Savour Your Uniqueness

Each one of us is unique. No one laughs and cries the way you do and no one walks, talks and works the way you do. We are all eminently qualified — to do the work just we can do in this world and to live the life only we can live in this world. Samuel Silver said, “Your thumb is a reminder that you are not just one more animated toy stamped out by a factory, but an individual, capable of doing and saying things differently from anyone else, capable of making a unique contribution, large or small, in your world, your home.” The essence of spiritual life is to just be. When we are what we are meant to be, we reveal what we are by what we stand for and what we stand against. When our horizons widen, we see our personal ups and downs, desires, cravings and efforts in scale: small and transitory spiritual facts, within a vast abiding spiritual world and lit by a steady spiritual light. Our uniqueness makes us aware of our goals and enables us to pursue them single-mindedly. Our journey in life is not meant to be left to chance, else, we would never get to our destination. There is a difference between the archer who aims deliberately and hits the target and one who keeps shooting arrows without direction. Don’t bury your uniqueness to become one unidentifiable mass, losing your individuality and uniqueness. Paradoxically, real unity is not built on a lack of individuality and uniqueness. Real unity grows when we can celebrate our differences and pursue and build on our own God-given uniqueness and gift