After the intense last cleansing experience, the fasting brought to surface another important insight today, I'm starting to understand why Gandhi did it all the time :) I feel the urge to share it with you, because it is all-important. The destructiveness of not understanding our own unique and amazing qualities and the world changing effects it will have if we do. It is almost incomprehensible that most of us don't even have the ability to receive positive feedback when given to us. We don't let it land in ourselves, instead we joke it away, mirror it back or quickly returning another compliment to escape the effect. Those of you that already possess this ability to a certain extent, Blessed Be! Please, for the sake of all that is good in this world, Let the compliment land, and be sure to feel it's impact before saying thank you, then put your lips together tightly and don't say a word. Is it that hard? and if it is that hard, what does that tell us? Is it really supposed to be like this? Common! that is a complete lie. It's not!!! We haven't come into life to be invisible and petty. All this reminds me....a beautiful goddess of a soul that I've never yet had the pleasure to meet, says it best, please welcome Marianne Williamson with a round of applause folks!:“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Promise yourself that you will never let yourself down again, Now!
This recalls an old Zen story, about a lion who was brought up by sheep and who thought he was a sheep until an old lion captured him and took him to a pond, where he showed him his own reflection. Many of us are like this lion - the image we have of ourselves comes not from our own direct experience but from the opinions of others. A "personality" imposed from the outside replaces the individuality that could have grown from within. We become just another sheep in the herd, unable to move freely and unconscious of our own true identity.
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