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A Revelation Of Enlightenment:
I chuckle as I write this for the joy noticing God or the opportunity of wisdom in a place where one may not of considered it before.
Such is the joyful zeal of the many simple creative opportunities to be played with all around us.
The Absolute Truth, (you are always Whole and One), as enlightenment is not that which is accomplished or earned, it is that which is realized!
The children's story of the ugly duckling comes to mind as a great opportunity to understand and accept this.
Consider a swan is born into a world of seemingly ducks and yet because this swan tries to be a duck, the other ducks mock him because he looks different from another duck.
Such is the challenging experience of Truth trying to be a lie, no matter how hard you try to be a duck, your continual motion of growth will always betray your false beliefs of self.
The swan’s neck will grow longer, it feathers will grow into a color unlike a duck, and still the swan will try even harder to be a duck and the other ducks will not reward his efforts much like his True Nature has betrayed him.
In the unworthiness of his failures of acting like a duck, he feels isolated until he finds an old woman, who says I’ll take you in and I will teach you what you are.
The old woman’s loving acceptance of this seemingly ugly duck; she tells this swan it is truly a beautiful bird.
The swan doesn’t really believe it and accepts it as just kind fluff, yet it is better than being called ugly all the time.
So it accepts the loving ways of the old woman and learns from her, she teaches him how to groom those odd colored feathers, how to swim and play in the water, how to lift his over-sized body out of the water and fly.
Then one morning upon opening his eyes he notices his reflection on the surface of the pond and sees this great majestic bird looking back at him.
So he goes to the lady and asks, “What have I become, I looks so wondrous?”
The lady says, “Well you have become what you have always been, you are a swan, and not a duck.”
“You were born a swan that tried to be a duck, dreamed of being a duck and as much as you tried to be a duck, the true you would reveal the true you more.”
Now it’s been many years since I read this fable to my daughter and so I’m taking probably quite of bit of literary license with it, but I think I have the just of it.
Now considering a little more deeper than the story’s moral intention of beauty is only skin deep with a happy ending, please consider this.
Your True Nature was always a beautiful and majestic swan and believing and trying to be a little duck with green and grey feathers will not make you the far greater bird you truly are.
You did not turn into a swan you always were a swan; “You are Whole and One”.
So set aside the dreams of being a pretty duck and allow your True Nature to reveal the wondrous swan you are!
Why struggle trying to be a duck when a beautiful swan is always expressing as more, (revealing itself).
This is why Self-Acceptance is so very important, it greatly eases the experiences of the creating swan creating its realization that it is a beautiful majestic bird.
Be innocent of any expectations of what the swan will look like and when you gaze into your reflection you will see a Nature of yourself beyond your wildest dreams.
With this a great revelation will occur as the reflection of your image now reflecting back on his life journey.
The swan will realize that it always was a swan and it challenges were because he was trying so hard to be what was not natural to him, the majestic bird he always was; His Whole Nature in a pond of many swans!
All My Love
Rob.