There Are Two of You at All Times
How do we live with these two very different Me's? How do we find a balance?
There are two of us at all times.
Even now, in this very moment, there are two of you living your life.
There is you which is pure formless awareness, and there is the you that you think you are and all of its stories and history and hopes and dreams.
Another way of saying this is that you are consciousness itself and you are an ego personality that exists in and because of your thoughts.
If we look at these two side-by-side, we get an even clearer picture:
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Pure Consciousness |
Ego Personality |
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Formless awareness |
Thought forms |
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Known through presence |
Known through thoughts |
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Present-moment being |
Past and future idealization |
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Lives here and now |
Lives elswhere, in the past and future |
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Body-centered |
Thought-centered |
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Identity-less; free from all attachments and identifications |
Identified with personal story, status, roles, nationality, jobs, things, etc |
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Transcendent |
Temporal |
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Inner sense of aliveness |
Mental thought processes |
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Infinite depth |
Outer surface |
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The Observer |
The Doer |
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Peaceful serenity, quiet equanimity |
Drama, reactivity, suffering |
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At one with all that is, harmoniously |
Separate from others; often in conflict |
