The Law of Cause and Effect supports the unfolding of our divine powers of beauty, goodness and truth, but we were not designed to be puppets, not even of the God within us. We will always be free here to choose relative darkness of heart and mind, and to deny our best selves. Potential does not mean absolute certainty of achievement. To become a species embodying a high spiritual destiny, the vast majority of human beings will first have to see this goal and then ardently desire to fulfill the requirements. So far, most of the human race has not awakened sufficiently to understand this even superficially, let alone develop the spiritual will to act on it.
Spiritual reality rests on the unalterable foundation of self-sacrifice and wise impersonal love.
Yet relatively few of us have ever wished to become acquainted with any such version of ourselves. Most of us are afraid of sacrifice, and of renouncing our self-centeredness. Most of us wish to retain our crude attachments to material things, and to our negative emotions and our negative thinking. We are perhaps most of all attached to our own false self-image of smallness, powerlessness, and worthlessness. Yet sacrificing what we are now, including our delusions of powerlessness, for the sake of what we may become, is the exact price of our potential.