''There is no greater ecstasy than to know who you are. '' -Osho

When we chase things, we don’t get them.
But when we stop chasing things, they come to us.
Running around to chase happiness is a trap.
As it will be temporary.
Meditation was the door that has opened me to a whole new world, it has allowed me to expand my consciousness from the surface of reality.

The most precious form of wealth one can possess is to have found contentment internally.
You can have the most possessions, have the most money, and yet, if you keep on getting hungry for more, it does not make you more rich, but rather more poor.

A powerful sentence from the Dalai Lama sums it up extremely well:
''Any value based on the physical will have a limitation […] Usually, we do just the opposite. In the material field, where in any case there’s a limitation, we’re never content. We always want more and more. But where inner value is concerned, we are content. That is a mistake. ''
It is no surprise when you take into account that modern education’s main focus is on external development. We talk about ourselves in terms of what job we hold, what cars we own. We don’t talk about ourselves in terms of how kind or empathetic we are. That is, our internal value.

When someone asks us the question: ''Who are you? ''
We are likely to mention our name, age and profession.
While they are important aspects of ourselves, they should not be our whole identity.
As for example, the day we stop working in the field we have spent our lives working into, who then will we be?
Who are we profoundly, without any reference to the past or to the future?
Without the background noise that constantly goes on in our minds?
Without all of the labels that we have been conditioned to use?

In order to truly know ''thyself'' we first need to realize we are locked up in the prison of the mind, that has given us a false sense of self, to which we desperately cling to.

It is a great thing to go explore the external world, and to learn things.
However, it is an even greater thing when we come back home to our inner self, that is full of wisdom, love, and kindness to give to ourselves.

Who are we under this bag of skin?
Our physical body will cease to exist one day, but I am a firm believer that our soul will carry on forever.
What better reason than to start discovering it! 💫

According to the quantum model, and as Dr Joe Dispenza proclaimed in one of his seminars:
''95% of who you are by the time you’re 35 years old is a set of memorized behaviors, a set of emotional reactions, beliefs, perceptions, and attitudes that run like a computer program. And so 5% of your conscious mind begins to work against 95% of your unconscious mind. ''

So then, do we really know ourselves if our unconscious mind is completely ruling our life, and we are not even aware of it?
Or if we are, what steps are we taking to change the odds?
Every time we think of a past event, our mind reproduces the same brain chemistry as if it was happening now. And so, we are teaching our bodies (without even knowing) to live in the past.
It is crazy to think that a simple thought has the power to create a chemical in our brain.
We can activate our nervous system just by thought alone.
We are so powerful, in so many ways, and yet we fail to realize that the miracle lies within ourselves, and not externally.
We need to find this light within us, and use it as a guide to answer some important life questions.
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Who am I?
Why am I here on earth?
What is my mission, my life purpose?
What legacy do I want to leave behind?
How do I get there?

All of these answers can be found if we open our heart and listen to our soul.
Above the fortress of the mind, who are we?