Inspire Me Today | November 15 2012
What I have found through a tumultuous and difficult early life is that acceptance is the road to freedom.
Because of my inability to function “normally,” I was not able to fit in to mainstream society. In the eyes of the culture and consequently my own eyes, I was flawed. I tried over and over again to figure out how I was going to be part of society… get a job, an education, have a family. But no matter how hard I tried to think my way out, I always ended up in the same place. No different than I was.
The truth is, my mind was a liar and the strategies it created promising a different reality did not work. There was utter futility in trying to figure anything out in the hopes that something might change, but my mind kept on trying… planning, thinking, pushing.
The noise of this chatter inside my head was debilitating, always telling me that I was this or that horrible thing, and that I had to BE a certain way in order to survive and be accepted in this world. After years and years of this I was so exhausted that I finally gave up and fell into my broken heart. I was forced to accept my life as it was.
There is incredible freedom when you finally accept who you really are with all your flaws and incapacities. Somehow you realize that you are not those dysfunctions, that all those things that society labels you or thinks about you or even what you think about you, are not YOU.
As a contemporary translator of the ancient teachings, I offer the following passage to explain what is currently transpiring inside the unconscious of every sentient being. We are, each in our own way, bringing that which is hidden, into the light. This can only be accomplished individually. We all share the commonality of being sentient beings living on earth together. We are solo and yet completely enmeshed with one another.
I recently had a rather heated discussion with a friend who was trying to convince me that I was wrong about something. She was quite irritated that I would not agree with her because as far as I was concerned I wasn’t wrong. And I wasn’t trying as hard to convince her of my ‘right-ness’ as she was in insisting that I was wrong. This wasn’t about right or wrong, though, it was about truth. Any time there is a right or wrong in a situation, the real issue at hand is the truth, and whose truth is true.
This time is one of tumult (uproar, confusion, noisy commotion). In order to perform a change of such magnitude, things have to break off. This will feel like a jolt in many instances. This will be necessary because so many here now have to be shown in no uncertain terms that they have a choice. They cannot ignore it any longer. You are deep within this time of the Shift. It is happening whether you see it or not.
Those of you, who’ve read my blog in the past, know I mostly focus on love. Today, I will focus on what happens when you love yourself enough to believe you are worth something. Today I would like to talk about power.