Whenever One Door Closes ...

I have a lot of respect for our "manifestation crowd", who show us that we live in a matrix and everything that we see and experience is a product of your own mind. Still, I cannot say that I have had much experience with this concept; if so then only in an indirect way: my path is one where I believe that everything that gets attracted into my life does have a spiritual learning experience for me and allows me to learn what unanticipated consequences my actions have, as well as displaying my hidden agenda and subconscious motives.

Lord Krishna states in the Gita, 'The right is to work only, but never the fruits of your labor. Be thou not the producer of the fruits; neither let thy attachment be towards inaction.' Boy, isn't the Secret all about the fruits? Unfortunately, I have no answer to this inherent contradiction. In the end I always come back to the same conclusion, live your life like a leaf in the wind. Always put your best foot forward in realizing what you want to achieve, but be entirely flexible towards the outcome. I happen to work with financial markets and have discovered that the path of non-resistance works for me best there as well. Put your best foot forward, observe what happens, and then put your best foot forward again. That's all you can do and never mind if you happen to walk in the opposite direction than before.

I understand that this approach is not very confidence inspiring, since I am really saying that I do not have any control over anything - much in contrast to the keeper of the secret. But I do have confidence in one thing, if the spiritual path exist, I will always be allowed and encouraged to express myself creatively: The right is to work only ... So bring on whatever has to happen, but trust that whenever one door closes another one opens.