Spiritual Growth Asks, "Are You Being What Serves You?"

Most spirituality information has an emphasis on yourconsequences of this unconscious living is being
being, not your doing. For those seeking spiritual growthmanifested in the way we live our lives and view the
it is critical to keep your beingness in alignment withworld as it is today? This is but the tip of the iceberg
what serves you.concerning the questions we have been asking
Be what serves you. What does that mean? Ofourselves regarding our inability to attain even our most
course, we are all trying to do the things in life thatfundamental values. Values such as inner peace and
serve us and make us happy. Why wouldn't we? Weworld peace.
certainly wouldn't consciously make decisions that doOur questions concerning life and our relationship to all
not serve us, would we? No, we wouldn't consciouslythings that make up life are valid, and it is well within
be that way.the human psyche that we should expect we could
If we are living consciously we would be able to clearlycome up with some answers. This is not an
see the concepts and values that are important to usunreasonable expectation.
and then consciously make the choices and decisionsYou need to look at life's questions with the intention
that would keep us in alignment with them. What is sothat you will reach clarity on what you decide is the
hard about that? Obviously, we would make thebest path for you to follow. You must be the final
choices that serve us and take us to where we desirearbiter in the decisions you make about your life. The
to be.decisions that you make concerning your own life will
We, as individuals and societies, all agree that one ofultimately determine what your world looks like.
the places that we "desire to be" is a place calledBecause here's the deal: You are creating your life as
"world peace." This is a concept that most people inyou go along. You are not only creating your own life,
the world embrace as a God-given right. We should allyou are also creating the world we live in by every
live with the full expectation that we can all get alongchoice and decision that you make concerning every
with our fellow human beings.aspect of life.
If most of the people in the world subscribe to thisThis is a huge Ah-haaaaa.
concept, then why is there so much killing andYes, I am telling you that you that you are a powerful
destruction going on in the world in our avowedcreating machine and you are creating all the time. The
attempt to achieve "world peace?" What is keeping usdifference between you knowing this or not is
from reaching this fundamental goal of just gettinganswered by the question, "Are you creating
along with each other? If we say that we, asconsciously or unconsciously?"
individuals and societies, would be better served byThe question is not whether you are creating. You are
achieving this goal then why haven't we achieved it?creating! Now the question becomes, are you creating
Or even come close to achieving it?consciously or are you sleepwalking through life and
For the past two thousand years of recorded historyaccepting the consequences of your unconscious
we can document that we have pretty much donecreations and being unaware of "what's happening?"
whatever it takes to not achieve this goal. Could it beHow do you determine if you are being served by
that we are unconsciously choosing to attain otheryour beliefs. Well, you simply ask yourself this four
short term, less all-encompassing goals than our statedword question, "Does this serve me?"
goal of world peace?Can it be this easy. Yes, life is effortless if you choose
Could it be, in fact, that we are not living consciously,for it to be effortless. Ask yourself this question, "Does
as individuals and as societies, and that thethat serve me?