03-24-2012, 04:32 PM
IMHO, the self is nothing more than our physical brain trying to interpret its interaction with its environment through the physical senses.
Everything that we recognize in the mirror is what our brain has been seeing and interpretting since the day of our birth into this form. But are we more than just the fleshy organ that sits within our skull and how it interpres existence?
It is when we can begin to look beyond the mirror reflection and see the sacred fire that dances in our very molecules, that we will begin to comprehend our true self.
There is something beyond the physical senses and the biological functioning that makes us what we truly are, and to gaze into our reflection and assume that to be our true self, is like the cow looking at its reflection in the stream while it drinks and not seeing itself as a hamburger.
The Mystery of what we might become. That is what we do not see, that if we could, would reveal our true self.
Everything that we recognize in the mirror is what our brain has been seeing and interpretting since the day of our birth into this form. But are we more than just the fleshy organ that sits within our skull and how it interpres existence?
It is when we can begin to look beyond the mirror reflection and see the sacred fire that dances in our very molecules, that we will begin to comprehend our true self.
There is something beyond the physical senses and the biological functioning that makes us what we truly are, and to gaze into our reflection and assume that to be our true self, is like the cow looking at its reflection in the stream while it drinks and not seeing itself as a hamburger.
The Mystery of what we might become. That is what we do not see, that if we could, would reveal our true self.