As we grow older and wiser,
we learn to recognize our strengths and weaknesses, and accept them.  We work to align our lives with the gifts we were born with, and cultivate them.  This is a process of finding our place within the world.

As we recognize and organize our strengths,
we discover and expose ourselves as to who we truly are. Our discovered place in the world becomes the opportunity for the expression of our genius: our special set of gift(s) that we can contribute. It lies within all of us.

Some may say that they have little to contribute. 
However, if we contribute small things greatly, true to our purpose, we will exceed those people who do great things poorly.  For the small thing done greatly can be picked up, and magnified by another, and so by another.

True prophets and leaders want us to work towards
an honest recognition and admission of who we are, to see the beauty and strength in each of us, as well as for each of us to see and admit the beauty of others. With this honest perception of the self, the exercise of genius takes one to a higher spiritual plane.

By its nature, genius pushes against the boundaries
of culture, religion, society, environment.  Boundaries serve a purpose and should be honored for what they are:  a context that tests.

A nation or people or society is only as strong
as its individuals are empowered to rise to the level of their individual genius.  When prophets and leaders encourage us to follow them, they are asking us to hear their message and empower our lives. 

As social animals, our tendency is to institutionalize
the message and to build belief systems and rituals.  However, we need to be alert to when our spirituality, and genius, is limited by these constraints and that context.  It may be that what is built up after the prophet and leader is contrary to his or her message.

Genius recognizes that we must honestly recognize
and meet with humility, even confront, those conditions in which we are placed.  We set aside distracting influences and things of our youth since they are not true to who we are.  Should we succumb to weakness, that which we are not, we need to recognize the test for what it is:  either a miscalculation of our power, or an inappropriate response to our environment.  If we go astray, act contrary to our purpose (we are not perfect) we must learn the lesson provided. 

We hold steady, we join hands with those walking with us
on our spiritual paths, learning that the genius of others will also guide us.  Others will be there to lift us up.  With them, our full genius takes us to the place where we can overcome digressions and transgressions.  There is a super genius at work, that of we as people.