Multiple Selves & the Undivided Life

“I contradict myself? Very well, I contradict myself. I am vast. I contain multitudes.”  Walt Whitman

Has it ever felt as if you were more than simply the one stable mind piloting your body through the world? Perhaps you feel like you are somehow different at work or at play, at home or at church, with one group of people as opposed to another group. Perhaps we have often wondered what to make of fellow travelers who claim to carry more than one internal persona. Perhaps we have felt such a way ourselves at one time or another. We are often made to believe, understandably perhaps, that stable minds are entirely singular affairs; one pure and undivided self.

Yet the undivided life this is not, for such a perspective dishonors and dismisses the multitudes we all contain, the inner plurality of occasionally conflicting thoughts, feelings, hopes, and fears that may occupy a single life. When we try to be just one thing, we turn the wild yard of the soul into an emaciated, under watered lawn.

This Sunday, let us consider this idea: the multiplicity of the self, letting the whole host of yous integrate in (yes, even that one) as we strive to become more whole ourselves that we may love this world and it’s many people towards more wholeness.

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Topics: Acceptance, Balance