Such a fabulous question, one that strikes at the very heart of our reality. Our sense of presence, being-ness, our awareness of being aware, is who we are. This sense, this presence can only be experienced when we’re fully here, now, and not lost in the usual self-created maelstrom of thoughts.
Only one thing goes on, Life, God, this. This Truth is liberating. We move, live and have our entire being within this reality, now, today, always. There is no thing else, there is nothing else, but Life, God. Rejoice and ‘be of good cheer’!!
We fret and search for the ‘one’ that will complete us, one without whom we just couldn’t live. Does such a One exist? The one that we search for is the true self that’s deep within us, and the ‘other’. It’s not the manufactured personality that we think we are or the other appears to be. And until we realize this we’re doomed to forever be disappointed in us and in them!
God know us intimately. She knows our needs and our wants. True prayer (and meditation) is nothing but showing up in God’s presence with empty hands while staying still in thought and action.
Beyond thought, any concept, belief or assumption is who I AM. And this true self can only be experienced in the here and now. When I deeply desire for Truth, it has no choice but to become my experience, although I’m unable to run away from it even if I think I can.
My mind is the container within which my entire world dances. It’s up to me whether I dance in joy or whether I whimper along within Life (my mind). What choice will I make this moment? It wouldn’t be a choice at all unless I ruled my own mind, and who but I must rule ‘my’ mind?
We are not our body, or our mind. We are that which experiences everything that appears to be happening to us and around us. We’re the witness which is also the sense of ‘I AMness’, the beingness. Just be that. Think not.