Who are you?
Are you used to answering with a name?
Really? A name? You are a name?
You are an arrangement of symbols and sounds that someone else decided to label you as?
And then you learned to respond to that arrangement of symbols and sounds?
And now you identify with that arrangement of symbols and sounds?
Do you see how funny that is?
If your name was changed tomorrow, would you still exist? Of course.
So are you an occupation? You are something you do in exchange for money?
If you stopped performing your occupation tomorrow, would you still exist? Of course.
You’re an age? Let me ask you this:
How old are you really?
I’m not asking how old your human body is. I’m asking how old you are.
I can be more pointed: Has there ever been a time when you didn’t exist?
Feel the answer.
You might consider that you are a human. Certainly, that’s the physical form you’re occupying at the moment. It’s the apparatus through which your consciousness is experiencing life. It’s easy to recognize your body as who you are.
But again we must remind you, you are aware of your body, and you cannot be that which you are aware of. Even look at the phrase “your body.” There is separation. There is the body, and then there is you. You are the awareness of it.
Look at the word “yourself.” There is the self – the ego – and then there is you. You are the awareness of it.
There is a profound truth here. You are not who you think you are. For that is what you think. And we’ve already established that you are not thought, you are the awareness of thought.
You can experience this truth for yourself.
Who are you in the absence of thought?
Without thinking, are you still there?
How do you know?
Of course, you just Know.
Because there is a deeper truth that a deeper part of you is aware of and that is exactly the part I am speaking to right now.
And the more you disentangle your awareness from thought–the more you occupy the seat of the witness–the more you will be connected with who you really are.
And then you will see clearly that there is you and there is your experience, and thought is just a fleeting, conditioned pattern of phenomena within that experience.
And then you will see clearly that you are Source itself.