What I read in class this week. An adaptation of a piece of writing by Alexa Torontow on Elephant Journal (http://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/01/remember-who-you-really-are/)
Remember Who You Really Are
You are not what you do. You are not what you don't do.
You are not the job title. You are not a labeled societal sub group.
You are not your personality;
You are not a happy person, a depressed person or an angry person.
You are not a definition of your own qualities.
Who are you?
You are not who your mother says you are.
You are not who your best friend says you are.
You are not your own descriptions of yourself.
Drop all the labels, titles, designations, descriptions, accomplishments and even failures.
Below the labels, beneath the layers, on the most subtle level...
What do you feel?
What is left?
What is there?
Who are you?
You are not defined or confined by the limits of your physical body.
You are not your beating heart, you are not your breath.
You are not your mind, emotions or thoughts.
If you are not all these "things"...
Who are you?
Take a deep breath into every cell of your being. As you exhale release all the labels, all the descriptors, titles, both other and self created. Bask in this space.
Who are you?
Feel your way to it. Don't define it, don't put it into words, but feel it completely.
Do you feel a sense of spaciousness, of limitlessness, of infinite potential?
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Remember your potential, remember your limitless possibility.
Remember that you can not be defined, by self or other.
Remember who you are, where you come from and why you are here.
Remember your knowingness, your awareness, remember your truth.
Who are you?
You are the awareness of all these things.
You are embedded deep within yet extend far beyond.
You are the driving force of all these things.
You are both the wave and the ocean.
You are both the dance and the dancer.
You are both the creator and the container.
You are me as I am you.
Remember Who You Really Are
You are not what you do. You are not what you don't do.
You are not the job title. You are not a labeled societal sub group.
You are not your personality;
You are not a happy person, a depressed person or an angry person.
You are not a definition of your own qualities.
Who are you?
You are not who your mother says you are.
You are not who your best friend says you are.
You are not your own descriptions of yourself.
Drop all the labels, titles, designations, descriptions, accomplishments and even failures.
Below the labels, beneath the layers, on the most subtle level...
What do you feel?
What is left?
What is there?
Who are you?
You are not defined or confined by the limits of your physical body.
You are not your beating heart, you are not your breath.
You are not your mind, emotions or thoughts.
If you are not all these "things"...
Who are you?
Take a deep breath into every cell of your being. As you exhale release all the labels, all the descriptors, titles, both other and self created. Bask in this space.
Who are you?
Feel your way to it. Don't define it, don't put it into words, but feel it completely.
Do you feel a sense of spaciousness, of limitlessness, of infinite potential?
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Remember your potential, remember your limitless possibility.
Remember that you can not be defined, by self or other.
Remember who you are, where you come from and why you are here.
Remember your knowingness, your awareness, remember your truth.
Who are you?
You are the awareness of all these things.
You are embedded deep within yet extend far beyond.
You are the driving force of all these things.
You are both the wave and the ocean.
You are both the dance and the dancer.
You are both the creator and the container.
You are me as I am you.