A great deal of confusion about the power of consciousness to create is easily avoided if we remember that this creating is solely concerned with the inner person. Indeed, to come into its own, to begin experiencing itself as creator, it has to leave the world behind for a while.

So, to meditate or daydream or have a nice fantasy, it helps to close one’s eyes, to go within. Distractions are avoided in this way, and we can give free reign to our inwardness without something in the world moving suddenly and snagging our attention…

We have everything we need to create inwardly because imagination can go right to the end and, by identifying with it and resting in the feeling of its fulfillment, claim the imaginal reality. Outwardly, there is no place to start. So, deliberate creating is always about who we are agree- ing to be, and never about this or that thing that we may be wanting.