ID Crisis

I had an identity crisis a while ago, when I realized that the true "I" was seperate from mind and body.


Then I realized that the reason I was having the crisis is because I felt like I had to give myself an identity.


You don't have any identity that you can conceive of, you are much deeper than that. Most people don't even begin to truly understand what the "I" really is until they reach a fairly high level of spiritual understanding.


Just be. Don't try to label yourself or pinpoint what you are. I find that the way that helped me understand what "I" was was defining the "not-I" stuff (thought, body, mind etc), and seeing that as "not-I", and what is left is "I", which is always there, and will always be there, and has always been there, and which you can never seperate from. It is the pure consciousness/life force, the couple of soul (ego/"personality") and spirit (divine spark) combined into one that is perceiving the world through the mind, which is perceiving through the body.


Finding the I isn't about bringing something new to the mix (and it isn't about understanding I either until you reach a stage of advanced spiritual understanding), it's about removing the old, fake identity you always thought was "you" to leave what was always truly there to begin with.



Most people have the biggest problem seperating themselves from the mind. We are attached to the idea of having an identity. We have a hard time being able to just say "I am" and leave it at that. Once you are able to do that, you will have overcome a massive obstacle, and I can honestly say that life becomes so wonderful once you do it.


See the mind and body as a temporary vehicle, a tool for experiencing the world and learning from it, but know that when mind and body fade, the true you will still be there. At this point in time we are all in this world, but we are not truly of this world.

 

LMAO you've made your wife your second lmao SHE'S NOT YOU DAWG!

I bet you were a wild ass cat before you got married

 

I'm the wrong person to ask lol.



I left the identity games behind a long time ago.



I was always the nice guy though, and I still am. That's just a part of me, I've always been very passive, very kind, and almost too selfless....


Needless to say I was never the one to get the girl or to win anything or to be the super popular guy.... but people have always loved me and my life has been filled with love. How can anyone truly dislike a kind, selfless, genuine person (unless they are mean people, in which case they aren't worth gaining the approval of anyways).


I learned that being a nice guy may not bring you the fortune, or the girl, but it will bring you a lot of love. I don't think I've ever met anyone who disliked me, and there are so many people who genuinely love me just because I was always genuinely kind and selfless to them. I went to a private school, there were 3 black guys from the hood there on some sort of minority scholarship (they sure as hell didn't have any money to pay for it)... I was the only white person they ever talked to and we became best friends (I'm as white as you can get) just because I was genuine and nice.... everyone else, all the "cool" and super popular kids, would always try to talk like a black person around them and put on a show to get them to like them. I was just me, the same person I was around everyone else, and to this day we are in our 20's and they still call me up to chill with them.




I've always been a proponent of being the nice guy, but I am a nice guy so that's easy for me to say lol.


But if you are trying to get girls or something, it's a shame but often times being a nice guy doesn't work too well. I've been blessed as of late with not giving a shit about women or sex, but if you do and you are a nice guy, you are in for some hard times lol...

 

You are stillness, you are consiousness.

Your thoughts pretend to be you, but you are the one that observes them.

By accepting the present moment you wont feel: "I do not want to be here"

your past does not define you, what defines you is the now.

 

PureImagination, you have a way of putting several paragraphs into two or three sentences and losing none of the meaning.


I dig it.

 

You guys have to learn you can never take GGrass seriously, he's they guy in the shrink chair pretending to be the guy lying down on the couch and he's doin an excellent job lol

 

when this happens I just whip out my id and study up on who iam..

 

Cool story bro

 

Even when he's not there


Someone else will father him


They are responsible for the structure of the family setting after all


Even when they're not there