Be True To Yourself
Whenever the mind of our small earthly self – or someone in our environment – tries to convince us that we are a small, useless and worthless human specimen, it is good and right to take the part of our Highest or God Self and reply: ‘That’s what you think, but you are wrong. It’s not that you are lying to me. Your belief is a false one and you are merely saying such things because you do not yet understand your own true nature and the purpose and meaning of our earthly existence.’
The truth of the matter is that every one of us in their own way is a special and unique being, who is precious and loved beyond compare. In the entire history of the whole of Creation there has never been and never will be another being quite like me. My eyes, hands, hair, handwriting, smile, voice and mind are unique to me. No-one walks, talks, thinks, acts or even meditates exactly the way I do. Nobody can paint my brush strokes or has exactly the same taste as I have for food, music, dance and other artistic endeavours. Nobody can perceive things quite the way I do and no-one can feel my feelings. And there has never been someone who laughs exactly the way I do, and what makes me laugh or cry can have quite a different effect on someone else. Extract from ‘You Are Special’ – see link at the end.
• ‘In a world that is trying to make you like everyone else, being yourself is the greatest challenge of all.’
• ‘If you don’t like my words, don’t listen. If you don’t like my appearance, don’t look. If you don’t like my actions, turn your head. It’s as simple as that.’
• ‘If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me that way.’ Goethe
• ‘This is who I am. Nobody said you had to like it.’
• ‘Conduct your life the way you want to live it. Don’t allow others to live it for you.’
• ‘I never wanted to be different. I just wanted to be me.’
• ‘The only freedom in our world lies in being ourselves.’
• ‘Enjoy who you are and refuse to dislike yourself for what you are not.’
• ‘Always be a first-rate version of yourself, rather than a second-rate version of someone else.’ Judy Garland
• ‘It’s better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.’ Herman Melville
• ‘I was once afraid of people saying: ‘Who does she think she is?’ Now I have the courage to say: ‘This is who I am.’ Oprah Winfrey
• ‘If you care about what other people think, you make yourself their prisoner.’ Lao Tzu
• ‘You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realised how seldom they do.’ Eleanor Roosevelt
• ‘Most people’s thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry and their passions a quotation.’ Oscar Wilde
• ‘There are few in our world who know how to see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.’ Albert Einstein
• Know that you are a beloved child of the Universe, no less than the trees and the stars, that we all have a right to be here, because everybody has their particular lessons to learn, and that – whether we are aware of it or not – the great Universal plan rests safely in God’s hands and is unfolding as it should. From ‘Desiderata’ – see link below.
Recommended Reading:
• ‘You Are Special’
• ‘Desiderata’
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