We do not need anyone’s permission to be who we are. Our primal allegiance is to ourselves. To be true to ourselves is our ultimate obligation. That means living in devoted service to our intuition–to our sense of what is right for us to do, for whom it is right for us to be–above all other concerns or duties. To deny ourselves is the ultimate betrayal. Thus, our call from birth to death is to be who we are, doing what is ours to do. And our next obligation in line is to help/assist others in being true to themselves, by living in ways that serve and express who they are and doing what is theirs to do.
May we spend what remains of the time left for living in devoted service to these sacred imperatives to the best of our ability in commitment to ourselves and to each other. Amen! May it be so!
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