Are you living your truth?  Is it based on your belief, in the deepest part of your heart?  It is that thing you want to be, to do and have about which you rarely speak to anyone.  It is that sacred place in your spirit that lets you know no matter what that you are really okay.  Are you living your truth?  Are you doing what brings you peace and joy?  Are you smiling to yourself in the face of adversity.  Are you beautiful and strong?  Powerful and humble?  Understanding and merciful?  Intelligent and faithful?  Protected and supplicant?  Is your truth plainly clear and simplistic?  Does it bring you the understanding that all is well within?  Are you living your truth all day, every day, when others tell you it is impossible, impractical, irrelevant and dumb?  If not, are you really living?

  --  Iyanla Vanzant (paraphrased)