Persistence Is The Key

Keep On Keeping On

Persistence is the key to success. Especially when considering a goal you really want and need in life at a very deep level. No matter what the disappointment, there are always possibilities of achievement because genuine persistence works that way. There are always ways to keep on keeping on, especially when there does not seem to be. That is especially when you get genuinely creative and search outside of the "box of given options." So here is an appropriate place to quote Thomas Alva Edison near the end of his life: "Ideas come from space. This is amazing but true, Ideas come from out of space." Sure, ideas do come from inspiration, which could be interpreted as "space to grow ideas." This is where the mind is a vessel, and not an originator, in that ideas genuinely come from all around us if we just notice and think deeply about things in both an abstract and linear way all at the same time.

Thought is a thing as well as an energy. That is its power, that is its reality shaping working. But the mind itself is a vessel for this energy and thing. That is what makes the mind the greatest interpreter and controller of all, but not the best creator in that sense of actually creating energy. Crafting, yes. Creating, no. That is my point. Indeed, we must use ideas to get what we want to do, done.

Some of the best ideas are worked out when all other channels of creation seem to not work. The power of crafting ideas comes from forming them from what already has been worked out in the sense of making something better that has already been worked out like going from yelling across the prairie to the telegraph to the telephone, to the cell telephone! My point is as follows, there is always room to make things work more efficiently and better. This is not a competition, but the ultimate of creation when you really look at it objectively. Your mind is a controller and worker, not a creator, leave creation to existence.

Mental power does come from honestly using your resources to control your reality, not create it in a genuinely ineffective mystical way. What do I mean by mystical? Well, a famous politician says, "insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting it to work differently." That is a part of the mysticism. Genuine creativity is always a different angle on things and reality is not set in stone, time always marches on and so should persistence until you do achieve.

Courtesy: Joshua Clayton,