Come out from amongst that which you are not!  You have a Gift in you that is the True You.

This Gift consists of seven pillars and is your thought pattern.  You are a mixture of these seven types of thought. You have a thought pattern that has a structure to it.  Understanding this structure the way God made you is the True You.

You can do something that no one else can do.  How awesome is that.

Your body goes where the mind thinks.  What you think on expands and grows.  This is why it is so important to think about what you are thinking about.

If you try to adopt an accomplished person’s road map to success as your own, you will liimit yourself and where you Gift can take you.

You have truth value.  Your Gift helps you celebrate your difference.  You are not the victim of biology or a label given to you.

Your thoughts, words, your spirit and your actions must line up which means when you say somethin that your brain doesn’t “believe” — if your stament isn’t part of you on a cellular level — it is unsustainable.

Have you ever asked yourself the question, “Does anyone out there understand me?”  God does — He created you with care.  Now you can better understand yourself — how you were created with intention, a purpose and greatness.

Where are you spending yourself?

It is difficult to reach out and say WOW I have a GIFT and I am okay the way I am.  I have Truth Value.  I think differently from you because you are different from me and that makes you okay too.  You have potential that is waiting for you to unleash it.  You are Exquisite, set apart, sought after, keen and sharp, with special beauty.

For years I hid myself because of abuse and labels and not believing I was worth anything.  That was up until now.  Now I understand how valuable I am and how valuable you are.  I am sharing this with you because I want you to understand just how important, beautiful, Exquisite, you are.  I want to encourage you to stand in confidence and know who you are and why you are you and change your world because of who you are and allow others to see YOU!

Becoming the best version of yourself, rests on one simple directive:  Think great thoughts!

The “ME” I pretend to be

The “ME” I think I should be

The “ME” othere perople want me to be

The “ME” I’m afraid God wants

The “ME” that fails to be

or the BEST VERSION

The “ME” I am meant to be.

“Realization of one’s true self is happiness.”  Chuangptyu

Why Are You In Your World?

Trust what your soul has to tell you.  Be bold, explore unusual or eccentric ways of living, take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of your true self.  The dragon we must slay is no more than the monster of everyday expectations about how we ought to live our live.

We Must Know What We Feel, Say What We Mean, and Do What We Say

There is a pearl of great value in eac of us.  When we listen to our hearts about how to find our hidden treasure, we claim our uniqueness.  We desire without knowing exactly what we’re looking for, and trust our souls direction.

We Transform An Impersonal Fate Into Our Own Personal Destiny.

When we re-enter the world where we once lived lives defined by other people’s standards, we discover a newfound freedom–we’re no longer bound by what we once believed was proper or expected.  We now know more clearly what we believe in and understand more fully just how we want to live.

To find ourselves and have returned home transformed, we will be back in the world, but NO LONGER of the WROLD, — we will be able to interact with others without submitting to their definitions of who we are supposed to be.

Everybody Wants To GO To Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die

Loving more would help you to feel as alive as you could for as long as you happened to live.

It is a glorious thing to be old when we know how to begin again, not be being young, but by becoming old in a young way!

Until we realize that the monster of other’s expectations is just a paper tiger, we remain threatened by their concepts of who we out to be.

Go Out Find –The Life That Is Truly You Own!!!

to o avoid the inevitable, we must claim as our own all our imperfections, even though we prefer to pretend these only exist in other people.Sometimes Our True Self Doesn’t Fit Other People’s Images of Who We Should Be

We have an urgent desire to appear normal and nice, but we cannot maintain these idealized images of ourselves without denying, even to ourselves, the parts of who we truly are that don’t fit the way we’d like them to be seen.

We each have something precious in us that does not exist in anyone else.!

Becoming the best person we can requires that we accept the worst in us as well.  Setting aside our idealized image of who we imagine we should be, can allow the emergence of that awkward combination of strength and weakness that is our true self.  The tension between the creative and destructive, light and dark, holy and horrible, generates the energy required to propel our growth and development.

When we honor our peculiarities, the process of personal transformation allows us to become all that we might be.  Making the most of our differences sounds simple, but it isn’t easy.  If we deviate very far from the norm, even in our physical appearances, most of us feel uncomfortable.

Hiding our weaknesses requires that we use precious energy, standing guard to protect ourselves against all that we might openly reveal.  To not waste energy trying to avoid the inevitable, we must claim as our own all our imperfections, even though we prefer to pretend these only exist in other people.

Our shadow side according to Carl Jung, includes any aspect of ourselves, that we consider “merely somewhat inferior, primitive, un-adopted, and awkward,” no wholly bad.  It contains undeveloped, childish, or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence.  In hiding whatever else we are from ourselves and others, we create our shadow side.  And in the act of hiding, we reinforce our sense of being best and alone.

When We Are Lost We Must Find Our Own Way Home

We are headed for a fall when we trust what other people tell us more than we trust our own feelings!

Learning To Listen With Your Heart

Caged by rules we try to follow, whether we have them imposed on us by others or we put them in place ourselves the only escape is by attending to our personal feelings at the particular moment when we hear their call.

Playing it safe, following the rule of reason, we are certain to miss out on our claim to tomorrows treasures.  We may encounter unexpected difficulties when we turn toward new ways of knowing ourselves.

Following our hearts might lead us to joy beyond belief, but the path is also scattered with fearful obstacles of uncertainty and isolation.

To be nobody but yourself in a world doing it’s best to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human can ever fight and never stop fighting.      e.c. Cummings

We Are Free To Choose What Sort of Lives We Will Live

The more creative we can be, the freer we are, giving us the responsibility to be who we are and how we want to live our lives.  To live a life that is truly your own depends on your ability to distinguish what you want from all that others expect of you.

To Be Creative We Have to Follow Our Feelings

We must be willing to lose interest in wondering what other people think of the ways we work if we want our efforts to be original and creative.  Learning to care less about how we will look in the eyes of others than what we feel about what we are doing gives us the ability to be creative.

To Be Continued

I am determined to let myself be transformed by the sounds arising out of the stillness of my soul and to allow my heart to call the tune to which I dance my life.     Sheldon Kopp

When we settle for relief from stress all we can h for is getting back to business as usual as quickly as possible..  When we lookfor a quick fix, we miss out on whatever increased self-awareness we might have gained.

Maybe we need to focus on our freedom rather than the unfairness of whatever has happened to us.  We can learn whatever our crisis has to teach us and choose from among any options it might disclose.

No matter how irrational our thoughts and feelings seem to us, we stand nakedly revealed, instead of cloaked in costumes that misrepresent us for fear of exposue.  When we avoid revealing our true selves to others, we fake our image in ways that may fool ourselves as well!

Living openly and in good faith is a risk.  Doing that we lose interest in trying to figure out what’s right and what’s wrong and get on with living a life that is worthwhile to us, regardless of what it might mean to others.

Yearnings of Mid Life Crisis

We begin paying attention to our personal longings and commit ourselves to pursuing experiences and activities that make our lives feel more menaingful.  Are you willing to suffer some lonely soul searching to change what you do and how you feel.

To choose to undertake the search for answers to our unrest, we must give up our hold on what we find familiar while reaching out for what is yet unknown.

Principles For Making The Most of Everday Life:  A Child and a Thief Can Show You What They Are:

From the Child we learn three things:

• He is merry for no particular reason
• Never a moment is he idle
• When he needs something, he demands it vigorously

The Theif can instruct you in seven things:

• He does his service at night
• If he does not finish what he has set out to do in one night, he devotes the next night to i
• tHe and those who work with him, love one another
• He risks his life for slight gains
• What he takes has so little value for him, that he gives it up for a very small coin
• He endures blows and hardships, and it matters nothing to him
• He likes his trade and would not exchange it for another

Accepting Our Weakness

We dance to our own music that other people cannot hear during periods of personal and spiritual transformation.  Our risk is that others may see us as mad demons.

Unless we are willing to withdraw from our present social context for a while, we won’t be able to sort out who we really are from who we are expected to be!

If I judge myself to others standards I usually conclude I am a failure.  The work on myself cannot be completed in this lifetime.  To change and become who we truly are, we must learn to rely on our own personal standards.

TO BE CONTINUED

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