You Are Meant to Be You

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Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:03

As I sit here, in this very deep state of presence, full state of presence, it's like my entire, deep in the center of all life, as if the spirit of God of the way has poured into me. I keep drawing angels, which is not something I've done before. Really. They keep showing up, so I pay attention to what this is. I've been writing all morning on this beautiful first day of 2025. As I wrote this morning, the first day of the new Gregorian year, for we know there are many points at which the new year begins the Chinese or Tibetan new year, the galactic new year, which I don't even know what that is, but it keeps showing up, which I don't even know what that is, but it keeps showing up. All of these things, these calendars, these points of reference, they're simply symbols, as I have been busy writing, meeting myself in the moment, the moment that keeps unfolding with such clarity and beauty, and I realize that it's almost impossible just to hold all of me inside of me. The only way to show up is to show up to the one next thing, but to hold the vision. So this is a balance, this lovely pendulum swinging between emptiness and everything, the emptiness of me and the everything of me, all the points of reference, all the points of light. There's so much stability and now there's overflow. The map gets clearer and clearer. The reconfiguration, the new calibration, where things go, knowing my own mind, my own way, my own language, sensing that what feels true to me as to the next steps. Oh God, it's so full and so joyful and light. I was not meant to be anyone else. I was born to be versatile and fast and spacious and emotional. I was born to be all of these things. I was born to learn how to work with them, to help myself and to offer whatever that is to others if it helps them. All the times I've spent resisting all of these little parts, trying desperately to figure them out how can I be this and this and this and this and that and that thing over there, and none of it add up to something simple that I can move forward. I wasn't born to be simple and yet in simplicity in the heart, this is where the way is. This is a life of such fullness and so much of it spent in resistance. So let me do my best today to walk steadily forward, erratically forward, wildly forward, to sit in stillness and let the future come to me. This is the power of presence.

Speaker 1: 6:18

My name is Andrea Mai and you can connect with me by subscribing to this podcast. You can also check out Andrea Mai Writes on Substack. That's AndreaMaiWritesSubstackcom. That's the best place right now to find me. I hope you celebrate, celebrate. Celebrate the beauty of who you are, the beauty of who you are in all your wildness and vulnerability and openness and spaciousness and everything else that you are. Catch you next time, take care.