I sure am enjoying the sunflowers! At this time of year they seem to be everywhere, showing up along side fences and roads, volunteering in various places in my garden and in the gardens of others. I love sunflowers because they simply shine their light and they produce a seed that is good for you!
What else can we ask of life? I think to shine our light, to show up and produce something good is what life is all about.
We shine our light by practicing humility, which means nothing more than knowing ourselves and allowing our true selves to flourish. Humility means we are right sized. We aren’t ego maniacs with an inferiority complex, nor are we quietly hovering in the background too unsure of ourselves to fully participate in life, nor in people’s faces insisting we be given our due. We are simply being ourselves, offering ourselves to the fullness of life. This is how we shine our light.
And we produce something good by again knowing ourselves well enough to know what it is we are meant to be doing in life. I’ve never believed in showing up to do a job one disliked, just to bring home a paycheck. Life is worth so much more than that.
We do our spiritual practices so that we can know ourselves, and in knowing ourselves, we can then know what to do to make a living. And if our perfect job does not exist, we create it. Because we have the power to do that.
Today, I am like a sunflower, shining my light and producing good in the world.
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