An observation of subjective individual realities and the Authority we have over them.
Every person is like a center of gravity that bends the reality around them depending on their mental state. It doesn't really control gravity, so it's more like a subjective center of reality that somehow influences the greater collective subjective reality. Let's call these "reality spheres".
The existence of humans themselves makes reality bend around them, according to their consciousness. Individually, every person is a strong wave that bends and influences the ocean of reality around them which they are also part of. Collectively, humans are the ocean of reality themselves.
Since every person has a reality sphere similar to a black hole, Earth should have been in total mess and chaos, with everyone creating their own realities. However, the Cosmos, or Nature, as you'd like to call it, is the Great Balancer that maintains everything in a constant state of influx and equilibrium. An opposite reaction but equal in magnitude — that's how the universe responds. A cosmic law of give and take, which some people call "karma", is one of the major reasons that so many reality spheres can coexist in a single space.
One might wonder, how can the universe maintain a constant state of change and balance at the same time? It's precisely because of the constant change that it's able to maintain a sense of balance as if riding a bike — you keep pedaling so the bike will remain straight, but if you stop moving, the bike will fall. Likewise, the universe will lose all its balance and stability if it ever stopped changing.
The cosmic law of give and take isn't something that limits people, but it's something that allows people to do what they want while maintaining the balance of the universe. It's similar to the law of conservation — nothing can be created or destroyed, it's either transforming into a different state, the formless manifesting itself, or the form returning to the formless.
When one does something, one faces consequences. That's one of the ways the universe tries to balance things while keeping them moving. Naturally, things in the material plane keep fluctuating between two opposite polarities. You may be productive today, then lazy tomorrow.
The more a person fluctuates from different polarities, with high levels of frequency, the higher their growth will become, and the more stable they'll get. It's like a pendulum that's slowly losing energy, where it would sway from side to side more often than when it was in a high-energy state, making it more stable, and eventually settling down. The result of all growth then, is consistency.
Consistency is stability gained from repeated experience and exposure. Forced consistency is always bound to fall easily, like any building without a good foundation.
To make the best out of the short life we have, we need to utilize the reality spheres within us and bend reality by shaping the formless. However, controlling the reality sphere as a detached force is often impossible, we can only become the Reality Sphere itself.
Our individual Reality Sphere is an expression of our Consciousness. And to be aware of our consciousness is to become who we are — the I Am.
Now who is this ambiguous I Am? To put it simply, it's not who we think or believe we are, but simply us. The I Am is not the one who commands our body to move by saying "Move forward 3 steps", but the one who moves the body. It's not thought, not the action, and not the body, but the one who controls all thoughts, actions, and body.
One cannot think or feel the I Am and neither can they can become it because they already are — they only have to "realize" it. You don't need any mental image or concept of reference to do this, since it's not just a part of you, it is You. It's as easy as breathing. Once you realize that there is only one I Am, that there is no "you", "me", or "yourself", then everything will be clear.
A life of abundance is a life of having enough time to spare, money to give, affection to share, and activities to do. Living a life of abundance is the key to the vault of riches.
I tend to see myself as an embodiment of emptiness, so I thought that my entire life should be spent filling the void and emptiness within. However, this is a life of scarcity, the opposite of abundance.
Emptiness is everywhere and abundance is also everywhere. They can co-exist because they are one and the same. Abundance comes from emptiness, not scarcity. It's because the canvas is empty that it can be filled with anything.
I wished for an empty canvas, and this empty canvas of life is what I get. With scarcity, I will think of this empty canvas as shameful and lame, so I'll rush to add everything I can to it. With abundance, I will think of this empty canvas as an opportunity to create something, so I'll take my time making a masterpiece.
We only get what we already have. If we have a mind filled with scarcity and lack, then everything we get will be scarce and lacking for us. If we have a mind filled with abundance, then everything we get will be more than enough for us.
It's okay if our mind is still filled with scarcity and lack, after all, we are still in an era where people treat scarcity as an important motivation. Thus, it only makes sense for us to feel that way.
By practicing Abundance, we begin to offer more of ourselves to the world, to give more time to the activities and people we enjoy, and share the things we have.
The world is vast, it's bigger than our imagination, it's bigger than our mind. As every snowflake falls into its rightful place, the universe has also reserved a place for us, and that place is here, it's now. The place we truly belong.
In this place the universe gave us, it has always more than what we need. We can give many things to the people around us and we'll still have so many things left.
We are enough, we have plenty, everything's well.
As a co-creator "I Am" of the universe, we each have our authority in our respective areas — in our individual reality, our existence. Within our existence, we can choose what actions and thoughts we allow for ourselves and what actions are not.
Basically, every person is an Authority of their own life. They each have been given the power to live their life as they please and handle the consequences. As an Authority, we can choose what Path we would like to walk on, the Direction we want to go, and the kind of life we want to live.
A person's Authority encompasses three things:
Authority of the Body - A person can easily control their body without any further thought or planning. If they set their will to it, they can sleep and wake up at the exact point in time they want. How does it happen? As simple as walking or breathing.
Authority of the Mind - A person can easily control their mind as easily as they move their body. The only reason it seems difficult is the self-made limitations of the mind, thinking "I have to do this before I do this" or "There's no way I can do this".
Authority of Influence - A person can easily influence and affect their environment. It seems one of the most showy and difficult types of authority to use, but it's just as easy as the previous ones. The only difference is that other people can see this, and add their expectations, reactions, and opinions about it — that's the only "difficult" part, which can be safely ignored.
Even using one of our Authority is enough to turn our life around, but not using at least one of them is guaranteed to turn a person's life into a living hell.
Using the Authority of the Body is necessary to prevent sickness, the Authority of the Mind to deal with negativity, and the Authority of Influence to shape the environment for the greater good.
So far, I'm learning to use the Authority of Mind and Body, but I have rarely used my own Authority of Influence, fearing other people's expectations, reactions, and opinions.
Maybe I should consider using my Authority of Influence, it's completely free after all. The ego of lack and scarcity is telling me that I'm still not enough to use it when the real reason it's been given to me is because I'm already enough to use it — the only condition is for me to exist.
This is one of the reasons it's important to have the mindset of Abundance — so that we know and understand that neither we nor our self-worth is going to decrease by simply exercising our Authority in life.
"It's not about finding ourselves but simply realizing ourselves."
"The most important things in life don't need any finding or searching, for it has always been with us."
"Regardless of what a person does, they'll end up in the same place if they're using the same mindset. Regardless of our new opening moves in chess, we'll still lose if we're thinking in the same way as before."