately arranged the chapters this way so
that you’d read about what you’re capable of before examining barriers
you’ve erected that keep you from the bliss of your intention. In the past, as
a practicing counselor and therapist, I’ve encouraged clients to firstconsider what they want to manifest in their lives and hold that thought
firmly in their imagination. Only after this was solidified would I have them
examine and consider the obstacles. Often my clients were unaware of the
obstructions even when they were self-imposed. Learning to identify ways
in which you’re creating your own obstacles is tremendously enlightening if
you’re willing to explore this area of your life. You may discover the
obstacles that keep you from a firm persuasion of anything. I’m devoting this chapter to three areas that may be unrecognized
obstacles to your connection to the power of intention. You’ll be examining
your inner speech, your level of energy, and your self-importance. These
three categories can create almost insurmountable blocks to connecting to
intention when they’re mismatched. Taken one at a time, you’ll have the
opportunity to become aware of these blockages and explore ways of
overcoming them. There’s a game show that has aired on television for several decades now
(in syndication). It’s called The Match Game. The object of this game is to
match up your thoughts and potential responses with that of someone on
your team, usually a partner or family member. A question or statement is
given to one partner, and several possible responses are offered. The more
matches made, in competition with two other couples, the more points
received. The winner is the one with the most matches. I’d like to play the match game with you. In my version, I’m asking you
to match up with the universal Spirit of intention. As we go through the
three categories of obstacles that hinder your connection to intention, I’ll
describe the areas that don’t match, and offer suggestions for creating a
match. Remember that your ability to activate the power of intention in
your life depends on your matching up with the creative Source of all life. Match up with that Source, and you win the prize of being like the Source
—and the power of intention. Fail to match up . . . and the power of
intention eludes you. Your Inner Speech—Match or No Match? We can go all the way back to the Old Testament to find a reminder about
our inner dialogue. For instance, as a man thinketh, so is he. Generally, weapply this idea of becoming what we think to our positive thoughts—that is,
think positively and you’ll produce positive results. But thinking also
creates stumbling blocks that produce negative results. Below are four ways
of thinking that can prevent you from reaching for and connecting to the
universal, creative Spirit of intention. 1. Thinking about what’s missing in your life. To match up with
intention, you first have to catch yourself in that moment you’re thinking
about what’s missing. Then shift to intention. Not what I find missing in my
life, but to what I absolutely intend to manifest and attract into my life—
with no doubts, no waffling, and no explaining! Here are some suggestions
to help you break the habit of focusing your thoughts on what’s missing. Play a version of the match game, and match up with the all-creating force:
 
No match:
I don’t have enough money. Match:
I intend to attract unlimited abundance into my life. No match:
My partner is grouchy and boring. Match:
I intend to focus my thoughts on what I love about my partner. No match:
I’m not as attractive as I’d like to be. Match:I’m perfect in the eyes of God, a divine manifestation of the process of
creation. No match:
I don’t have enough vitality and energy. Match:
I’m a part of the ebb and flow of the limitless Source of all life. This isn’t a game of empty affirmations. It’s a way of matching yourself
to the power of intention and recognizing that what you think about,
expands. If you spend your time thinking about what’s missing, then that’s
what expands in your life. Monitor your inner dialogue, and match your
thoughts to what you want and intend to create. 2. Thinking about the circumstances of your life. If you don’t like
some of the circumstances of your life, by all means don’t think about them. This may sound like a paradox to you, in this match game, you want to
match up with the Spirit of creation. You must train your imagination
(which is the universal mind running through you) to shift from what you
don’t want to what you do want. All of that mental energy you spend
complaining about what is—to anyone who will listen—is a magnet for
attracting more of what is into your life. You, and only you, can overcome
this impediment because you’ve put it on your path to intention. Simply
change your inner speech to what you intend the new circumstances of your
life to be. Practice thinking from the end by playing the match game, and by
realigning yourself with the field of intention. Here are some examples of a no match versus a match for the inner
dialogue relating to the circumstances of your life:
 No match:
I hate this place we’re living in; it gives me the creeps. Match:
I can see our new home in my mind, and I intend to be living in it within
six months. No match:
When I see myself in the mirror, I despise the fact that I’m nearsighted
and out of shape. Match:
I’m placing this drawing of how I intend to look right here on my mirror. No match:
I dislike the work I’m doing and the fact that I’m not appreciated. Match:
I’ll act upon my inner intuitive impulses to create the work or job of my
dreams. No match:
I hate the fact that I’m sick so often and always seem to be getting colds. Match:
I am divine health. I intend to act in healthy ways and attract the power to
strengthen my immune system in every way I can. You must learn to assume responsibility for the circumstances of your life
without any accompanying guilt. The circumstances of your life aren’t theway they are because of karmic debt or because you’re being punished. The
circumstances of your life, including your health, are yours. Somehow they
showed up in your life, so just assume that you participated in all of it. Your
inner speech is uniquely your own creation, and it’s responsible for
attracting more of the circumstances that you don’t want. Link up with
intention, use your inner speech to stay focused on what you intend to
create, and you’ll find yourself regaining the power of your Source. 3. Thinking about what has always been. When your inner speech
focuses on the way things have always been, you act upon your thoughts of
what has always been, and the universal all-creating force continues to
deliver what has always been. Why? Because your imagination is a part of
that which imagined you into existence. It’s the force of creation, and
you’re using it to work against you with your inner speech. Imagine the absolute Spirit thinking like this: I can’t create life anymore
because things haven’t worked for me in the past. There have been so many
mistakes in the past, and I can’t stop thinking about them! How much
creating do you think would occur if Spirit imagined in this way? How can
you possibly connect to the power of intention if your thoughts, which are
responsible for your intending, focus on all that’s gone before, which you
abhor? The answer is obvious, and so is the solution. Make a shift and catch
yourself when you’re focusing on what always has been, and move your
inner speech to what you intend to manifest. You’ll get points in this match
game by being on the same team as the absolute Spirit. No match:
I’ve always been poor; I was raised on shortages and scarcity. Match:
I intend to attract wealth and prosperity in unlimited abundance. No match:
We’ve always fought in this relationship. Match:
I’ll work at being peaceful and not allowing anyone to bring me down. No match:
My children have never shown me any respect. Match:
I intend to teach my children to respect all of life, and I’ll treat them in
the same way. No match:
I can’t help feeling this way; it’s my nature. I’ve always been this way. Match:
I’m a divine creation, capable of thinking like my Creator. I intend to
substitute love and kindness for feelings of inadequacy. It’s my choice. The match items reflect a rapport with the originating Spirit. The no
match statements represent interference that you’ve constructed to keep
you from matching up with intention. Any thought that takes you backward
is an impediment to manifesting desires. The highest functioning people
understand that if you don’t have a story, you don’t have to live up to it. Get
rid of any parts of your story that keep you focused on what has always
been. 4. Thinking about what “they” want for you. There’s probably a long
list of people, most of them relatives, who have strong ideas about what youshould be doing, how you should be thinking and worshiping, where you
should be living, how you should be scheduling your life, and how much of
your time you should be spending with them—especially on special
occasions and holidays! Our definition of friendship thankfully excludes the
manipulation and guilt that we so often put up with in our families. Inner dialogue that commiserates about the manipulative expectations of
others ensures that this kind of conduct continues to flow into your life. If
your thoughts are on what others expect of you—even though you despise
their expectations—you’ll continue to act on and attract more of what they
want and expect for you. Removing the obstacle means that you decide to
shift your inner speech to what you intend to create and attract into your
life. You must do this with unswerving intent, and a commitment to not
giving mental energy to what others feel about how you live your life. This
can be a tough assignment at first, but you’ll welcome the shift when you
do it. Practice catching yourself when you have a thought of what others want
for you, and ask yourself, Does this expectation match up with my own? If
not, simply laugh at the absurdity of being upset or frustrated over the
expectations of others about how you should be running your life. This is a
way to match up and become impervious to the criticisms of others, and
simultaneously put a stop to the insidious practice of continuing to attract
into your life something you don’t want. But the big payoff is that these
critics realize that their judgments and critiques are pointless, so they
simply desist. A three-for-one bonus, achieved by shifting your attention
away from what others want or expect for you to how you want to live your
life. Here are a few examples of how to win at the match game:
No match:
I’m so annoyed with my family. They just don’t understand me and they
never have. Match:
I love my family; they don’t see things my way, but I don’t expect them
to. I‘m totally focused on my own intentions, and I send them love. No match:
I make myself sick trying to please everyone else. Match:
I’m on purpose and doing what I signed up to do in this lifetime. No match:
I feel so unappreciated by those I serve that it sometimes makes me cry. Match:
I do what I do because it’s my purpose and my destiny to do so. No match:
No matter what I do or say, it seems as if I can’t win. Match:
I do what my heart tells me to do with love, kindness, and beauty. Your Level of Energy—Match or No Match? A scientist will tell you that energy is measured by speed and the size of
the wave being created. The size of the wave is measured from low to high,
and slow to fast. Anything else that we attribute to the conditions we see in
our world is a judgment imposed upon those pulsating frequencies. That
being said, I’d like to introduce a judgment of my own here: Higher energy
is better than lower energy. Why? Because this is a book written by a man
who stands for healing, love, kindness, health, abundance, beauty,
compassion, and similar expressions; and these expressions are associated
with higher and faster energies. The impact of higher and faster frequencies on lower and slower
frequencies can be measured, and it’s in this regard that you can make ahuge impact on eradicating the energy factors in your life that are
obstructing your connection to intention. The purpose of moving up the
frequency ladder is to change your vibratory level of energy so that you’re
at the higher and faster frequencies where your energy level matches up
with the highest frequencies of all: the energy of the all-creating Spirit of
intention itself. It was Albert Einstein who observed, “Nothing happens
until something moves.”
Everything in this universe is a movement of energy. Higher/faster energy
dissolves and converts lower/slower energy. With this in mind, I’d like you
to consider yourself and all of your thoughts in the context of being an
energy system. That’s right— you’re an energy system, not just a system of
bones, fluids, and cells, but actually a multitude of energy systems
encapsulating an inner energy system of thoughts, feelings, and emotions. This energy system that you are can be measured and calibrated. Every
thought you have can be energetically calibrated, along with its impact on
your body and your environment. The higher your energy, the more capable
you are of nullifying and converting lower energies, which weaken you, and
impacting in a positive way everyone in your immediate and even distant
surroundings. The objective in this section is to become aware of your own energy level
and the actual frequencies of thought that you regularly employ in daily life. You can become proficient at raising your energy level and permanently
obliterate energetic expressions that weaken or inhibit your connection to
intention. Ultimately, your goal is to have a perfect match with the highest
frequency of all. Here’s a simple explanation of the five levels of energy
that you work with, moving from the lowest and slowest frequencies to the
highest and fastest. 1. The material world. Solid form is energy slowed down so that it’s
approximately commensurate with your sense perception of the world of
boundaries. Everything that you see and touch is energy slowed down so
that it appears to be coalesced mass. Your eyes and your fingers agree, and
there you have the physical world.2.
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unattached to all who come into your life by not demanding
that they stay, go, or appear, at your whim. Discontinue judging
yourself or others for being too fat, too tall, too ugly—too
anything. Just as the power of intention accepts and reflects
you without judgment or attachment, try to be the same with
what appears in your life. Be like a mirror. 3. Expect beauty. This suggestion includes expecting
kindness and love along with beauty to be in your life by
deeply loving yourself, your surroundings, and by showing
reverence for all of life. There’s always something beautiful to
be experienced wherever you are. Right now, look around you
and select beauty as your focus. This is so different from
habitually being alert for ways to feel hurt, angry, or offended. Expecting beauty helps you perceive the power of intention in
your life. 4. Meditate on appreciation. Cherish the energy that
you share with all living beings now and in the future, and
even those that have lived before you. Feel the surge of that life
force that allows you to think, sleep, move about, digest, and
even meditate. The power of intention responds to your
appreciation of it. The life force that’s in your body is key to
what you desire. As you appreciate your life force as
representative of the power of intention, a wave of
determination and knowing surges through you. The wisdom
of your soul as it responds to your meditation on appreciation
assumes command and knows every step that must be taken. 5. Banish doubt. When doubt is banished, abundance
flourishes and anything is possible. We all tend to use our
thoughts to create the world we choose. If you doubt your
ability to create the life you intend, then you’re refusing the
power of intention. Even when nothing seems to indicate that
you’re accomplishing what you desire in your life, refuse to
entertain doubt. Remember, the trolley strap of intention is
waiting for you to float up and be carried along. Shakespeare declared, “Our doubts are traitors, and
make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. ”
And Ramana Maharshi observed, “Doubts arise because of an
absence of surrender. ”
You may well choose to doubt what others say to you
or what you experience with your senses, but banish doubt
when it comes to knowing that a universal force of intention
designed you and got you here. Don’t doubt your creation
from a field of energy that’s always available to you. In the following chapter, I offer what may seem to you to be unusual
methods for polishing the connecting link between you and this enthralling
energy field we’re calling intention. OceanofPDF. comCONNECTING
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“The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of
things, but by contemplating the floating of things which floated naturally,
and then intelligently asking why they did so. ”
 
— Thomas Troward
Examine this observation by the great mental-science practitioner of the
early 20th century, Thomas Troward. In the early days of shipbuilding,
ships were made of wood, and the reasoning was that wood floats in water
and iron sinks. Yet today, ships all over the world are built of iron. As
people began studying the law of flotation, it was discovered that anything
could float if it’s lighter than the mass of liquid it displaces. So today, we’re
able to make iron float by the very same law that makes it sink. Keep this
example in mind as you read and apply the contents of this chapter on
connecting to all that you’re intended to become. The key word here is contemplating, or what you’re placing your
thoughts on, as you begin utilizing the enormous potential and power ofintention. You must be able to connect to intention, and you can’t access
and work with intention if you’re contemplating the impossibility of being
able to intend and manifest. You can’t discover the law of co-creation if
you’re contemplating what’s missing. You can’t discover the power of
awakening if you’re contemplating things that are still asleep. The secret to
manifesting anything that you desire is your willingness and ability to
realign yourself so that your inner world is in harmony with the power of
intention. Every single modern advance that you see and take for granted
was created (and creating is what we’re doing here in this book) by
someone contemplating what they intended to manifest. The way to establish a relationship with Spirit and access the power of
this creating principle is to continuously contemplate yourself as being
surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce. I encourage you to
emphasize this idea by underlining the previous sentence both in this book
and in your mind. Dwell on the idea of a supreme infinite power producing
the results that you desire. This power is the creative power of the universe. It’s responsible for everything coming into focus. By trusting it to provide
the form and the conditions for its manifestation, you establish a
relationship to intention that allows you to be connected for as long as you
practice this kind of personal intent. The Wright brothers didn’t contemplate the staying on the ground of
things. Alexander Graham Bell didn’t contemplate the noncommunication
of things, Thomas Edison didn’t contemplate the darkness of things. In
order to float an idea into your reality, you must be willing to do a
somersault into the inconceivable and land on your feet, contemplating
what you want instead of what you don’t have. You’ll then start floating
your desires instead of sinking them. The law of manifestation is like the
law of flotation, and you must contemplate it working for you instead of
contemplating it not working. This is accomplished by establishing a strong
connecting link between you and the invisible, formless field of energy—
the power of intention. Entering into the Spirit of Intention
Whatever you intend to create in your life involves generating the same
life-giving quality that brings everything into existence. The spirit ofanything, the quality that allows it to come into the world of form, is true as
a general principle, so why not activate it within you. The power of
intention simply awaits your ability to make the connection. We’ve already established that intention isn’t a material substance with
measurable physical qualities. As an example of this, think of artists. Their
creations aren’t merely a function of the quality of the paint, brush, canvas,
or any other combination of materials they use. To understand and grasp the
creation of a masterpiece, we have to take into account the thoughts and
feelings of the artist. We must know and enter into the movement of the
creative mind of the artist in order to understand the creation process. The
artist creates something out of nothing. Without the thoughts and feelings of
the artist, there would be no art. It’s their particular creative mind in
contemplation that links to intention to give birth to what we call an artistic
creation. This is how the power of intention worked in creating you,
someone new, entirely unique, someone out of nothing. Reproducing this in
yourself means encountering the creative impulse and knowing that the
power of intention is reaching for the realization of all that it feels, and that
it is expressing itself as you. What you’re feeling is a function of how you’re thinking, what you’re
contemplating, and how your inner speech is being formulated. If you could
tap in to the feeling of the power of intention, you’d sense that it is ever-
increasing, and confident in itself because it’s a formative power so
infallible that it never misses its mark. It’s always increasing and creating. The forward movement of spirit is a given. The power of intention yearns
toward fuller expressions of life, just as the artist’s feelings pour out in a
fuller expression of his or her ideas and thoughts. Feelings are clues about
your destiny and potential, and they’re seeking the full expression of life
through you. How do you enter into the spirit of intention, which is all about feelings
expressing life. You can nurture it by your continual ongoing expectation of
the infallible spiritual law of increase being a part of your life. We saw it
through our imaginary capacity to see higher vibrations, and we heard it in
the voice given to it by spiritual masters throughout the ages. It’s
everywhere. It wants to express life. It’s pure love in action. It’s confident. And guess what. You are it, but you’ve forgotten. You need to simply trust
your ability to cheerfully rely upon Spirit to express itself through and for
you. Your task is to contemplate the energies of life, love, beauty, and
kindness. Every action that’s in harmony with this originating principle of
intention gives expression to your own power of intention. Your Will and Your Imagination
There’s no disputing the existence of your free will. You’re a being with a
mind capable of making choices. Indeed, you’re in a continuous state of
deliberate choice-making during your life. This isn’t about free will versus
predetermined destiny, but look carefully at how you’ve chosen to rely on
your ability to will yourself toward whatever you desire. Intention, in this
book, isn’t about having a strong desire and backing it up with a pit-bull
kind of determination. Having a strong will and being filled with resolve to
accomplish inner goals is asking ego to be the guiding force in your life. I
will do this thing, I will never be stupid, I will never give up. These are
admirable traits, but they won’t reconnect you to intention. Your willpower
is so much less effective than your imagination, which is your link to the
power of intention. Imagination is the movement of the universal mind
within you. Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to
participate in the act of creation. It’s the invisible connecting link to
manifesting your own destiny. Try to imagine willing yourself to do something that your imagination
doesn’t want you to do. Your will is the ego part of you that believes you’re
separate from others, separate from what you’d like to accomplish or have,
and separate from God. It also believes that you are your acquisitions,
achievements, and accolades. This ego will wants you to constantly acquire
evidence of your importance. It pushes you toward proving your superiority
and acquiring things you’re willing to chase after with hyperdedication and
resolve. On the other hand, your imagination is the concept of Spirit within
you. It’s the God within you. Read William Blake’s description of
imagination. Blake believed that with imagination, we have the power to be
anything we desire to be. I rest not from my great task. To open the Eternal Worlds, to open the immortal
Eyes of Man
Inwards into the Worlds of Thought;
Into eternity, ever expanding
In the Bosom of God,
The Human Imagination
— from Jerusalem by William Blake
Now go back to the idea of willing yourself to do something when your
imagination says no. An example of a fire walk comes to my mind. You can
stare at those hot coals and will yourself to walk across them, and if you
rely exclusively on your willpower, you’ll end up with severe burns and
blisters. But if you imagine yourself divinely protected—in Blake’s words,
in the Bosom of God, and can see yourself in your imagination able to be
something beyond your body, you can accomplish the fire walk unscathed. As you imagine yourself impervious to the heat of the red-hot coals, you
begin to feel yourself as something beyond your body. You visualize
yourself as stronger than the fire. Your inner picture of purity and protection
lets you will yourself to walk across the coals. It’s your imagination that
allows you to be safe. Without it, you’d be scorched. I recall imagining myself being able to complete my first marathon run of
26-plus miles. It wasn’t my will that got me through those three and a half
hours of continuous running. It was my inner imagination. I tuned in to it
and then allowed my body to be pushed to its limit through my will. Without that image, no amount of will would have been sufficient for me to
complete that endeavor. And so it is with everything. Willing yourself to be happy, successful,
wealthy, number one, famous, the top salesperson, or the richest person in
your community are ideas born of the ego and its obsessive self-absorption. In the name of this willpower, people run roughshod over anyone who gets
in their way; cheating, stealing, and deceiving to accomplish their personal
intention. Yet these kinds of practices will ultimately lead to disaster. You
may achieve the physical goal of your individual intention. However, yourimagination, that inner place where you do all of your living, won’t allow
you to feel peaceful. I’ve used this power of imagination over my will in the production of all
of my life’s work. For instance, I see myself as having already completed
this book. This thinking from the end causes me to behave as if all that I’d
like to create is already here. My credo is: Imagine myself to be and I shall
be, and it’s an image that I keep with me at all times. I don’t complete a
book because I have a strong will to do so. That would mean I believe that
it’s me, the body named Wayne Dyer, that’s doing all of this, whereas my
imagination has no physical boundaries and no name called Wayne Dyer. My imagination is my very own “chip off of the old block” of intention. It
provides what I need, it allows me to sit here and write, it guides my pen in
my hand, and fills in all the blanks. I, Wayne Dyer, am not willing this book
into reality. My picture of it is so clear and precise that it manifests itself. In
ancient times, a divine being named Hermes wrote:
 
That which IS is manifested;
That which has been or shall be, is unmanifested, but
not dead;
For soul, the eternal activity of God, animates all
things. These are significant words to ponder as you think about reconnecting to
intention and gaining the power to create anything that’s in your
imagination. You, your body, and your ego, do not intend, do not create, do
not animate anything into life. Set your ego aside. By all means, have an
aim in life and be full of determination, but rid yourself of the illusion that
you’re the one who’s going to manifest your heart’s desire through your
will. It’s your imagination that I want you to focus on throughout the
reading of this book, and view all of your determined goals and activities as
functions of your imagination working, guiding, encouraging, and even
pushing you in the direction that intention had for you while you were still
in an unmanifested state. You’re looking for a vibrational match-up of your
imagination and the Source of all Creation. Your imagination allows you the fabulous luxury of thinking from the
end. There’s no stopping anyone who can think from the end. You create the
means and surmount limitations in connection with your desires. In
imagination, dwell on the end, fully confident that it’s there in the material
world and that you can use the ingredients of the all-creative Source to
make it tangible. Since the Source of everything proceeds with grace, and
its alluring seven faces, then you too shall use this method and only this
method, to co-create all that you were intended to be. Become indifferent to
doubt and to the call of your will. Remain confident that through continued
reliance on your imagination, your assumptions are materializing into
reality. Reconnecting to intention involves expressing the same seven faces
that the all-creating Source uses to bring the unmanifest into the manifest. If
imagination works for God, then surely it works for you, too. Through
imagination, God imagines everything into reality. This is your new strategy
as well. Applying the Seven Faces for 
Connecting to Intention
Having been in the business of human development for most of my life,
the question I most frequently hear is: “How do I go about getting what I
want. ” At this juncture of my life, as I sit here writing this book, my
response is: “If you become what you think about, and what you think about
is getting what you want, then you’ll stay in a state of wanting. So, the
answer to how to get what you want is to reframe the question to: How do I
go about getting what I intend to create. ” My answer to that question is in
the remaining pages of this chapter, but my short answer is this: “You get
what you intend to create by being in harmony with the power of intention,
which is responsible for all of creation. ” Become just like intention and
you’ll co-create all that you contemplate. When you become one with
intention, you’re transcending the ego-mind and becoming the universal all-
creative mind. John Randolph Price writes in A Spiritual Philosophy for the
New World: “Until you transcend the ego, you can do nothing but add to the
insanity of the world. That statement should delight you rather than create
despair, for it removes the burden from your shoulders. ”Begin to remove that ego burden from your shoulders and reconnect to
intention. When you lay your ego aside and return to that from which you
originally emanated, you’ll begin to immediately see the power of intention
working with, for, and through you in a multitude of ways. Here are those
seven faces revisited to help you to begin to make them a part of your life. 1. Be creative. Being creative means trusting your own purpose and
having an attitude of unbending intent in your daily thoughts and activities. Staying creative means giving form to your personal intentions. A way to
start giving them form is to literally put them in writing. For instance, in my
writing space here on Maui, I’ve written out my intentions, and here are a
few of them that stare at me each day as I write:
• My intention is for all of my activities to be directed
by Spirit. • My intention is to love and radiate my love to my
writing and any who might read these words. • My intention is to trust in what comes through me
and to be a vehicle of Spirit, judging none of it. • My intention is to recognize the Spirit as my Source
and to detach from my ego. • My intention is to do all that I can to elevate the
collective consciousness to be more closely in rapport with the
Spirit of the originating supreme power of intention. To express your creativity and put your own intentions into the world of
the manifest, I recommend that you practice Japa, a technique first offered
by the ancient Vedas. Japa meditation is the repetition of the sound of the
names of God while simultaneously focusing on what you intend to
manifest. Repeating the sound within the name of God while asking for
what you want generates creative energy to manifest your desires. And your
desires are the movement of the universal mind within you. Now, you may
be skeptical about the feasibility of such an undertaking. Well, I ask you to
open yourself to this idea of Japa as an expression of your creative link to
intention. I won’t describe the method in depth here because I’ve written
about it in a small book with an accompanying CD by Hay House calledGetting in the Gap: Making Conscious Contact with God Through
Meditation. For now, just know that I consider meditating and practicing
Japa essential in the quest to realign yourself with the power of intention. That power is Creation, and you need to be in your own unique state of
creativity to collaborate with the power of intention. Meditation and Japa
are surefire ways to do so. 2. Be kind. A fundamental attribute of the supreme originating power is
kindness. All that’s manifested is brought here to thrive. It takes a kindly
power to want what it creates to thrive and multiply. Were this not the case,
then all that’s created would be destroyed by the same power that created it. In order to reconnect to intention, you must be on the same kindness
wavelength as intention itself. Make an effort to live in cheerful kindness. It’s a much higher energy than sadness or malevolence, and it makes the
manifestation of your desires possible. It’s through giving that we receive;
it’s through acts of kindness directed toward others that our immune
systems are strengthened and even our serotonin levels increased. Low energy thoughts that weaken us fall in the realm of shame, anger,
hatred, judgment, and fear. Each of these inner thoughts weakens us and
inhibits us from attracting into our lives what we desire. If we become what
we think about, and what we think about is what’s wrong with the world
and how angry and ashamed and fearful we are, it stands to reason that
we’ll act on those unkind thoughts and become what we’re thinking about. When you think, feel, and act kindly, you give yourself the opportunity to
be like the power of intention. When you’re thinking and acting otherwise,
you’ve left the field of intention, and you’ve assured yourself of feeling
cheated by the all-creative Spirit of intent. — Kindness toward yourself. Think of yourself like this: There’s a
universal intelligence subsisting throughout nature inherent in every one of
its manifestations. You are one of those manifestations. You are a piece of
this universal intelligence—a slice of God, if you will. Be good to God,
since all that God created was good. Be good to yourself. You are Godmanifested, and that’s reason enough to treat yourself kindly. Remind
yourself that you want to be kind to yourself in all the choices that you
make about your daily life. Treat yourself with kindness when you eat,
exercise, play, work, love, and everything else. Treating yourself kindly will
hasten your ability to connect to intention. — Kindness toward others. A basic tenet of getting along and being
happy, as well as enlisting the assistance of others toward achieving all that
you want to attract, is that people want to help you and do things for you. When you’re kind to others, you receive kindness in return. A boss who’s
unkind gets very little cooperation from his employees. Being unkind with
children makes them want to get even rather than help you out. Kindness
given is kindness returned. If you wish to connect to intention and become
someone who achieves all of your objectives in life, you’re going to need
the assistance of a multitude of folks. By practicing extending kindness
everywhere, you’ll find support showing up in ways that you could never
have predicted. This idea of extending kindness is particularly relevant in how you deal
with people who are helpless, elderly, mentally challenged, poor, disabled,
and so on. These people are all part of God’s perfection. They, too, have a
divine purpose, and since all of us are connected to each other through
Spirit, their purpose and intent is also connected to you. Here’s a brief story
that will touch you at the heart level. It suggests that those whom we meet
who are less than able to care for themselves may have come here to teach
us something about the perfection of intention. Read it and know that this
kind of thinking, feeling, and behavior empowers you to connect to
intention through matching its kindness with your own. In Brooklyn, New York, Chush is a school that caters to
learning-disabled children. Some children remain in Chush for
their entire school career, while others can be mainstreamed
into conventional schools. At a Chush fundraiser dinner, the
father of a Chush child delivered a speech that would never be
forgotten by all who attended. After extolling the school and itsdedicated staff, he cried out, “Where is the perfection in my
son, Shaya. Everything God does is done with perfection. But
my child cannot understand things as other children do. My
child cannot remember facts and figures as other children do. Where is God’s perfection. ” The audience was shocked by the
question, pained by the father’s anguish, and stilled by the
piercing query. “I believe,” the father answered, “that when God brings a
child like this into the world, the perfection that he seeks is in
the way people react to this child. ” He then told the following
story about his son, Shaya. One afternoon Shaya and his father walked past a park where
some boys Shaya knew were playing baseball. Shaya asked,
“Do you think they’ll let me play. ” Shaya’s father knew that his
son was not at all athletic and that most boys would not want
him on their team. But Shaya’s father understood that if his son
was chosen to play, it would give him a sense of belonging. Shaya’s father approached one of the boys on the field and
asked if Shaya could play. The boy looked around for guidance
from his teammates. Getting none, he took matters into his own
hands and said, “We’re losing by six runs, and the game is in
the eighth inning. I guess he can be on our team, and we’ll try
to put him up to bat in the ninth inning. ”
Shaya’s father was ecstatic as Shaya smiled broadly. Shaya
was told to put on a glove and go out to play in center field. In
the bottom of the eighth inning, Shaya’s team scored a few runs
but was still behind by three. In the bottom of the ninth inning,
Shaya’s team scored again, and now had two outs and the bases
loaded, with the potential winning run on base, Shaya was
scheduled to be up. Would the team actually let Shaya bat at
this juncture and give away their chance to win the game. Surprisingly, Shaya was given the bat. Everyone knew that it
was all but impossible because Shaya didn’t even know how to
hold the bat properly, let alone hit with it. However, as Shayastepped up to the plate, the pitcher moved a few steps to lob the
ball in softly so Shaya could at least be able to make contact. The first pitch came in, and Shaya swung clumsily and missed. One of Shaya’s teammates came up to Shaya, and together they
held the bat and faced the pitcher waiting for the next pitch. The
pitcher again took a few steps forward to toss the ball softly
toward Shaya. As the pitch came in, Shaya and his teammate
swung the bat, and together they hit a slow ground ball to the
pitcher. The pitcher picked up the soft grounder and could
easily have thrown the ball to the first baseman. Shaya would
have been out and that would have ended the game. Instead,
thepitcher took the ball and threw it on a high arc to right field
far beyond the reach of the first baseman. Everyone started
yelling, “Shaya, run to first. Run to first. ” Never in his life had
Shaya run to first. He scampered down the baseline wide-eyed
and startled. By the time he reached first base, the right-fielder
had the ball. He could have thrown the ball to the second
baseman who would tag out Shaya, who was still running. But the right-fielder understood what the pitcher’s intentions
were, so he threw the ball high and far over the third baseman’s
head. Everyone yelled, “Run to second, run to second. ” Shaya
ran toward second base as the runners ahead of him deliriously
circled the bases toward home. As Shaya reached second base,
the opposing shortstop ran to him, turned him in the direction of
third base, and shouted, “Run to third. ” As Shaya rounded
third, the boys from both teams ran behind him screaming,
“Shaya, run home. ” Shaya ran home, stepped on home plate,
and all 18 boys lifted him on their shoulders and made him the
hero, as he had just hit a “grand slam” and won the game for
his team. “That day,” said the father softly with tears now rolling down
his face, “those 18 boys reached their level of God’s
perfection. ”If you don’t feel a tug in your heart and a tear in your eye after reading
this story, then it’s unlikely that you’ll ever know the magic of connecting
back to the kindness of the supreme all-originating Source. — Kindness toward all of life. In the ancient teachings of Patanjali, we’re
reminded that all living creatures are impacted dramatically by those who
remain steadfast in the absence of thoughts of harm directed outward. Practice kindness toward all animals, tiny and huge, the entire kingdom of
life on Earth such as the forests, the deserts, the beaches, and all that has the
essence of life pulsating within it. You can’t reconnect to your Source and
know the power of intention in your life without the assistance of the
environment. You’re connected to this environment. Without gravity, you
can’t walk. Without the water, you can’t live a day. Without the forests, the
sky, the atmosphere, the vegetation, the minerals—all of it—your desire to
manifest and reach intention is meaningless. Extend thoughts of kindness everywhere. Practice kindness toward Earth
by picking up a piece of litter that’s on your path, or saying a silent prayer
of gratitude for the existence of rain, the color of flowers, or even the paper
you hold in your hand that was donated by a tree. The universe responds in
kind to what you elect to radiate outward. If you say with kindness in your
voice and in your heart, “How may I serve you. ” the universe’s response
will be, “How may I serve you as well. ” It’s attractor energy. It’s this spirit
of cooperation with all of life that emerges from the essence of intention. And this spirit of kindness is one that you must learn to match if connecting
back to intention is your desire. My daughter Sommer has written from her
experience about how small acts of kindness go a long way:
I was getting off the turnpike one rainy afternoon and pulled
up to the tollbooth while fumbling through my purse. The
woman smiled at me and said, “The car before you has paid
your toll. ” I told her I was traveling alone and extended my
money. She replied, “Yes, the man instructed me to tell the next
person who came to my booth to have a brighter day. ” That
small act of kindness did give me a brighter day. I felt so movedby someone I would never know. I began to wonder how I could
brighten someone else’s day. I called my best friend and told her
about my paid toll. She said she’d never thought of doing that,
but it was a great idea. She goes to the University of Kentucky
and decided to pay for the person behind her every day on her
way to school as she exits the toll road. I laughed at her
sincerity. “You think I’m kidding,” she said, “but like you said,
it’s only 50 cents. ” As we hung up, I wondered if the man who
paid my toll even fathomed that his thoughtfulness would travel
to Kentucky. I had an opportunity to extend kindness at the supermarket
one day when I had my cart filled to the top with food that my
roommate and I would share over the next two weeks. The
woman behind me had an antsy toddler and not nearly as much
in her cart as I had. I said to her, “Why don’t you go first. You
don’t have as much as I do. ” The woman looked at me as if I’d
just sprouted extra limbs or something. She replied, “Thank you
so much. I haven’t seen many people around here be thoughtful
of another person. We’ve moved here from Virginia and are
considering moving back because we’re questioning whether
this is the right place to raise our three children. ” Then she told
me that she was about ready to give up and move back home,
even though it would create a huge financial strain on her
family. She said, “I’d promised myself if I didn’t see a sign by
the end of today, I was going to demand that we move back to
Virginia. You are my sign. ”
She thanked me again, smiling as she left the store. I was
flabbergasted, realizing that such a small gesture had impacted
a whole family. The clerk said as she was checking me out,
“You know what, girl. You just made my day. ” I walked out
smiling, wondering how many people my act of kindness would
affect. The other day I was getting a breakfast sandwich and coffee
and thought my co-workers might like some doughnuts. Thefour guys I work with at the stables live in the little apartments
at the front of the barns. None of them has a car, but they share
a bike. I explained to them that the doughnuts were for them. The look of gratitude on each of their faces was rewarding in an
immeasurable way. I haven’t worked there all that long, and I
think that those 12 small doughnuts helped break the ice a little
bit. My small act of kindness turned into something huge as the
week went on. We started looking out for one another more
carefully and working as a team.
Refuse to entertain doubt and instead, focus on the power of intention.
What is the key to manifesting one's desires?
The author emphasizes the importance of imagination, kindness, and love in order to connect with the power of intention.
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The author does not discuss free will as a separate entity, but rather emphasizes the importance of aligning with the power of intention.
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The author views imagination as the connecting link to intention, and encourages the reader to focus on the power of imagination in order to manifest their desires.
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The author suggests that one should not focus on what they don't have, but rather focus on the abundance and kindness that is always available.
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