The Truth of I Am
I am you and you am I
This is not a human world.
It is a living world with humans in it.
Everything is born from change.
Everything is changing.
Nothing is ever destroyed, just changed.
Everything goes through cycles.
Waxing and waning, light to dark, left to right, season to season, life to death, love to hate… and back again.
A city is just nature transformed. Nature is never destroyed.
Individuals may be destroyed, but the fabric of their being never is.
What is more real, the ego that can be destroyed and lost forever, or the stuff that made that ego possible to begin with?
Both are real.
The ego and this particular configuration of matter and energy that I call my body, these things are temporary. Like a wave in the ocean, I will wash ashore and cease to exist.
Being is eternal. The matter and energy that make my body and ego possible, these are eternal. They have been here since the beginning and will be here until the end. They are eternally now.
Each breath, each beat of the heart, each chemical reaction in each cell, my body is change. What is my ego holding onto? What does it think is the same? With each breath, I die and am reborn again.
But I must be careful.
Ego is not my enemy. It is my child.
It is a heavy veil that forces me to see only it, only through it.
It directs my attention this way or that. It fears and doubts and feels shame. It seeks pleasure and joy and fulfillment.
It knows it’s going to die.
It knows it’s not as real as the natural stuff from which it was built, yet it is that very same stuff.
Consider the lilies of the field…
They don’t work. They don’t worry. For the season that they have in the sun, they bloom and show the world their beauty. They don’t fear death. They don’t hold back their beauty in protest of their mortality. They know they are just another wave about to crash onto shore, to be followed by another, as they have followed before.
The ocean remains the same, creating wave after wave.
I am not my ego. I am not my body. I am not a wave.
I am being. I am here and now. I am the ocean. I am the universe and everything in it.
When humanity has long since destroyed itself, I will still be here.
God is not with me or in me.
God is me and you and the lilies and the waves and the ocean.
Identify with God, not your ego, and you will never die.
I am you and you am I.
