A friend of mine and I have an expression. "Share your shiny!" This expression came from a conversation we had about how we all shine underneath the layers of "stuff". The "stuff" is all our fears, judgments, past perceptions and hurts. The "stuff" creates layers which cover the "shiny".
In my experience, the layers covering the shiny, radiance underneath is a way to protect. To guard our "shiny" and only show it so some people. To the people we think have earned our trust.
When I let go of the layers, the protection and the guarding I realize that it doesn't take other people to be worthy of my "shiny", it takes me feeling worthy enough to share it with everyone. It takes me being willing to possibly stand out. To attract attention. To invite other people to shine. Just like an abalone shell, it's so amazing to find the beautiful colors underneath all the layers of shell. And yet, it takes stripping away the outer layers to see the "shiny" under it all.
Share your shiny! Invite those around you to shine! It's so much fun to be around people who shine! It reminds me to shine! And it's an amazing experience to feel myself shine! To experience the world through that radiance!
copyright Yvonne Falk 2010
Are you talking about old winsdom that you are just now being exposed to, or is this something new. Wisdom is liquid and also a air like, that is everywhere.
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