Speak to the Emperor
Speak to the Emperor
"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness...the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in ones favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way."
I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: 'Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it! Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it."
At a time of my life when, if I choose to listen to the consumerist commentary of the media, I should be concentrating my attention on my accelerating baldness, I seem to have got my vowels mixed up and the word I keep noticing is in fact Boldness. The quote above is one of many we had written on the walls at our Centre. Not acts of vandalism but of inspiration.
Boldness can be defined in a number of ways most referencing an absence of fear, but my favourite had a particularly English ring to it. It defines boldness as not hesitating to break the rules of propriety; forward; impudent: He apologized for being so bold as to speak to the emperor.
Whatever you are noticing in your external world at the moment, I feel it is time to be bold. Some may call for revolution, while others seek ascension but I feel it is time to be bold. It is the time to speak to the emperor. It is time to break the rules of propriety. It is time to challenge authority.
However, before you put on your mask and storm the palace, take a moment to assess whose rules you are following. Reflect a moment on who governs your personal empire. Who actually has sovereignty over your temple? Where are you restricted and by whom?
May I be so bold as to suggest that we are in fact our own emperor. Storming the palace is not an external act but an act of defiance in the face of our greatest fear, which is owning our own power. Those external limitations are holographic representations of our own beliefs.
Self responsibility is the greatest fear of an increasingly controlled society. Those who govern us discourage it as they recognise that in it we may discover our true power. They fear the potential of our power but within the hologram their fear is ultimately is our own fear reflected.
Our self responsibility is our ability to respond. The boldness required is to choose a different , more conscious response. To break our own rules where required. To speak to our emperor. To challenge our automatic actions, To wake up to our own unconsciousness. To storm our own palace.
Commit to boldness then I suspect providence moves too!
With love
Bill