20230314 - Breath And Silence

For me, spirituality also has to with authenticity; to live yourself truthfully and let the world know you as you really are. This is inherently vulnerable. When you share yourself you risk being abandoned. But when you withhold yourself from the world, you abandon yourself. Most of us, me included, often abandon ourselves in order to be accepted by others. “Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we’re supposed to be and embracing who we are.” - Brené Brown The heart breaking and ironic truth is that when we abandon ourselves for the approval of others we are left with nothing, because that which is accepted is only our mask, not our true self. So in abandoning ourself we make sure that we can never be accepted as we are. “If you don’t say what you think, then you kill your unborn self.” - Jordan Peterson For me, growing in authenticity is one of the most important things we can do in a human life, because it is also what will lead you to God. “The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.” - Meister Eckhart