Paying Dues
It is held, all that is necessary for one to achieve in any area, is to allow the particular area to flow out of the Divinity within. The social consciousness says otherwise. It says one must learn skills; one must study for long years; one must work and pay dues in order to achieve. We applaud talent; but dare the talented to step out of the shower and display that talent without years of hard practice. We would call that person a freak, an aberration and proceed to mistrust the talent. But i f she came to prominence after many showers and much practicing in obscure places and quite a bit of suffering; then we would say “what a talented person, and she did not rely on talent alone, but earned the right to be admired.” What utter nonsense. Yet we do it every day. That is another pocket of false belief we must erase from the social consciousness if humanity is to be truly free. We must be willing to allow our innate abilities to surface; give ourselves permission to use th...