Conscious Effort Is an Inner Requirement

Our being has an effort requirement. When we apply this effort from within our being in an adequate directions, we experience a sense of fulfillment. The motivation for this effort comes from within us. We use ourselves, expend and extend ourselves, for our own sake. If we merely apply effort from an external motivation, we do not experience this fulfillment. The effort must be expended for our own sake. It is part of our mission to apply this effort with consciousness: conscious that we are applying ourselves for our own sake; wrong motivation cannot produce fulfillment.

When you are applying adequately motivated effort, there is an inner sense of rightness, adequacy, peace, wholeness and joyousness. When the motivation is wrong, there are many signals which tell us this. If we experience inferiority, superiority, lack of self-respect, emotional dependence, lack of confidence, emptiness, disappointment, depression, anger, envy, jealousy or blame, we are not expending the inner effort needed to nourish our being. If you look toward others for respect, affirmation or approval, then you are not providing your own: You are then parasitic.

The majority of individual use only a tiny portion of the effort needed to nourish themselves inwardly. There are two aspects to whatever you do-the external and your inner being. If you concentrate on the external and are not conscious of yourself, you will remain inwardly unfulfilled. Practice being conscious of yourself in what ever you do and make this consciousness a priority in what ever you are doing. Expend more and more effort from within yourself for your own sake and you will begin to feel you are on the right path, for you now experience yourself intuitively.