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Realization is, in a sense, the final state of determination. When you have brought a project to a certain point with determination, then in the last phase you need the realization, that is, the achievement of the goal. Someone who is good at preparing projects, but lacks the power of realization, and whose efforts only ever reach as far as the goal, lacks this power. It’s not enough to be able to play good soccer, you also have to score goals. The “bringing to an end” is the decisive final element of will and determination.
The ability to realize one’s intentions depends first and foremost on how closely we are connected to reality. Here, the reference to reality is not a mere abstraction, but a concrete force or vibration that is the bridge to the state of realization.
When we have a sufficient amount of willpower to move forward with a project, the inner energy flows into the realization of the project. If our willpower is strong enough, or if we have enough willpower to actually bring the project to completion, then realization would eventually occur. But only under one condition: The willpower must remain within reality and must not flow away into “non-reality”. When we indulge our thoughts in wishes, daydreams, or imaginative anticipation of success, our energy does not flow into the project, but fizzles out, is dissipated. It is the degree of realism that is the decisive factor for realization.
It is not at all easy to stay completely in reality with one’s consciousness. This is an exercise which itself requires great willpower and tremendous inner discipline. Just when you have made some progress with your efforts and the goal seems to be within reach, thousands of mechanisms arise which want to waste the high energy potential. You’re already reveling in the feeling of success, you’re already thinking about the situation when you reach the goal, or, even worse, you’re already bragging about your success before you have it in the bag. Abraham Lincoln once said, “The chicken is the wisest of all animals; it does not cluck until the egg is laid.”
The spiritual discipline to stay completely in reality with the consciousness and to choose reality as one’s inner companion instead of one’s own wishful world is the key to the success of the inner, as well as the outer plans. Reality is anyway the only thing that has the component of actuality, and thus it is worth incomparably more than everything that takes place in our imagination without this component. The ability to draw from reality the same joy, or even more joy and fascination, than from desire is the great art in which the ancient masters of Chinese and Indian mysticism practiced. When we have reached that point, when we have put aside all wishful thinking and any urge to bend reality in favor of our wishes and are completely at one with reality, when we have accepted reality down to the last detail, then this ability also gives rise to an indomitable power to change reality. The one who has not reached reality in his inner being, who is always in the cage of his desires and thoughts, has not only no real contact to reality, he also has no leverage to shape reality without a contact. But whoever manages to stand fully in reality with his consciousness, his inner energies actually flow into reality, do not get lost, and cause with their power, the shaping of reality. Only when it is ensured that we do not lose a large part of our willpower by wallowing in non-reality, can we apply the equation in which the sufficient amount of will causes the equivalent of the transformation of reality.
But the “utilitarian” attitude towards reality, i.e. the attempt to use the inner discipline of remaining consciously in reality in order to achieve a certain goal which we “desire”, is ultimately hardly conceivable. We would subordinate the desirelessness to a desire. The art of dwelling fully in reality with one’s inner self has enough charm in itself to be learned. It is a self-rewarding “end in itself,” like love, or like joy. One is directly rewarded by this new inner world, by the new outlook, by the fact that one has everything one desires and that there are no unfulfilled desires, the moment one tries to always remain inwardly on the path of reality. The fact that you multiply your own impact potential along the way is of course fantastic, but in the end seems almost incidental.
The watch “Realization” is a symbol of the attempt to master reality. The one who can take on the factuality is master of himself and master of the world. Who is one with reality can realize everything he wants. But the art of merging with reality in one’s consciousness is a skill that few succeed in achieving. Nevertheless, every little approach in this direction is one of the best investments in one’s own inner self that one can make.
Realization – to realize the power, the art to internalize and master the reality.
The barrel shape of the case with the curved sides stands for “containing”, for the harvest already brought in, for reaching the goals, for arriving.