A long time ago, Socrates said, “Learning is remembering.”
Famously, Michelangelo “saw” David trapped within a solid block of marble. According to him, he did not so much sculpt David, but rather liberated him from the prison of stone.
What if you too are already a masterpiece that is simply trapped inside your own block of stone?
The stone prison surrounding your personal mastery though is not made of marble. Rather, you are being held captive by all the unnatural patterns of movement(s) and limiting beliefs that have built up over the years of conditioning.
It is the belief systems you have created within yourself that pulls you down, away from reaching your own mastery.
It is the negative self talk that continues to chatter away in your head whenever you attempt something great that pulls you back.
It is the little voice that says – “Who are you to think you can do that? Who are you to dare to be great? Who are you to think you can be masterful? You’re nobody. You don’t deserve it. You’re not good enough. You’re not smart enough. You always fail, why do you think this time will be any different?”
The question, in reality, though is this one: WHO ARE YOU NOT TO?
Remember this – you are always the only one in control of what you think. Whether you believe you can or you believe you cannot, you are right!
Your patterns of movement, your patterns of breathing, your patterns of thought, your patterns of belief all have been conditioned over the span of your entire life to effectively create a prison of stone confining you, limiting your level of mastery. You can break free of this limiting conditioning by gradually chipping away at the outer layers, slowly revealing the true nature of the masterpiece “David” that is you.
The first step in setting free your personal mastery is to first realize that you are trapped. Without this level of conscious self-awareness, the process cannot begin.
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”
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