Waking Up in a Busy World: Limitations and Faith

Every human being in the human form has limitations.
Eckhart Tolle

We do have limitations because our minds have limitations

Thanks to Tolle and others, I now realize that in physical form ...right here, right now...many of us still have limitations. We definitely have hidden abilities that we are not making full use of but...because we depend so much on thought and ego to guide us, we have limitations. Most of us will be guided by that limited belief system for the rest of our lives and that is okay!

Very few of us will transcend our limitations as we walk around in these human bodies thinking from our human minds. Yet...there is recorded evidence of the possibility of expanding beyond these limitations. We call this possibility a miracle.

Miracles: Getting beyond our mental and physical limitations

The woman who lifts a truck from her child's body is an example of this possibility. Fire walkers who walk on hot coals without burning the souls of their feet are examples of this. People who sit in a meditative state for weeks without food or water are an example of this. Those who survive after drinking poison or getting bit by poisonous snakes for the sake of their faiths are examples of this. Those who were blind and now see because of a drop of holy water or a tap on the head are examples of this. Those who visualize their way through a stage four cancer into remission without medical intervention are examples of this.

Few as these examples may be...they offer proof that we can get beyond our limitations.

Can faith take us beyond our limitations?

So how do we explain this ability in a disabled and limited world? We are taught that it is faith that moves mountains. "For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'move from here to there' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible to you." Matthew 17:20, English Standard Version.

Our faith is a product of our minds. Our minds are capable then of anything. Buddha said, "The mind is everything. What you think, you become." (52 Buddha quotes).

What about the amazing feats of firewalkers? Fire walking, or Theemithi is an ancient Hindu ritual observed by South Indian culture. It re-enacts the scene from the Gita where a very devote follower of dharma, Draupadi, seeks to prove her purity by walking on hot burning coals. Prior to this display she was disgraced in public and then vowed not to comb her hair until she had the opportunity to smear herself with the blood of her victimizer and to comb her hair with his femur. At the end of the 13 year war of Mahabharata she had the chance to do just that. She then walked on the burning embers, was purified, proved her virginity and came out smelling like flowers. Her faith and her desire to be pure for God not only led her through fire without a burn but it cleansed her. Thus the belief in the purifying nature of fire. (Significance of Fire Walking, n.d.)

This ability to withstand fire can also be attributed to Judeo-Christian faith in a promise made by God. "When you walk through fire you will not be burnt and the flames will not consume you." Isiah 43: 2 ESV

And what about those committed evangelists who drink poison or allow themselves to get bit by deadly snakes? Those who heal the sick and get blind people to see? Does faith have a part to play in that?

"They will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poisons, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick and they will recover". Mark 16: 18, English Standard Version

Faith does move mountains then. Faith can take us beyond our limitations.

Though we may first have to recognize that in this physical world while we are in physical bodies thinking from a limitation-focused mined...we are limited. It is okay to accept that. In fact, it is essential that we accept that before we can go on further.

But...

All we need is faith like a mustard seed?

We can go further into our understanding and building of faith. We just need a tiny bit to begin with...even a grain of faith as small as a mustard seed can allow us to transcend so much. Let's look for those grains of faith in ourselves and share them with the world.

Where do we find them? In our subconscious mind, the same place where doubt and belief in limitations reside. It should be our intention, then, to rediscover our unlimited potential and replace those limiting beliefs with new ones that can change the world.

I think it is part of our evolutionary intention to do just that so we as humans can expand as a species into the beings we are meant to be. This, however, is not going to happen overnight for most of us (though it can).

Putting aside our egoic version of the truth by which we lived is not an easy task for any seeker. Limitations will be a fact of physical life for many of us until the day we die. There is no shame in that as long as we are attempting to at least move forward.

For most of us, it will be a slow process full of steps forward and steps backward. Taking it one step at a time, one human being at a time, one realization at a time, one thought and one changed belief at a time puts us on the road to expansion....the road to miracles. The more miracles we witness the easier it will be for us to believe in infinite possibility. The more we believe the greater our faith gets and the greater our faith, the more we expand. I believe, we can, as a species, eventually get beyond these limitations for the betterment of the world!

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency^[a] in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

2 Corinthians 9:8

How amazing is that?

I want to end with this lovely quote from a translation of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

When you are inspired by some great purpose,

some extraordinary project,

all your thoughts break their ground.

Your mind transcends limitations,

your consciousness expands in every direction,

and you find yourself in a new,

great and wonderful world.

Imagine such a new, great and wonderful world where there are so little limitations.

All is well in my world.