'The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd'.
When you were a child, you got report cards filled out by teachers to tell your parents how you were doing in school. It's difficult to make the transition from external judgment to internal acceptance, but it's a journey we all must make to reach our essential selves as adults. Authentic success is internal. Often, other people aren't even aware at first that you've reached it. The moment of success is the awareness that 'I can do it' or 'I have done it'. And it's comforting to know that this can't be taken away from you by an external event. Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep a heart pump going, or you can electrocute a person with it. Electricity will do all that. It makes no judgment. All of us are born with talent.
The first image that usually comes to mind when we think of the word 'settler' is that of pioneers - those courageous, adventurous, and interpid individuals who pushed past their well-padded perimeters of safety and security to seek better lives for themselves and those they loved. Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones. I find it fascinating the way the ancient Chinese belief of yin and yang - the complementary opposite female and male energies inherent in the Universe - runs as a pattern through every aspect of our lives. Career and home, dark and light, cold and heat, sorrow and joy, intimacy and solitude, aggression and passivity, Earth and Heaven. Push past or stay put. There's no way around it, only through; on our deeply personal journey to authenticity we must all become pioneers and make peace with settling before we can move on.
'Something More, Excavating your Authentic Self'
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Salam,
Cherine
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