Being Yourself, Becoming Real..

I heard a story once about an eagle's egg that had gotten lost or abandoned and was found by chickens. When the eagle hatched, it was loved and cared for by chickens, brought up to act and behave as if it was a chicken. It knew nothing else. Until one day, the eagle was with his brothers and sisters pecking the ground, like a chicken, when something made him look up at the sky, High above, he saw a majestic sight, a beautiful bird soaring gracefully. something was stirred inside him, a remembrance, a recognition of 'home'...

He asked the chickens, 'What is the beautiful bird up there?'. The chicken looked up and said,' Oh! Thats an eagle, king of the birds but forget about him. You are one of us, you are a chicken..'. I don't know how the story eneded but to me it is not a case of an eagle being superior to the chicken but just DIFFERENT. The same story has been told about a duck;s egg and one day the duck arrives at a great lake, just swims, because HE CAN....Its natural, leaving his family on shore.

As i understand it, its all about remembering who/what we really are regardless of what we have been told by others or how we have been brought up. A rose will grow into a rose even if it is in the middle of a field of tulips.

There is an ancient Indian word 'Dharma' which has two meanings. The first is 'Your nature, your true real essential nature'. The second is 'your purpose in life'. To me the two are inseparable. I believe the word literally translates as Truth.

Whatever we are at our most fundamental level, at our most base, whether that be something metaphysical, or something like DNA,I belive that to discover or remember it is out 'raison d'etre. To live in accord, harmony with our deepest slaves in the meaning of success.

Its been said that when we dies and return to our'creator', we will never be asked why we didn't cure the common cold, why we never made a billion pounds or anything else along that line BUT simply be asked, " Why didn't you just BE YOURSELF?"

Simon Heighwaya