Every person must ask themselves sincerely what are the gifts I contain within me?
The big question which follows is – what is the greatest gift I can give the world?
I want to separate, a complete separation the money connection.
Of course when we live in a human society where money behaves like “blood” towards the orderly conduct of society, money is a means that converts energy for energy. It connects all the gifts that we each have to offer by way of a service.
But in order to bring your gift to fruition your initial thought must never be one of money (or about money).
The money, for whatever it may be, will be a by product of your giving.
Your greatest gift comes from one place only, and it is from love.
What do you love doing?
What is your internal nagging that your soul continues to return you to, and continuously creates for you a need to take part in?
I want you to take part, for a moment in a quick exercise of intuition.
Close your eyes, enter into the quiet and look using your “internal eyes” into the area of your heart.
Inside your heart there is a small gift, all wrapped up with a beautiful ribbon, look at it placed there…
Inside the box is the greatest gift that you can give the world, open the box and peep inside…
What do you see?
What is your gift?
Now do something symbolic, reach out with your imaginary hand towards the gift, take it out and present it humbly to the world with compassion and love.
It’s not that there is something missing in the world and you have to think what is missing and come and fill the missing piece.
It’s more than that…
What does a flower give the world?
Beauty, scent, nectar
And it gives you your gift from its being, its authenticity.
Of course, a flower can be just a flower and a person can be a rainbow of things, but the principle of the giving, the principle of the gift is identical.
Your gift relates to what derives from within your heart naturally, effortlessly.
What derives from your inner flower, the one that comes from you naturally from the root of the person you are.
If you have identified what your gift is then great! I’ll come back to you in a minute…
If you haven’t identified your gift, it doesn’t mean that you don’t have it within you, there isn’t a person without the unique gift of giving.
What does it mean unique?
It doesn’t mean that no one else can give it, it means that no one else can give it the same way you can, and this is your unique way.
This is the reason why there is enough room for everyone, everything which exists carries within it its own gift.
What is needed is to identify the gift that is within each person and in each experience one encounter in their life.
God is just giving, he is the source to giving, and what is giving if not love?
The godly love has hidden in every single thing a gift.
This is why if you do not recognise your gift right now, it’s ok, take all the time you need, but I want you to start focusing on the empty space you see inside your box.
This means that if in your imagination you opened your hearts gift box and realised that it is empty, place a question mark there and return daily to check what’s new in the box. Leave the question mark in the box until the moment you become enlightened, the question mark will turn into the contents of your gift.
And now we will return to the person who found his gift in the imaginary exercise.
What did you discover? Was there one gift or a few?
If you discovered a few gifts and you are a bit confused about what you should focus on, you must find the connecting point that unites all your gifts.
For example, if my gift is writing articles and creating music, what is the common connection?
The connection is in my ability to connect to the power greater than myself from where the creation comes from.
And this ability expresses itself in me through creating in writing and melodies that come from a higher place.
This gift comes out from within, every day naturally. Exactly in the same way that a flower induces its beauty and its scent without too much effort.
So the point of connection of these two gifts is to give inspiration to a connection source higher than what exists in the universe and in each and every man. One word to describe this is inspiration.
An inspiration that connects to a higher source.
What should you do with your gift?
The truth is that you cannot do anything with it; it’s an inner need, an energy that drives to express itself through you at every opportunity. Every person is a surround that contains this gift, this godly gift which it contains within.
The only thing that you can do with this gift is
START TO GIVE IT
And when I say give it, I mean at every quantity at every place and at every opportunity.
In the universe there is nothing big or small, everything is one system.
The prize itself is received on the spot, when the gift is given.
Whoever comes from a place of ego comes with the wrong motives.
If you come from the thought of “I am willing to give this only if I will be famous, rich, successful, will get respect and recognition and similar motives…” there is no point in even starting, you are throwing your gift in the dustbin.
I watched an interview with a former drummer from the band Nirvana, who is now a lead singer of a famous band, and he gave a tip regarding his success.
He said that even when he played in front of 10 people he did it with the same love and enthusiasm as he has today when he performs in front of packed venues.
At the beginning he worked at various jobs in order to make a living, but he never gave up on his gift and did what he does now in his spare time without expectation or certainty that he will reach where he is today.
If you have it, start giving it and it doesn’t matter what forum you are in.
Because this is your greatest gift.
Start giving your gift, focus on this giving and who knows where you’ll go?
Maybe you will influence only a few people, maybe a community, a city or country or maybe the whole world…
The influence will be the by product of the giving of your gift.
If you are disappointed that you have not reached where you have wanted to reach even though you are giving from your gift, it only means that your motives are not pure.
Simply give it; give 100% of what you are able to give and whatever will be, will be… release the gift.
Enjoy the giving; if it comes from the heart it will give you power and a meaning to life.
Your gift will charge your spirit/soul on a daily basis and will fill you with an aroma that will be felt for miles.
Is there a higher objective than this?
Give your gift and you have already won the biggest prize
And it is…
I won’t spoil it for you; I will leave you to find out for yourself what your prize is.
By Alex Ziv
(English by Michal Booker)
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