Here's a fabulous insight for people who keep trying to fit in, be like everyone else. It's from Eknath Easwaran, a Vedic meditation teacher and author. It's from his book Meditation: An Eight Point Program:
When we stop trying to live up to an artificial image of ourselves, our real personality burst forth - vivid, appealing, unique. Look at the lives of the great mystics - Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, Sri Ramakrishna, Mahatma Gandhi. These are not drab figures stamped from the same mold; never has human personality been more dynamic, more spontaneous, more joyful, more strikingly individual.
When we stop trying to live up to an artificial image of ourselves, our real personality burst forth - vivid, appealing, unique. Look at the lives of the great mystics - Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, Sri Ramakrishna, Mahatma Gandhi. These are not drab figures stamped from the same mold; never has human personality been more dynamic, more spontaneous, more joyful, more strikingly individual.
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