Now, being who you are is always what you are in expression, but in a way, you are kind of turning away from the self so that you are looking at yourself at off-angles and this becomes the norm. 

You no longer have a perception of the fullness and brilliance of who you are. And you are fantastic. So it’s worth knowing that this is just an illustration of who you think you are when you start narrowing yourself down into a smaller viewing version of yourself. 

This is an ardent behaviour. It becomes the norm, and that’s where it becomes difficult, challenging even, to move through experiences with your heart wide open. Heart wide open doesn’t mean foolish; it means accepting, allowing, and having an unalterable faith in the experience you are having. It doesn’t help to be pragmatic in experiences of distortion simply because you are looking at an invalid set of data points. 

Let me explain. If I come up and start talking to you about faith and love and light and God, you’ll swing your opinion in the direction of the life experience related to these definitions as you have come to view them. If I start talking to you about candy and lollipops and puppies and cutesie-pie things, you may take a look and cast them off as sweet but irrelevant. And there in this moment I would begin to feel a lack of strength. Not because they are irrelevant, but because I have an expression of worth and value that is tied to irrelevance in diminishment of self. 

Now I know that seems a stretch, but we all have an off-angle, and when a piece of data falls squarely on that perch, it widens until at some point it’s a platform, and over time eventually it becomes a landscape, and no matter which direction I look, it’s all I can see. 

So let me share with you some tools I’ve picked up along the way. There is always going to be some ‘one’ kind of phrase or expression of experience that is always, always, always going to rip the rug right out from under you. And this is the complete value in knowing your SolePath. Not because it makes you a better person or a fresh new version of yourself, but because it gives you highly tuned resources to look at your experience through fresh new eyes. 

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Now, if you think that the way I’m talking to you seems petty and foolish, you might identify as an unsavoury version of self known as ‘must be seen to be doing something that I deem of alue.’ Now that’s very specific language, but you can imagine that if you have a finely tuned lens to that very expression of experience, there are going to be some pretty hard days if all you are planning to do is sit by the lakeshore and pick up some new colours for your skin tone that day. 

That person is always going to be pushing forward and casting aside the very important experience of rest and renewal. That same person might take on a project of momentous proportions and never see the value they are bringing to the world through the project because they are also looking through the lens of ‘not important enough.’

They will drive themselves into a spiralling hole and look up from a descent of diminishment over time that seems unscalable. No amount of effort, allowing them to reach a pinnacle because of the depth of the view that they are looking at from a purchase point of experience. 

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Now back to the experience of irrelevance. 

What I’m really trying to emphasize here is that you are astoundingly wonderful. A truly delightful and likeable person. Someone with depth and character and reach, but you have a habit you don’t even know about. You look at a lens through a distortion of fear that captures you and clamps you into a box that keeps you outside of your full experience of living. And this becomes an idle game of cat and mouse where you don’t even bother looking in a new direction because you’ve seen it all before. 

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​​Well, maybe you have, but it’s only because you’ve been looking through a single narrow field of expression.