You must focus on something bigger than yourself. Not because you must be unselfish or anything like that, but simply because you require focus on something great. You do not yet know how great you are, but if you did, it would be the same. Knowing your Greatness, you would want to focus on greater than your individual Greatness. You would be like someone who doesn’t want to be idle and looks for an opportunity to tidy up no matter whose house he is in. Everyone wants to be useful, and there is a use for you.
You may enjoy focus on yourself, but after a while, the way it is when you watch television all you want, you get a little bored with it and become restless. Television and attention on yourself in small doses is charming. Being sated with them is not. Being satiated with less than Greatness is unsatisfying.
So look higher than you can jump. Look for the Highest, and you will raise yourself to it. You will meet it. You will meet it more than half-way, and the Highest meets you more than halfway too. You will attract it. You will find that it comes right up to you. You will find yourself caught up in Greatness. You will find that you cannot depart from it. You who embody Greatness will serve Greatness. You will know the favor bestowed upon you that service to Oneness is. Imbued with Greatness, you will blossom. Who is the Server and Who is the Served? You and Greatness will be intertwined and, therefore, undifferentiated.
You will find that the Greatness you focus on is your Self. You will find your Self out there, and that you and the horizon are One and the same. Outer becomes inner, and inner becomes outer until there is no inner nor outer. Greatness shines on all the same way the sun shines on all. You reflect the sun. You are the image that must shine in order to be happy. You know that the gift given to you is your ability to shine. Unburnished, you are unfulfilled. Burnished, emptiness is empty no longer. The longing in your heart vanishes. There is fullness in your heart instead. And the fullness keeps getting fuller until you expand beyond the horizon and find yourself the whole God-given universe. You will find that God gives generously, and that He gives to Himself as if there were no other. In fact, there is no other.
There is reason why you are drawn to greater than your individual self. There is reason why you are impelled to give. On some level you know that that is how you find yourself. You look into the soul of Earth. Whom do you see but yourself! Fancy meeting yourself here. Fancy finding everyone and everything within you. Everything within you is eager to reveal itself. Everyone looks into the mirror of life and sees the bright shiningness. Why, your heart has become the sun that shines on all.
Do you see the goldenness of your heart chakra spinning? This spinning encompasses the world. Your heart is the wheel of the universe. Your heart becomes a pushcart that delivers blessings. All the blessings are delivered to you through the auspices of another. Another holds the mirror up to you, so you can see. You serve the universe, and the universe serves you all the magnificence that it holds. Every bit of it.
If you are missing anything in life, dear ones, you are missing the almost unendurable ecstasy of giving yourself away to the Universe and finding that it gives back to you great recognition of all that you are.