“Every person form and create in their imagination a vision of their greatest self. Imagine what you would be doing if you were acting on your values, if you were acting, given your talents, to your greatest capacity. Who would you be? What would you be doing? And how would you be accomplishing it? Imagine your greatest self given your gifts, given your capacities, given your history, given what you’ve learned, given your life experiences, and envision this person vividly, and then BE that person. CREATE……. and be creative.”
“Choose to see the good in other people, there is always evil there, but we get to actually choose what we pay attention to. Choose your attitude, choose to always be positive about the fact that we are blessed beyond belief and that the world is a beautiful place. Choose to focus on those things that work best. Choose to focus on the good in people. We have these choices, these are actual choices that we can make. It’s not a distortion because we all choose what we focus on and notice. We have this inherent capacity to choose the world we live in. The ultimate fact of life that is the greatest secret of life, is to choose to be happy. Happiness is a choice. Choose to be positive. Choose to be the person that smiles. Choose to be the person that enlightens the life of others. Choose to be the person that lifts others. Choose to be your greatest self, and your greatest vision of yourself. Once you climb that mountain envision again and become something greater.”
“Humans have the basic power to create themselves, to imagine a better life and to create that better life as they imagine it to be. Once we commit to what we imagine, we automatically begin to create and devise the means to arrive at what we imagined to be the case so that we can bring it about. We are very powerful beings. And creative beings.”
Charles Hartshorne, “each of us adds to the world something that no wisdom could have wholly foreseen. This creating, this deciding of the otherwise undecided, this forming of the previously inchoate, is our dignity. . . . Each of us is an artist whose product is life or experience itself.”
“The Mormon view of agency is that persons are co-creators of themselves with God through free choices. We are artists or creators of ourselves in the sense that we self-organize the data of our experience into our stream of consciousness. Our consciousness is in part our creation because we act to form the order which will make the swirling chaos into an ordered cosmos of our internal experience (See D&C 88:7–11; 93:23–28)”
“If we truly believe that God is love, I believe that love is the greatest power in the universe, and I will follow that love anywhere because it is the greatest value I know or can possibly conceive. That kind of being, that loves without any kind of limitation, in a divine way that is always committed to the best interest of everybody, that kind of love that is all encompassing and fulfilling. I believe that love is actually the ultimate- if you want to have a first cause that explains everything, I believe that is love. I’ll follow that and I’ll seek that Being. Actually I think that’s one of the most inspiring facets of Mormonism, this notion of the inherent free will that we have, that God is seeking to enhance by giving us greater options and inspiring us to greater vision of ourselves. In fact, such a great vision that it doesn’t stop until we have and are everything that God IS; an everlasting, dynamic, creative, advancement into novelty. God is ever increasing and so while God is in every moment the greatest being that actually exists, in the next moment God is actually greater because He is a creative being that synthesizes and creates a new vision and moves forward into novelty. What I want to say is that this is a vision that is worth committing ones life to. It’s a vision that is worth recognizing that the others in our lives are so valuable and incredible. Every person we meet with this kind of creative power, this kind of freedom, is a constant amazement. People who are constantly acting in ways that we can learn from forever. Every person we meet becomes a revelation to us of possibilities, of newness. Precisely because we don’t believe in determinism we won’t hold them in their past and say that we can judge them, because their past is not determinative of who they are or have to be. They are free to change. Because they are free to change we can’t judge them because of the belief that tomorrow they might make a different choice. We seek to inspire and be inspired by that choice. So it begins to look like something called Christianity.”
Blake Ostler.
http://www.exploringmormonthought.com/2017/06/part-two-of-our-discussion-of-mormon.html?m=1
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