Being Your True Potential
In the country of Pazichstanh an artist has a special talent sought after by all within the surrounding countryside. His ability is to mold clay into head and shoulder busts of the living. So perfect is his craft, so subtle is his power, it is said he can glimpse into the inner parts of his subject and sculpt an image of what the person has the ability to become.
People flock to him as if to a fortune teller, giving the best news any can imagine; for who would not want to catch a glimpse of their best possible future.
Gazing into a person’s heart and soul, his fingers fly over the softened clay as if with a life of their own. The artist’s eyes are closed tight, focusing inward, searching the depths, fingers moving in response to what he sees within. The subject waits breathlessly, watching, catching glimpses, and marveling at what the bust reveals of themselves, who they are, and what they can yet become.
And when he’s finished the subject falls at the artisan’s feet, tears streaming in thanks for the revelation worth more to them than any other possession. He has given them a gift of Being; for he has shown them who they can be if they will work towards it. They have captured an image of their true potential.
Many a person, after receiving their bust, has gone on to strive, work, toil, and mold themselves into the image they have seen in the clay. And in the Being are happy.
Of course the above story is fictional, but is it really? There really is someone who has a glimpse, an image, an idea of what your real potential is. If you could confer with that person, catch that glimpse, see that image, would it have an impact on what you become?
That person is you. Deep down, you have that image, that picture, that knowledge that you can be better than you are, that there is something more to you than what you have allowed to surface. And if it’s there, what would be the result if you set it free, allowed it air, gave it life?
If you did, who would you become? Would you be different than you are now? Would you be a lot different, or just a little? Would you wear the same clothes, go to the same places for lunch, talk the same way? Why? Why not?
