Knowing Yourself.....in earnest

[flofrog]

 
 https://llresearch.org/transcripts/issue..._1106.aspx

Within the deep illusion of Earth it is not necessary to examine who one is because one is what one appears to be. The people about you take in your physical looks, your age, your sexuality, your station in life and other things about you—how you move, how you speak—and they assume various things about you which, taken on average, is close enough to the reality of who you appear to be. And the true self that lies within can remain undiscovered. This is not the self with which one needs to be familiar. This is not the self whose nature you need to know in doing metaphysical work.

This is just the beginning of this long and really interesting transcript.

When I first read it some weeks ago, I had this thought that it seems often we’ll have encounters with apparent strangers where precisely we do go suddenly, nearly immediately,  beyond the appearance of physical look,  age,  sexuality, station in life and where you say to yourself, I know this one, I know the essence of this one, this one is a close one, we are the same planet, it’s a blissful feeling of recognition.