You, Real

What else do you want your listeners to know? () ••• 1️⃣🅰️ Who is real You? "What has to happen is that we have to come back to a sane view of our own life, the way we really are: an organism functioning in terms of the whole environment, with the whole environment, instead of this funny little separate personality. But how are we going to do that? People say, 'You can't change human nature overnight. You're asking us to give up the ego, and that's the most difficult of all things to do.' Actually it isn't, because your ego doesn't exist; but of course IF YOU TRY TO GIVE UP YOUR EGO WITH YOUR EGO THEN IT WILL TAKE YOU TO THE END OF TIME. Because this is the point: you CANNOT MAKE yourself sane, you CANNOT MAKE yourself loving, you CANNOT MAKE yourself unselfish; not by anything that we call 'doing it', 'acting', 'willing' or even just 'accepting things'. You can't do it. Why? Because you don't really exist as that kind of a separate ego or personality. It's just an idea, based on a phony feeling. So, when it comes down to it, it's shocking news for us - for the human race -, for our pride. You're only making a mess by trying to put things straight. You're trying to straighten out a wiggly world, and no wonder you're in trouble. So, if you can't do anything and you can't transform yourself, then what can you do? What happens if you actually realize you've come to a dead end? Commit suicide? Or is there something else? What happens when you just wait because there is nothing you can do? You watch. And all you see is what goes on that is happening of itself: you're breathing, the wind is blowing, the trees are waving, your blood is circulating, your nerves are tingling. It's all going on of itself. Just as your brain is functioning properly without you forcing it. But, you know, that's the real you. The you that goes on of itself." -Alan Watts