Daily Application February 7, 2010

There are three qualities through which a relationship with a Power greater than any human power can be built — omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence. Together, they form a complete framework for understanding how to connect with something greater than yourself and how to let that connection change the way you live. This post brings all three together.

Part One: Omnipresence

Begin with omnipresence. Start connecting the presence of a Power greater than yourself to the things that already make you feel genuinely good inside. When you look at a beautiful sunset, is the beauty in the sunset or inside you? Point to it. You cannot. The beauty is inside you — the sunset is the mirror. The same is true of everyone you love. What you love about them is a reflection of something that already exists within you. They are the mirror; the love is yours.

This is omnipresence: the quality of a loving Power that is everywhere — in every reflection of beauty, truth, love, rhythm, and balance that you encounter. Practice finding more of these mirrors everywhere you go, not just in spectacular places or beloved people. Wherever there is love, you are touching omnipresence. Anything done with love is done masterfully — with this Power as your co-creator.

Part Two: Omniscience

Once you begin to feel the presence of something greater, the next step is to invite that intelligence into your mind. Our minds are where our troubles live — in hard-wired trauma responses, in memories that replay without permission, in thoughts that arise automatically from old wounds. We did not choose the character that those experiences built. But we can choose to build a new one, by inviting a mind greater than our own to participate in our thinking.

The practice: ask this Power to show you your thoughts. Ask to be shown how to think to good purpose. Thoughts create feelings; feelings create actions. Working at the source level — at the level of thought — is the most foundational work available. As you consistently invite this Presence into your mind, something shifts: negative thinking begins to quiet. New thoughts arrive that feel surprising — positive, purposeful, creative. Life opens up. People respond differently. Clarity returns. These are the first fruits of an omniscient mind beginning to work through yours.

Part Three: Omnipotence

The third quality is omnipotence — all power. The strongest force in the universe is desire. When desire is genuine, sustained, and aligned with a Power greater than yourself, it can move anything. History shows us this through people like Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr., and the great creative geniuses who produced work so extraordinary it reshaped human consciousness. None of them worked alone. They co-created with a Power that amplified what their own will could never have produced.

The universe itself operates in absolute balance — every element from an atom to a galaxy participates in a synchronized system where nothing is insignificant. You are part of that system. Your presence here is essential. The omnipotence available to you expresses through passion: things done with genuine passion are done with power. As you practice passion in everything you do, your capacity grows, inspiration arrives, and you begin to create from a place that feels larger than yourself. That is omnipotence working through a human life.

When you practice omnipresence, you touch omniscience. When you practice omniscience, you touch omnipotence. Touch one and you touch them all. Work at the quality, not the quantity. Start where you are, with what you have, and let the connection deepen over time.