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Letting Go of the Fear of Expressing in the World
We all have something to offer. A gift that nobody else has.
In my creative life recently, it seems that this theme of wanting to create something valuable keeps coming up for me. And, I don’t think I’m alone in that search to feel like I’m contributing something valuable to be world.
I spent a great deal of my life feeling like what was inside of me was not going to resonate with anyone. In fact, I feared that if I started sharing my thoughts that someone would think either I’m crazy or just plain ridiculous. These ideas were stored up for so long that I think I was experiencing some kind of creative and spiritual constipation.
I remember a moment when, in a moment of contemplation, I was given the thought about the value of my creativity. My thoughts were centered around originality, and this belief that somehow everyone on the planet had created all of the new ideas that were possible. I thought about the thousands of books for sale on the internet, the endless amount of music already produced, and the thousands of speakers already on the planet. I asked myself what I could possibly produce that had not already been produced.
And, then a thought came to me.
It was a divine thought.
