You are a “You” Potentiality

“We are hoarding potentials so great they are just about unimaginable.”
– Jack Schwartz

“Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential.” “You are within God. God is within you.”
– Peace Pilgrim (1900-1981)

Come to think of it, by definition success is an end-result or an achievement of some sort. But true success, however, doesn’t stop after you’ve reached a goal or cease once you’ve attained a certain rank. If you want to be successful, you will have to accept that success is an ongoing process.

For instance, once (you think) you’ve achieved all that you can, have you really reached your true potential? Are you truly successful then? Of course not, unless you died at that exact, very moment! I don’t mean to sound facetious, but for as long as you live you can never fully achieve that which is infinitely possible. And your spiritual nature is indeed infinite.

In essence, your successfulness is and will always be greater than what you can ever possibly conceive. Look at the word “potential,” for a moment. “Potential” implies that which is not yet attained or that which has not yet been realized. And the truth is that you always have a potential; you always have a spirit.

So, as long as you have a potential — which you always do, of course — you will never be able to fully achieve this infiniteness that you are in truth. You can not measure the measureless nor can you add form to the formless.

Therefore, when I refer to “reaching” your potential, I’m not referring to success as a result or an event but to the process of connecting with or tapping into your innermost essence, or in other words of gradually translating your spiritual nature into reality. You see, you always have a potential. Always. It never dies, it never changes, and it is always expressing itself.

As a result, you are constantly evolving, growing, changing, with every single moment of your life. What you express is a symbol of that which can not be measured. Your potential successfulness is invisible. It is your higher self. It is your spiritual nature. Try to remain idle and you’ll see that it’s impossible. Try not to change and, in the very least, you will be growing older… But you are still growing nonetheless, no matter how hard you try to stop it.

The proof that you’re always reaching your potential is the fact that you are not the same as you were before, whether it’s a second ago or a decade ago. Hence, your highest potential, that thing that was you before you were born and lives on after you die, is eternal and changeless. In other words, your higher self is intrinsic. It is infinite. It is invaluable.

Paradoxically, you may accomplish some great thing and categorize that as success, but true success doesn’t come from something outside of you but from connecting with that which is within. Therefore, when you trust in your highest nature you are bringing to your life a sense of purpose. Whether you achieve something or not in the external world is of no importance.

True success comes from living on purpose. It’s something you already have and was never outside of you in the first place. Your success doesn’t come from the value you have associated to some external accomplishment but from your inner, intrinsic value. Simply put, success is no more than a connection. It’s the process of retrieving into that limitless part of that which you really are.

You can not seek what you already possess. Therefore, you are — or have the means to become — successful right here, right now. You are a success because you will always be a “You” potentiality, a potential waiting to emerge. You can surely observe the physical “You,” but you can’t see, hear, touch, taste, or smell a “potential,” can you?

Whether you try to do as much as possible, own as much as possible, or get as much approval as possible, those things may seem real to you because they are dimensional, tangible and measurable. But they do not make the real you. These external results are only glimpses of who you are potentially, but glimpses never give you the “big picture.”

So, never underestimate yourself. Never. And most important, believe in yourself because you are worth it whether you know it or not. Thinking that you are a failure is just as worse as thinking that you are a success, especially when you justify either one according to some external event or result.

Always remember the “big picture.”