Rediscovering YOU … (03/04/17)
We hear so much these days about “self help” and “becoming enlightened” and “being a better person” … We hear it so much that it can often be difficult to remember that we don’t need any help whatsoever, that we are already as potentially “enlightened” as we will ever be, and that it is indeed impossible to become “better” than we already are …
That’s right, I said it, I meant it, and it’s True … You don’t need help from anyone — you need to get out there and help others … You don’t need to “become enlightened” — you need to be a Light in your community (and THEREBY wake up to your innate Enlightenedness) … You don’t need to become a “better person” — you simply need to go forth today and BE the perfectly Caring, perfectly Gentle, perfectly Courageous, and perfectly Loving person you already are.
Yes, it’s true that none of us can do so over any significant period of time (our reptile-brains and the egos they have created will make sure that we regularly slip into the sins of selfishness and sloth and fear and fraudulence), but that kind of perfection is not what this Life is about … It’s not about being your perfect self over years or months or days or even hours. It’s about being perfect in one moment — THIS moment — and then trying to string together lots of those independent beacons of brilliance over the course of every day.
And this is what it means to be “born again” … This is what it means to “Awaken” … This is what it means to “become Enlightened” … This is what it means to “rediscover yourSelf” … Doing so not a process of growth that takes lots of time and effort. It’s an instantaneous reinvention of who you are by choosing to remember who you have always been — and then having the guts to boldly act accordingly: to be kind to strangers, to leave anonymous gifts for friends, to openly forgive your enemies … It is to give when you have but little, to be thankful for life when in pain, to serve when exhausted, and to deeply Care when all seems lost … This is what it means to “know Peace” — this is what it means to “find Purpose” — indeed, this is what it means to be truly Human.
So forget about the rat race and the long, hard journey to “finding your True Self”, my Friends … Toss your self-help books and your New Age gurus into the rubbish bin and simply get out there today and BE who you were born to be — BE who you were born to be by re-membering who already ARE.
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