Release Your Inner Masterpiece

I happened to read an excerpt from a book and found it fascinating. Now I need to get the book. The book entitled "The Michelangelo Method ~ Release Your Inner Masterpiece & Create an Extraordinary Life", is written by Ken Schuman & Ron Paxton.

The authors recount how Michelangelo carved the David from a block of stone so damaged that his contemporaries considered it ruined. Michelangelo considered his job to be chipping away and clearing away what was not needed in order to find what was waiting inside.

The premise of the book seems to be that we each have our own masterpiece to sculpt and create - it is the life that we are meant to live. It's inside waiting for each of us. Our job is to chip away and clear away all that is not needed (fears, beliefs imposed on us by others, self-limiting patterns of thought and behavior) and discover the beauty waiting on the inside. We won't find this on the outside of ourselves - we won't find it in what and who others think we should be. We won't find our own masterpiece in external elements. We can't be who we are meant to be if we are just pretending.