Being yourself

I love this from the 7 paths to God:

There is an old Hadistic story about Rabbi Zuszya, who dies and goes to heaven. While reviewing his life, he explains to God that he had tried to be a wise as Solomon, as steadfast as David, and as brave as Moses. "That is al well and good," replies God, "But why didn't you try to be yourself?"


Rev. Kevin spoke to this in his last masterful service. About just being who you are, and knowing that that alone is enough. Many times we take on different persona to prove that we are enough, to fill the empty that we perceive as a hole, a deficit, a less than perfect. We then become the perfect "Mother, Father, Wife, Husband, Nurse, Teacher," and so on and so forth, filing the void in the attempt to be perfect and whole. If anything happens to change that perception, we are then lost, and we cling to the memory of what we were, of what we perceived as perfect and whole. The truth is that in the emptiness, in the hole, in the absence of anything, is everything. In this emptiness there is a Wholesome perfection, a stillness, a truth, that can never be deterred from. With this perception of wholeness without anything added, this acceptance of yourself just as you are, you then do not have the "need" to express as  the perfect "Mother, Father, Wife, Husband,"there is not need to fill the void. And as we hold this consciousness of wholeness, of perfection, we naturally express as all the persona's without a dependency placed on them. Without the dependencies placed on them, the persona's now depend on us.

I am a perfect "Mother, Father, Wife, Husband," because I am whole and perfect -vs- I am whole and perfect because I am a perfect "Mother, Father, Wife, Husband."