What are you?

"And into yourselves, don't you observe?"

If we want to know God, we must know ourself first.

"our" "self"... which one is really actually "us"? The "our" or "self". Like "our" "books". Obviously "self" is belong to us, it is not us.

When I asked my little brother, "what are you?"
"I am a human" he said.
"Show me"
"This is me"
"No.. That is your nose :-) " it belongs to you..

Take a car. I take out all of its tires. I call it a car without tires. Then, take "you". I take off your head and throw it away, can I call "you" at that time as you without your head? Come on, you're dead. Does "you're dead" means "you" without your "soul"? Good news for you, "you" are still alive, will ever be "alive", never been not. You are the soul (ruh) without your "body". Hurmm.. The body, it isn't really yours actually :-)

Ok, that differentiates you from at least err.. a car!

"You cannot manage something that you cannot measure"

Therefore if we want to manage ourself, how do we measure ourself? What are we made of? What are "things" that belong to us and what are "us"? Most of the time, we unconsciously "think" that one of those "things" is actually "us". Then, they take over "us".

Somebody say "I think, then I am"

I am different from animals and trees because I can think, the thinking "mind" is "me", if "mind" is absent, then I am not exist! Who the hell the crazy people?

You must be out of your "mind"!

One day a girl simply got mad when I greeted her in the morning "Hi, you are alone, what are you doing here. May I help ya?" just a second after saying that I saw her red face with some tears rolling down her cheeks. When then I thought something went wrong to her.

"Can you please shut up, mind your own bussiness!" She replied emotionally.

I said ok and got back to my office. A few minutes after that she came and sought my forgiveness.

"I am sorry, just now is not actually me, it wasn't the real me to say that to you.. I just.. err"

Of course it was not you, you're supposed to be a nice girl. That is the "thinking" of your "mind" that created the emotional thing and took over "you" unconsciously. And that thing pretended to be "you" when you were not "present".

To manage our belongings, we must know what are they and we are "present" there to "see" them, to "feel" them, to identify them, but we are definitely not one of them. We own them, and we are aware of that.

To be continued... [HERE]