TRYING TO FIND YOURSELF?

How do you find what you already are? Try looking in a mirror.

If you're having a little trouble finding yourself;
I have three questions you might like to stand in:-

1. What are you looking for?
2. Where are you looking for it?
3. When are you while you're looking for it?

1. While you're trying to find yourself, what are you looking for? Your self is what you've already created. How can the creator not know its creation? Can you really not see yourself, or is it that you don't like what you have seen so far? Are you playing the "This ain't it" game? If you have any preconceived ideas about what you should look like, you may have trouble recognising yourself when you do find it? Do you still really think your self is going to look like you think it should?
2. Where are you looking? I know a whole bunch of people who travel the world looking for something meaningful: I wish them luck, I truly do. But, barring accidents, I don't like their chances. If you want to find something, it's a good plan to look for it where it is. You're not going to find "You" anywhere outside of yourself. The same goes for Meaning. Meaning begins and ends with you -- in your world. If you're waiting on getting the "meaning of life" first, so that you can then find out who you are, you're putting the cart before the horse. Who is doing that looking? Look at the seeker. As you find out who you are, the meaning of living becomes abundantly clear.
3. When are you looking? If you're looking for You anytime other than your here/now present experience, call off the search; you're wasting your time. The same goes for Meaning; trawling through the past may provide you with some explanations, but never Meaning.

We spend our time in the pursuit of Diversion

Instead of a pursuit in a Direction.

If you want to find yourself, you could wait until tomorrow. Then you'll at least find yourself a day older.

We're desperately searching for ourselves

Because we are bored with abundance.

No matter how empty we feel,

Every waking moment is full -- of something......

Plasma TV's, politics, causes to care about, family, work, social networking, drugs, religions, --ologies, travel to other cultures, volunteering for good causes, meditations, pilates, diets, dating lines, clubbing.........

We're full to the back teeth with emptiness,

So we try to cram it with more,

Including self-awareness fads and exercises

To make us feel as it we're accomplishing something.

The thing is,

No matter how much and for how long we gorge ourselves silly on sideshows,

They wear off overnight,

And in the morning, we're back to being ourselves --

Still looking for ourself????

The big mistake we all make at one time or another
Is that we ignore or reject outright
Anything we see that is judged to be "Not-Me".
Big mistake.
Sit with this for a while..................

There is nothing that you are not.
If you can imagine it, that too is what you are.

If there were to be anything that you are NOT,

Then you would not be.

Can you not see the absurdity of looking for our selves

When we are surrounded by mirrors?

Look at that person opposite you;

What we see is a part of what we are...

Start with that.

Any selective closing-down, contracting or rejecting of unappealing reflected glimpses of self

Blinkers down the whole seeing.

The iceberg sinks the whole ship,

Not just steerage class.

Everyone dances to a different drummer,

Sees through a different lens,

Perceives through a different filter,

And selects as a result of different programmes in his bio-computer.

Our constant, relentless pursuit of "happiness",

Our search for "something else",

Is triggered by a feeling of helplessness,

Brought on by a lifetime of rejecting reflections 

That could have led us to further self-discovery.

It's not too late.

While we can still draw conscious breath,

Life will continue to challenge us

To accept the limited vision we already have of self,

And to stretch the field of our imagining

Of what is currently visible, desirable and possible.