Oct 10, 2021 Late Night Chat with Jeff Wolverton, ”Something new by our own inner vision.” Live Zoom

Dear folks o’Baba,

The following quote of Baba is from the book, "Listen, Humanity,” and appears on page 151. It brings up the possibilities of how active we can actually be in our inner life with Baba. To what extent can we participate creatively in the unfolding of the deeper dimensions within ourselves?

"Truly happy people are rare in spite of the smiles which are usually the brave front for varying degrees of internal misery. Yet everywhere and in every walk of life, man is longing for happiness and searching desperately for some means of breaking out of the trap which his life has become.

It is not his fault if he assumes that the solution to his deep dissatisfaction lies in a sensual life, or in achievement in business or the social world, or in a life of exciting experiences. Neither is it his fault if life is not usually long enough to teach him factually that he would find even more profound disillusionment if these goals were to be fulfilled to the hilt.

If he would suspect that his ideas of achieving a successful and happy life were wrong, and that he must try some new way of living, then the stalemate might be broken. A new line in the divine picture is sketched only when some individual takes life forcefully in his hands, breaks up the old patterns and insists on creating something new by his own inner vision.”

What do Baba’s words, “create something new” by our own “inner vision,” mean

to you?

Do you sometimes feel that your life has become a trap, or even that

you’re not living at as inspired a level as you would like?

Can you see yourself breaking up the old patterns of reactivity toward outer events

and instead responding from the deeper heart?

What beliefs, ideas and ideals about life that you have embraced in the past

(or even now) have brought you unhappiness and discontent?

For example, what goals or dreams in your professional life that

you aspired to have you failed to achieve?

Are the inner spiritual goals that you have set for yourself complicated by an

impossible perfectionism?

What approaches or perspectives in your life do you find to be deeply meaningful and fulfilling?

Baba talks about breaking up the old patterns and creating something new

by our own inner vision. Is there a new way you would like to envision

yourself to be, or are you basically content with how you are?

In our last chat, Baba was quoted as saying, “Whatever you want to be,

that you become."

Does this quote inspire you to take a more active role in determining what

happens in your life at an inner or outer level?

Do you tend to favor letting things happen over making things happen?

Can you be happy and content on one level (say spiritually), but not happy because of your

life’s circumstances?"

Darwin Shaw on free will and predestination.

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