Introduction

People often express confusion about Sydney Banks' advice to "just be yourself; be ordinary."  They hear it as if it means "mediocre" or "not realizing your potential."  Actually, the deeper meaning of "ordinary" is "part of the order of things," and that is what we point to with the Principles.  Everyone comes into life with extraordinary gifts: the divine universal energy of Mind powers us to be able to create Thought and become Conscious of our Thoughts as our reality.  To be ordinary is to be comfortable in your understanding of the order of things and the power you have to use these gifts to create the life you want.  That's special, but it's available to all people, so it's ordinary.

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