You had me until "figure out who you are...." My main takeaway from your post is that we don't need to figure out who we are, but rather drop our ideas about who we are. In that space the truth emerges. It is knowing as a state of being rather than an act of understanding. And yes, this is the work. To stop leading ourselves away from ourselves with "stories" about ourselves and simply rest in a knowingness of our intrinsic quality of pure being.
Ahhh good catch, I mis-typed, youn are right, we shouldn't be worrying and trying to figure out who we are but rather allow ourselves to Be. Like you said, truth emerges.
Sometimes I need to get out of my head still, writing can be a challenge sometimes because words don't really work to describe truth, plus it's an intellectual process to some degree.
Nice comment :)
It's actually perfect that you slipped back into that within a post about not doing that, because it really elucidates just how powerful that ego dynamic is. We strive. We strive for knowing, for definitions, for a sense of safety within illusions of control. So hard to let go of the ground outside ourselves that we relate to from duality, in favor of the ground within ourselves that has only itself as proof.
Haha good point! Funny how things work out sometimes.
It definitely is a bit of a leap, kind of like you have to have faith that something will catch you when you let go. It's been really challenging for me, but well worth the effort every step of the way towards allowing myself to drop the fear that comes with it.