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And now on to this weeks blog…
Imagine being on the lobby floor of the Empire State Building; you’ve never gone higher than the first level of any building. A person steps out of the elevator who just came down from the top. You ask, “How is the view up there?”
This person speaks of the spectacular view from the top of the Empire State Building, and you have no idea what this person is saying to you, because it is all completely new to you.
And then, you have the courage to enter the elevator and push the button to the top floor; you ascend to the top and walk out to look at the view. Your very own vision reveals what you heard this person speak of while standing in the lobby. Puzzled, hopeful, hostile, attentive, nervous receptive … you suddenly realize, “I have never really known where I should stand in life, and thus, I have never begun to imagine the spectacular truth about myself or the world in which I live. This new view has shown me how I have blocked my own path, and now I can unblock myself.”
The Six Stages of Creation enable you to, whenever you want, retire to the elevator inside of you and ascend to the highest level of consciousness. At the highest level of consciousness, there is a sense of inner quiet, of inner peace, of inner serenity unlike anything else you have felt before. At this level of consciousness you experience absolute freedom to BE who you yearn to BE; you have the power to DO what you dream of DOING; you are able to constantly renew yourself so that you may HAVE what you have longed to HAVE for so long.
Stage Four of Creation (which is what we are touching on right now), is to know how to fine-tune your failures so you may enjoy the successes, you’ve dreamt of enjoying for years.
How strange it is that when you learn specifically what you do to stumble – you stumble no more. When you know how you sabotage your successes in detail, you are able to undo what you have done.
Let your investigation into the bad habits that destroy you be simple, brief and fundamental, and when you return to them – just returning to them will be enough to purify your thoughts and action, and to move you beyond all feelings of discontent that give power to those bad habits.
Does this message confuse you? It is meant to. I am not speaking to the rational mind that dominates you. I am speaking to that part of you that revels in the truth, that part of you that is superior to everything in your environment that tries to stop you from progressing with your personal growth and development, with your personal evolution; the part of you that is superlatively creative and able to make your dreams come true.
The superlatively creative part of you compels right relationships with everything that shows up in your life. It lies in its power to attune your mind with the Four Interactive Forces of Universal Creation so that you may say, “It shall be done,” and it is done. (We will look at the Four Interactive Forces of Universal Creation at an appropriate time in a future blog).
Simply BE with the contents of this post. Let it settle in. Do not try to be reasonable when seeking to understand it.
- Whatever you are NOT right now, that you deeply desire to be, is a result of bad habits that you have fostered.
- Whatever you shall BE in the future, that will totally delight you, is a result of seeing the simplicity of how you constructed your bad habits to stop you.
Refine your failures that you may succeed – Stage Four of Creation – yes, that’s it.
If you begin thinking in unusual ways – all of your questions will be answered. These answers will be utterly different from what you are used to hearing, from what your habitual thinking has always offered you.
Student: What will I discover if I begin thinking in unusual ways?
Teacher: You will discover disturbing but liberating truths about you. Liberating truths – that is what you really want, don’t you?
Ponder this post for a few moments, and then leave a comment from beyond what your rational mind offers. You will love what you have to say if you are earnest about saying it. No comment is a wrong comment, when it comes from the heart. Leave a comment for your sake, for the sake of your growth and development, for the sake of your personal evolution from being a human being (part of the animal pack) to being a spiritual being having a human experience. How delightful is that?
If you can think of nothing to say, then simply say that you have more pondering to do. This truth is the most powerful force in the universe.
Thank you, and Blessings
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Hey Rob. Stellar show. Totally great hearing how every body else does stuff differently than me!!
I liked hearing how JK loves KOBE!!! It’s like me loving Lady GAGA. She is so out there, free and focused. Even though Lady Gaga may seem “Out there” or whatever, at the end of the day she is clear, calm and focused. She knows what she is doing, yet she is totally on her own true path. That’s what I want to be. I want to have the focus and freedom of the great ones. 
Thanks again Rob!! 
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Hi Kara. YES, some folks find their true path and delight in it for a lifetime, while others simply live as they do because they think there is nothing better. The truth always directs you when you really want to find your way, doesn’t it Kara.
Good day Rob,
It was another phenomenal show last night, and I’d have to agree with Jk that you were definitely on it!
My greatest take away was to stop asking myself what do I fear about progression. I’ve done this more often than I’d like to admit. However, I now know not to seek out those fears, but instead to start undoing those actions and thoughts that were sabotaging me.
What I loved about Stage 4 is that it focuses on what we need to act upon to get the results we seek most. And for me, it has been getting overly involved with the process, trying to make what I wanted to happen, happen a lot quicker. And you’re absolutely right, it never works out in my favor to try and force things to happen. I must get into my silence and be directed towards the next move I should take.
Last nights show and this mornings post are both filled with powerful tools to help us fine tune our failures, so that we might see more successes in our lives; and I cannot thank you enough for shining a brighter light on this topic. The ability you have to turn something that usually bears a negative connotation into a positive, is pure brilliance. The last two episodes have really been powerful lesson for me! I’m looking pleasantly forward to next weeks stage. Thanks for giving us more awesomeness, Rob. This was great!
Hi Deeone. It may startle you to know that when a person lives with a specific negative emotion long enough, he resists giving it up even when it is in the way of winning. He fears that if he gives it up, he will lose what little he does have. Here is where courage is needed – he must give up the old in order to find the new. This has everything to do with you (and me … and JK … and everyone else). You are now being courageous for yourself, aren’t you. NICE! Blessings
Hi Rob,
A very thought provoking post.
It made me appreciate that when we treat the experiences we have internally which seem to hold us back, as having structures, it gives rise to the opportunity to play with these structures, to create new ones, which will serve us better.
Thanks for another brilliant post.
Hi Hiten. YES, everything in our lives have structure, and when we look deep enough we find that structure … and can dismantle it if it is not working for us. We cannot think accurately about this truth until we live it, right Hiten? And you are now exercising your Power of Will to live it. You are going to love what you find that you can do when you dismantle those structures that bring life to negative emotions inside of you. Blessings
Hi Rob,
I have ponder this post and now I shall speak. Your statement, “I have never really known where I should stand in life, and thus, I have never begun to imagine the spectacular truth about myself or the world in which I live. This new view has shown me how I have blocked my own path, and now I can unblock myself.”
What i am telling myself is that as humans we are given free will and with that we do make mistakes and if we are smart enough we learn by them.
After we have learned from them the finally prize is to turn our lives in faith over to the higher power and he will guide us down the path that he made for us.
To me this is living life like it is meant to be lived and basing it on faith in our hearts. When we live in faith even when the unexpected happens we know that we can overcome it, because we are guided by our heart not our mind. The heart guides, so the mind can think it through.
This is the order that has been provided for us to live by; feel with the heart and use the mind for good.
Blessings to you Rob,
Debbie
p.s. let me know when your radio show is on. I have to start making time for you and JK
Thank you
Hi Debbie. The old shows are available above. The show is on every Thursday eve at 8:00 EST … you can access it via this website. Now. back to your comment. You gave a lot of intuitive thought to what you have written. It is clear, elegant and concise. A great procedure for clearing confusion is to notice precisely what does not work in one’s life. You have done well with this procedure, Debbie … it shows. Thank you
Hi Rob. My life really started to change when I could see the specific ways I was stumbling. Looking back it is amazing to me how I just took all my bad habits as absolutes. I really had no inclination to change them, but somehow expected my life to just magically work better. Addressing bad habits stinks because it means I had to do a lot of extra work to get my life on track. There’s just no way around it. When I got serious about improving my family life I felt some resentment that I’d have to give up some of my vices. I thought that doing things like watching TV and eating junkfood was releivivng stress. The crazy thing I realized was that after I committed to give them up I saw they were a big cause of stress. I tell you it is a such a huge relief to be free of those habits.
Hi Roger. You are reaping the rewards of giving up what has been taking up your time with nonsense. You now know that a problem cannot be solved on the same low level upon which it exists … you must elevate your mind to a higher level. This is something you are now doing consistently, and the rewards to you are abundant. Blessings
I am looking for directions to that building. I will take the ride. I have been so long arriving at the 2 story farmhouse with the outhouse in the back…that a 5 floor walk up is about how far I can see…and I KNOW it’s not high enough. Actually, I ride airplanes…that’s quite a view.
I like your spontaneous comment, sylvia. Your humor and creative nature is shining through. As you continue to drop[ your conditioned answers, the truth will appear more and more for you. Thank you
Hey Brother Man. I like to keep my elevator on the top floors. I can’t always stay on the very top, but I don’t go the basement these days. There was a time when I was all over the place. I’d be rocketing from the highest high to the darkest depths within the same day. One of the bad habits I had was that I had made up my mind that life has to have pain and suffering. I’d find any injustice or misdeed to get all upset over when in reality my life was relatively easy compared to people starving in Afirca or getting screwed over by the government in China. It’s almost like I felt guilty and didnt deserve to be happy ALL the time. But now I’m all about the love, baby. I find if I can give away whatever I got I dont think about myself so much. It’s when I get wrapped up in my own head that I can get low. Being self absorbed is a stupid habit that just makes people more and more hostile to each other. When ever I find myself thinking about myself too much, I go out of my way to do something selfless. I want every floor on my elevator to get off on compassion! Any problem we are facing, or any bad habit we have cultivated all comes down to mindfulness. When I’m mindful I gett outta my own way and see the infinite extent of my relationships.
Hi Rus. This is a beautiful comment. What a beautiful fact for a man to know that he can decide what level his elevator will rise to, and that he will find compassion at every level that he opens the elevator door to. Let this form a picture of how your mind can supply you with your every desire to spread the word of love, which is what you do. Thank you.
Hi Rob, I really liked what you said about “getting to a place of quiet.” That is something that I need to do more of. Most of my life things kind of swam along without much interruption. Since I’ve experienced real change and challenges lately, a lot of the decisions that used to come so easy and natural now fill me with more anxiety. It’s like I used to not think too much and trust that things would work out. I don’t have that same confidence anymore unfortunately. But it seems to me if I can learn how to consciously get to a place of quiet I can kind of regain that confident nature. Life has its challenges and when we are tested I think it is a matter of buckling down and not letting our minds run amok. I can see some of the bad habits that have snuck into my own life lately. It’s nice to be able to feel like I can lighten up and not give them any more power.
Hi Carol Anne. That place of quiet is as close to you as your next breath. Thus, living as close to your divine center as you can (which you often try to do), will bring you the confidence that you are seeking right now. You need not ride the pointless emotional merry go-round any longer. It is time for you to get off, isn’t it. You can; you know that. Blessings
Hey Rob. Good show and follow up blog this week. On my own petty side note; Whats up with the scratching and rustllng sounds? I know you guys are still fine tuning but it definitely interrupted the show flow (hey look at me rhyming
). I only bring it up because I get the sense that you get rolling and and want to keep rolling. I don’t know… It’s like you have an agressive inclination that wants to kick ass and take names later! Just go, man… you know… like Kobe (ha 
). He just goes and doesn’t even listen to his coaches. I love Kobe to and have never realized why. Even though I should hate him because our Miami Heat have dynastic potential… but that’s another story. Sorry for the rant but I am taking your advice and saying whatever comes to my head because sometimes I dont know where to start. Between the show and the blog I’ve had a lot to think about. I’ve been trying to get my wife to listen up and apply this to our relationship but that’s not happening yet. I say this because I want to get my life straightened out on the domestic front now too.
I’ve given up drinking and have a nice career, but I still have bad habits that keep our relationship from being what it could. It’s like all I do is give up one bad habit for another. When I gave up drinking I got obsessed with having six pack abs and perfect pecs. I wanted to look like those guys in the Nordic Trac and shake-a weight infomercials. I got the abs but who cares?! It was way too much work and the net result was 0.0. I just want to get to a palce where I am free of habit all together. I imagine that’s what it is like for people like you. They just wake up and do what feels right for that day. Am I off base, or is there something to that? I don’t know, my mind is crazier than most. Sometimes it makes perfects sense, and then other times I feel like I have no idea what is going on. Ah well, that’s why I keep coming here. It makes me feel a just a little better to blurt it out. Thanks for the platform anyway.
Hi Pat.
I once attended a truth seminar. I left half way through, saying, “That teacher is no master … he knows not of what he speaks.” But I attended the seminar a second time, a year later. I traveled long and far to attend the seminar. This time I stayed for the full week. I left saying, “This man, who many call a master, still confuses me. Perhaps it is my mind that is not clear.” I attended the seminar again on the third year, and I could see clearly that the teacher was clear all of the time.”
The light is always trying to break through the wrappings we place around our lives, Pat. You are discovering this right now. Your honesty, your clarity … you are now attracting what you are seeking.
Thank you for advising me on how to improve the blog talk-show. I was disappointed with the scrapping noise and the paper rustling. It was not from me. I no longer use notes when I speak. I speak from my soul. I am thinking about being on the air alone, and simply letting it all come forward with no interruptions. Perhaps that is what you are advising me to do.
Oh, one more thing, Pat Here is something else to remember. Your inability to detach yourself from your past mistakes is the cause of your present mistakes. Read this several time; it holds a great promise for you.
Thank you
Whoa, you blew me out of the water with that whole non-action conversation. What I must NOT do vs what I must do is huge. I get so caught up in figuring out what I can/ Should DO, do, do and never really pay attention to things to STOP doing. I work hard at my music and get compulsive. I always feel like there must be something more I can do. I work myself too hard at times and I think that is my worst habit. Everybody knows artists create crap when they try to force it. Well, I produce a lot of crap that gets mixed in with a few gems. I think it would behoove me to create a habit called “RELAX!” The next time I get compulsive about writing 2 new songs per week, of practicing at least 2 hours a day I need to go for a walk and meditate. I bet If I can create a relaxing habit, it will allow more creativity to come through, and in the end be more productive anyway. Thanks for this. It’s a big one for me!
Hi John. You’ve made a big distinction, realizing that it is as important to know what you must NOT do as it is knowing what you must do. If you’re going to a friend’s house, and you turn down the wrong street – you know enough to turn around and go back … you must NOT think you are going to get to his house by continuing down the wrong street. That is easy to see with this example. It can be this easy to see with everything in life, if we allow it to. Thank you.
Thats a great way to put it, Robert. I love the simplicity herein. It really is nothing but my own bad habits that have limited me. When I was young I had aspirations to be a writer and journalist. The only thing that stops a writer from becoming a writer is that he doesn’t write enough. It’s just a work habit that I never took the time to cultivate. Instead I cultivated other habits. I was serious about having fun in life and I have plenty of habits (good and bad!) that support that. I think in hindsight I was successful at living fully and joyously. I’ve travelled, sailed and continue to have a good time. I had to create habits that support my lifestyle and I’m pretty proud. Not everybody can do that. For a lot of people having NO-Fun and being a stick-in-the-mud is a habit. I know plenty of people who always say they want to come out for a sail, or travel here and there, but the only thing that stops them is a habitual schedule that says they need rake the lawn on saturday. I have a habit that says, hey it’s saturday… lets go do something fun already!
Hi Salty. Yes, having NO fun is a habit for many. The insanity! Having no fun is a transgression against the evolution of humanity. We learn in joy, not in despair or boredom. Thank you.
Hi Rob. It hit home for me when you said we all feel unworthiness, but we have to realize what a great lesson it can be to feel unworthy. I have yet to learn anything from my own unworthy feelings. I just kind of stew in them, I guess. Getting mopey and feeling bad for myself is one of my most annoying habits. I hate it when I’m doing but I don’t know how to get out of it. I think it is all unworthiness. I don’t know what I’m supposed to learn yet. I think the first step is seeing it as a bad habit. I used to bite my nails, but I managed to kick that. If I can view feeling unworthy at the same level as biting my nails I don’t feel so stuck with it. Women can sniff out unworthiness a mile away and I need to get some mojo in it’s place.
Hi Alan. I can sense that feeling mopey is a bad habit of yours. The bud of perfection, that lies in a flower, cannot blossom if the flower is feeling mopey … do you agree? Thank you.
Hi Rob. Yes. I’am questioning a lot of my habits now. What i’ve come to see is that someof my old habits that used to benefit me now only serve to keep my from growing. To make my own way in the world I had to become a workaholic. There is just no way around it if somebody really desires to be successful. Now that I’m retired, my workaholic habits are throwing me off track. I have to learn to relax again and enjoy the process. i’m too quick to jump onto some new project that I think is going to be my next big thing. I got at it full steam ahead, then I become dissapointed with myself if I loose interest. As hard as it is for me, I really have to make “Patience” my new habit. It’s the darndest thing. I can see exactly what I need to do, but just can’t make myself do it! I guess that’s the power of habit, No? How do explain the phenomenae? That is, seeing exactly what you need to do, but when it comes to acting on it reverting to the same silly patterns.
Hi Goergie. the phenomena of knowing what to do but not doing it because old habits scream, “NO!” … this is called ‘being captured by the conditioned mind.’ It is a miserable position in which to be. There is no freedom to make right choices when we are captured by ‘old thought-patterns’; how are we to grow? Thank you
What comes to mind for me is when I finally saw the Grand Canyon in real life. I was blown away by the size and beauty. But what really shocked me was that I thought I knew what I was going to see, but the actual experience was mind blowing. I had an idea about the grand Canyon and was sort of bored with the idea and not at all excited to see it. The point is we really have no idea about what life is until we experience something. We can sit at home and think we arent missing out on anything. our same old thoughts are dangerous and limiting. I’m now a big proponent of reading and experiencing different ways of thinking. I used to think being agitated and angry was the only way. But when you wake up to the “Grand Canyon” lessons that are all around you, you can change your perspetive everyday if you want. I guess that’s the essene of a real Mind Adventure.
Hi Ramone. There is a scientific term called ‘scale of observation’. When we look at something from a new perspective, we change our ‘scale of observation’, and everything begins to change for us. The power to improve one’s ‘scale of observation’ lies with investigating all matters in life for oneself – take no one’s word for what something means. This is the essence of a real mind adventure, indeed. Thank you.
Hi Rob, I think one of my problems is that I think, I’m thinking in “unusual ways” when the reality is I’m still repeating the same dumb habits. Sometimes I trick myself into thinking I’m on the verge of a breakthrough, only to realize later I’m just being the same “clever” know-it-all. Instead of high-falutin’ thinking and philosophizing I am consiously trying to be more humble. I want to learn to catch myself when I am being the know-it-all and learn how to be dumb!
I think there is a lot to learn when I accept, I don’t know a thing!
Hi Alicia. We all can think that we are thinking in new and fresh and unusual ways, when in reality we are simply churning out the same old thoughts and adding a twist of something new, hoping it will appear fresh and new. I do it, too. When you impress upon yourself the importance of noticing how you are thinking, you begin to have leverage with your thoughts. Thank you
YO ROBOBOB!!!! Your out there with this one!! For real, you know I’m always stepping out the elevator on the top floor. The thing about my elevator is that it just keeps getting HIGHER and HIGHER LOL! It’s like I always think I’m at the top, but then I realize I can do better and better ALL the time. That what I’m all about… just keep pushing the limits of EVRYThing. If I have a bad habit its that I push too hard and too fast ALLL the time. But I cant help it! Thats just the way I roll. Like one time I got obsessed with having six-pac abs so I went all OUT until I was iron tight, and cut up like BRUCE lee son!! I got sick of that SHIZ Tho. Now I have like a 4 pac… still mad dope, but not so CRazy obsessive. I have to be careful where I’m setting my sights. CUZ once I get going my HABITS dont let me STOP until I OWN THAT and make it my BIZZNNATCHHH HAhahAHA :0 HOllla PAX OUTTTT MY MAN!!!
Hi Marc. When you are not feeling insecure, you are not aggressive. These two emotions hang together like a couple of imps that are up to no good. I can tell when you are speaking from insecurity, because your tempo becomes aggressive. There is a great insight in this comment for you. Blessings
Hi Rob. I know I have lots of little bad habits that keep me from having breakthroughs. Does that ever happen to you? I just can’t seem to break them. I feel like I would have much more time and energy if I ate healthy and exercised all the time and didn’t wast time being a perfectionist over little details. It’s not like I have one really bad habit that I need to break. it’s bunch of little things. Sometimes I think it would be better if I had a big nasty habit. That way I could just go Cold Turkey and wipe my slate clean.
Hi Joan. The one really bad habit that you need to break is ‘that thinking’ that causes you to have a lot of little habits that you don’t take seriously. So many of us stumble through life over little habits that we do not take seriously. It is time for you to decide that you’ve had enough stumbling for this lifetime. Blessings
Rob,
A post that left me seeking knowledge and truth! The question of “what is truth?” Is one I believe everyone should ask themselves. I struggle at times with relying on the rational mind and what you mention helps me recognize that many bad habits can be rationalize and justified. I think by accepting our flaws and being open to learn from them we can uncover many of our blind spots.
Hi Joe. YES, the ‘blind spots’. These spots create blotches in our progress. The spiritual journey begins on a ‘blind spot’ where we feel lost and helpless, but look back a year later and that blind spot is covered over with fresh green grass (can’t it be). Thank you