thought of the day: your innate perfection
The project of being ʻa selfʼ is the surest way to never feel like a person.
- Thomas Moore, The Original Self
Your truth isnʼt “out there.” Itʼs not an answer waiting to be found or a destination to get to. It lives inside your being and itʼs the external explorations that tease, and ply and shake it out of you. Your essence is waiting patiently to be evoked, not manufactured. Truth resonates, it doesn't imitate.
Before you were told that you were the runner up, and before you concluded that you needed improving upon, the original, gloriously sensational “you” was there. A perfectly knowing, empowered, deity-caliber soul capable of intense joy and genius.
What if your foundation is just that amazing? Imagine a well of Right Answers running beneath your surface. Assume for a minute that your soul bedrock is your own kind of perfection. You're not broken, not a problem to be fixed. You're a soul emerging. And you're doing just fine.
Merely toying with that concept is the stuff of breakthroughs.
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Great post about seeing that inner-beauty. Thanks!
Ben
8 Jul 09
Oh, jeez... I got through to "And you're doing just fine." without tearing up. Thanks, Danielle.
Suzyn
8 Jul 09
Beautiful post, Danielle - as powerful as poetry!! Your writing is currently one of the things 'evoking my essence' and I resonate here often. Thank you.
(Oh, forgot to say, the Hugh Macleod book arrived; the one you recommended a few weeks ago. Looking forward to reading it.)
janice | Sharing the Journey
8 Jul 09
Sometimes, Danielle, I just weep at your words and their beauty and what feelings they evoke in me and how they often, like today, give me courage.
Thank you.
Connie Klein
8 Jul 09
From my heart to your page, this came. Don't you ever get sick of hitting the nail on the head? Your the best DLP!
ocbenji
8 Jul 09
Benji, I just check out your 'waiting' rant ( http://www.ocbenji.com/blog/2009/06/19/waiting-rant/ ) sweet. peace out in deuces...
Danielle LaPorte
8 Jul 09
Loved this :) Been berating myself for my "imperfections" for way too long - time to just revel in my awesomeness.
Jess_I
9 Jul 09
oh how you talk.... sniff
Linda Borland-Fitzgerald
27 Jul 09