Embrace the Infinite Possibilities

If I could want any one thing from a human being it would be the ability to look up and beyond your limitations: be they physical, mental or spiritual. Throughout our recorded history we have been repeatedly breaking from the shackles that have limited our true potentiality. From the moment we are born we are relentlessly striving for the future. We are bought up to endlessly anticipate what is to come. A lot of us aren't really prepared for today but live in a society that is endlessly talking of the future, of what you “could” achieve or what the politicians will eventually provide. But have we become a culture of apathy that doesn't take responsibility for the world that we live in? Living in the UK I'm personally very familiar with cynicism and moaning. Although sometimes charming and funny with it I think the British are keen to blame and complain. I myself have been caught by this rare ailment and often find myself dismissing things before I've ever weighed up their actual possibility.

This is the world we all live in – the world of possibility. Everything is possible but in order to make it real-isable we need to put ourselves into action. The vast majority of the time the only thing holding us back from putting things into action is our ability to make excuses. Think of your highest version of yourself – that person that you dream of being, who is admired, loved, respected or just content. What is really holding you back from being that person? You want to find a soulmate. Well how do you expect to improve your chances by never socialising with new groups of people? You want to live in a sunny clime? What's stopping you? Certainly not money. Often people invent obstacles because of various reasons. People don't want to interact with certain people because of their class, race, interests, political or moral views; people don't want to go to certain parts of the world because they're worried about losing comfort, connections and familiarity. 

The fact is the more obstacles you put up for yourself the less of the true world you are seeing. If you only stick with experiences that are comfortable then you will create a self-reinforcing bubble that will just support all of the views you have about the world. You are in effect living in a world of illusion. You are never exposed to the alternative point of view outside your bubble which may be the place you live or the people you socialise with. You having not let yourself experience other ways of living in this world closes you within your own box. You then limit what is possible whilst always complaining about the box, scratching at it and moaning at people outside of it.

Embrace the infinite possibilities. The more you engage with just how huge the box really is, the more liberated you are – and the more you cast off your own shackles to your true potential. For those with spiritual interests, a shared message of all worldwide religions is that we are created as literal children of God. We all have the Godlike potential to transform this world and beyond any measure we could imagine. We. the children of thousands of years of humanity's journey are the living evidence of this. We have shattered and re-shattered our view of the world, the body, the mind and of existence time and time again through our discoveries and ideas. Even particular individuals have changed the fates of millions on this earth.

This blog envisages a libertarian future where human beings free themselves from the shackles that inhabit our true potential in embracing our loving, expansive and curious natures. I encourage you to look over the precipice and to dream big. I want you to embrace the highest vision of yourself and become it. Then maybe one day as a species we can break out of the biggest shackles of all. The shackles that hold back entire societies from each other and help create hatreds that have been distorted because of our illusionary perspectives of one another. We are scared because those shackles make us feel safe and feel comfortable. They give us a sense of meaning and belonging in the world that can explain things to us, unlike the questions that face us when we embrace that those explanations are limited.

The questions that face us when we look outside the box are profound and can be intimidating. when we are all on one plane and willing to address those big questions together is the day that we will finally get around to solving them. Until then: unleash your own potential, release yourself to possibilities and don't be afraid to look at the other side.