The Principle Of The Constant Of Being (V)
When you cling to the image, you lose contact with your authentic presence.
I entered a narrow museum hall, where the cold light fell directly on the golden frames. The mirror at the end had a fine crack, like a coastline on an old map. I touched the edge and the frame wobbled; a brownish note slipped onto the floor.
The note read: 'It's not the mirror that's broken, but the gaze that wants to remain whole.' I was left holding the paper between my fingers, feeling the boundary between me and the image shifting a step. That's when I understood why I felt constrained: I had confused my outline with the reflection, not with my living presence.
The lesson is this: the reflection doesn't define you, but the courage to see yourself beyond it. When you cling to the image, you lose contact with your authentic presence.
Before training people, before changing destinies, before influencing changes, you must understand the lessons and realities of life. That sometimes are very hard, sometimes are doing tumbles, jumping freely in one place, or are throwing you on the strange realms, where the storms are haunting; disappear through your subconscious or unconscious, by suddenly bringing to light all sorts of irregularities. But that can teach you, guide, and inspire you in the process of your becoming.
Does the perspective from which you outline the boundaries of your own world become a benchmark for your transformation, generating a coherent projection between reality, experience, and the profound meaning of your becoming?
The leadership direction is represented by that continuous line in your life, of the man who builds his own identity, without plunging into the too pronounced loop of a personality crisis that iterates forever. And for your identity not to depreciate, you must compose, and paint the correct portrait of the basic part of your being that constantly approaches you to whom you really are.
Have you entered into the loop of a perpetual and tumultuous personality crisis? Are you going against the need to turn yourself into a victim of contradictions? Are you channeling your present into a good direction, or you continue living in an abandoned place, drowned in ignorance?
A beautiful flower and highly appreciated does not grow on all roads, but it can dry anywhere if does not have optimal conditions of humidity, temperature and light. For your personality to be consistent with your true way of being, you must ensure to it the best conditions to develop normally. And for this purpose the number of votes that you give to your existence, must represent at least one third of the total resources, of the investments that you make for the formation of your own Ego.
Are you getting lost among roles that do not highlight your qualities, while trying to delineate the horizon of the past from that of the present?
No matter how enthusiastic or necessary are your efforts to "retrieve" the true potential of a Man, not just a Leader, they must enroll in the horizon of objectivity in order to become possible and acceptable.
And an insufficiently broad horizon, which does not allow the evolution of any forms of cooperation between who you are and who you can become, for the purposes of confirmation and preserving the essential values that define you, is like a high tree in which there are lots of ripened fruits. You have to make a scale just as high as the tree in order to get to pick them all. This scale designates the compromise that you do for maintaining your constant of being.
Do not wander in inconsistent roles, which do not emphasize your qualities. Learn to distinguish between a horizon of the past and one of the present.
With what you fill the space between the continuous and interrupted line that connects you of the one you can become? Can you list at least three factors that force you to keep distance from who you really are? With what you fill that part of you that has remained in the past?
Leadership represents the balance point between the present identity and the future potential, from which the capacity to generate coherence and fidelity to essential values is born.
Conclusion: We are the living material, which has been shaped up to a certain age, and that is still shaped and finished by ourselves in order to become a true "work of art". However, this requires a good self-knowledge, a perspective vision of what we can become in accordance with a present and future reality.
