My thought on this very crucial concept is one borne out of sheer experience. I think that much of everything that I have been trying very hard to do in much of my adult life, especially in the last ten to fifteen years has a lot to do with engaging with my faculties with an unassailable drive to unearth what is hidden therein.
My idea of self-actualisation is that one is on an arduous and taxing journey of life; a sojourn in which one is not seeking the regular and generic, but the unique and premium. It’s one that working from a place of strength does not necessarily make the journey of discovery to excellence a less arduous one.
Self-actualization is making potential actual. It's the continuous process of unfoldment, where one is daily engaged with oneself for the purpose of making the unseen seen, the abstract concrete and the mental physical.
How do I make potential actual? How do I make my hidden treasures known to the world? How do I identify my gifts and talents and develop them through building essential and otherwise skills to align with them? How do I use these in service to others? How do I attain proficiency through serving mankind with the gifts and talents that I first must discover?
Sometimes it seems to me that I must eviscerate my heart in order to examine its content and the writings on it. The idea of knowing who I am, my being, is such a fascinating preoccupation that drives me and gets me engaged beyond the knack and thirst for the physical allures of life. These distract and take one off the course of purpose.
The process of discovery is another thing altogether. How do I, a mere mortal, know what the immortal has hidden within me? This is the template that must be made known. First, I must accept the reality of my spiritual being and use same for the physical me, because truly I am a spiritual being having a physical experience.
We all are.
What is that one thing or what are those things that continuously tug at me? What are those things that knock at the door of my heart? Those same things ask for my attention. They seek my company. They desire a relationship with me. They seek to be developed. They seek to be made known and put to use in service of others.
Unfortunately, I am falsely so busy doing every other thing that has no bearing with my being here and have no real time investment on the primary. I am so busy engaged in many things, but the fundamentals for which I am here. What a false lifestyle!
We have lost a great gift freely given to us. The gift of observation is one gift that we lose to growing up. We lost it to distraction. We lost it to learning about all the wrong things, but ourselves. We fail to observe ourselves. We fail to observe our thoughts. We fail to hear ourselves. We fail to evaluate our actions. We really do not care about the results we get. We can tell from the sacrifices we don't commit to.
If we know what is hidden in us through our thoughts, through our thirst, hunger and longing, through our lingering desires and what we are secretly passionate about, then we should do something deliberate about developing them.
With this discovery comes conscious self-awareness. When we become aware of something potentially great within us, we would give everything around us towards developing it. It becomes our sole preoccupation. Then, nothing else would matter to us.
With self-discovery, we earn self-awareness, we move on to self-development and pursue proficiency through service. This process is a continuous one because we are made to endlessly manifest our being. This is why it's important for us to leave here empty.
Really, that is self-actualization. You find yourself. You discover your potential. You build this potential into a service or product. You share same constantly. You appreciate feedback. You may not want to accept constructive criticism from those who never constructed anything. You may need to observe them closely though and see how they resonate with you. Resonance is an essential tool.
Self-actualization doesn't mean having no support. It doesn't mean having no teacher or mentor. It doesn't mean having no coach. It means you may have them, but not without engaging yourself personally. You make yourself what the Maker has already made you.
Adam was already made in spirit essence, but he had to become clay to dwell in the physical form. As long as he stayed obedient to the spiritual, he enjoyed peace, but the moment he stepped out of that zone, he lost it. You cannot make yourself what God has not made you. This is the problem with the majority of us seeking success. Working outside the divine template treasured within disconnects you from divine arrangement. You will be denied.
Listening always to the voice within, the small still voice that seems drowned by the multitude of distracting voices will lead you to actualize the depth of treasure hidden in you.
That is your gift and talent that you must share. That is what the great minds of yesterday and today have done. They have shared with the world what they have received. You too have got something, and you must find it because it's your uniqueness and the world craves it. It's your voice.
If it keeps ringing in your head and refuses to leave your mind, if it's often in your waking thoughts, then it would find its way out. It will seek manifestation because it's loaded with the thirst to engage and add value. It will actualize itself through your members. You are its strength and activator.
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