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Today's
Meditation:
When
I was a teaching assistant at a college many years ago, a
student once told me that she wished she had her life
together like I did. I was astonished by her
statement because at the time, I felt that I had my life
anything but together. I felt frustrated and
confused and fragmented, and with a bit of serious
depression now and then thrown into the mix, I wasn't at
all sure what I was about. But in the eyes of that
student, I already had wholeness. She saw in me--
perhaps because I was an "authority"
figure--something that she wished she had.
It's
taken me many years to see in myself exactly what she saw
in me, but it's been a journey well worth taking. I
know now that my wholeness already is within me, a part of
the complete me, and it doesn't come from anyone or
anything outside of me. Now that I recognize and
accept that wholeness, many negative parts of my life
simply no longer have a place to reside inside of
me. And because those parts no longer help to form
who I am, they don't cause the dysfunctional situations
that they used to cause.
My
wholeness is here, already a part of me. Your
wholeness already is a vital part of you, so it's
important that you let it out and allow it to breathe and
dance in the sun and the rain. There's no need to
hide it any longer out of fear that people won't
understand it--as we saw a couple of days ago, those who
mind our wholeness don't matter, and those who matter
won't mind a bit when we start acting in a healthy,
wholesome way.
Believe
in it, and it is yours. Live it, and it will allow
you to live fully. Be the whole person that you
already are.
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