In his book "Prosperity," Charles Fillmore writes:--The sensing mind is filled with lacks and limitations;
spiritual mind knows only limitless abundance.
When I read this sentence, word that struck me was “sensing.” I had to think about why that word caught my attention so sharply. Was it because we don’t often use phrase “sensing mind”? No, that didn’t seem to be reason. Then it dawned on me. “Sensing” sounded a lot like “sensible”! It’s not just our “sensing,” physical-world minds, but our “sensible” minds that are filled with lacks and limitations!
Did anyone ever tell you to “be reasonable”? What did that mean? It meant “don’t expect too much.” Or “don’t reach so high.” Or “don’t be such a dreamer.” But haven’t you noticed that truly great things happen when we’re unreasonable?
Our senses limit us to what they perceive. What we can’t hear, touch, feel, see, taste, we don’t comprehend; it doesn’t seem “sensible” to us. But that limits us, our aspirations, our lives, to what we know.
If we want to reach higher, we have to access part of ourselves that goes beyond sensible. Our experiences are so limited compared to vastness of universe, and Universal Mind. It’s almost arrogant to believe that we are capable of defining what’s possible. And it’s certainly counter-productive for most of us. It will only be when we let go of those sensible, reasonable boundaries that we allow to define us and our potential that we can become what we’re intended to become, live way we’re intended to live.
