Your Cosmic Potential: Being Part of the Universe.

More than love and intelligence, or consciousness and joy of life, this potential and our deep need to actualize it are what makes us human. Certainly, we take pride in our ability to love and the power of our consciousness, but they aren’t specifically human— many animals are capable of love. It may not be hard science, but when you come home after a long day’s work and your dog is jumping up and down around you and greets you with welcoming yelps, you know that this animal loves you.

Many other creatures besides us are conscious of the world. A lion on the prowl is fully aware of what it is doing, and so is the frightened gazelle in its sights. We feel unique in possessing intelligence – at his gloomiest Hamlet can still look at the human race and exclaim, “How noble in reason, how infinite in faculties.” But, in reality, intelligence isn’t specifically human, either – even plants need a certain level of intelligence to live. And as to joy in life, who would deny it in a colt dancing and prancing across a sunny meadow on a summer morning? No, what makes us human above anything else is this mysterious potentiality in us.

Everything we have built in the material world springs from that hidden urge, our inner sway and creative source. Our inner potential makes us who we are. You can go far beyond your conception of who you are and what you can achieve. It’s not as if human potential is a new subject; there is a whole movement built around it. But for most people, when it comes to achieving their full potential, they have barely begun to scratch the surface. In my book, Infinite Potential, I will show that the potential in you is part of a cosmic potentiality that exists in every particle of the universe. It exists as a field of states of what is possible in the world, and it is as real as gravity. Gravity is invisible, yet potentiality is even more hidden from view because it exists at a level that you could call the mind level, and science will never be able to measure it with instruments or take photos of its landscape.

There is no direct experience of it, because its states are possibilities that are waiting to appear in the visible world. Yet, there is enormous power in it. Everything that exists in the visible world has first existed as a state in the cosmic field of potentiality. Nothing comes out of the blue; everything emerges out of the cosmic potentiality. We build our dreams, hopes, and visions on what is possible: finding perfect love, ending war and violence, feeling the presence of God. What would be important to learn, if it can be done, is how to use our mind to tap into the cosmic field of possibilities, in order to make our dreams a reality.

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