Finding Yourself!
The great masters tell us that the most important question in the world is:
"Who am I?" Or rather: "What is 'I'?" What is this thing I call "I"? What is this thing I call self?
You mean you understood everything else in the world and you didn't understand this?
You mean you understood astronomy and black holes and quasars and you picked up computer science, and you don't know who you are?
My, you are still asleep. You are a sleeping scientist.
You mean you understood what Jesus Christ is and you don't know who you are? How do you know that you have understood Jesus Christ?
Who is the person doing the understanding? Find that out first. That's the foundation of everything, isn't it?
It's because we haven't understood this that we've got all these stupid religious people involved in all these stupid religious wars - Muslims fighting against Jews, Protestants fighting Catholics, and all the rest of that rubbish. They don't know who they are, because if they did, there wouldn't be wars.
Like the little girl who says to a little boy, "Are you a Presbyterian?" And he says, "No, we belong to another abomination!"
Awareness
Anthony de Mello
