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Be Yourself

{A Written Practice}

Be Yourself

Everybody else is taken anyway.

One of the remarkable things about observing the natural world is the degree to which creatures lack self-consciousness, in the sense of getting hung up about themselves. Everyone is different. No one is normal. The sooner you figure that out, the sooner you can get on with the business of becoming you. Not who your parents wanted you to be, not who your boss wishes you were, not who you think you are. But who you actually are. Don’t hide your true colors.

We have a neighbor who fosters three-legged dogs. It’s her thing. Sometimes we find her strolling the paths near where we live with a collection of dogs, all ambling along distinctly, and what always strikes me is their utter lack of self-pity. I haven’t lost a leg, but I’ve been through difficulties, and its harder for us not to compare ourselves, not to bemoan our fates. There is always going to be someone richer, someone smarter, someone more successful. In comparing ourselves to others, we will always feel superior or inferior, and neither is useful ultimately. So concentrate instead on really being you.

Robert Thurman says, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

Related Practices:

See Core Neurobiological Self. See Take the Unpaved Road. See Find Your True North. See Heartfulness. See our film Why Your Heart Should be Telling Your Mind What to Do.

Who taught us this?

I think I spent alot of years trying to be someone else. Or be like someone else. Or be as whatever as someone else. In the end, the only person you ever have the hope of fully becoming is yourself. Know thyself, says Thoreau. Every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Who taught us this?

I think I spent alot of years trying to be someone else. Or be like someone else. Or be as whatever as someone else. In the end, the only person you ever have the hope of fully becoming is yourself. Know thyself, says Thoreau. Every heart vibrates to that iron string.

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