10. The extraordinary Self

The Extraordinary Self

by Jaiya

My prayer is for all beings to experience their magnificence and accept it.

To delight in their extraordinariness until it becomes ordinary.

For a moment I forgot how truly amazing I am. And I held back my expression.

And then I remembered, and I was free to express.

Because Expression is our birthright, and a thing we often forget.

And for a moment in my remembering I began to notice a fear.

What if in remembering my magnificence I become grandiose, and then made others

less than me?

And another recognition came, that I need not worry, because we are all magnificent.

There is nothing we need to be, do or have, we simply are extraordinary in our

existence which clearly comes through when we authentically express.

And I relaxed and a then a prayer poured forth from my lips:

May all sentient beings remember they are magnificent, that each expression is

extraordinary.

How could you not be?

You are extraordinary because you exist. Delight in your Self.

In this world it is easy to park your magnificence on your actions.

You feel you must DO extraordinary things in order to BE.

In this world it is easy to define your magnificence by your circumstances.

You feel you must HAVE it all, for extraordinary to be something you can CLAIM.

But what is true is that you actually are magnificently extraordinary.

No action and no circumstance makes it so.

Only experiencing what is true.

And then you become the expression you never dreamed you could be.