We do this too often. Comparing ourselves with others around us, or others we perceive to be around us, such as celebrities. Somewhere along the way we have lost our own self-worth. We have been taught to dishonor ourselves and the value that we have as an intrinsic aspect of our nature.
Does a Dogwood Willow compare itself with a Maple Tree? No. Does the Maple Tree compare itself with a Dogwood Willow? No. Each is simply and naturally and beautifully what it is. Master Osho says,"Comparison brings inferiority, superiority. When you don't compare, all inferiority, all superiority, disappear....it doesn't matter; you are yourself. You are needed. A grass leaf is needed as much as the biggest star....All is needed, and everything fits together. It is an organic unity: nobody higher and nobody lower, nobody superior, nobody inferior. Everybody is incomparably unique."
This inspired me to coin the phrase,"You are unique...just like everybody else!" People often think I am joking with them when they first hear me say that. Then they realize what it is that I have just said. Some laugh, knowingly. Some tear up, realizing that they are special in and of themselves. Either way, it is beautiful.
My wife and I are simplifying our living environment. We are selling and giving away anything that we do not love or use. It is an interesting procedure because it makes us stop and think, really think, about what is important to us. Our house is getting more and more empty, and we are loving having more and more room to breathe. It is simplifying our inner beings. We have had to walk through the whole comparison thing in terms of what we now have as opposed to what our friends have. We have discovered we actually don't need as much stuff as perhaps our friends do, or think they do. And it is not a bad thing that they have what they have. It is just not for us. Where some folks are continually consuming more things, we are removing clutter from our lives. Say goodbye to that vase we received for a wedding gift. It has served its purpose and now we move on and find it another home. This is very liberating. I highly recommend this process for everyone.
Many Warm Blessings
Trent
2 comments:
How do we allow something so important to be stripped away from us? Someone very special to me (you know who you are!) pointed out, recently, that even with a warrior nature, I could very well be struggling with feeling worthy of the gifts I have been given by Spirit. Part of me says, you have got to be kidding, and the other part says, when did that happen? If we have so much going on on the inside and at so many different levels, is it fair of ourselves to compare to someone else? I say absolutely not!
Thats a groovy thing you and wife are doing for your home and it makes me think that perhaps a refresh of my "home" might be in order. Thank you for that.
Peace,
Krymson
It is amazing how quickly we pick up as children the messages that we are unworthy. These messages then play over and over in our psyches on completely unconscious levels, and then only serve to entirely screw us up. I say find them, spit them out, and never look back! ;-)
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