"Only when I gave
my fame to the Hazel shade
did the true song come."
___ Paul Matthews - "The Hazel Shade"
Finding our true song is about relinquishing the burden of ego and the false choruses that it sings. Self-importance causes us to dance to strange tunes that our feet find unnatural. When we act out of self-importance, we trip ourselves up, make Freudian slips, inadvertently revealing to ourselves and others how far we are from our soul's circuit.
The false songs that we sing out of tune with our soul; they are merely the responses we have adopted from others, not utterances from our own deep core. Our uncertainty and lack of conviction echo in them. The solution to these false songs is to forget ourselves and concentrate upon what we are doing, refusing to engage with fear and self-disclosure. It is not that we should ignore ourselves, but rather that we should attempt to step out of own way. The Irish poet W. B. Yeats noticed this for himself: he discovered that whenever he went out of his way to create something purposefully beautiful, he sabotaged his poem.
The same is true of our own deep song, which is forever singing its beautiful melody beyond the reach of our ears. When we act sincerely, when we speak from the heart, when our passion is engaged, the true song is heard in all its glory.
"Meditate upon who you truly are - not upon what you have achieved, nor upon your background and antecedents, nor upon your social status or reputation. Where is your true self allowed to express itself in your life? If you do not like what you find, do not suppress your realizations; invite your true self to sing its own song and help the false persona step out of the way."
[From: "The Celtic Spirit" by Caitlin Matthews]
Lovly post but would love to see you acknowledge the work of the illustrator.
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