You know, I believe the best gift we can give to ourselves is to embrace our wholeness.
It may feel scary and even wrong when we let our true essence shine because we’re afraid of being judged, of not meeting the “normal standard,” of being too weird, too different from other people (or at least too different from how other people project themselves to be). We convince ourselves that we need to fit in to find happiness and a sense of belonging.
But one day. One day, after the same lesson has repeated in our lives enough times, we become exhausted and realize that we feel incredibly lonely despite being surrounded by others. That’s when we start to awaken. We realize that happiness only happens when we feel we belong—truly belong—it’s not where but when we stop seeking external validation. We understand that being who we are is already normal enough and that we will only attract the people, places, and events where our true essence can shine.
Oftentimes, it’s very different from where, what, and whom we want to fit in with. People desire happiness not because it’s familiar, but because it’s not. We chase after what we think would bring happiness: money, power, status, and other people. But happiness can be as foreign as what’s not considered normal at all, and that’s the risk we need to take to be happy—the risk of going outside what we thought would make us happy.
Because happiness doesn’t come from the ego self. There is no self. What we think is our “self” is part of one consciousness. The part of consciousness we contribute to wholeness is energy, and it’s up to us how we want the energy of our essence to vibrate.
To let go of the self and make space for our soul to flourish, living an authentic life and feeling secure enough to validate ourselves, is happiness.
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