Being with Self

The following reading comes from Tian Dayton’s book The Soul’s Companion:

I will not chase self today. Rather, I will trust. I will wait for self to emerge. I will be aware of self. When I try to find self, grab it and hold onto it, I reduce it to what it is not. Self is present in all things and I am present in self. Life is constantly in motion and self moves with the waves of life – of the living particle patterned into all things. When I try to locate self in a particular place, I cannot find it because self is equally present in all things. I cannot hold self. Other people cannot hold or withhold my self. The self I seek is a state that I access through me. I cannot make the experience stationary so that I know where to look to find it. I can only be present within the fluid state of self. Self breaths as I breathe, self is with me and I am with self. We are one.

I will be in the presence of self.

What the superior man seeks is in himself,

What the mean man seeks is in others.

Confucius