The Law of Detachment says not to be attached to the material
things in your life, be it person, place or thing. For you give your power to whatever it is you
are attached to. When you are attached
to anything you spend your efforts trying to hold onto the thing you are
attached to. You place your trust and
security in a thing and not in your Inner-Self which is the only place lasting
security can be found.
Real security is in your connection with your Inner-Self
which knows how to manifest and provide for your every need. As previously stated in the Law of Cause and
Effect, the things that surround your life are manifestations of your thoughts
and beliefs. Thus as you change your
thought patterns and beliefs the things in your life change accordingly. Therefore, things are temporal, corresponding
to your level of consciousness of the Divine’s limitless substance and supply.
The Divine is always ready, willing and able to meet your
every need in life, but It can only give you what you are ready to
receive. Thus, when you become attached
to something, you keep your consciousness at the level of the thing you are
attached to and you stifle your growth.
You see, when you place your security in a person, place, or thing you
limit your access to Divine substance and supply because you hold your
consciousness in a static place.
For example, some people are attached to money and they
spend most of their time and effort trying to keep it and to accumulate more of
it. But no matter how much money they accumulate
they are not secure because they are always afraid of losing it. They place their faith in the amount of money
they have in their financial investments and spend their time worrying about
every fluctuation in the financial markets.
They become a prisoner of their attachment to money.
Another example is people who are attached to a luxurious
lifestyle. These are the people who live
in the huge beautiful homes, drive the luxury cars, and send their children to
the best private schools. They have
accumulated everything that should make for a happy life, but most of them not. They are unhappy in their marriages, unhappy
in their careers, or unhappy with the business they have created and they are
unwilling to change anything for fear of losing the lifestyle they have
created. They are prisoners of a false
sense of security and have traded their happiness for the symbols of material
success.
I’m not advocating that you should not enjoy having money,
and the luxuries of life. I’m saying
that you can have the money, the lifestyle, and happiness too if you practice
the Law of Detachment. Happiness is
found in the right relationship to things in your life. The Divine wants you to have a happy, healthy,
and fulfilled life. However, you can
never find these qualities in material things, for these qualities come from an
inner knowing that you have access to a Divine Power that fulfills and meets
your every need.
I believe you are born with a special gift inside of
you. There is something that you can do
better than anyone else in the world and when you reach inside yourself and
give that special gift to the world you are happy and fulfilled. The security you are looking for is contained
in the giving of your gift and you cannot release your talents while being
attached to temporal things because you will spend all your energy trying to
keep things as they are.
As crazy as this may sound, the only security you will find
in life is in uncertainty and non-attachment.
When you are certain that a thing is your salvation, you lock your
consciousness at that level and you live your life within the limited
boundaries you have created for yourself.
On the other hand, there is unlimited possibility in uncertainty and non-attachment,
for the Divine in you is saying all that I have is yours and you can have all
that you are conscious of receiving.
