Letting The World See You

When you are the same on the inside as what people see on the outside, you are in touch with your personal power. Letting the world see you is letting the world know what you truly believe about your life.

What is some challenge you could accept that would make you more visible?

Where are you hesitant about becoming more visible? How would your life change if you got more visible?…

Sharon C. Brown, Pat A Paulson, and Jo Ann Wolf in their book, Living On Purpose

Cited in Meditation for a New Age

Sermon excerpt: Being a Transparency

The last facet or segment of the process of reflection is the most intimate and vulnerable one; the capacity to soulfully shine or to be a personal transparency. It is the ability to see and the willingness to be seen clearly- to disclose and to be revealed and perceived at the core of our being is the ideal quality of transparency. …

Instead, the quality of being a transparency is to aspire to be free of our ego defenses, our so-called best strategies, game playing, bluffing, posturing, or any other such ego mechanisms.

Transparency is an ideal that willingly admits that we are all works in process; It affirms and asserts there is an inner conscience, a higher call, a real voice, or an ethical and spiritual imperative that speaks to us. It asks us to reach for a life that can be lived that is beyond our fears, beyond our perceived limitations, beyond and above the media driven definitions and the worldly expectations we have all around us.

For me, being a transparency is one of the end goals of the spiritual life; to live as if I could be a transparency for wisdom and compassion and that I can act as a clear window, or as a mind, body, and spirit expression of holy ideas, virtues, and principles.

Transparency asks us to live as authentically as we can; to be willing to work to create a world without pretense, to engage in relationships without artifice, and to build and sustain a community without denials… It is to find and proclaim their authentic being, and then together, we consciously and willingly choose to support and care for one another, our children, our whole selves and I would say, our holy lives.