Manifest Revolution Live Truth.

To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny. Do you see the difference? Revolt within society is like the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking away from society, and that is creative revolution.

In response to my exploration of the principle of commitment as a tenet of life practice, I have been experimenting with different methods of practicing commitment. As I mentioned in Commitment Is Everything, we have a very poor understanding of commitment. We really only understand one dimension of the act, which is that of binding oneself unequivocally to some (usually poorly-defined) thing. Such a shallow approach renders the act ineffective and failure-prone. If we are to strive to live a life of integrity, we must understand what it truly means to practice commitment.

Commitment Is Empty

I've learned through years of sad experience that whenever people tell me I'm crazy or I'm stupid or I'm just plain wrong, that I'm definitely on to something. That's not a proclamation of genius by any means; I'm under no such delusion. However, people have the strongest negative reactions to what? The things they fear, of course. And next to death, the biggest fear most of us have is being wrong. So lately I've been testing the idea that the law of attraction is a fascinating topic that we've only just begin to understand -- and if there's really something to it, that the really interesting stuff is yet to come. Guess what kind of reaction I've been getting?

There's been a lot of criticism about the law of attraction, which is to be expected given all the media attention The Secret has garnered. The community of teachers and aspiring practitioners needs to take this seriously and in the right spirit, not as an attack on anyone or their beliefs, but as an outside perspective illuminating the aspects of manifestation that the community has not yet addressed. Unfortunately this more often results in deeper divisions rather than opening the sort of dialog that gives rise to deeper understanding. We are so used to being served refined pedagogy that we sometimes forget that understanding and mastery are developmental processes. And we're just at the beginning of this one.