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Today is the Day November 4, 2007 Hi, this is Joshua Schwarz and I am seeking the truth about life. I am currently doing a large amount of study in personal development and in the area of metaphysics concerning the origin of the universe. I've always been achievement focused and believe a method exists that, if faithfully followed, can be used to gain happiness in your life and I've found that once happiness comes, all else will fall into place if you realize what it is that you desire. I have been searching for answers my whole life but for the first time made it a priority as a news years resolution at the start of 2007 by starting my web-site, unworldlylight.com, on which I post periodic articles that I've written. This audio presentation consists of the truth I've found thus far. I wish all the best for you and I hope all your dreams may one day come true. Today is the day! Great change is on the way! The expression of life is what makes the world go around. Everything is always seeking a greater existence through the increase in quality of life. Whether you talk about a single flower planted in the Earth's soil or a human being we all would like to better ourselves. We know that a seed planted in fertile soil seeks a greater existence simply because it will grow if it is properly cared for by the planter along with Mother Nature. Everything in this world is made up of energy. At the minutest level atoms are just bunches of energy in motion and everything is ultimately made of atoms. We are all made of the same substance, connecting us all. Both you and I are the personalization of life, with our own character traits and physical appearances. When our interconnectedness with each other is overlooked, suffering is created. One cannot profit at another's expense without damaging the universal whole. It is important to stay connected with everything else. This power that connects all things is personalized in religion but for our purposes I'll call it your life force. When you attempt to advance at the harm of some other party the interconnectedness will cause you to eventually harm yourself. The damage done to you may very possible be in the unseen but it is still there. That debt will only weigh you down further as it piles up. You cannot be happy when you realize that you are in the wrong. Loving and kind acts are for the greater good of all. They seek to better life for all at the expense of none. Love and intentions for better conditions for all allow you to use the power of your life force in the daily chores of your existence. Details will crystallize once a vision of what you want from life is realized and you go out seeking it for the greater good through love. Worries, fears, prejudices and other qualities of separateness will have no power over you; they will be powerless to the greater force within you. Wishing only the best for all people can be difficult. This is especially true when dealing with those who can be coined impossible and seem unhappy no matter what it is you are doing. It is important that you never allow these kinds of people to get to you. Communication is the best way to reach the so-called impossible people. Without letting them bring you down wish the best for them and help them expand their views as you attempt to find what is troubling them. The culprit is almost always his or her very own self. Their circumstances may be difficult but in the end they are always their own problem because they don't rely on the interconnected life force to bring them the peace they desire through unconditional love for all. Also, keep in mind that if you are unhappy because someone else is unhappy or impossible then your unhappiness is still your problem, not his or her problem. All people must seek their own happiness through themselves. It will never be found from the world of circumstance. To create the life you want, it is essential that you are able to see the changes you would like to create. Creating your life isn't about leaving it up to chance. It is your opportunity to really be alive. Let your imagination soar. If you could have anything, be any kind of person, or experience any form of success what would it be? Take this fact into account. All life wants to be happy and it is impossible to be happy when you are damaging the interconnectedness of the entire world. Therefore, your desires must not harm the greater good but actually should contribute to it. It is essential that your desires will create a manifestation of greater happiness for all. Life is about expansion in its own quality creating better conditions for all. Think about what you want. All of the great achievements in this world began with an idea. Someone just like you sought a greater life and found it through the manifestation of their ideal or goal. When you see people of influence instead of being impressed or thinking about how lucky they are, find ways in which you could mirror their character in your own life. Who you are inside will determine what you see outside. You must be able to visualize what you want your life to look like. A general wishful hope for something better than what you already have is of no use at all. The clearer you can see it the faster you can create it. If life had a catalog out of which you chose how every aspect of your life were to look would you not shape it as much as you could? Some people never let themselves really desire anything other than what they have because they don't think it is possible for them. They may also be unhappy about the fact that they don't have it. However, if you are happy independent of what you have then it doesn't matter if you fail in your pursuit of what you want. So, in every way possible, decide what your ideal life would look like in reality and work towards that. To receive what you desire you must give to the world according to the size of your wishful aspiration. A trade of value will bring you what you desire. This statement can be strengthened with the idea of all people being connected. Ripping someone off and stealing value hurts the whole that you are a part of, ultimately hurting you. A common idiom also supporting the idea of giving value to others to receive value is you will reap what you sow. Consider the following. If you go about taking from everyone else, people will be deterred from helping you accomplish the goals you are after. The fate of your dreams and whether they will or won't come to pass will be all up to you. Others will simply not want to help because of disliking you and wanting to protect themselves. However, if you give to others you remain connected to them. Then when you least expect it but most need it they will be there to help you achieve your goals and help you out in any way possible. You will be in a favorable position for the higher power to work with if you are in the right, desiring nothing but the best for all. Once your desire has been crystallized and you know what you want the next step is action. You know much more about the method to bring your desire to you than you believe. It is important that you focus upon what you want and use your full intellect to discover how to bring it into reality. Focused attention will bring your unconscious mind into full throttle. Your unconscious mind keeps you alive by controlling all of your life processes like your heartbeat. Your breathing is unconscious because it is paramount to your survival; it is automatic. If you ever would forget to breathe then you would expire and likely black out. Repeated action can impress habits onto the subconscious mind. The majority of our lives are actually unconscious and many never learn to harness this great power. If you consciously choose the habits you would like to have and then work to incorporate them into your life through their repeated action they too can become unconscious and effortless, much like the habits you already possess. Make a habit of taking one step at a time toward your goals. It is not an instant process but with discipline, sticking to your goals, you can find a way to accomplish them. Above all, believe that you can achieve the things you desire. Have faith in your abilities as a connected individual with the rest of the world. A higher power will be working for you. Faith will push you onward even when results don't seem apparent. This is important because it is very easy to give up too soon just before results would have started to appear. The possibilities are enormous when you act with the right intentions, know what it that you want, and continue to work for it believing you will one day attain it. I do believe that all things are possible to some extent but without a miracle some things are nearly impossible. For example, in the current physical state of the human race we have no wings and cannot fly on our own. It would seem likely that by focusing on the ability to fly, you would be able to do it if you believed that all things are possible. Yes, with time the human species may evolve to have wings and the ability to fly but wishful thinking will not magically cause you to grow wings. Yet, I still like to believe that there is a way to do all things. If you don't believe in the supernatural then you will never experience it so it is most beneficial to your dreams if you believe in all possibilities even though physical law may prevent some feats. I like to think of it this way: what if there was a way but by not believing it was possible I couldn't see the steps to take? I don't know about you but I want all the help I can get in achieving my dreams. If believing in bizarre, supernatural phenomenon will help then I will believe. It would be a waste trying to do something if you thought it was impossible because by the mere fact of disbelief all of your resources would not go into achieving it making it more difficult than if originally was. Believe you can and then you will. Believing in a cause will allow you to connect with those that share your belief through love. The life force that connects all things, which I talked about earlier, will come to you and help you achieve your purpose. A strong belief compelling you to act along with intentions to make life better for all puts all the unseen forces to work for your benefit. These forces will bring the right people to you at the right time. Believing in a worthy cause gives you what some would call luck because it just seems like everything always works out well for you in the end. If you act toward a purpose focused on bringing more life to all in a joyful state believing what you desire is possible then if there is any way whatsoever to achieve what you want then it will be revealed to you. All power will work with you toward your purpose. Absolutely all laws of the universe will bend as far as possible to help you achieve your aspiration. So what is to be done when things go wrong. All seems perfect but the circumstances still fall apart around you. Take on an "I can" attitude. Perseverance is essential if you are serious about your desires. When something breaks, believe it is fixable whether you are talking about one of your possessions, a relationship, or a dream for you life. Never give up. Never become frustrated as that could disconnect you from the infinite interconnectedness of all people. I cannot stress enough the importance of finding happiness within your own self. All circumstances are not fully under your control and are an unreliable source of happiness. For your happiness, there is no greater belief than the following. No matter what has gone wrong in the past, in one way or another all will be made well one day. If not today then tomorrow. If not tomorrow then next week. If not next week then next month. If not next month then next year. If not now, in this life, then later, in the next one. That is the process. If your dreams don't come today, try again tomorrow. Find a way to act to bring what you want into reality. Action will be made difficult if you are dwelling on the unhappy condition of how things are now, don't know what you want, or don't believe you deserve or can attain what you want. If you keep good intentions then you deserve all the good in the world because if it is given to you, you will multiply it ten-fold for all those that come your way. Be a person of character, one that will give more then they get in value. Then there will be no reason for you not to have more of whatever you desire. It is important for you to find joy independent of events and circumstances. If you allow outside forces to influence you then you give up your ability to prosper and end up allowing someone or something else to direct your life. That is not the ideal situation for changing your life into what you desire it to be. You must know what you want and stand on steady ground. As you gain your footing you will be surprised to see new opposition rise up against you as if you are in the wrong for going after what you want. The opposition will include those who have not necessarily given up on their dreams but at least sidetracked or discouraged to the point that, if others attain success beyond their level, they become angry. You are not in the wrong as long as your intentions are pure. Keep your purposes pure by not lashing out at opposition but politely leave their anger behind as you continue on toward your dream. You also need not preach to them about right living. Live well yourself and your actions will speak much more than your words could have. By not allowing others to control your happiness you are not leaving them behind. Independence sounds as if it means that you don't need other people and that is completely wrong. You detach yourself from the circumstances and the people so you can live abundantly yourself and hopefully help them at some point in the future. Other people are essential to your success in the long run because you are innately connected to them. Being independent from circumstances means being able to decide how any event is going to affect you. It means not allowing yourself to get angry when others do wrong to you. By not getting angry you don't condone their behavior and approve of it but actually make a statement to others that shows that regardless of if it is right or wrong, it will not limit you more than it already has. This is a tough lesson, especially in larger wrongs committed against people. When you feed the anger hoping to get back at them you are only looking at the problem which is the fact that they have debilitated you to the point that you cannot go on with your life. The best thing for you to do is move on toward a greater existence. Being a better person after the fact is the answer to the wrongs that have been committed against you. No matter what someone has taken from you or what you have lost yourself whether it is your fault or not it will come back to you multiplied in great abundance if you keep your happiness and go after your dreams. Trust that good is coming your way. It may be very difficult because it is hidden from the eye but I assure you that, because of the trust in it, a greater power is working for you to bring you all you need. Your way of doing things is not the only way and a better more efficient way will always exist. Life is about the path to fulfillment through doing all you do to the best of your ability. Because of that, you must be willing to look at other ways of living and thinking so you are able to reach your full potential. Never discredit anything on first glance. I have come to find that no matter how silly something may sound, everything has at least some small thread of truth in it. When you go about life always looking for that truth you are living at your full potential. All things have a purpose. That is to teach you another way, another road to happiness. Even the most bizarre philosophies, the strangest phenomena, and the most out-there people have something to teach you. When I say strange or outlandish I am talking about things that are unfamiliar to you. Just because you don't know it or fully understand it does not mean that it is not true to some degree. It is so important to be open to other things because that is how you see what else life has to offer. In the status quo you just get more of the same. You are here in the first place because you want something more in life. You were open to an idea and found joy in what you saw. As you continue to remain open you will see more of the great expressions of life that are out there. There are so many things you can experience, why not go after them if you are already happy with what you have? If you are happy with what you have then you won't be disappointed if you are met by failure and you will have no reason not to stay persistent in your aspiration. That is why those who have and are happy are able to have more. They are not worried about failure because they are already independently happy. They truly don't need what they are after but they seek it anyway so it can be shared for the benefit of the greater good. Be open to whatever it is that you have been given. Fully use it for the greater good of all. Openness is the habit that allows people to love what they have, love other people, and see other lovable ideals that they desire in their life so they have a dream to strive for. Notice I said habit. Habits can be learned and that means that if you are not an open person you can become one. How you are now is irrelevant. The important part is that you can become open. All ideals of which someone may strive to match can be learned as habits. You can become the person who you desire to be. Are you open to that idea of becoming? If you are not then you won't experience it. As you see, a large part of the process is being open to ideas, people, methods of thinking, and ways of life. Stay connected to the rest of the world by being open to it. A higher power will work with you toward your goal. I have been fortunate to experience very deep levels of happiness that I like to call bliss. I am not always in a blissful state but when I am it seems like everything is perfect and as it should be. In bliss I feel as if I truly need nothing yet I am compelled to act for more. This action is always attracted to a lofty sometimes worldwide in scope goal that I can envision myself taking part in. My ideas are always huge. For instance, when creating my web-site at unworldlylight.com I had the intent to make it extremely popular, hoping for as many visitors as possible to influence hundreds if not thousands of people onward toward success. True, I haven't reached this level yet; in fact, I'm far from it as of now. But with valuable content I believe that I can make an extremely popular web-site. In everything I do, I try to go about doing it as if it is my life's passion. Sometimes I fall short of putting all my effort forth in everything I do but I am human, just as you are. Even when I don't achieve what I'm after there is always the future. I am just fine with the idea that my goals may never become a reality but I keep the same perseverance as if my life depended on the fulfillment of the goal. The key here is that happiness should not depend on success and the accomplishment of things but rather it should depend on the pursuit of big ideas. The pursuit is infinitely more important than the arrival at a destination. What other lofty aspirations do I strive for, you may ask? Well, I want to be seen as someone who takes the best interests of others in mind. I want you to succeed and find the happiness that I have, the bliss I have experienced. I want to do my best in all things I take part in, getting the most out of life. I want to be a good person, liked by other people. I want to gain money to the extent that it will improve the quality of life for myself, my family, and for the pursuit of my ideals always focused on the greater good of all. Above all I want to make a difference in the world for you, and all to come. I have found the state of bliss I mentioned earlier by focusing on big, worthy, and lofty thoughts. I exaggerate my goals to enormous levels because only then will I be accessing my full potential. The energy to solve a problem will never be found through thought focused on the problem. Find the problems in your life and then switch the focus onto the big solution. Big thinking is impossible if you think you are unable to accomplish big things. You are very capable of doing great acts. You are very deserving of earning the great rewards, in whatever form they may manifest. Let me help convince you of this. All humans are innately good. If you realize the fact that there will always be enough goodness for you to take without stealing from someone else there will be no reason for you ever to benefit at the expense of someone else. Believe this fact and work towards being a good person and you will deserve all the rewards that your life has to offer. You have a vast world of possibility within yourself. If only all your efforts were focused on a definite goal so amazing things could happen. Work to perfect your way of life and thinking. Any thought that does not help solve your problems should simply be left behind. Many problems are created from within, and so their solutions are also from within. Anything you will ever need is already in your possession. All answers and guidance are just inside your consciousness. This intelligence is actually very easily accessible but is useless unless it is sought after and then acted upon. The problem is we constantly look elsewhere for the answers and when we do end up finding something of value, we keep looking because we overlooked the answer due to its simplicity. If you just take the time to quietly contemplate your lot in life then inspiration will appear as it flows from your imagination. Play around with all the life paths in your head and decide which one you would like to take. There are multitudes of things to do and the world is waiting for those who will realize their dreams and bring them into reality. Through your imagination comes the picture of what you want. If you cannot conceive it yourself, it will not appear. Though a power may work through you helping you to your goal, you are the one in control. It is important to take the time to think for yourself instead of constantly reacting to whatever is around you. The way we think and how we choose to mold our lives is really the only differing factor between all of us. Before you actually want something you must experience it. Living in the lack of it gives you no such opportunity so you must see it in the invisible, your imagination; possess it on the inside first. As your picture begins to unfold in your mind it will become clearer and clearer and the path will be revealed. Notice that it unfolds in your mind. It has always been there but it must first be sought after. It is not created out of thin air; it has been in you since the beginning. You already have the big dream on the inside. No matter how hard someone else may try they cannot give a dream to you. It is already in your possession just as the method of achieving it is. Yet, I stress, it must be unveiled by a desire to better society. Then your vision will slowly crystallize and you will see the road to take. All you will ever need you already have. This can be a relief since the things you need no longer need to be sought after elsewhere in the world. However, it shows you how much time you have wasted looking for what you need everywhere else except from within. Whatever is in your mind can be done, or at least pursued. Pursue the vision you would like to manifest from within into the world. Many people are very happy with what they already have. Other people are simply not motivated to achieve anything. The lack of desire in them to do something more is not entirely their fault. Some reasons for lack of motivation can include the fear of failure, the belief that one is not capable of big achievements, a high level of contentment, or a lack of discipline and focus. First, being afraid of failing has to be learned like a habit. It can be forgotten by simply shifting your perspective off of failure. Don't think about failing and don't worry about times you have failed in the past. Second, a belief that you are unable to achieve is from looking into the world for answers. If you just think and look in yourself you will find what you want and by focusing on that the method of achieving it will be revealed. Third, being so content with what you have and settling on just going through the same routine day after day is highly overrated. I'm not saying to not be satisfied with what you have but to realize that there is so much more to be experienced. Fourth, letting your thoughts wander in an undisciplined manner will spread your resources very thin. Whatever is going on around you will seem boring because you are not involved in the process. Boredom comes to those who are not actively taking the initiative to engage themselves in their life. Then, as you go about your day in this hazy unfocused attitude you will make it difficult for yourself. If something is difficult and you have no interest in it then why would you do it? Why would you be motivated to do something that is boring to you to death? Eliminate the boredom by actively living your life and staying focused on what is going on around you. By simply paying attention to the details of your life it will come alive and be exciting. You will have a reason to get up and do something; you will be motivated. Once motivation comes to you and life is exciting then your daily chores will become easier and easier. Slowly, things will become effortless. Then without effort you can begin to achieve. Once working to achieve your goals becomes effortless you will find yourself spending a large amount of your free time doing just that. When properly motivated almost all things in life can be enjoyed. In this effortless state you connect with the life force which connects all things. There will be no reason to harm anyone else. You will realize that you have everything you need. You will be in tune with love. This entire essay up to this final section was written in eight days, from July 8th, 2007 up through July 15th, 2007. At the time I was planning on making this available on CD as a little audio program. Today, I can not remember why I had stopped writing it. Amazingly, it ends very well and seems like it needs no more content to be of interest to others. On those eight days I just had an unconscious impulse to write like crazy I suppose. This is the original essay saved on July 15th plus this extra section and some minor text alterations for flow. I hope you find a lot of value in it. After rereading it, I know I have. Joshua Schwarz |