It so happens that the word 'authentic' and 'author' come from same etymological root 'augere', meaning to increase, originate or promote.
In her root, etymological and metaphorical, an author explores her own self through her creation: Creating and uncreating until what stands before her as her creation mirrors truly her inner experience.
As her creations flourish and her inner truths gradually unfold, (and oh! light be upon them!); she transforms from an author to authored. Now, her creation authors her. The link between the creator and creativity being commitment to reflect and to be.
In her authenticity, she authors her own self; becoming and unbecoming her true potential. Her creation no longer being separate from her own being, the creator.
In this sense, allowing and welcoming authenticity is allowing and welcoming authorship of self. The cliche of honesty being best policy rings true, but no longer as a judgement over policies as being good or bad. Instead, increasingly so honesty is the best policy as a reflection of who I am and who I am not.
One side-effect of this authentic authoring is the juice that seeps into the embodied (bandi in Urdu) - her 'authority'. Authority, the authentic 'power of' the being, being distinct from the confused habit of 'power over'.
Curiously, the etymological root of word authority is 'auctor', the one who 'augeres'. For authority is the power to author and to author is no different from living authentically.
Life is itself a masterpiece creating itself, over and over again. Majestically and with no apologies. Authenticity is now about life itself; indeed life is authenticity itself.
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| Arunachala-Ramana: the jnana Guru |
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