Becoming You
Becoming you was never meant to feel like an obstacle course from start to finish. Many of the roadblocks we run into are placed there by us, often because we use the measure of what someone else tells us life is supposed to be, or worse, how we should travel on our own journey.
“I am aware that I am less than some people prefer me to be, but most people are unaware that I am so much more then what they see.”
Douglas Pagels
Instead of beginning our adventures with the confidence to make it around all of the obstacles, we begin with an overly cautious attitude only to become even more fearful, thinking we won’t be good enough. In the process we never get to utilize our talents, instead what we are capable of giving back to the universe only remains a dream.
‘Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.”
Carl Jung
Mostly, there are no bad intentions with how it all plays out, it is just the way it is. Suffering is part of all of our lives, and we could never truly feel the happiness and joy of what life has in store for us if we we didn’t learn how to deal with the suffering that is inevitable.
“Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about unbecoming everything that isn’t really you, so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place.”
Paul Coelho
We are all born unique, we develop our uniqueness during our lifetime by learning to utilize the talents we came packaged with at birth. We have what we need, we always have, learning how to become you with what is inside is the greatest developmental gift you could ever give to yourself.
“Finding yourself is not really how it works. You are not a ten-dollar bill in last winter’s coat pocket. You are also not lost. Your true self is right there, buried under cultural conditioning, other peoples opinions, and inaccurate conclusions you drew up as a kid that became your beliefs about who you are. Finding yourself is actually returning to yourself an unlearning, an excavation of remembering who you were before the world got its hands on you.”
Emily McDowell
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