We've often heard...

of how rigidity kills. Rigidity is not only about being inflexible in our thinking. Rigidity can also express itself in the way we treat ourselves - if we are harsh and severe with ourselves, that is also rigidity....and this will maim and eventually kill us. While a certain amount of austerity - as opposed to ostentation - is charming, a relentless pursuit of austerity will gradually ossify our minds and distort us...

I discovered the amazing Shel Silverstein this morning. The poster below, is one that has been created from a saying of his in 'Where the Sidewalk Ends'.

It set me thinking...

In our daily living, often becoming rigid in our habits of housekeeping and working, and even in our grocery shopping, I realized that the predominant color of our lives, after a bit, becomes a dull grey. If we don't pay attention to ourselves, this grey-ness seeps into every nook and cranny of our soul and the whole of us becomes greyer...and relentlessly greyer...

PAUSE

We need to look at all the colors inside of ourself, for we all have colors inside us. The colors that we have tried to suppress, the colors that we have denied as being inside us, the colors that we dream about for ourselves....the colors that we know we have but which the world doesn't know we have....

and slowly let these colors come through...