The Inner Journey

Just how much of oneself is true?

I step in front of the audience and I saw so much of myself in them. Some were looking for meaning, some tired of the daily runts of work, and some looking for healing. Some were even looking for God.

I hear them say:

"I wish I could leave my job and go somewhere else, but I can't. My family depends on me."

"I've given my life to my kids and wife, still at times, I feel empty."

"I have a good family, a good job, a stable income. Why is it that I still feel there is something missing in my life?"

"I pray and go to church, but why is it that God seems so unreal to me still?"

Such statements that come from the hunger of the heart cannot be totally repressed. Not by money, ambition, recognition, or authority. Somehow, our core, the true self that is genuinely happy and creative, was buried under layers of roles and scripts written by other people.

When we learn to listen more to the voice of the world, telling us "be this, be that" or "you aren't good enough for this", or "why can't you be like your father?", or "successful people have more money", or "you are not beautiful", or "life is not fair", we bury our True Self under layers of layers of these lies, accepting them as truths in our life.

And so, little by little, the original voice of our True Self becomes lost in the wilderness of feigned confidence and the roles we have imposed on ourselves, thus defining ourselves as "I am a doctor" or "I am a husband" or "I am a businesswoman". Then our lives become a cycle of daily attempts to fulfill these roles while we neglect to nourish our needs and start living for others, not knowing that we can only give as much as we can, if and only if, we first have it.

Sooner or later we experience a sense of sadness, or perhaps emptiness, and in the midst of the people who love and care for us, we find ourselves alone and detached from profound and genuine human experience. Only because we forgot the most important aspect of life: our self.

What is our Self? What is our core?

The core is us minus the title, roles, and societal expectations. It is where we are most confident about ourselves just for being who we are. A fusion of all our cherished values and dreams, before the rest of the world imposed theirs. It is a part of us that manifests periodically in our personal history, when we were most happy and at peace with ourselves, when we enjoyed life to the fullest and we shared our gifts and talents to the world.

This is where the Original Voice resides. A place between God and you alone. A sacred ground. This is a book where the Self is fact, not fiction. And in the pages of this book we find treasures and treasures of stories that tells of a creature of the Divine in relation with the universe.

Only when we have rediscovered our True Self that we will have true peace and happiness, and our self will be the gift that we will offer to the world for others to live, as the Creator has intended it to be.

Let the inner journey be the ultimate adventure in our life.

God speed!