ANGELIQUE ELECTRA
This is the concept that has captured me — for most of my life. “Entelechy,” a term first coined by Aristotle, means the process of “potentiality” becoming “actuality.”
What exactly is that ephemeral process that drives your evolution into that Self you are destined to become?
What is that energy that drives your so-called potential into actuality?
Do you have power over it, or does it just happen?
Do your choices and related actions ignite entelechy, or do you simply stop your resistance?
If we adopt the notion that we are all crawling caterpillars which will go, at some appointed time, through a metamorphosis that always results in a butterfly, the only question is what size and patterns of color will appear on our wings. Do caterpillars ever stall and never become butterflies? During that metamorphosis, they disintegrate and they reform. They collapse into some other form of life that gets to recreate itself. Is there will? Is there intention? Or does it simply happen? Science is not conclusive.
If we are a form of a caterpillar, able to collapse our thoughts and reinvent them, it seems there would be some form of will and intention behind it –the same one that forms our universe, and all life. Divine thoughts are always accessible to us. Once accessible by us, divine thoughts become our thoughts — so powerful, driving metamorphosis. With a declaration followed by action, we can change the direction of our lives.
That takes a lot of consistency and consciousness.
A simple consideration. We have to give up living on auto-pilot.
Swimming into the actualization of our potential involves watchful awareness and careful tracking of our thoughts and behaviors, as well as sweet surrender to your Inner Voice, the true GPS. We know we have to push our comfort envelopes out and take some chances. We have to throw ourselves willingly into the goop of our thoughts and trust that we will reshape into something boldly beautiful. We just have to wholeheartedly and devotedly desire it, and then trust.
But does this answer the original questions? Perhaps not, but our consciously applied awareness and redirection of our thoughts and our will is what we do have, coupled with an Inner Guide…..so why not?