Who are you? Mother, daughter, father, son, worker, etc? Yes, but beyond that who are you really? We probably asked that question of ourselves fairly often growing up. At some point, perhaps we got an answer, settled into our lives, and that was that. Have you remembered to ask this question lately, going deep down below all the labels I’ve already mentioned and all the layers that define your present daily activities?
I’ve redefined myself through the years when who I seemed to be…whom I defined myself as… did not seem to be working out too well for me. I’ve also had 2 major career changes, and even though I knew (and taught) that we are not what we “do”, and that how we are being in consciousness is of far more importance, it was still an adjustment to not attach my self-worth to specific forms of doing. Labels of self can be devastating when they are only connected to externals, and what happens when those eternals change, or disappear?
Meditation and gratitude always help to get me through and help me find the good in my life just as it is, what’s right about myself just as I am. Mindfulness transforms each “ordinary” moment and opens me up to the infinite possibilities of wonder and contentment that were always there waiting for me to discover.
So, finally, beyond the limitations of the labels, I explore the depths of me where the brilliance shines out from my very core. Here I am fully connected to the Life within me and the Life all around me. Life! Always seeking to re-create itself in joy and harmony of being, from the seed of Love it started as. To be the Way of Love - that’s the only label I have to know and remember!!