Who is you?
June 24, 2024
No, not that you.
Also, not this one.
Consider that whatever the answer is that comes up right now in your mind isn't really you.
When we look at ourselves, most of what we see and hear (yes, mostly, we "hear" a voice talking that we refer to as us) is what we conventionally refer to as ourselves.
When asked the question, "Who are you?" the answer will be a pattern of memory that your brain offers you.
Something like Moritz Lembert, coach, writer, and dancer, did some body work, likes hazelnut ice cream and pho nudle soup.
Most of what we get when looking at who we are is a description of behaviors, most of which we never chose but simply woke up in.
A set of patterns, a set of memories.
I'd like you to consider something today. I'd like you to consider that whatever answer you have to the question, "Who are you?" is not who you really are.
Imagine watching the movie Matrix, in which the main character Neo realizes that he was in a dream in a mind-created fiction, and when he wakes up, he realizes that what he thought the world to be was all created by a computer program.
What a waking-up moment!
Now consider seeing yourself watching the movie, being taken by it, and having your own conversation about it in your mind. While this is going on, someone else watches you while you are watching the movie, thinking about the character and how he wakes up and whatever you thought when you saw Neo waking up.
Consider that was the other movie playing. You watching the movie.
Like in the movie Matrix, someone has written the script for the character Neo, his revelations, the people he meets, and the places he goes to.
You were watching the movie thinking, "What a great director!" walking out of the movie theatre, looking at life and not for a moment seeing yourself as the director of that movie.
"This now, like the reading of this newsletter, this happens in reality, in my life. I am reading this, and I haven't written it."
I get it. We have all the evidence of how little and unknowing we are. But what if we are not? What if this whole game is your creation?
Nothing that ever happened in life happened without you being there.
Even what happened without your being there only happens when you consider that there was soemthing happening without your being there.
Now, we can always make a point and explain how everything goes on without us, yet even making this point happens within the Self.
The Self. Not yourself but Self.
The Self discovering itself, expressing itself through you.
Consider this:
"You are life. You are not you. You are the director and the screen, playing a character called you in a movie called Life, convinced of its own limitations."
And whenever there is a glimmer of your power, you find a way to convince yourself that it is otherwise.
I mean, why would I not be a billionaire if I was the director of the movie?
But have a look again.
When you read what is written here, you can't deny but notice that this isn't really surpising to you.
Because somewhere, this has always been known.
And your life is an expression, not of the voice in your head but of the whole possibility of the Self, playing, creating, and expressing Self.
Your life always had a purpose. And the purpose was exactly what happened and is now happening.
And here is the best part.
You can always choose a new one. You as the Self are never stuck to anything. You as you are. Like Neo is stuck to the movie Matrix, but the author of Matrix is not stuck to keep writing that story.
So here is the invitation for you.
When you have finished your coffee and read this text, look around you, look at life, and consider it all—I truly mean all—to be your expression. Even if it makes no sense to the little mind, take it on that you are responsible for all of it, all of what you see and don't see.
And then wonder. "What would I like to be expressed now?"
Be present to what comes up, go and play it out.
Dance the dance of creation.