Stepping Away from "I Have a Life!"

 Are you ready to step out of the narrative in your mind that says "my life" and realize that you don't have a life, that the whole thing that you call 'my life' is certain thoughts that float around in your head and you identify with them.  You don't have a life, you are Life!

Eckhart Tolle

Do you get that yet, even on a conceptual level?  I think I finally do. I can understand it conceptually. It is so clear in my mind that it is the truth.  Is that enough?

No...believing it and understanding it is not enough....I need to realize it.  Realizing something is different than conceptually believing or thinking something is true. 'Realize' means "to be fully aware".  To be fully aware requires going beyond the mind...it is about being aware at the deepest level.  It is about living and being that truth! 

"...to realize you are life which is a temporary expression of the one Life, the one consciousness that pervades the entire universe. You are a temporary expression of that One Life.  You don't have a life..."

So, though my conceptual mind understands this truth of who I am...(finally after years of studying, reading, listening, praying, meditating, etc. I get it it! I really get it!)...I have yet to fully realize it with my entire being! 

I am not yet living in that deeper dimension: 

Another dimension in you that is higher than thinking...awareness...presence. ..This dimension of consciousness is in you...

 I truly see that who I think I am is not who I am...that it too is just a "thought" and that I am the consciousness out of which thoughts come. 

...thoughts...including the thought of who we are and "my life" are just ripples on this mighty infinite ocean of consciousness. 

I know there is and am seeking for the possibility of stepping out of thought...so that I can touch that presence in this human I call me that is deeper than thought. 

There is a presence deeper than thought...out of which thought rises. 

But...I am not there yet!  I still get pulled into the narrative again and again. I am ready, though, to take the neccessary steps out of the story in my mind and fully realize that I don't have a life, I am Life!

What about you? 

Eckhart Tolle ( January, 2025) How to Wake Up from an Unhappy Life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHClX1Gzgo&t=12s