Why does the Western mind focus so unremittingly on the perceived inadequacies of the Self, on the painted apparition of incompleteness?  Why is it that we can look so inward, but only to observe and remark on what isn’t there, instead of focusing on the glory of what is?

 

All of us are born different in so many ways, but the differences are never intended to be analyzed and compared against each other to show weakness.  The intention of the universe is to display uniqueness, but not for any other reason than to create understanding within us, that each of us, each individual one, is simply part of the greater whole.

 

A puzzle is meant to broken apart into its individual pieces, then reformed into a whole.  But each of the pieces that complete the puzzle are individual and unique on their own.  Each have different edges, a different shape, some with flat sides that form a border, corner pieces with two flat sides, some with more insertion arms while others have more openings for insertions, all have a slightly different frame of the image of the face of the puzzle.  But all of these different, individual pieces, unique in their own way, come together to form a complete picture, a complete frame, the completed puzzle.  Maybe some pieces are easier to match and fit than others, but all are unique and essential to the whole.  The puzzle cannot be completed unless every individual piece is incorporated.  The individual pieces need their adjoining pieces, also unique and different, to coalesce into the whole.

 

Why does the Western mind not understand this essential truth of universal completeness?  We are all unique and different, but each one of us possesses qualities of uniqueness and differentness that are essential to comprising the whole.  None of us has a unique or different quality that is anyway inadequate to the others that surround us, all of these qualities are necessary to complete unification with the surrounding world.  And to complete this unification, we must accept our own unique qualities, recognize them as not inadequate, and not create some desire in the mind to possess the qualities of someone around us that we feel are somehow superior.  If we abandon our own uniqueness to take on the coveted qualities of someone around us, we will deform our own unique piece of the puzzle, and never be able to complete the unified whole.  We would not only disable our own ability to complete the unified whole, we would disable all those around us from being able to be part of the unified whole, to come together, to coalesce, to be as one, to descend and to ascend, to soar together, in the cherished unity of the universal womb.

 

We must not denigrate ourselves within.  We must not try to alter the true Self within.  There is no inadequacy in difference, in uniqueness, there is no benefit to trying to alter who we are to match up our coveted, aggrandized ideal of who we should be, who around us we want to be like or to become, or who others around us would want us to become.  We can and should only be ourselves.

 

Because if the core of the Self is altered, the puzzle piece of us will be deformed, and the puzzle of this life will never be completed. And by emanating the trueness, the uniqueness of the Self, the energy we release will aid in preventing the deformation of the unique puzzle pieces that surround us. And we will come to collectively bathe in the coalescence of the completed puzzle.