The Hidden “I”

The Hidden “I”

To be conscious is to be conscious; there are not different kinds. The “I” that is in

your neighbour is the exact same “I” within you. It may appear to be different

through being attached to different sensory experience, but that is only because

it has allowed itself to be conditioned by such experience. In point of actual fact

consciousness is never the result of experience but the cause instead, and

wherever we find it, it is primarily aware of existing, of being “I.” There is only

one basic consciousness in all creation; it takes up its residence in all things,

appears to be different according to the things it enters into, but in essence is

never changed at all. It is intelligence, awareness, energy, power, creativeness,

the stuff from which all things are made. It is the alpha and omega of existence,

first cause; it is you.

“Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of

one hidden stuff,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. He pierced the veil, perceived

behind the sense-enamoring dance of nature’s myriad forms the workings of the

one mind and one intelligence from which all life and aspiration spring. There can

be no inner peace or surety of action without this basic spiritual knowledge. The

man who lives isolated from the roots of his being has cut himself off from the

source of all power and dwells alone and without resource in a hostile and

threatening world. Let him once perceive the true nature of life and his

relationship to it and he soon sees that the world always reflects his thoughts

The Magic in your Mind

U.S. Andersen