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By Eckhart Tolle
There are two dimensions to who you are. The first is what I sometimes call the “surface I”—the person with a past and a future. This is your historical identity, which is relatively fragile because the past and future only exist as thought forms or concepts in the mind. Most people on the planet are completely identified with the “surface I.”
The second dimension to who you are is what I like to call the “Deep I.” The most vital realization in your lifetime is to see that in addition to being a historical person or a “surface I,” you are more fundamentally the “Deep I.” This realization frees you from looking only to the “surface I” for your ultimate sense of identity—where it can never be found...
...So, how do you realize it? You realize it in the gap between two thoughts, the space in which the historical person of the “surface I” momentarily subsides and disappears. What’s left of you is nothing that you could talk about or even understand conceptually. All you know is there is an underlying sense of presence, of being-ness, that is at once still, alert, and vitally alive. This is what it means to become aware of awareness. The practice is to invite moments of presence into your daily life so that you don’t spend your entire day dragged along by the stream of thought in the mind.
It’s important to recognize that the “surface I” and the “Deep I” are ultimately not separate. The “surface I” is a manifestation of consciousness in the same way that the ripple on the surface of the ocean is a manifestation of the ocean. It’s only when the ripple is unaware that it is the ocean that a sense of separateness arises—which of course is an illusion.
This realization of yourself as the “Deep I” is so freeing, so liberating, because you’re being liberated from the burden of knowing yourself only as the “surface I” and its so-called “drama.” When you realize yourself as the “Deep I,” it enables you to have a compassionate attitude toward everything that makes up the “surface I”—your physical form, your personal identity (or the historical person), the thoughts and emotions you experience, and so on. It also gives you access to true creativity and true intelligence—both of which are rooted in the formless dimension.
Image of Bridge to Nowhere, Belhaven Bay, Scotland.
Hi Flickr universe! Have not had much time to post here lately since I have been preoccupied with my new website and blog that I wrote about earlier in the summer:
It is getting less time consuming after initial website creation and set up, so I hope to get more time to post more on Flickr too soon. I do love the blog part of it as it gives me a chance to post more images from some particular outing in one post vs one image here on Flickr.
I hope everyone's summer is going well and you are taking your cameras everywhere and taking new exciting images. I have been exploring photographing butterflies with different lenses to see the differences and similarities. Hoping to write about it soon and post some pictures. Turned out I had no images of butterflies taken with my Pentacon 50 lens!!! I had to run out and correct that asap. ;-)
For now, this self portrait from yesterday I took on my phone. :-)
Till next time,
Diana
John 6:53 “Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life.”
Bologna, giugno 2016
Pentacon Praktica B200
Pentacon Prakticar 50 mm 1:1.8
Fuji superia 200
From negative film
For MM this week I decided to use my little Kodak Retinette.. The self timer lever on this camera still works :o) not bad for a camera over 50 years old.
It's challenging but I'm enjoying shooting with this little camera, and look forward to seeing my images.
HMM :o)
Non si scappa mai dai luoghi, nè dalle persone, nè tantomeno dalle circostanze, si scappa da se stessi...
(A. Merini)
Model : My lovely student Fikri Zulhafiz..
Taken during Self - Management lesson [ one of the syllabus ]
Recently I had the chance to take a few road trips all by myself. I never really thought of that as something I'd want to do, but the freedom just to drive, with no timeline, and no certain destination is very freeing. I took turns sporadically, following the light, waiting for something to catch my eye.
As is the case when you travel solo, the selfie is often the only way to get a human subject into your images. The series of self portraits I'll be posting over the coming weeks are the beginnings of a collection of images that fit the theme of "self discovery." Maybe I will print a book for myself some day. For now, I get to learn a little bit about myself from each image I place myself in!