Happy New Year, everyone. As is tradition, I’m sure many of you have set up New Year’s Resolutions for yourselves already. I think that’s a great practice, and I wish you luck with whatever you’re working on.
If I may, though, I’d like to suggest an additional resolution to your docket — one that might help speed your spiritual growth. It won’t require any extra actions or activities on your part.
My suggestion is simply that you be resolute in this New Year.
What do I mean by that? Well, if you look it up in a dictionary, to be resolute is to be driven, but also to be resolved — to be completed.
So when I ask you be resolute in 2024, I ask you be resolved — that you be complete in your conscious living. All of our “unfinishedness” is a consequence of unconscious acting; we are not who we want to be yet because we’re too busy unconsciously being some other version of ourselves.
The truest “resolution” one can accept is this commitment to being resolute in our conscious living. To end the flow of unconscious thought/feeling/action that prevents us from feeling resolved or at peace.
If you really want to progress going forward, the fastest way to do so is to be resolute in this way. Be relentless in releasing your unconscious baggage. Every time an experience triggers an uncontrollable reaction in you, dig down to the root of that reaction and expose it to the light of consciousness.
This practice is all that’s necessary to make huge strides in spiritual growth. It’s not easy (especially when you’ve been conditioned into unconsciousness), but it is simple. Just commit to it. Be resolute in your conscious living.
Beyond that, I don’t have much to say. I’m looking forward to the New Year and the many great creations that are in store for all of us here.
As always, good luck.
happy new year, and thank you