Who Are We?

In an effort to figure out how I survived this life, (odds stacked against me) I write, in search of keys. Today's key is about being authentic. This key unlocks easily when we practice honesty. If you are true to yourself, you are practicing being authentic. Honesty is most difficult  with ourselves;as many things are just easier to tolerate than face. To walk in honesty is far from easy, equally painful as it is profound.When we begin to experience our authentic self we become liberated. Liberated of the many split selves, selves on a shelf or selves in a box. These are just a facade like a multiple personality we use it to get by; conservative, clown, professional, democrat, Christian.Until you pay true attention to yourself with intent to find you~ until then you are basically a clone. Who we think we are is usually wrong. Born out of various ideas we have adopted, or adapted to. Now it is time to begin on a course to finding who you really are, right now!  We tend to misinterpret "who we are" for the "what we are."  Two small words based around the same principals conditional to life. We perceive that who we are is what we own, our station, our status. In reality this could not be further fom the truth.What we are is always changing, shifting, growing and just when you begin to think you understand it, BLAMMO! God, nature, or both smack you upside the head, leaving you stunned, awake and hopefully more aware that you can never learn everything. If you are a Catholic is it to exalt  your heart and soul? Do you feel humbled by  gratitude, and graced by faith so lucky to perceive its truth and beauty or because you where baptized at birth? Do you put much effort into the study of your faith, or is it just a motion-like routine?This knowledge empowers us with new tools for opportunity and freedom of choice. An example is  how females & males are cultivated . raised to be polite and to respond in appropriate ways, men are taught to be brave strong and never cry. These teachings can be deceptive.In reality we only hold ourselves back by continuing to behave in contrived ways, often long outgrown.We are raised to be polite, to respond in appropriate ways, ways which are  deceptive. In reality we are holding ourselves back  by behaving in  contrived ways. To be authentic is to begin to know yourself. If you feel angry to be authentic would require that you  be honest to yourself and others.Perhaps you worry that your parents won't like if if you are angry, friends may even find your problems cumbersome; not wanting to hear anything "negitive." These thoughts are not unusual, but they do not serve a higher purpose. It is one thing to bitch  regularly; that gets old.It is another thing to speak your truth and use your voice, you are allowed to speak up and be heard.A true relationship requires true intimacy; in such intimacy we can trust and be trusted unconditional of exceptions. We know we will always be accepted & loved, not abandoned or disowned. Be true to your emotions, qualify them. Once we let it flow freely we can begin to release any inner turmoil by letting go of things we cannot control. Long live love and take peace in this thought; Only you can know the secrets of your own heart, knowing this to judge or be judged is unfair. Your heart's secret  is your's alone, not unlike the secret you gain at death. Be happy in the knowledge of you by being yourself.