TFTD

The battle to keep up appearances unnecessarily, the mask--whatever name you give creeping perfectionism--robs us of our energies.--Robin Worthington

How familiar we are with trying to be someone other than ourselves; someone more exciting, we think, or sexier, or smarter.

We have probably devoted a great deal of energy to this over the years.

It's likely that we are growing more content with ourselves now.

However, aren't there still situations in which we squirm, both because we want to project a different image, and because we resent our desire to do so?

We each have been blessed with unique qualities.

There is no other person just like ourselves.

We each have special features that are projected in only one way, the way we alone project them.

Knowing that we are perfect as we are is knowledge that accompanies groth.

How much easier life is, how much more can be gained from each moment, when we meet each experience in the comfort of our real selves.

The added gift of simply being ourselves is that we'll really hear, see, and understand others for the first time in our lives.

Every once in a while I get a 'delivery' that makes me go 'hmmmmm...'.

Hmmmmmmmm.