Your Authentic Self

A part of being your true self is coming to terms with aspects of yourself which may not be as pleasant. Sadness, anger, frustration. These are all aspects which we need to acknowledge and accept through the lens of compassion and self understanding.

This poem by Jennifer Welwood beautifully highlights the rather transformative journey that one can go through:

Willing to experience aloneness,

I discover connection everywhere

Turning to face my fear,

I meet the warrior who lives within;

Opening to my loss,

I gain the universe;

Surrendering into emptiness,

I find fullness without end

Each condition I flee from pursues me,

Each condition I welcome transforms me,

And becomes itself transformed

Into its radiant jewel-like essence.

I bow to the one who has made it so,

Who has crafted this Master Game;

To play it is purest delight ----

To honor its form, true devotion.

Jennifer Paine Welwood, "Unconditional" (1998)

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