If you know your 'I', then you know the others.
Because they came out of 'I'.
So, I like to start at fundamental things.
If we understand the fundamental things, then all the other things will fall into place.
If your foundation is not good, then your building will be suspect.
And of all foundations the 'I'-foundation is the most important!
We all say 'I', but what do we understood, or feel or take 'I' to be?
'I' and 'being', they are synonymous somehow.
Even the feeling 'I Am': is there anyone who can get through a day without feeling 'I Am?'
Everyone refers to himself as 'I'. 'I' is our natural name.
And yet nobody gave it to you!
'I' is our natural name and yet nobody gave it to you.
No parent have named their child ... You shall be called 'I'.
Then the child grow up and and the parents say: "This child will be called 'John.'
And the child seems to grow up and says: 'I' am 'John.'
But 'I' is not 'John!'
We need to find what 'I' is!
If some word is important, it must be 'I'!
The 'I'-word must be the most important!
Because other words cannot happen until the 'I'-word is there!
Because every time you speak something, you say: 'I' think this thing.
... or 'I' want, 'I' choose, 'I' remember, 'I' used to do this.
'I' want to do, 'I', 'I', 'I', ...
Behind every utterance, every statement, even behind each thought: 'I' think.
Remember - 'I' remember.
Even 'I' breathe. Have you ever seen an 'I' breathing?
It will claim even that. The breathing is happening by itself.
When you are in deep sleep breathing is going on. Nobody says: 'I' breathe.
But the 'I' takes even this. 'I' breathe.
So, it's important
as you will come to see more and more... If you want to go more into this subject
of your own reality
you'll will have to find out what 'I' is!
Because to find out what everything else in life is
without finding out who the 'I' who finds them out is
... then your knowledge is not reliable
if you don't know the knower of knowledge
Everything comes after. First the 'I' must arise!
If you wake up this morning at 7 o'clock...
At 6:59:59 where were you?!
What could you discuss?
What was your name?
7 o'clock. Something comes into being!
A natural sense of 'I am here.'
Even without words.
It is the first to arise.
You cannot perceive the sense of 'you' before the sense of 'I'.
First the sense of 'I' must be there!
This knowledge, this consciousness 'I Am' must be there first.
Then the sense of 'you', or 'other', or 'world' can come.
You can say it ('I Am') is the first-born of consciousness ... The feeling 'I Am'.
It is referred to as the Godly sense or the Godly principle inside each form
It announces itself inside the body as the sense 'I Am'.
It knows it is!
But it doesn't belong to anybody
nor does anything belong to it!