What’s real?  A follow-up to “Seeing is Believing”

As a young man living in Kansas and New Mexico my grandmother lived with me and my parents, and she was my teacher.  She taught me by making drawings, telling stories and asking questions.  I mostly remember this time through sayings she had.

One of her sayings was:

“In life there are questions and answers.  The answers are not important because the answers frequently change.  The questions are very important because the questions never change.”

She told me this after I once asked her “So, what’s the answer?”

Kids always want the answer and so do adults.  It is easy for us to take the answers wherever we can find them, e.g., a book, a teacher, the Internet.

She spent a lot of time with me having me tell her what I saw, what I thought or what I felt about various things that happened around me.  Let me give you an example:

My mother and father were separated in age by 35 years.  So as you might image there was a lot of “talk”.  One day I told my grandmother what I had overheard someone say about my Mom and Dad.  She told me that there were lots of stories about my Mom and Dad and “some of them might even be true”.  This really bothered me and I told her so.  She asked, “So, what are you bothered about?  The true stories or the ones that are not true?”  I told her “both”.

Out popped another one of her sayings.

“We each make our own reality.  So, there can be more than one reality.”  My grandmother never studied quantum physics so I don’t know how she could have known this. 

Closely related to this concept I recently was given the following, written by Dan Sewell Ward:

“Nobel Prize winning physicists have recently proven beyond a doubt that the physical world is one large sea of energy that flashes into and out of being in a fraction of a second, over and over again. Nothing is solid. This is the world of Quantum Physics. They have proven that thoughts are what put together and hold together this ever-changing energy field into the 'objects' that we see.

Know the tools of creation. Your thoughts, words and actions create your experiences. You become what you think about. Albert Einstein once said that imagination is the most powerful creative force. The Bible says 'As a man thinketh, so he is.' Become very aware of your thoughts, and be deliberate in your thinking. There are no idle thoughts. Have vision, and stick with it.

Believe. Henry Ford said, 'Whether you think you can or can't -- either way you are right.' This is pretty much the same thing that Jesus and many others have said.

Understand cause and effect. The law of cause and effect is the prime law that runs the universe. It is the number one law. Every spiritual and scientific teacher has sought to teach it. They may have said you reap what you sow, or you get what you give, or what goes around comes around, or karma, or consequences, or every action has an equal and opposite reaction, or many other similar statements. Quantum physics is now teaching us how this works, exactly, on a sub-atomic level. Things get better when you get better. They get worse when you get worse. The world is all within you. You are at cause over everything that happens in your life, whether you were conscious of it or not.

Eliminate level confusion. Align your thoughts, words and actions with your goals. Become aware. And realize that the physical world is an effect, not a cause. It is a result of our thoughts, words and actions. You cannot achieve anything by trying to manipulate the effect. Instead look to change the cause.

Understand infinite loops. You see what you believe and you believe what you see. But the start of this loop is that what you believe is what causes the conditions that you see.

Know that there is no order of difficulty, as all limits are placed upon yourself by what you believe to be so.

Find your purpose. Find out what makes you happiest, and work within your purpose. When you do so, your confidence, inspiration, creativity, energy and passion will be unstoppable.”

I knew at age 10 my grandmother was a really smart woman.  I wonder if she knew?  And I wonder if she knows what a profound effect her teachings have had on my life.  I bet she knows.

You can check out more at: http://www.halexandria.org/dward003.htm

This article was written by Ed Tilford, Sr. Ed is one of the founding partners of Fissure and was the CEO & President until his retirement.