IT'S OK TO BE YOU (BELIEVE IN YOUR UNIQUE MISSION)

Attempting to replace your life with someone else’s only gives rise to suffering. When you fall into that trap, remember that the right person should be given the right job. Also remember that there is a job somewhere that is appropriate to your abilities. By carrying out that job earnestly, your life will also be fulfilled, and it will also lead to helping others live a happy life.

Humans are like the tools of a carpenter. They perform best work when each tool is used for the right job. Like the tools of the carpenter, all of us have different roles. Ask yourself what kind of role you have in this lifetime. Then, you will begin to see your mission in this life. Find your calling and within it, make yourself excel in a way which helps you accomplish your mission. Remember, do not try to replace your life with anyone else’s.

Everyone has a group of six brother souls or sister souls who take turns being born into this world for the opportunity to accumulate experiences in life. After a person returns to the other world, all the experiences he or she had on earth are shared with all the members of the group. They are like the five fingers on the palm of a hand. Although they are individually different in shape, they are all parts of the same hand. The core spirit, or the leader of the group, could be compared to the palm and the brother or sister souls are like the short but wide thumb, the long middle finger, the cute pinky finger, and so on. The group of all of these soul siblings, as a whole, is an accumulation of experiences. Much like the way a hand uses all of its fingers to grasp objects, each soul takes turns repeating the cycles of the soul’s reincarnation to gain different kinds of life experiences.

There are many differences between people, including gender, age, intelligence, and height; some people are introverted while others are extroverted, and all people are good at different types of jobs. Everyone has a single unique personality.

If you accept others as who they are, you should also accept yourself as who you are. God forgives all people and says, “It is okay to be you. You don’t have to become someone you are not. Be who you are, the person who is called by your name.” That means God has accepted and approved of having you go through soul-training in this life based on who you are, so you are allowed to live your life in your own way. Live the best that you can, with what has been provided to you.

From "I'm Fine Spirit" by Ryuho Okawa