When I read the following post from another forum, I found I just had to share it with this team of loving people. It has a strong message that we sometimes loose sight of. Enjoy!
""You know... YOU are so awesome. I don't care who you are. I already know you're awesome. OK... I guess that sounds fluffy... so let me back up...
I have this friend... Shelia. Shelia, me and this other core of good friends, all hang around and are into "spirit stuff". Several of our group have very academia type paths they have taken...including Shelia with her Phd from an Ivy league school.
OK... the good stuff.... Sheila often complains, and somehow feels less then, and moreover left out, because she doesn't, "have all the cool spiritual experiences that the rest of the group has".
I first started hearing about this a year or so ago... and I disbeleivingly kinda laughed it off. This was because I had been at the time thinking to myself how in many ways, I felt Shelia was really doing what was REALLY useful on the spiritual path.
See, I had placed great value on what I found to be an amazing talent of hers: Shelia could create certain kinds of spiritual/ physical Space for people, that I was just facinated by. Common langauge: She was so non judgemental, welcoming, allowing, slow to criticize etc., that people felt safe. She could effortlessly give people space to be who they were (w/o herself getting trampled). She could find bridge space and conversation for shy introverted christian bookworms to roll right out there with your fluffiest New Age Space case hippies and EVERYONE felt loved. She could find common ground for such a diverse group of people that whiether they liked the conversation topics or not... they ALWAYS felt comfortable. Gatherings at her place always felt like you were home, like you had been expected... like you were such a contribution to the overall flow of things etc. And, she wasn't controlling, not in the least. That was the magic.... how she could do all of this so easily... so MASTERfully... that you didn't even feel the WORK of it. And she didn't like everybody... or rather let me say, there were some whose company she enjoyed more, but if you were in her home... she found the best in you and what was common and focused on that. I just loved it! I found it so facinating I started really quietly studying how she did it. I considered it such a valuable skill. My actual thought was, "Wow, now this is kinda like what you read about people feeling when they hang around w/ acended Masters." That accepting space.
So my shock when she was feeling completely inept, unworthy and downright useless as to her place in the group because she did not "do the cool spiritual stuff" as much.
I guess it just hurt, cause she couldn't see herself as neat as I did and I couldn't do anything about it.
All I can do is work with me. I try to remember to always look for each person's Master Talents and see if their intention of use is the classic STS or STO. I think the trick is not to expect the Master Talents that a person is currently manifesting to always be the flashy stuff that takes your breathe away. Nothing wrong with flashy... they make it cool and fun and sometimes serve to help convey a message more clearly. (but you try random flashy w/ no story behind it and see how long it holds your interest.)
I feel like It is just value placement and priority: if you have an interest in developing your pychic gifts, people who do that seem "cool" maybe. Conversely, if you have a current interest in say, improving your relationships ability....unless the "great intuitive" is gonna hang around with you and help you practice that, all that supposedly fascinating synchronisity and magic going on in their life ain't gonna mean so much to you.
The grass is always greener on the other side..? No!... apparently, it is greener anywhere you think you aren't! And, man, if there isn't a surer path straight to unhappiness, I don't know what is.
I guess (no, I know) I'm an optimist... everybody's gonna get to go on every ride they want to at the time when it happens. "We are neither inferior nor superior to anyone" (Eckert Tolle) and resovling that paradox brings peace.
Dedicated to the "Shelia" in us and everywhere.... WE.... ARE.... AWESOME!
peace and love""
I, being from the loud and brash and emphatic camp, have always appreciated the quiet "Shelia's" because they are enchanting reminders to go quiet and take advantage of the opportunity to hear some initially seemingly mundane calm thing being said, but blossoms later into some amazing gift if I was paying close enough attention between my bouts of demonstrative brashness, LOL.
And another thing - those silent types, the moment they try to sell that notion of not being very meaningful because they are not as brazenly enthusiastic with their particular calm and quiet gate-to-ascension gift, I usually let them have it right between the eyes, straight into the third eye chakra frontal lobe, with my inspired description of what their priceless enchanting gift means to me, and make them own it!!!!!!!
any and all pseudo humble ego ruse is mockery of said gift, even when it is coming from the quiet gentle type! Never underestimate the creativity of the human ego....
Love/Light, Chris