Oneness

Oneness
deflate, or how they deliver oxygen to your bloodstream.
You know how to walk, but you don’t comprehend the
actual muscle contractions that are allowing the body to
move, or the electrical signal being sent from the brain to
the nerves of your legs.
In the same way, you can know who you are, without
being able to define who you are or confine the totality of
your being to some mind-made words and concepts. You
know who you are because you are; because you exist. You
do not need a reason to be. Just be.
In order to come to the truth of who you are, you have
to let go of the mind’s desire to comprehend, label, and
organize everything. The mind does this because it wants to
have control over its experience. If the mind doesn’t
comprehend something, it thinks that it has no way to
influence or control it, and this makes it feel inferior, or
perhaps even afraid. But do you ever really have control of
anything? We like to think that we do, especially if we are
identified with our mind and its thoughts, but in reality, we
have very little control over anything that happens in nature.
If you wanted to, you could get up and walk to the
nearest store. You might have control over that decision,
but do you consciously control the movement of your legs
with every step? Do you control the inhalation and
exhalation of your breath? Do you control the flow of your
blood, the digestion of your food, or any of the
subconscious activities that your body performs? These
things seem to just happen on their own without your
control. You have very little involvement in these activities.
You may decide to walk to the store, but can you
determine exactly what will happen on this walk? You may
have an expectation of what will happen—some image you
hold in your mind—but it is unlikely that your expectation
will match exactly what happens. Anything could happen
during that short walk to the store. You have no control
over what happens.
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