The Spiritual Side of the Secret

Recently spent some time in a spiritual community. Many good
and beautiful things are presesnt there and I was touched by so
many people giving their time and energy to create more peace
and happiness in the world.

This volunteer community gave me time to reflect on my own
teaching. My most successful class this last year is Applying
the Secret - a meditative way to get what you really want.

A few people find the Secret egotistical, superficial, and materialistic.
What I realized from the above experiences, is that Applying
the Secret can work just as well for spiritual goals as for material
goals. So those in the spiritual community could entertain goals
such as: having more than enough voluteers to run the place or
having fundraising goals be exceeded or even the goal of expeiencing
some particular signpost of advancing spiritually that is meaningful to
them.

What many people mistake for "ego" is really just expanded havingness.
Our negative ego is what wants to keep us small and living small.
If we want to have more, we must expand our concept of our true selves.
You actually are making progress when the negative ego that limits you
cries out about how egotistical your becoming.