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