Self Development and Spirituality || Be Yourself, Fearlessly! How to Be Authentic

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When did you last feel the joy of being yourself? Everything in nature is an exhibit in being itself, especially children, who revel in being themselves.

You can see in their eyes what a joy it is for them to just BE. It's tragic the way their light gets dimmed by people trying to mold them to be something else.

Because we have the choice NOT to be ourselves, it can feel vulnerable to step into the unique way we’re made.

In my marriage, I showed up the way I thought my husband wanted me to rather than as my authentic self. This is a doomed strategy that can never be satisfying.

Enjoy poetic genius Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “As Kingfishers Catch Fire” in this video.

A 19th century Jesuit priest, Hopkins was not discovered as a poet until after his death. He died penniless, feeling like a failure before God.

He loved praising God through writing poetry. But he felt torn because he wasn't "supposed" to be doing that; he was supposed to write and deliver sermons. He thought that poetry was frivolous and a distraction from more "important" work.

In fits of shame, he tragically ended up burning probably half his writings. How many masterworks have been lost to literature forever?

Are you living a life of "should" and "supposed to" rather than doing what makes your heart sing?

Everything in creation is an exhibit in being itself. Hopkins believed that Jesus Christ was the creator of the world and all things in it, so all things reveal truths about Him. Every piece of art reveals the artist behind it, because that is the creative process.

Today's invitation: find something to observe. How does it reveal its creator? If it's a piece of artwork or music, what does it reveal about the artist?

Then think about something you've created recently. Doesn't have to be art: a meal you prepared for your family, an organized home, or a game to make your child happy. What positive attribute about you was expressed through that creation?

VIDEO CHAPTERS:

0:00 Welcome
1:37 The joy of being yourself
4:27 My failed marriage--Inauthenticity
6:50 "As Kingfishers Catch Fire" poem
8:13 Gerard Manley Hopkins background
10:10 Simple images evoke the abstract
12:19 Exercise: All creations reveal their creator
14:17 Closing

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