The Great Western Truth-Daily Meditation 12.16.22

Today’s quotation:

This, I believe, is the great Western truth:  that each of us is a unique creature, and if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our potentialities, not someone else’s.-Joseph Campbell

Today’s Meditation:

How beautiful is our uniqueness!  How outstanding are the complete individual and unique gifts we can give to this world of ours and its people and other creatures! One of the most outstanding advantages of our current world is the way that we all have opportunities to give to the world, in many different ways, via various routes.  Had I been born even 100 years ago, I would not have had nearly as many chances to contribute to this world as I do now–my world would have consisted of a tiny home on a small plot of land or in a large city. I probably would have stayed entirely anonymous to all but my little world.

Today we all have a chance to contribute to the world.  Today we have many chances to use our gifts and talents to make a difference in the lives of others, often in the lives of strangers.  Today more people than ever have access to education and training that can help them reach goals that would never have been possible yesteryear, and these are truths that could and should have a profound impact on our lives.

People no longer need to live vicariously through the child, the brother, the sister, or even the friend down the street who “beats the odds” and becomes a doctor, lawyer, athlete, or entertainer.

You are a beautiful, unique creature with impressive potential to help others and contribute to the world.  You are–this is simply the truth.

So what are you going to do about that?

Questions to consider:

What are your most substantial gifts?  How do you use them?

Does everyone recognize and appreciate their uniqueness?  Why might someone not do so?

What kind of contribution can you make to the world today?

For further thought:

How lovely to think that no one needs to wait a moment. We can start now. Start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway. . . And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!-Anne Frank

If you missed yesterday’s Motivational Minute, you can find it here.