| You are awesome. You are the light of | | | | from your own subjectivity. |
| the world. And in this brief essay, I | | | | Finally, you are nothing but your own |
| will prove it to you. | | | | expression of choices, which you bring |
| Your body is a superb machine whose | | | | into existence through creativity and |
| functional details keep scientists in a | | | | imagination. |
| state of awe and wonder. They estimate | | | | This life that you live is the clay that |
| that your body has enough power to run a | | | | you shape. You are the geometer, |
| whole city for a week. | | | | organizer, and designer of your life. |
| Your mind is a computer that has | | | | As Dr. Joe Vitale said in the movie, The |
| billions of interconnected neurons. You | | | | Secret, "You are the Michelangelo of |
| may have enough raw brain power to run a | | | | your own life. The David you are |
| galaxy. | | | | sculpting is YOU." |
| Yet there is something even more amazing | | | | What you think and feel on a moment by |
| about you. You are self-aware, the | | | | moment basis influences all of life |
| creator of yourself, and your own | | | | because everything about you has some |
| creation. You are more than a person, | | | | kind of influence. |
| much more. You are a consciousness | | | | This is a big concept. |
| whose only limit is your own self-belief | | | | Here is how to understand it. |
| and imagination. | | | | Think of a row of dominoes leaning up |
| And, whether you admit it or not, you | | | | against other dominoes, when there is a |
| are here on this planet to do something | | | | change in movement in one, it affects |
| great with all this raw power and | | | | all the other dominoes. |
| potentiality. You are a creator and you | | | | Here is another way to understand it. |
| are in a place where creation is | | | | Scientists estimate that the flapping of |
| necessary. In fact, your internal | | | | the wings of a butterfly can affect the |
| guidance system, your emotions, will | | | | air currents in a way that gradually |
| tell you whether you are on track or off | | | | magnifies over a distance until it |
| track. If you are happy, you are doing | | | | causes weather changes |
| something creative and feel fulfilled. | | | | Of course, all this is very, very |
| If you are unhappy, you are conforming | | | | subtle. You will never know whether |
| to a reality that does not bring out the | | | | your bad mood affects an international |
| best in you. | | | | crisis in a war-prone area or whether |
| On the surface of things, it may seem | | | | your good mood creates an act of |
| that you have little free-will and are | | | | kindness in a city far away from you. |
| limited in both creativity and | | | | It has been said that the vibrations of |
| imagination. It may also seem that you | | | | someone with deep wisdom can affect all |
| are pressed in and coerced to do things | | | | of humanity. This is easier to |
| by stronger forces. And it may also | | | | understand. After all the history of |
| seem that you are different from others, | | | | ideas shows that all that is necessary |
| living in a separate objective world of | | | | to influence billions of people |
| your own. | | | | throughout time is the ideas of a few |
| Yet the study of quantum mechanics shows | | | | people. |
| that at a fundamental level everything | | | | What all this means is that beneath the |
| is only energy and that this idea of | | | | apparent separation between human |
| separation is really some kind of | | | | beings, we are all one; and beneath the |
| hallucination we all share in common | | | | apparent lack of power we display, we |
| because our senses are not subtle enough | | | | hide a mighty power. |
| to observe the fluid interconnection | | | | What you say, think, and do matters. |
| between all things. | | | | Not only to you, but to everyone. |
| Furthermore, a radical subjectivity | | | | Sometimes it is obvious how your |
| informs your entire experience of life. | | | | influence spreads. But most often it is |
| That is, you can never not be yourself, | | | | subtle, very subtle, hardly noticeable |
| and even when you name something as | | | | to you, like the flapping of the wings |
| objective, it is a statement that arises | | | | of a butterfly. |