May 15, 2012
From the moment we are born into this world, we are building a sense of self for ourselves. We are creating an identity for ourselves that we use to define who we are in this world. We don’t really know how to do this, so we make it up as we go. We emulate our parents, our teachers, our ministers, our older siblings, and our friends. We watch those who attract us in life, on television, and in the movies we watch. We interpret this barrage of input we deluge ourselves with and try to apply part or even all of it to ourselves. Is it any wonder we are confused about who we are?
We learn to be systematic about making this concept of self we hold of ourselves. We first make up the concept of self we want to be. We make up our innocence and reinforce all the good things we want to be. We make ourselves loving, kind gentle, generous, and all the other things we want to be. But we also make up a self that lies beneath this fragile concept of self. This other sense of self is meant to defeat and corrupt the self of innocence we have made for our identity. And so the world seems to be against us as our brother or sister seems to be against us, tearing down and apart the fragile innocent concept of self we made up.
This is what we learn in this world – to make up a self that points us away form the True Child of God we really are. As we – on our own – attempt to mold and create this concept of self we so want, we become more and more attached to the mistaken thoughts we made up about who we are. We develop the belief that these mistaken thoughts are real. And so we move down the path toward separation, turning away from what is already within us.
The knowledge of our true Self is already within us. It was there at our creation. It remains at our birth even as we lose sight of it. It remains with us through our journey in this world quietly reminding us of who we really are. It remains within us at our body’s death. And it forever is who we really are. We strive so diligently to make that mistaken self concept that we miss all the beauty of the One Self we are in unity with God and all creation. This One Self has no threats or dangers. It is all powerful and cannot really be challenged, lost, or defeated. It has such tremendous strength in its quiet state of being that nothing can threaten it. Our true Self is in the state of being we already are. Take a moment and let that state of being wash over your mind and awaken to the Self you really are.
Recent Comments