What is the Self?
“You never were
or could be
separate from
the Self.”
This morning, following a period of silent meditation, I moved to draw in my journal. While the meditation would externally appear “silent",” internally my mind was filled with ideas, and I wanted to use my journal a medium for visually representing this experience (as I often do). I’ve included the journal entry below in which the circle is the open pure space of Now and the arrows are the explosion of thoughts bursting from this space. As I looked at the simple drawing, it appeared like a sun with rays of light shooting in all directions, and I was inspired to write a sort of poem based on this vision. And here I am sharing it with you.
Running From Your Self
—
We are rays of sunlight
attempting to escape the Sun.
Obviously, we are the Sun…
and the rays.
I can only look back at the Sun
in glimpses,
but it is Me.
My thoughts,
and my self,
are like
rays of sunlight,
different
only in appearance
from the Sun itself.
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