You no doubt have heard on occasion someone say that once they had committed to action, the factors necessary to its completion magically lined up. While this may not always not always be the case, as the choices made by others often complicate that which you seek to accomplish, it does happen frequently enough to merit further investigation.

I am by no means a fatalist but I do find it intriguing when happenstance gives the appearance of a predetermined design. The pattern in which a commitment is made and then everything else seems to line up has happened enough to me that I am inclined to make room for the possibility that life tends to move in a particular direction. We have the law of entropy in the physical world, but does this apply to the vague, yet omnipresent, quality we call “life?”

Life appears to be an organizing force. Its nature is dynamic, vibrant and expressive. When we meet someone who is radiant and energetic, we say that he is “full of life.” Conversely, when we come across someone whose body, mind and heart are lethargic and decaying, we say that “the life has gone out of him.” Life is forever burgeoning, though its clothing, the forms it takes come and go.

Yesterday we spoke of establishing points in consciousness that allow for a more ample expression of the greatness intrinsic to you, and I would like to expand on one particular element that can go a long way in helping you to live life more abundantly. Put simply, when you commit to a course of action, providence moves too.

W.H. Murray, in The Scottish Himalaya Expedition wrote:

But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money – booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is in great consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no many could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.

Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

While the couplet referred to is an extremely loose translation of Goethe’s Faust lines 214-230, is of great value to anyone seeking a more generative life. Begin it. Be bold. Trust in the process. Let life course through your veins and be willing to creatively handle that which opens up on this basis!