Sooner or later we must distinguish between what we are not and what we are. We must accept the fact that we are not what we would like to be. We must cast off our false, exterior self like the cheap and showy garment it is … We must find our real self, in all its elemental poverty, but also in its great and very simple dignity … .*
Thomas Merton

To know yourself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility.*
Brother Dave

The road continues
if you want it to;
You are understanding more of who
you are not and
what you do not have –
You are incomplete as the world measures it –
But you find yourself on an unfolding path of possibility,
Now that you have shed who you are not and
do not dwell on what you do not have.

There are many places to begin –
Here is one:
Name what you are most curious about and
energised by;
Identify those things in your life which
obstruct these, or don’t align:
What can you shed?

Better begins with each of us, but it evaporates when we settle for less. Settling is rarely intentional, instead it happens when we focus on other things.**

*Ian Morgan Cron’s The Road Back to You;
**Seth Godin’s blog: Can’t wait.