Part 2 of 12
A Practical Guide to Prosperous Living
J Douglas Bottorff
Look up, my comrade!
When on the glances of the upturned eye
the plumed thoughts take travel and ascend
through the unfathomable purple mansions,
treading the golden fires and ever climbing,
as if t’were homewards winging—at such time
the native soul, distrammelled of dim earth,
doth know herself immortal and sits light
upon each temporal place.[1]
William Caldwell Roscoe
Behind each desire that you have is the deeper desire for a more complete expression of who and what you are at the deepest level. Every external thing you are trying to bring into your life represents but a small facet of this deeper identity that knows “herself immortal” and that can only be unleashed from within your depths. As you acquaint yourself with this deeper dimension, you too learn to sit “light upon each temporal place,” putting the material plane in its proper role of servant rather than taskmaster over your spiritual identity.
Of course you continue to acquire things. You continue to set and accomplish goals. But if these acquisitional activities are to produce the satisfaction you hope to draw from them, they must somehow serve the deeper, more fundamental process of bringing into expression a greater, more substantial revelation of your native soul. You cannot achieve the sense of completeness you crave by attempting to fill the trough of your life from the empty well of possessions. You must learn to fill the well from the inner, infinite spring—the one eternal source from which your being originates. In this way, you fill your life from the inside out.
[1] From the play, Violenzia