If you can allow these two words to mean the same thing, you’ve found two things:
1) Freedom.
2) The pathway to succcess, story, and transformation.
What more could you ask for?
Reflect on the words that have shaped you. Those small words spoken to your soul, over your life, and into your bones.
Your small words matter. They enlarge those you’ve been entrusted with.
Think of your heroes. Not the ones in sports or on tv. Think of the ones that, truly, made your path possible and opened the doors that you could have never opened yourself. I would imagine these people were tender, tasteful, and sublimely human. And probably quiet.
Love tends to be tender, human, and quiet. A billion @ mentions pales in comparison to your quiet role in someone breathing a little easier because of your quiet involvement.
Now, can you recall some moments that are forever stuck in your head and burned into your memory? The unseen things that only you can claim were for you. A hug. A wink. A tear. A smile. A pair of hands raised in a crowd for you. The hands that caught your fall. The world didn’t see this. But you did.
99.9% of why you are here will be unseen for the rest of the world…but .0000001% couldn’t do it without you.
Alas, you’re a really big deal. In your own small, quiet, and unseen way.
Namaste.
The games of cynicism, pessimism, guilt, and shame are some of the most popular games we are sold. And for those who choose to play them, they’re the only game in town. Finger pointing is the only cost to play. And who can’t afford that?
But they don’t have to be your games.
Actually, you can leave the world of games altogether and enter into the beautiful realm of experience.
And this experience will give you the opportunity to risk being seen.
The risk is being seen as your True Name. The Name you came here with and the Name you’ll leave with.
Love.
Now you will always have new windows to look into and out of, a variety of lenses to observe with, and a kaleidoscope of meaning to breathe the world in and out with.
Lean into love.
Scoop it up with all of your being.
Swim with it.
Soak it in.
And then offer it back as gift.
Only in this risk will you step into what you were originally whispered to be.
Not too fast. There is something more important.
What’s now?
You should put a little note in your pocket every morning.
Something short.
Something that you may need as a reminder.
What should it say today?
Write it down.
Slip it in your pocket.
Ashton.Gustafson 