I woke up in the middle of the night with an urge to write. I couldn’t remember what I had been dreaming about, and I was still half asleep as I scribbled down a total of seven words.
The next morning I was excited to read what I had written. I couldn’t remember exactly what it was, but I knew that it had been important enough to wake me, and so I discovered, that with blurry vision and a mind that was still half asleep, I had written…
Greatness is natural. Apologising for it is not.
I still could not remember the dream I had had, but as soon as I read the words I had written, I was filled with a sense of knowingness and gratitude, because I knew what those words meant to me even though I had never put them together before.
When I say the word greatness, I am not talking about anything physical or anything that is associated with the ego. I am instead referring to our true nature and truth.
The greatness I am referring to is the spark of consciousness that exits at our core and connects us to all things, our natural life force.
Denying our true greatness, our true nature and truth is something I am sure we can all relate to. Holding ourselves back, both personally and professionally, out of fear, afraid perhaps that our truth will not be accepted or understood.
This is not natural behaviour.
These are unnatural habits, that have been passed onto us from outside sources that have nothing to do with greatness or truth.
Learn to recognise and tell the difference between what is your truth and what is not. Listen to the great wisdom that is at your core and let it guide you come what may.
As Carl Sagan famously said – we are made of star stuff. So let’s not deny or apologise for our greatness any longer!
Unapologetically yours,
Zoe
Zoe Patterson: Fighting back 