Balance in life looks like an elephant walking down the street. How large an elephant is, and how firm his step. The elephant can carry weight and take it in his stride. Solid and balanced is an elephant.
Imbalance in life is more like a fidgety monkey. A monkey goes fast, it goes high, it jumps, it scatters itself, and little sounds come from it like gasps.
What can shake an elephant? What can make the elephant tremble? On the other hand, what can calm a jumpy monkey? An elephant is born an elephant. A monkey is born a monkey.
You are born a human being. You are neither an elephant nor a monkey, and yet you can develop qualities you desire. That you have choice about. Something falls from the sky, and you can jump. Something can fall from the sky, and you can look up to see what it might be.
An elephant cannot fit in a small place. A monkey can. A monkey can hide.
Please do not think that I am favoring an elephant over a monkey. In delight, I created each. Each has its advantages, and each has its limited range of reach. You, beloveds, on the other hand, have full range. Your choices are infinite. You can have the virtues of any creature on Earth. What virtues do you want? What capabilities do you choose?
This metaphor so far is slanted toward being a stolid elephant. The fact is that you don’t have to choose between being an elephant or a monkey. You can choose the qualities you want. You are unlimited. You can be as loyal as a dog, as self-possessed as a cat, as scampering as a mouse and so on.
You have the whole world to choose from. And you have choices. That is what you are doing all the time. You are making choices.
Now aspire to the choices you want. You are not stuck. You have plenty of room to roam. On this day, you can be what you want to be, and you don’t have to be what you don’t want to be. What do you admire?
I have great love and respect for all the animals that were created on My behalf. With deference to My animal beings, I ask you, have you wanted the slyness of a fox or the fleetness of a deer or the agility of a goat? What qualities do you most desire? This is My point. What qualities do you want, and what on Earth would prevent you from having them?
A lion can lie on the grass and be content to be a lion on a fine sunny day.
You can lie on splendid silk on a sunny day and not be content. In this case, would you be a lion content on the grass or as you are in splendid silk on a sunny day?
If you have ten doors to choose from, what would you want the names of the doors to be? You don’t want them blank. You don’t want to guess. You want to be able to choose, so name the doors of yourself and open them to what you want to find. You are opening yourself to yourself. You are a treasure chest, and you are to fill yourself with what you desire to be. You don’t have to leave it to chance.
Perhaps you have left your chosen qualities to chance. Perhaps you have been lucky, or unlucky. Now I say to choose. How do you want to be known? What do you want to bequeath to the world? What do you want to be most in the world? Be it.