The Conscious Parent

grow up true to themselves.
If we free ourselves from our ego and simply observe our children’s
development as life spontaneously teases it out of them, they become our
teachers. In other words, living authentically allows us to cease looking
at our children as blank canvasses on which we can project our image of
who they should be, seeing them instead as fellow travelers on the
journey, changing us as much as we are changing them.
The question is, are you willing to give up thinking you “know,” step
down from your egoic pedestal of authority, and allow yourself to learn
from these creatures who are most able to live in a state of egoless
consciousness?
To live authentically instead of in ego is to embrace continuous
evolution, realizing we are always in flux, always a work in progress.
Authenticity requires us to access that deep, silent aspect of our being
that is nevertheless audible beneath the whirring din of whatever may be
happening in our life. While supported and guided by the external
environment, this authentic state of being doesn’t need the external
environment in order to survive. Rather, it requires a synchronicity with
our mind and a moment-by-moment connection with our body.
When we live authentically, we may still have the relationship, house,
car, and other luxuries that ego is drawn to (the things Samuel’s father so
wanted him to have), but the purpose for which these things exist is
completely different. If our relationship, house, job, car, and other
externals are what we rely on to make us happy, we are enslaved to ego.
If they exist so we may serve others through fulfilling our purpose, they
further our commitment to our essential being.