August 2, 2024
When your mind and heart are truly open abundance will flow to you effortlessly and easily.
Question:
“If we are all ‘experiences’ and ‘processes’ and ‘awareness’ of universal consciousness, then why do we feel like individual, unique people?
What is the purpose of our individuality if we are all expressions of one consciousness?
Do we each have something to achieve in life that is unique?
Are we responsible for something while we are alive in this body and mind?
I suppose I am asking ‘Why are we here in the first place, looking and feeling like individual, separate people?’”
Response:
Our sense of separateness or individuality is just an interpretation that our cultural conditioning imposes on our raw sensations and experiences from our infancy.
A new baby does not have a sense of individuality until it learns it.
However, the apparently separate self that develops in the course of adulthood is valuable as the focal point of the emergence of self-awareness.
This feeling of a separate identity is the point of awareness from which we can experience pure consciousness itself and see that our real self does not share the limitations of the mind and body that we had been taught from an early age.
In recognizing our true self, we act as if we are a separate person, but know and feel that we are unlimited and at one with the cosmos.
Love,
Deepak
