Our Greatness Is Within
If our greatness is already within us then why do we fear stepping out of our unfulfilling conformity and constricting comfort zone so much? Why do we fear boldly stepping into our wholeness with absolute enthusiasm? More than anything else it's often because we've unthinkingly made such a commitment to what I call our Personal Profile. This Personal Profile is our private perspective on what we deem to be our real Self.
Although we don't always share our inner feelings and beliefs about our Self with others, we do evaluate ourself — our worth, our "progress" and our supposed 'being' — by the value we place on our Personal Profile. And we update our self-evaluation of it all the time. We list our credits and debits for every area of our life — our careers, our relationships, our assets, our physical prowess and skills, our emotional stability, our mental aptitudes and attitudes, our activities and their effectiveness — even our monetary worth, sexual attractiveness and social statuses.
No area of life escapes our recurring and constantly updated review and audit. Our lives are continually adjusted to improve our balance sheet (the expressions of this adjustment are what people generally term the 'ego'). The trepidation with which we make our adjustments — and the limits of those adjustments — we express as fear of either failure or success. Both are, in truth, the fear of inadvertently accessing our greatness.
Hence, almost our entire life ends up being an investment in the enhancement of our sham Profile — in fact we do this so habitually and automatically that many of us almost forget that we are NOT OUR PROFILE at all. Our Personality Profile is simply an illusory structure, a complete fiction.
In truth, it signifies nothing of real worth and value.
Meanwhile, our Real Self — loving, whole, peaceful, caring, compassionate, confident, unified with all of life and thus blissfully happy — waits patiently within. It knows without a shadow of doubt that ultimately every one of us will awaken and acknowledge it as our true reality. As Mordechai, my own Higher Self, shared twenty years ago:
"There is nowhere to go,
Nothing to do,
And nothing to become —
Except your own True Self.
And this you but reveal unto yourself
For you have always been whole and complete
And will always be so."
We find the Real Self when we undertake four simple yet profound processes:
Firstly, we acknowledge its hidden presence.
Secondly, we surrender to it, as unknown as it is.
Thirdly, we patiently observe ourself for signs of its emergence
Fourthly, we commit to living by the heart-felt principles it expresses.
All my love,
Bless You,
Les Dyer
Brisbane, Australia, 2007