Remember Who You Are

You have forgotten who you are, and so forgotten me. Look inside yourself. You are more than what you have become. You must take your place in the Circle of Life. Remember who you are. You are my son, and the one true King. Remember who you are. Remember.

The Lion King. (1994).

Hear these words differently than you’ve heard them before. If you listen without the previous concepts of what you think it means or meant, it points to something beautiful and true. It is the part of you that is knowing speaking to the part of you that has forgotten. This message is for you; and it is true for everyone. You need do nothing except remember who you are. You have forgotten who you are, and the only goal worth pursuing is to know thyself. You are more than what you have become.

You are love, peace, and joy. The truth of your identity cannot be adequately put into words, so without experiencing it directly you can open your mind to this experience by understanding what you are not.

Your identity extends beyond the events of your life, your body, your emotional experiences, and your thoughts. You are all of these things, and yet none of these things.

The power is not in understanding this conceptually, but in the worldview shift that is a result of seeing from this perspective. Imagine how your everyday experience changes when you filter your life through this lens? I can guarantee it will change how you treat the events in your life, other people, your body, and the earth.

Who are you? You will likely arrive at the wrong answer to this question. But each time you genuinely ask it, a little more of what is untrue will fall away, your answer will become a little more refined. Your experience of the world will tell you if you are on the right track. The knot will unravel a little further until one day the rest unravels all at once and you see what was there all along.

We are not the creators of truth. As one of my teachers says, “you don’t have access to your own source code”. You can’t mess things up. You can’t delete something important or add something inappropriate, you’re just running the software. Which program are you running? The one that knows or the one that appears to have forgotten? We are each pulling the formless into form. I ask every day that I may be the clearest vessel for expression of what is real and beautiful and good. There is nothing else. There is nothing else to do and it is such a relief. Remember.