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Inner Space

If you want to have the experience of your Inner Space first you need to understand – Your Thoughts Are Not Who You Are

When you as a human being experience thoughts in your mind, you say to yourself “I think this” or “I am that” as if there is an “I” that is responsible for your thoughts. However, you do not say “I beat my heart.” Your heart beats automatically; your body does all the work. The same is true of your thoughts. Your thoughts come to you automatically and your human form conjures those thoughts.

We tend to create a narrative of ourselves through our thoughts, our past, our successes, and failures. However, your thoughts are not who you are at your core. There is a deeper existence within you that manifests when you start to observe your interpretation of your own thoughts and recognize that they have nothing to do with you as a human BEING in this universe.

Many poets and sages throughout the ages have observed that true happiness — I call it the joy of Being — is found in simple, seemingly unremarkable things. Most people, in their restless search for something significant to happen to them, continuously miss the insignificant, which may not be insignificant at all. The philosopher Nietzsche, in a rare moment of deep stillness, wrote, “For happiness, how little suffices for happiness! . . . the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard’s rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance — little maketh up the best happiness. Be still.” Why is it the “least thing” that makes up “the best happiness”? Because true happiness is not caused by the thing or event, although this is how it first appears. The thing or event is so subtle, so unobtrusive, that it takes up only a small part of your consciousness—and the rest is inner space, consciousness itself unobstructed by form.

Inner space consciousness and who you are in your essence are one and the same. In other words, the form of little things leaves room for inner space. And it is from inner space, the unconditioned consciousness itself, that true happiness, the joy of Being, emanates. To be aware of little, quiet things, however, you need to be quiet inside. A high degree of alertness is required. Be still. Look. Listen. Be present.

Here is another way of finding inner space: Become conscious of being conscious. Say or think “I Am” and add nothing to it. Be aware of the stillness that follows the I Am. Sense your presence, the naked, unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes. It is the spacious womb of all creation, all form.

Bring Presence into Whatever You Do.

What you think the world should give you to make you happy is really something that is already in you and you have to allow it to flow to the world and then that same quality comes back to you.