.. but first, a beloved passage I read again last night from something else entirely:
In a world of role-playing personalities, those few people who don’t project a mind-made image… but function from the deeper core of their Being, those who do not attempt to appear more than they are but are simply themselves, stand out as remarkable and are the only ones who truly makes a difference in this world. They are the bringers of the new consciousness. Whatever they do becomes empowered because it is in alignment with the purpose of the whole. Their influence, however, goes far beyond what they do, far beyond their function. Their mere presence—simple, natural, unassuming—has a transformational effect on whoever they come into contact with.
When you don’t play roles, it means there is no self (ego) in what you do. There is no secondary agenda: protection or strengthening of your self. As a result, your actions have far greater power. You are totally focused on the situation… You don’t try to be anybody in particular. You are most powerful, most effective, when you are completely yourself. But don’t try to be yourself. That’s another role. It’s called “natural, spontaneous me.” As soon as you are trying to be this or that, you are playing a role. “Just be yourself” is good advice, but it can also be misleading. The mind will come in and say, “Let’s see. How can I be myself?” Then, the mind will develop some kind of strategy: “How to be myself.” Another role. “How can I be myself?” is, in fact, the wrong question. It implies you have to do something to be yourself. But how doesn’t apply here because you are yourself already.
Just stop adding unnecessary baggage to who you already are.
“But I don’t know who I am. I don’t know what it means to be myself.”
If you can be absolutely comfortable with not knowing who you are, then what’s left is who you are—the Being behind the human, a field of pure potentiality rather than something that is already defined.
Give up defining yourself—to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as a field of conscious Presence.
Why does the ego play roles? Because of one unexamined assumption, one fundamental error, one unconscious thought. That thought is: I am not enough. Other unconscious thoughts follow: I need to play a role in order to get what I need to be fully myself; I need to get more so that I can be more. But you cannot be more than you are because underneath your physical and psychological form, you are one with Life itself, one with Being. In form, you are and will always be inferior to some, superior to others. In essence, you are neither inferior or superior to anyone. True self-esteem and true humility arise out of that realization. In the eyes of the ego, self-esteem and humility are contradictory. In truth, they are one and the same.
& the actual HD topic :::
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As much as you think you know who you are, you don’t.
You know a minor aspect in that sense of who you are but more than that, it’s not simply the separation of mind and body, but the separation of something else.
If you look at the way strategy and authority is taught, you will see that the authority of the form is in the body. And that the not self rules the mind.
And so this stage is also the beginning of this basic dichotomy in us, that the truth lies within our form,
but our minds are not interested in that. Our minds are interested in anything else BUT that. And so you have this basic division.
Yet, it is the path of wholeness. My first joke about the so-called soulmate, was meet your design crystal, please.
You wanna fall in love with something, fall in love with your shadow. Fall in love with your tunnel. If you love the tunnels as much as you love the roads, everything is gonna be wonderful.
… ACCEPTING your unconscious, is an extraordinary step. It allows you to get to see that there is a chance for wholeness, and the chance for wholeness is in realizing that who you think you are is an illusion.
And that WHO you are can only function as a wholeness of those two aspects operating correctly.