I, Me, My…..

I – Me – My

I have an image of you.
I have an image of everything with which I come into contact.
I have and Image of me; therefore -
I cannot see anything but me and what me feels and thinks and reacts to.
So nothing is true – Everything is false – my idea, my image.
It is so thick around me that I am blind, I cannot see what really is.
Because all is me.
I am ready to fight anything or anybody that tries to shatter my image, my idea
of myself, of you, of everything.
I live in a tiny world of me. A small fragmentation of what really is – but which
to me is my all – and which is entirely false.
I live in a mist of falsehood and bluff – untrue to myself and to all around me.
Ever chatting within and without, never stopping to see or lookfor the truth about myself.
But
There is an observer deep within that knows -
I know I am false.
I know it and so I spend my life living outwardly finding something at all times
to hide the truth, because I am in command.
I do not want to face me.
I am afraid to face that truth.
Why?
Because I know that in order to face the truth of myself, I have to break open
the shell I have built around me.
I know I have to face it – break it, burn it and shatter the very ground on which
this me stands in order to begin again – washed -clean – reborn -
But I do none of this because
I do not have the courage – nor do I want to move out of my tiny little world
of me.
Could this by any chance be you to?

Taken from Looking Within by Swami Narayani