Who Am I?

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Comment by mik e evans on March 8, 2012 at 8:42am

nice article Mr. Bell...

http://theserenitypath.net/

Comment by Josiane Dumas on October 22, 2011 at 11:43am

With an open mind and an honnest heart , the Divine Source itself connects with us , I am a witness for that, the day The Divine Source of All connected with me, I felt an impulse that pushed me toward a small plant in a concrete made  plaza, and there I had the impulse to bend over the plant, there was a four leaves clover, the only one , showing me the miracle I was experiencing, the materialisation in this tiny 4 leaves clover of the Divine Source telling me " you searched for me with honnesty and love, here I am for you". Since then nobody can take away my faith , better said....I live in HER consciousness and  Presence......I feel inconditional love and learned how to forgive even my ennemis.....and always search in me for my fautls, for my mistakes, seeing how my ego is strong and how to overcome it so it doesn't get in my way....auto-observing when I act, when I feel, when I speak , making sure I do not hurt people around me, and if I do, as I observe myself, I immediatly correct the mistake in my mind so I do not reproduce it and forgive myself....To understand everything is to forgive everything.... Buddah.....much love and light to you Eric

Comment by Søren Beejo Hansen on October 22, 2011 at 11:25am

Lets call off the search - and then what happens? Well, either it´s a realisation that I´m complete or better that 'I am that'. Or it´s a clear seeing or thought or whatever - a product of the mind of a person. Then it will become an inner conflict: I don´t want to seek anymore, but I just have to take a look at what Adyashanti says. I´m not seeking, it just feels good to be close to him.

What I´m saying is something like: As long as one feels incomplete, lacking, one has to seek something to fill the emptiness inside - even food. I did that. And then what you´re saying sounds good and right but it doesn´t help.

One needs to be with what´s happening this moment - even if it is uncomfortable, trusting that that´s the portal to call off the search.

Comment by Marek Zielinski on April 20, 2010 at 5:18am

The more I silence myself the more I am enlightened by Spirit.
I am One with Divine Source.
In Spirit and Peace Forever
Initiator of www.peace365.org

Comment by laughingRain on April 19, 2010 at 7:53pm

Thank u Eric, what a comprehensive piece, I could hardly add to it, but oh well, here goes! Your summation is to call off the search for what is not lost. Exactly what ACIM says in different words. You cannot be separate from God, but it is possible to ignore things unseen as unreal, or as u said, to live in a state of ignorance is to ignore that which confounds the mind. I never throw anything away, like a new concept but store it for later reference, not everything has to be true or false. It can just be.
how true what u said, to perceive one's self as a seeker is somewhat confining to that definition of yourself as a seeker, how tiresome I suppose, to seek and not find, or to find there's never an end to the finding, to the seeking. Our several glimpses of divine experiences which cause us to know, but not to believe, as knowing is more like inexpressible faith, these experiences is what causes us to wish to communicate with one another about them, because they are good news!

this article reminds me of something important. I see being aware of the divine force as a blinking on and off situation, with the moments in linear time lengthening during the blinking on process, which we can call awakening, as that sounds mighty good to me!
Blinking back off means it's time to take care of physical reality, such as the body, the house, the bills, etc.
I figure to live totally awakened permanently is somewhat impossible to imagine and still be somebody's mom, or play a role such as having a job where you fit into that role.
It would be impossible because we do what we do here to get the paycheck, to keep well, so to have shelter, food, comforts, help others, etc and being in bliss, nirvana, what that state suggests to many is, there is no need to attend to, to get something, as you've already got everything you need and it's an illuminated state of mind, to say, inspired. I will say being awakened is to rise in the morning with a feeling that it's great to be alive, although you can't really put your finger on why this is so.
I'd say living in a state of grace, where you are grateful for everything, to god and fellow man, is close to full enlightenment as we may get while still being in a body to maintain. yet I could be lying! unknowingly.

thus the necessity to blink back off, to experience just being a human, going about it's business of knowing some things, but not really having all the answers immediately available, such as the divine intelligence knows all things, and we get to plug in sometimes.
I come from a school of thought to consider the first question is always who and what we are. The 5 senses we have been given can never tell the whole story efficiently, so we call this life time a limited consciousness expressing, and the experiences you've had to touch divinity once in awhile, those are plugging into the unlimited consciousness. From what I read here, it appears you are fully awakened, but the ironic thing is, if you are fully awakened, you really might not be here that much longer because you are starting to move too fast for the others to be able to understand you, until your frequency rate increases that the human body is not sustainable due to the light energy acting on it.
I really want to be a scientist! next time maybe.

I've had a few of those experiences with divinity, and I'm finding almost everybody I run into these days can express a few encounters with awakening, usually, we speak of an NDE and how blissful it can be while we are there, and how dreadful to have to come back and finish up something.
I cannot see an ending point though, but I can see it only continues spiriling and if it stops for a breather, it again begins ascending further without ever losing it's former status, the "who I am" just adds but never subtracts from itself.
I do believe there have been masters on this earth who had direct contact with God or divine forces, not just a perception, but a direct communication with something that it is a part of, and a two way conversation can happen internally with that.
I'd say these were awakened, but still continuing with their soul plan and not resting in eternal bliss. If you are too blissed out, after all, they might want to do away with the evidence!
so learn to laugh, it's a good releaser of tension.
again, thankx for the piece, it's good to read it and reflect. LR

Comment by Chris Bertison on April 19, 2010 at 5:31pm

I liken awakening to our higher selves being the Genie trapped in a bottle (physical self), and Ego is the cork that has sealed off the bottle. In awakening, the bottle tries over and over again to 'pop it's top' in order to release that which is within.