Copyright 2021 Don Ray 

WHAT'S LEFT AFTER CONFORMING

There is a curious purity in being purely one’s self and getting lost in the Purpose.

Being one’s self may be extremely easy if you are popular, and may prove deucedly difficult if the world does not approve.

Submitting to the flow of the unfolding Purpose takes away a certain burden of obligation for planning each detail of your life, but it can also leave you feeling a bit lost, and perennially surprised.

But not being yourself, though perhaps convenient for career or social purposes, exacts its own toll.  And directing your life without regard for greater Purpose means you must continually duck the question “why?”

Ignoring universal Purpose and instead being whatever gets by in the world, you will arguably be more popular and accomplish more in worldly terms.  Certainly if everyone acted in purity of their nature and aimed only to serve that which is greater, the world would be a far different place.  Whether it would be a better place is left to your consideration.

So we muddle on, conforming to the world on some days, conforming to our nature on others, just surviving on some days, serving Source and Purpose on others.

Perhaps the only advice is to be true to something, and be conscious about that choice. And serve something, and be honest with yourself about that Choice.

That is all in all not a bad way to look at your life.  

To what are you true?

What do you serve?

And finally, if brutally honest with whatever remains of yourself after subtracting all the conforming,  do you like the answers?

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