The Hidden Masterpiece Is Inside Us All

About 10 years ago, I released my first audio CD called Free The Mind. 

Prior to this I had organised an introductory talk and introduced the main theme of Free The Mind that we are already everything we need. 

This can be a difficult idea for many to accept as we are raised to believe we are not enough and we grasp at a future arrival point to become something else. 

This is often to escape the feelings of shame, guilt and inadequacy we have developed within ourselves. 

When Michelangelo was asked how he created a statue, he said he imagined that he had already created the finished masterpiece and recognised his task was to remove the excess marble which encased the perfect masterpiece inside. 

I used a similar analogy that our own masterpiece is hidden behind layers of conditioning from how we were raised, how we were made to feel, our society and the fears we contain. 

Our original is often obscured by other peoples ideas of who we should be and how we should behave. 

Pieces of other peoples opinions and societal beliefs become a weight we walk with in the world and the remembrance of who we really are, become hidden and encased in beliefs and ideas that are not even true. 

Our task is to remove these layers of conditioning to remember who we are and release the burden of conditioning that have been placed upon us. 

We are the marble and the sculptor and at some point we often start to realise that the more we try to become someone else, the more we obscure the original that was right there inside of us all along.