“Be youself; everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde
Perusing through this process we call life, we experience many plateaus in various sequences. Many we acknowledge with the gold standard of rewarded success, and others fall by the proverbial wayside. There can exist a series of flash points, that trigger a subtle understanding of where we are and how we got there. This quote sums up the idea quite poignantly from l Corinthians 3:10, “Like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation … Each builder must choose with care how to build on it.”
Mindful choices affect every aspect of your life. Those choices have created exactly where you are, good, bad or unexplained. You have been the chief contractor and skilled mason of your existence. What building materials did you choose thus far? Have those materials of choice sustained your faith, courage, stability, endurance, creativity, vision and trust? This is an on-going, unique process that reflects individual thought exhibited first in the words we choose to communicate, then in our actions. It is not for the faint of heart, as expressed in the words of Dante from The Divine Comedy, “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” It’s not to late you know, you can begin to manifest and create a design that sustains a life of mindful choice, consciousness and awareness by what you project as character, principles, values, dignity and integrity.
The opportunity to recognize a change in direction involving the course of our lives, is not a matter of convenience . . . quite the contrary. When mindful consciousness arrives at any given sequence or point in one’s existence . . . seize the moment! That choice may not present itself again . . . when you’re conscious . . . as appropriately illuminated by Albert Einstein, “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
Being yourself encompasses an architectural design, that is precipitated by the provocative premise of mindful consciousness. Without which, we are just “floating and slithering in an abyss of non-related life coincidences.” Carl Young said it in another way, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” JLR