Greatness

To be great at anything, you must be great at the basics. Want to dance? Know the very basic footwork and the rhythms. Want to cook? Know the very basics of tastes and textures. Want to build? Know the basics of measurements and materials. Not just intellectually know, live and feel and experience those qualities. They must become you and you must become them.

Same goes for life. Want to be great at life? Know the basics of that and yet... There is no university or a class to take. Life is lived without understanding the very fundamentals. The very core of what makes the world and people go round. The school of life is nowhere to be found. One is thrown into the wild with no grasp or connection to that which is most important: the simple truths that can guide one to a life of beauty and awareness, of joy and its full expression. Of transformation and liberation. 

In the meantime, we complicate, defend, destroy, and block. We must learn to see right through to the core and strip away all that is fluff. We must become great within ourselves and live a life of greatness, also, within ourselves.