5 Simple Laws to Help You Reach Your Highest Spiritual Possibilities by Guy Finley l Tips to Being Spiritual l Advice on Becoming Spiritual l Spirituality l Ways to Become Spiritual

We are all familiar with the general laws that govern our physical well being: eat healthy foods, exercise both mind and body, and avoid toxic people and places whenever possible. Adhere to these simple laws and be relatively free from suffering; break them, and you place yourself under another set of laws that pretty much guarantee you won’t be happy with how you feel.

Much in the same way, there are spiritual laws that govern what we will or won’t discover about ourselves in this lifetime. And when we understand that self knowledge is to our spiritual growth what a spring rain is to the wildflower seeds that await it, then we also realize how vital it is to not just embrace these higher laws but embrace them mind, body, and soul.

Following are five laws to help you awaken and realize your highest spiritual possibilities.

See Conclusions as Limitations

If you approach the possibilities of learning about your life as being limitless – which they are -- then any conclusion you reach about yourself has to be an unseen limitation. Why? Because there’s always more to see. For instance, let yourself see that all conclusions are illusions when it comes to the security they promise. There may be security in a prison, but there are also no choices behind its confining walls. Learn to see all conclusions about yourself as invisible cells, for that’s exactly what they are. The seeming security these conclusions offer is a poor substitute for the real security of knowing that who you really are is always free to be something higher.

Persistence Always Prevails

If you’ll persist with your sincere wish for higher learning, you can’t help but succeed. Persistence always prevails because part of its power is to hold you in place until either the world lines up with your wish or you see that your wish is out of line. In either case, you’ve won something that only persistence can buy. If you get what you think you have to have to be happy and you’re still not satisfied, then you’ve learned what doesn’t work. Now you can go on to higher things. And should you learn you’ve been wearing yourself out with useless wishes, then this discovery allows you to turn your energies in a new direction: self-liberation.

Growing into the worlds above us – realizing the higher realms of consciousness within us – requires that we outgrow the worlds beneath us. As to our course through life, whether we profit a little or a lot, do hold this one thought: we are made, each of us, as much by what we will as by what we will not.

Whether to persist and aspire to the Higher or drop into some dark despair, that is the question; and which of these two seeds flowers all depends on which one you choose to nourish and grow.