24 March 2022 — ‘ONE HAS TO BE ONESELF’.

Today I quote Bhagwan Shree Raneesh from ’The Sound of One Hand Clapping’’

‘One has just to be oneself/that’s my basic message.

The moment you accept yourself as you are,/All burdens,/All mountainous burdens simply disappear.

Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights.’

‘Just to be oneself ‘ is perhaps not that easy. Often it is necessary to find out WHO ONESELF IS before one can be it. This involves getting beneath the surface of our conditioning and the habit patterns we have acquired over the years.

So often we act in ways which we believe will please other people.

I will finish off with a favourite saying of mind — ‘ACCEPT WHO YOU ARE — WARTS AND ALL’.

PONDER POINTS: My thoughts on reading this are …..the feelings which reading this has brought to the surface are …I feel that I am able to be myself when ….