Be Honest With Yourself - A Morning Practice

Today's Quote AND Practice: 'Be honest with your Self'  by Robert Adams  "How do you arrive at the Self? Well here is another interesting way of getting to that. If you get up in the morning, if you feel a little depressed or out of sorts, if you do this, you will start to laugh at yourself and you will feel better. It will make you happy all day. And here's what you do. As soon as you get up say to yourself, "I am not my arms, I am not my legs, I am not my torso, I am not my head, I am not my bones, I am not my blood, I am none of these things. For most of these things are functioning without my knowledge. My heart beats, I didn't tell it to beat. I have to go to the bathroom, I didn't give my body permission to go to the bathroom. The body wants to eat, it gets hungry. I never told my body to be hungry. It appears as if I have nothing to do with my body at all". You go further. You say to yourself, "How about the world? I am not the world. The world didn't exist a few moments ago when I was asleep. Now that I am awake I think about the body, the world, God, work, food, bathroom. All these things happen when I wake up. Well if I'm not those things, who am I"? Who is the 'I' that is experiencing all this? I don't know". Be honest with yourself. Don't say, "Oh the 'I' is consciousness". That's the worst thing you can ever do. Is to memorize certain words or phraseologies and use them at your own time. When you ask the question, "Then who is experiencing the body? Who is experiencing the world?" Be honest with yourself and say, "I don't know? "It's a mystery". Well then to whom is it a mystery to? To me. It therefore seems that if everything is a mystery to me... 'Me', 'me', 'me'. If I got rid of the 'me', there would be no mystery. Now how do I get rid of the 'me'? Who is the 'me'? The 'me' is another word for 'I'. I believe that everything is a mystery. I have nothing to do with my body or the world". So you get back to 'I'. "Who is this 'I'? I don't know "It's a mystery". There is the mystery again". So I'll ask again, "For whom is the mystery for? For me. Who am I? I don't know "It's a mystery". For whom is the mystery for?" As you keep talking to yourself this way, something wonderful is going to happen. Your question will begin to slow down and you will feel yourself becoming happy.  You may even start laughing at yourself. And your mind will become quieter and quieter and quieter.   You will begin to feel enormous joy." I love the You that's appearing as 'you',  Nik Support the show Beginning Aug 7, 2023 - 'GoOD Mornings with CurlyNikki' will host pre and post roll ads within the back catalogue.