Collaborators in Creation

"Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation."

-- Teilhard de Chardin

Who truly knows their own limits? No one. Sure, you may know that you can't run a four minute mile, but, hell, you probably don't want to anyway! Likely, though, there are many more things that you really do want to do, and can do, but you limit yourself from doing them simply because you have failed to adopt the "as if" philosophy. Proceeding "as if limits do our ability do not exist" produces results that far exceed what we could predict through rational analysis. And if that is so when we speak of the individual, just think how much more we can expand beyond our supposed limits when we're working together!

Alot of the New Age books have it at least half wrong -- you do not create your own reality! You co-create your experience of the world by collaborating with others, with natural laws, with The Divine. It's not about manifesting the perfect parking space or creating a multi-million dollar income. It's about joyfully working, playing and living in concert with the One and all.

To truly do that, you must transcend the ego -- both its boundaries and it's pride. Being a collaborator in creation is no big deal. It's just what people do -- whether they know it or not. Doing it consciously is the trick. That, and being detached from the results.

Zen has ben defined as "doing your damndest without giving a damn." That is both the paradox, and the mindset, that we're talking about here. No self-imposed limits, no attachment to results. Collaborating with the Universe! Who knows what will happen?