CRYSTAL SELF: GROW MORE LIFE

 


Our capacity for growth in life depends upon our willingness to stretch our sense of self. We cannot live beyond our best ideas, which is why our best ideas must be large. If we wish to experience a life that’s rich with opportunity for growth, we must begin by reconsidering ourselves.

We must take up more space in our own minds. We must remember that which is most beautiful, significant, and worthy within us. As long as we feel small, we will remain so. We must encounter larger views of self if we would live them.

We occupy the greatest + the least of our assumptions. (What we assume about ourselves becomes the truth.) We are responsible for these assumptions once we see them. We can replace the lesser ones with larger views.

This requires mental flexibility, humility, a willingness to learn + to apply ourselves creatively to life. This requires honesty + courage: to perceive beyond the veil of what appears to be most obvious + true.

We find beneath the surface of appearance Life Itself, the deeper truth. We find it coursing through our human stories to deliver itself to us at the level of our personal perception.

Growing that perception, we inevitably rise to meet the larger view. We discover our imagination as the architect of that important vessel life pours through.

We remember that who we most wish to be is who we really are + must become if we are ever to become all that we are.


INVITATION

This is what the Crystal Self accomplishes: a truer, more dimensioned view of self, a larger story - more of life available to us.

JANUARY 16, 2023

 
Timothy Brainard