Nothing would seem easier than to be yourself, but people complain endlessly about how hard it is. when u are litlle ur parent's won't let you be yourself. They have different ideas about eating the whole chocolate cake or drawing on the walls with the crayons. Later on teachers keep you from being yourself. Then teen age peer pressure takes over, and finally, once society has imposed its demands, freedom is more restricted still. Alone on a desert island u might be able to be urself, only guilt and shame would pursue you even there. The inheritance of repression is inescapable.
The whole problem is one of boundaries and resistance. Some one imposes a limit on u, and u resist it in order to break free. Thus "being myself" becomes a relative thing. Unless someone tells me what i can't do, i have nothing to push against.To have a hundred wives and a feast on the table is'nt being yourself, it is being your desires.
Experience can be shaped to bring great inspiration. But in the end this is'nt enough. Every divine image remains an image; every vision tempts us to hold on to it. To be really free, there is no option except to be urself. You are the living centre around which every event happens, yet no event is so important that you willingly give yourself upto it. By being yourself you open the door to what is, the never- ending play of cosmic intelligence curving back to know itself again and again. In this way life remains fresh and fulfills its need to renew itself at every moment.
The potential of nature around us, of discovered and undiscovered elements in our world, is too great for us to shrink from probing into some of her mysteries and what they may tell us. Prepare yourself then for a true odyssey, not only one on the Web, but one of the Earth around us.