Are You A Builder Or A Wrecker?

By Dennis Kwiatkowski

building the futureElla Wheeler Wilcox once watched a building being demolished and famously noted in one of her poems that a ‘wrecking’ crew could destroy in a very short time what it had taken many others years to build. She challenged her readers to reflect on their lives and their actions to determine whether they were primarily ‘builders’ who contributed to the world and added to the work of others, or ‘wreckers’ who tended to tear things down and produce destructive results.

All of us, each of us are an aggregate or amalgam of all of our past lives.  We have built into our beings–physical, mental and spiritual– the results of our focused intention, attention and choices over time.  Many of these are beautiful flowerings of our soul.  But some aspects of our interior structure may include tough walls of protection, defenses, habitual responses, locked-in attitudes and ways of being that are destructive yet are so well-built that they are extremely resistant to a tearing down or, what we might more appropriately call, a regenerative process.

We may find, when we decide to improve and refine our attitudes and behavior that it is not as easy as we supposed.  We meet resistance and we may become discouraged.  But through our thoughts and actions now, and in each day and moment, we can modify, change, alter or build anew.

One of the most powerful and profound utterances expressed by the source that spoke through Edgar Cayce are the four words:  Mind is the Builder.

Our thoughts are things.  What we dwell upon, we become.  What we focus on, we attract.  We build. This concept is worthy of all the consideration, all the reflection and meditation and work we may wish to put into it.  For it is one of the great keys to power and one of the great secrets of the universe.  Cayce referenced it again and again.

We are free agents—free to choose.  Our choices set energies in motion—for good or ill.  As free agents, are our decisions, thoughts and focal points more often based in pure selfishness or are they responses to the influx and essence of Divine Love?  One is destructive, the other is uplifting and constructive.  As Cayce put it, one leads to “death”, the other to “life”.

Fortunately, mysticism asserts that the subconscious mind is always amenable to suggestion, twenty-four hours a day.  The process is not difficult.  It’s as simple as simply starting it.   We start where we are right now at this moment without judgment.  Cayce noted very clearly that the only failure is the failure to try.  It’s akin to building a house or a temple—bit by bit, with each addition contributing to the whole.  This is, after all, how we grow in our understanding anyway, bit by bit and piece by piece as we continually move forward.

Rather than resisting our ingrained patterns, we can introduce new thoughts and new choices and petition for insight and divine assistance.  What we thus build into our being will supplant and transmute and re-create what is already there.  What we consciously choose to build in our thoughts and meditations will change everything in our livesIt will transmute our physical beings, our attitudes, our relationships and our effect upon the world.  It will deepen our experience of our true divine nature and unleash the power of soul.  It will give us confidence and make us a channel of blessings toward others.

May we see all souls truly beginning to comprehend that mind is ever the builder.  When choices are made that reflect divine impulses of soul, all problems find resolution and the world glows with a beauty and radiant joy heretofore unseen.