Our Truest Self

We had dinner last night with a neighbor who made the comment, “I really like spending time with you because I can be myself.”  Such a simple comment.  Which prodded me to think about myself and how often I can be truly, fully, freely, all of myself.

This may seem like a ridiculous question to some.  It depends on all the usual things probably: how you were raised, your personality, your profession, etc.  But where do you get to bleed over the edges, to push back, toss comments like candies in the air and see who catches them?  Where you are accepted for just being who you are and can feel safe that you won’t be judged or misunderstood? 

Perhaps my neighbor wasn’t saying all that.  What I know is that each of us need to have our “peeps--” those special friends who are close to us and us to them, and with whom we can laugh and be silly and share our deepest secrets and woes; who will listen and not judge, and where we can be truly, fully, unabashedly ourselves.

What's It All About?

You can see that everyday spirituality does not result in a post every day--or even every week--or month!  So what is it all about?

If we accept that we are spiritual beings in a physical body (I realize that's a big "if" for a lot of people), then connecting to our spirituality is pretty important if we want to live the most happiest, most fulfilling and contented life.

The posts in this blog have illustrated times when I've felt spiritual or connected to that deep place inside of me.  Or they address topics about how we can be our best selves.

But the thing that's most difficult is how we make these connected times more and more part of our everyday lives.  So that's what I'm going to write about for awhile.

It's all about being conscious, about waking up to what is really going on in our lives and within ourselves.  Once you wake up, there's no going back.  And don't think you don't know that on a deeply intuitive level. In fact, many people run the other way by being so busy, altering their consciousness through drugs or alcohol, or living their lives in the past (regret) or the future (worry) that there is no room to be conscious about their lives today.  Right NOW.  No way they want to go there.

When we do go there, the payoff is BIG. No, it's way more than that.  But it does take courage and being honest with ourselves.  Opting to look in the mirror and see ourselves, warts and all, can be the decision of a lifetime.  No masks.  Nothing to take away the pain.  Just YOU.  It changes the way you see yourself, the world around you, other people.  Accepting yourself for who you are makes living in this sometimes crazy, mixed-up world a whole lot better.  Nothing is beyond your reach, not even happiness.

The Deep

A seed.

A pearl.

A precious truth.
How could I not know?

Life's distractions,
Like baby birds,
Clamoring for attention.
To hear ones voice 'mid all the rest?
Silence, silence.

To cast the line,
Set the intention.
What comes bubbling up
With clarity and resonance
From the depths of my soul.