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to will thy will". To allow our authentic best self to surface the ego mind is to be restrained.

How many things do you do in a day that honors what you really want? If we examine our lives it would be interesting to see what would be left if we took away all that is not genuinely us. What would our word be like? Where would we live? What work would we do?

Laura V Hyde is a spiritual leader, counselor, author and teacher. She challenges us to take the masks we wear off and expose our true essence. In her article "Living the authentic life" she says, "Dare to be yourself. Strip away the mask and let yourself just "be." Take time to have fun and allow yourself to find humor in being human. Know that your purpose for being born wasn't to live life according to what society deems correct. Your purpose is to discover your true self and live from that awareness. If you resonate to the color violet, then be violet, not brown."

What do you really like? Where do you really want to be? What is it that you really want to do? These are questions for the "Higher Self" and the answers may not be as far away as you think. You just need to dispose of "I", meditate and just "be".

Marianne Williamson's "A return to love" teaches the concept of shedding the ego layers to find our core, our true self and to surrender to God's love.
She says, "Events are always in a flux. One day they love you; the next day you're their target. One day a situation is running smoothly; the next day you feel like you're an utter failure. These changes in life are always going to happen; they're a part of the human experience. What can change, however, is how we perceive those experiences. And that shift in perception is the meaning of miracles."

In her book Marianne writes about the biblical story where Jesus talked about building your house on sand or building it on rock. She compares the house with our emotional state. If you are trying to physically control everything yourself you are residing on sand and a storm, a strong wind or rain can easily tear your house down. When you surrender your life to the Universe and "let go", your foundations are built on rock and will therefore withstand the unexpected thunderstorm.Living a surrendered life and doing away with your masks is pretty scary stuff, but just because it is intimidating there is no reason to avoid changing one step at a time.

There are those times, first thing ,when I awaken, my mind races through what is ahead of me during the day and some

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