Are There Ways to Accelerate Growth and Development?
We might think, “I need more time for inner work, but other things are taking it away.” As long as it’s seen this way, inner work has a limitation. It only happens in the moments dedicated to it.
In reality, life is about managing your attention and how you manage it. Some say that attention is all you truly have, and everything depends on it. But let’s say, the first thing you have is your attention. You learn to observe where you direct your attention—whether it’s scattered or focused, what attention practices you know, how you can shift it from a narrow beam to a broader awareness, how you can guide attention into your body with your breath, which parts of your body you feel and how they respond.
You can apply this anytime. Whether you’re at work or elsewhere, the process of managing your attention is fully within your control. The process of your thoughts and awareness is entirely dependent on your attention.
When you start engaging with this, and it becomes part of your life—your whole life becomes this—the first change is that you begin to feel yourself differently, even in familiar places. You start to position yourself differently; people begin to see and respond to you differently.
In other words, you start to perceive reality differently because your attention is no longer automatic, and your consciousness starts to grow. The sooner you achieve what is called “constant presence,” the faster you move from being a robotic person to a fully human one.
This is the hardest part. It’s difficult because we often have to let go of what’s mechanical, the things that run on autopilot. And when you let go, you enter a state where nothing new has yet arrived, but you’ve discarded almost everything old.
At this point, you need to understand that no one can tell you exactly what to do. However, if you have faith, even a small bit of knowledge, and a master you genuinely trust, you won’t stay in this state for long.
Gradually, piece by piece, you’ll start building something that forms your inner value, your inner beauty—a strong foundation on which your true crystallization can take place.
Light and Love 🙏💖
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