The Mystic’s New Year’s Day

Resting up before we hit the road

Beginnings are everything.

Once a system begins a certain way, it’s difficult to change its trajectory later on. The patterns of thought and behavior to which we dedicate ourselves on this very day will either lift us up or weigh us down, depending on what they are. So let’s choose correctly. Right now, on New Year’s Day, let’s consider the possibility of a radically different, and better, year than any we’ve experienced before, and embrace the habits of thought and behavior that are bound to make it so.

Just as the acorn carries within it the blueprint of an oak tree, and a fertilized egg carries within it the blueprint of a human being, so do we carry within ourselves a blueprint for happiness, creativity, productivity and abundance beyond anything we’ve ever imagined. In A Course in Miracles it says those who have achieved the most in the world have achieved a fraction of what all of us are capable of. The evolution of our species has only scratched the surface of our potential.

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If we choose to be in 2022 who we chose to be in 2021, then it’s reasonable to assume that the year ahead will unfold pretty similarly to the way the last one did. That applies not only to how we have shown up as individuals, but also to how we’ve shown up collectively. None of us can direct how the species moves, but all of us, with every thought we think, can affect how the species moves. The choices we make about our individual lives are like votes we’re casting in a general election. No decision we make is really for ourselves alone.

The beautiful thing about New Year’s day is that it seems to be inherently lazy. 17th Century French philosopher Blaise Pascal declared that every problem in the world derived from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. And he couldn’t have even imagined the brian-addling, ADD-producing, impulse control-destroying, 24 hour electronic assaults on our nervous systems that plague us today. Our culture mitigates against the achievement of wisdom needed in order to protect ourselves from its toxicity.

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So today, January 1, should be a day of recovery and preparation. Recovery from what was, and preparation for what shall be. Don’t hesitate to spend time just sitting there, being with your thoughts, owning your feelings, and waiting for spirit to move you toward whatever thought or action that will lift you high. What most needs to happen now can’t be figured out; it can only be allowed to unfold. It won’t emerge from our self-will; it incubates within our souls. All of us need to be mystics now, alert for signs and wonders, and waiting for the miracle.

That’s how we’re going to save the world.

Happy New Year!