Are You Really “You”

You may be surprised, if you think about yourself, how much is superimposed onto the real you.

If I may be a little more to-the-point, you may find that many parts of your personality are un-real. They are not part of you; they influence your attitude and people around you every day. The good news is you have a real and fundamental you.

The hardest thing to achieve is to be “just yourself” you will find the more you inquire and see for yourself, those parts of you that are not real will drop away.

Many people spend life trying to escape from what “is” and find ways to superimpose layers of “what they are not” into their life.

You may say, what is wrong with that, it only becomes a problem, when we find that our personality is “caught-out” by events or experiences from the real world, we are brought down to earth with a huge bump.

Many people live life as if in a bubble, as if they are not aware at all of the world around. I am not criticising; I am just revealing the reality. In fact, it is counterproductive to pre-judge in a negative way.

Most of modern and even past problems with human experience are related, the division between what is, and what most definably is not.

The reality of what is I am afraid causes this phenomena.

Mostly we are confused about what we really want out of life, we are torn and thrown off balance by physical events and coping with our body and social mobility.

We all want happiness, to love, “be loved” to matter; Give a purpose to our existence, and for some brief moments “we find it” However, it is transient and elusive, like the proverbial butterfly; Tantalising us with its sometimes cruel and elusive nectar of oneness. The strangest thing of all is we are not aware when we are happy, awareness ceases to exist, and there lies the clue.

We all have met people that are pretending to be something they are not, or brag continuously, sometimes we even encourage them to a degree. This stems from insecurity and shows a deep lack of confidence; it is how they deal with an emotion. Weightlifters and people that try and have oversized muscles are in the same league. We have to careful to make the distinction between keeping fit and our motives. We are all guilty of building a persona that we think helps us attain great stability or a higher social standing. The name we give it is ego.

 All people, and I mean no matter what colour or race, have a higher self, a super mind, it takes time and effort to discover it, unless events in your life bring it to the fore. When you were a child you were much closer to your super mind, the creative mind, a child is closer to it because they are un-fettered they lack the conditioning that dulls it.

The outward physical world has caught the majority of the human race in a huge quandary, in a one sided game. Who can criticise when it is difficult enough to fathom out the physical world, the added problem of an inward world too is difficult. However, believe me when I say that the two are intrinsically-linked- together. One goes “nowhere” without the other.

The problem is many people have identified worldly events as “the whole picture” when emphatically it is not.

Take extreme religious belief and the very idea that killing non-believers are going to bring about a Utopia for those that survive. Can they claim victory over the devil? It is absurd to the very extreme. The very action of raising arms and killing is itself emanating as a negative force and undermining world peace.

They have failed to understand the fundamental link between themselves and the universe.