Deep Within

   I once read a story about a man who was cleaning out a fish tank and put the fishes in his bath tub. To his surprise the fish did not move about the tub, they simply made the movement of the four dimensions of a tank as if they were still in it. Other fascinating stories were about  African American learners in the south trying to make a monumental difference for the African American society today. Story after story of Marcus Garvey, Booker T. Washington, and Rev. Al  Sharpton had me in amazement. 

     What came across so vividly was the inner strength of voices that desired equality and respect. The ability to swim through the entire tub and look past the four by four glass cube, in absence of limitation. I then began to ask myself  questions about what was holding me back from swimming the entire length of the tub. I realized that it was mental barriers are deeply seated in mind. I then began to see that this fear has been here since before I was born. This fear has encompassed my mother and father and those who came before them. 

     Although some these days might call themselves successful because of their material means,   they still on some level remain in fear.  This is what I’m choosing to call the fear of going within. You know you fear to go within when an idea comes to your mind; an idea that will benefit mankind, you get excited about the idea as you think about it, you dream about it and then abruptly realize you should get out of the fantasyland you’re in. You convince yourself to forget about it because you can’t begin to think about how your idea will come to life. You forget about it and years later a person comes out with your same idea and you think to yourself if I only pursued that idea! Ha! 

     The amusing thing about it all is that this idea never died. It was muted within your own mind because you allowed it to be. Never the less, you received the idea through divine inspiration and because you have done so it remains in the infinite that it came from. You see, because it was in the infinite mind someone else accessed it and brought it to life.  The point to all this, is to tell you to make a conscious decision to inquire within. Doing so will give you access to infinite potentials; there is a space of joy and power there. Your store house is within not without. Do so through prayer, meditation and moments of inquiry. All the answers we see are right within us. This is the meaning of …seek and he will be found by you….Jeremiah 29:13. 

-peace be upon you, all around you and within you

Herlay Maitre