All Your Faces

Category: Personal Development for Adults

Who are you? You are each and every one. Many faces, yet one person. One being carrying every experience and every face.

Who are you? More than a name and surname, more than a figure, a being shaped by views, feelings, desires, and experience.

You are someone’s mother, sister, colleague, manager, daughter. To a passerby you are a fleeting silhouette. To others you are a friend, a spouse, a demanding client, a serious soul, a playful spirit, a stranger, a worried heart, a calm presence, a gentle touch, a sensual presence, an authoritative voice, a creative mind, someone who loves strawberry gelato, bright flowers, the sun, the scent of the sea. Look at who you are and how many roles you hold in life in this very moment. There are astonishingly many.

You define yourself in relation to others. You are a friend to someone, yet not at once a spouse. You are a father or a mother, and at the same time you are someone’s child. So many faces, so many roles, yet truly one person. You keep taking on new faces whenever you enter a new relationship with someone or something. Perhaps you have never taken to the skies, and then one day you glide beneath a paraglider. You are no longer a person unfamiliar with flight. You have tasted flight and you hold yet another face, still the same you and also renewed.

Who are you? You are each and every one. Many faces, yet one person. One being with every experience and every face. The more faces you come to know, the better you come to know life and yourself. Through every new experience you discover who you are.

Observe yourself in relation to the world and keep discovering who you are. When fear appears, accept it. Notice what you truly fear. What can you lose? Turn that situation into an experience that helps you release fear. If you are afraid of something and keep running from it, fear grows. When you steady yourself, meet fear eye to eye, and step forward so that you move through it, fear softens. You become free and courageous. Fear is an invitation to grow. When you pass through fear and transform it, love appears.

Who are you? Which of your faces is afraid? In relation to whom or to what does fear arise? When does the knot form? Are you afraid of your superior? Trust that behind the face of fear stands the one who does not fear the superior. It is up to you who you are and how you see yourself in relation to others.

In which role is the real you? The spontaneous, joyful, free you? How does that self appear? What does that self do? How does that self communicate? What does that self desire? What do you strive for? What inspires that self?

Remember how many physical forms you have moved through. From the tiny baby in diapers to this moment. Every tissue has changed, perhaps your hair color, your style of dress, your attitudes, desires, thoughts, yet you remain the one and same person.

Why all this? Why all these faces? Why so many roles?

How would you discover who you are if you kept repeating the same experience? For example, you wake in the morning, cook lunch, tidy up, then go to sleep. You do nothing else and meet no one new. How could you learn what excites you, what frightens you, what delights you if you exist only in relation to lunch, tidying, and sleep? The magic is to pass through a wide range of experiences so that you discover who you are. You try beetroot gelato and realize that you do not want that experience again. Was it a bad experience? No. Perhaps the gelato was not to your taste, yet it was simply an experience. Next time you will try another flavor, then a third, until you arrive at the one that is a perfect fit for you.

Life is creative, and you will never taste every gelato in the world. There will always be a new flavor and a fresh challenge.

Flavors are endless, and so are experiences. It is our choice how bravely and trustingly we explore new tastes, discover new faces, and how we travel through our life’s voyage.

Set sail into discovery. Explore your many faces, and know that behind them all stands the ONE who is everything.