Lesson Three: Knowing who You Are and from Whom You Came

To Know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.
Eckhart Tolle ( https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/eckhart_tolle_571625)

So Lesson Two is a big one and a challenging one.  Getting beyond our ego thinking is not a simple thing to do for most of us.  We are caught up in these mental modifications, as Patanjali referred to them (Satchidananda, 2011), that are in the way of this knowledge.  To get there to our remembering and recognizing our True Self (because basically that is all it is we need to do is remember), we remove the thought barrier that exists between us and Self, between illusion and Truth.

Lesson Three : Knowing Who we really are and from Whom we came can probably be summed up through the teachings of ACIM .  We just need to get through the first hundred pages of text to define what we are.

Who You Really are:

• You are spirit
• You are a divine creation; a child of God
• You are powerful. "Nothing made by a child of God is without power." 3: VII:1:7 (page 49)
• You are beyond humility. "Spirit is beyond humility, because it recognizes its radiance and gladly sheds its light everywhere. 4:I:12;3(page 56)
•  You are light.
• You are beyond the need for protection
• You are immortal and eternal. "Spirit is immortal, and immortality is a constant state."4:II:11:9 page 59
• You are a temple, an altar for the Kingdom of Heaven.  "The Kingdom of Heaven is you." 4: III:1:4
• "...You both have everything and you are everything." 4:III:9;5..pg 62
• You are completely whole.  You are complete.
• You are the holder of everything and the giver of everything.  You create as the Father creates. 5: I: 1:8...page 73
• You are truly blessed
• You are guiltless
• You are joy 5:V:2:3...pg 83
• You are Love 6:I:13:2...pg 94
• You are peace
• You are invulnerable.  You cannot hurt or be hurt
• "You cannot be hurt, and do not want to show your brother anything except your wholeness." 5:IV:4:4...pg 82
• You are a part of God's Thought and cannot think a part from Him. 5:V:6:16...pg 85
• You are a teacher, "As you teach so shall you learn."6:I:6;1...pg 93
• You are a healer
• You are responsible for what you believe...6: 1:7
• You are equal to your brother
• You are a creator. "God created you to create." 6:II:8:4
• You are a timeless extension meant to extend 6:II;8:1-4
• You are the light of the world.  "Each of us is the light of the world, and by joining our minds in the light we proclaim the Kingdom of God together and as one. " 6:II:13:5...99
• You are perfectly safe.  "The perfectly safe are wholly benign." 6:III:3:4...pg 100
• You are blessed and you bless.6:III:3:5

Whom did we come from?

We came from creation and I see the Creator as God.  Others may refer to God  as Source, the Universe, Life.  I use "God"...and I no longer see the paternal figure with the long beard who lives, judges and condemns in a place up there in the sky somewhere away from me.  I "feel" a God within me, through me  and in all things around my body.  I am beginning to truly understand that God is the Ocean of Life and in this short life span I am living now I am simply a glass of water taken from that Ocean. My body is the glass and when the glass has served its purpose and no longer contains all that I am...I will flow back, be evaporated back, absorbed back into this Ocean of Life and Love where I always was and always will be.

How cool is that?

ACIM(2007) A Course in Miracles: Combined Volume: Third Edition. Mill Valley: Foundations For Inner Peace.

Sri Swami Satchidananda(2011) The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Buckingham: Integral Yoga Publications.