Licking the Razor's Edge (2015)

Practical TIP #02 – FLAUNT YOUR TRUE YOU
“The moment you start seeing life with a non-serious playfulness, then all the burdens on
your heart disappear. All your yearnings disappear. All your self-criticisms disappear.
All your fears disappear. When this choice is made, you start living with a very light
Heart; a Soul that has almost heaviness to it at all. The serious man has made the world,
with all its anxieties & hopes & cravings. And it is the serious person in you who has
made you cling to the same. The playful heart, on the other hand, has dropped out of the
serious world. It has created a world of its own which is very full of laughter, where even
greatest of Masters behave like joyful children.” ~ inspired by Osho
In order to set your Self free from the bondage of self-judgment, it is sometimes effective
to flagrantly broadcast who you really Are. All criticisms of others are grounded in some
sort of criticism of self. And all of those criticisms of self are founded in societal norms
designed to have us all continually striving to become “pretty enough” (or “good enough”
or “successful enough”).
As such, one great way to break free of these norms is to open up and consciously (and
Respect-fully) shatter them. In essence, it can be brilliantly freeing to “be weird”. After
all, we are all unique beings – we are all obviously very different from everyone else
around us – and therefore we are all innately “weird”.
Of course, the only way to remember this Truth is to feel it – and the only way to deeply
feel it is to flagrantly act it out; to be publicly unconventional; to be openly &
unabashedly “strange”. Wear weird clothes … Try a bizarre hairstyle (see the picture of
me below) … Invent a new gait and “walk funny” … Try communicating with others
using odd words or an unusual tone of voice. Frankly, it doesn’t really matter what you
do; it is simply important that you remember how it feels to be separate from the “herd” –
while also feeling that You are OK while you do so.
Having the Courage to be an individual will make it
easier to accept others behaving similarly, and it will
open your eyes to the innate brilliance that resides
within not only yourself, but everyone around you as
well.
“You cannot improve upon yourself … Nobody else
has ever been like you and nobody else will ever be
like you; you are simply unique, incomparable.
Accept this, love this, celebrate this–and in that very
celebration you will start seeing the uniqueness of
the others, the incomparable Beauty of the others.”
~ unknown
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