Seven Faces of Intention

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"Seven Faces of Intention"The Face of Creativity.The first of the seven faces of

intention is the creative expression of the power of intention that

designed us, got us here, and created an environment that's compatible

with our needs. The power of intention has to be creative or nothing

would come into existence. It seems to me that this is an irrefutable

truth about intention/spirit, because its purpose is to bring life into

existence in a suitable environment. Why do I conclude that the

life-giving power of intention intends us to have life, and have it in

increasing abundance? Because, if the opposite were true, life as we

know it couldn't come into form.

The Face of Kindness.Any power that has, as its

inherent nature, the need to create and convert energy into physical

form must also be a kindly power. Again, I'm deducing this from the

opposite. If the all-giving power of intention had at its core the

desire to be unkind, malevolent, or hurtful, then creation itself would

be impossible. The moment unkind energy became form, the life-giving

Spirit would be destroyed. Instead, the power of intention has a face

of kindness. It is kind energy intending what it's creating to flourish

and grow, and to be happy and fulfilled. Our existence is proof to me

of the kindness of intention. Choosing to be kind is a choice to have

the power of intention active in your life.

The Face of Love.The third of the seven faces of

intention is the face of love. That there's a life-giving nature

inherent in the power of intention is an irrefutable conclusion. What

would we name this quality that encourages, enhances, and supports all

of life, if not love? It's the prime moving power of the Universal

Spirit of Intent. As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it: "Love is our highest

word and the synonym for God."

The Face of BeautyThe fourth of my seven faces of

intention is the face of beauty. What else could a creative, kind, and

loving expression be, other than beautiful? Why would the organizing

intelligence of intention ever elect to manifest into form anything

that's repugnant to itself? Obviously, it wouldn't. So we can conclude

that the nature of intention has an eternal interaction of love and

beauty, and add the expression of beauty to the face of a creative,

kind, loving power of intention.

In order to grasp the significance of beauty as one of the

faces of intention, remember this: Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful

soul. As you become repetitive to seeing and feeling beauty around you,

you're becoming attuned to the creative power of intention within

everything in the natural world, including yourself. By choosing to see

beauty in everything, even a person who was born into poverty and

ignorance will be able to experience the power of intention. Seeking

beauty in the worst of circumstances with individual intent connects

one to the power of intention. It works. It has to work. The face of

beauty is always present, even where others see non-beauty.

The Face of ExpansionThe elemental nature of life is

to increase and seek more and more expression. If we could sharply

focus on the faces of intention, we'd be startled. I imagine that one

of the faces we'd see is a continuously expanding expression of the

power of intention. The nature of this creative spirit is always

operating so as to expand. Spirit is a forming power. It has the

principle of increase, meaning that life continues to expand toward

more life. Life as we know it originates from formless intention.

Therefore, one of the faces of intention looks like something that's

eternally evolving. It might look like a tiny speck in a continuous

state of duplicating itself, and then enlarging itself, and then moving

forward, all the while continuing its expansion and expression.

The Face of Unlimited AbundanceThis sixth face of

intention is an expression of something that has no boundaries, is

everywhere at once, and is endlessly abundant. It's not just huge, it

never stops. This marvelous gift of abundance is what you were created

from. Thus you too share this in the expression of your life. You're

actually fulfilling the law of abundance. These gifts are given freely

and fully to you just as the air, the sun, the water, and the

atmosphere are provided in unlimited abundance for you. The Face of Receptivity.This is how I imagine the

seventh face, the receptive face of intention. It's simply receptive to

all. No one and no thing is rejected by the receptive face of

intention. It welcomes everyone and every living thing, without

judgment--never granting the power of intention to some and withholding

it from others. The receptive face of intention means to me that all of

nature is waiting to be called into action. We only need to be willing

to recognize and receive. Intention can't respond to you if you fail to

recognize it. If you see chance and coincidence governing your life and

the world, then the universal mind of intention will appear to you as

nothing but an amalgamation of forces devoid of any order or power.

Wayne Dyer"Seven Faces of Intention"