Me or I am?

Words are pointers for our attention to follow...

"Me" is an identity that grew over the years; rooted in physical senses and a developing brain.

"Me" is a personal body-mind "I" assume myself to be.

But ...

I am aware of my self-image.

I am aware of pleasure and pain.

I am aware of suffering.

I am aware of a deep, subtle inner uncomfortableness that stirs up a longing...

... a longing to know the truth, to escape the limitations of the finite me-bubble.

There is an intuition that Life is more than thinking can understand.

Who am I?

Who am I, prior to the arising of the personal story?

Who am I, free of suffering?

Do I see Life as it IS, or do I see everything filtered through the lens of "me", the assumed personal doer I believe myself to be?

"Me" is not only a story in the thinking mind, but also a visceral identity stored as muscle-memory!

Awareness/Consciousness

I AM is the Christian name for God.

God, not a Santa Claus, not an idol, not a mental image, not "another".

God, the cause of the phenomena of life:
"too pure to behold inequity" (Habakkuk 1:13).

Higher than making sense!
Love, Source, Presence.

Life is quite amazing...

Who makes all of "this"?!

Who am I?

What do I really want or need?

Know the truth

"... and the truth will set you free."

If we have a longing for truth we need to risk to leave this world (our me-story) alone for periods, and go back to the one who is aware, the one who cannot say "I am not".

Mr. Jesus is asking the question in Mark, Matthew and Luke:
"Who do you say I am?"

In our initial innocent ignorance we mix up flesh (effect/object) and Spirit (cause/awareness); we take things personally and miss the mark.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein

Who am I?

Not the story I tell myself, but who am I, prior to the arising of mind (thoughts, perceptions, sensations)?

Who am I, without living second-hand.
Not thinking according to "me", but being myself as I am.

Without effortlessly examining the fun-da-mental workings of our thinking mind we might never notice the erroneous belief that creates separation and suffering.

Love is normal

It is priceless to contemplate the nature of reality with friends, brothers, sisters, you and me.

"Truth is simple, but the seeker is complex".

Life is a gift

... not a problem to be solved.

It is humbling to experience that what we longed for all our life IS always here and now.

We overlook I AM – Awareness – in favor of fleeting objects, circumstances, conditions, relationships, substances, ideas, hopes, beliefs.