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What is left of you when your identity is taken away?

Life is full of pain and suffering.

External circumstances and internal conflicts induce it.

Psychologically and Physically.

We see a lot in our lifetime: desperate times, dire situations and difficult conditions.

And yet we wake up and start a new day with new zest.

Facing the challenges that are served on our plates and fighting the battles in someone else’s name.

We strive, we survive.

We never question the nature of the things we do. We only find answers that are seemingly unrelated to our lives.

We run from our life, and life runs behind us.

We look at everything shiny and life looks at us in dismay.

Unattended.

We have a fear of asking important questions about life because it questions the very existence and wakefulness of our being.

We don’t want to get caught sleeping at work. We don’t want to confront that we are sleepwalking through life.

Life passes by and we only know it has gone when met with death.

But this is not the way of a human. An alarm is needed to wake them up. A blast.

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Humans are curious beings. They are seekers.

Few creative minds and people who like to spend time in nature, listen to the call within and follow their hearts.

Others need a wake-up call.

It can be something traumatic incidence that puts a big question mark on the purpose of life itself.

But humans seek. That is the point of our evolution.

We have come so far to seek more than just food water and shelter.

The energy that is spent in the accumulation of things, can also be used to seek something internally.

To gather the unwanted is a primal instinct lost its way.

The instinct to gather can be chanalised to seek the truth.

Deep down we want something. We think we want things.

But the things rarely satisfy our needs of a sense of belonging.

It’s an insatiable urge to have everything big, bigger and the biggest.

But the reality is that it is a never-ending loop.

A cycle that never ends. Because every external thing comes with an expiry date.

What we are looking for is ourselves.

The seek of things is for the sake of mind, the seek of life is to seek for yourself.

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Self?

Who is the one you are seeing in the mirror?

And who is the one who is aware you see yourself in the mirror?

Is what you see in the mirror real?

We are afraid of the search for truth.

The truth that will uncover the lies we tell ourselves.

The truth that will compel us to give up our identity.

The truth that will force us to lose ourselves.

What will be left of us if we lose our identity in society?

Absolutely nothing.

But you will have to lose yourself, to find yourself.

That is the real beauty of your being. That is the real purpose of this life.

To live without a mask and face life with bare nakedness of mind.

As it is.

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Are you nothing without someone’s boss or employee?

Is there nothing left of you if you are seen differently from your family?

What does your individuality stand for when you stand as an individual in society?

Individual. Which can not be divided any further.

How will you operate in a world that is so keen to know who you are and you don’t have an answer for them?

Let people decide, as the facet you erect in whims of presenting yourself is not for you, it is for the people who ask for it.

Why dilute your being for something that is not required of you?

Why play the role in someone else’s mental drama?

Your identity is attached to your past, and it is preserved to seek the foreseeable future.

The present is lost in determining your future based on the past.

Give up on both of them, and you will see that even the current moment is an illusion.

The past is devouring the future as time progresses, and there is nothing left of the present.

In which tense do you live? Past, Present and Future are fantasies.

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Once you commemorate this truth, you live the life as it comes.

You are honest to your being.

If life gives you oranges, say “Is it so”.

Nothing is permanent. The pain the happiness and the idea of someone going through this suffering.

Because once you have found yourself, there is no one left to be you.

The pretentiousness of being someone and even yourself is dropped.

You are mere awareness.

And your consciousness permeates your being in the world like a flower realises its scent without even knowing.

Effortless.

Now you don’t have a relationship with life. You are life.

You are living and not surviving.

Living as it comes.

You are not happening to the life anymore. Life is happening to you.

Because in the middle of the chaos, you stumbled upon something way bigger than life itself.

Unfathomable, Incomprehensible. Universe.

And it all within and without you.

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People will stop recognising you. People will see what you are.

Wild, Spontaneous, Energy.

They will be confused looking at this new man.

Some will be afraid because they will see the reflection of their missed deeds in you.

You are the mirror you have been looking at yourself in so far.

Now you merely reflect on what is already there.

Reflection of the Illusion. Mirage.

It seems meaningless, but the meaning of our life is beyond understanding.

A man in dismay searches for meaning in life. It is a very depressing thought.

Man is disheartened, discouraged seeks answers in the god. It is hopeless.

You don’t have to seek anything once you have found yourself.

The seeking is over. Only living is left.

Benevolent.

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Now you go to work, you don’t take yourself to work.

And if you find that you are a misfit you change the work.

You finally realise the polarities of the mind.

The energy that is spent on sadness can also be spent on happiness.

The remote control is in your hands. Change the boss, change the office, change the work, or wife (I hope she is not reading this).

Everything looks familiar, but it is new.

The world is seen in a new light. Without analysing what it stands for.

The reason for analysis is to find yout place in the world.

Why would you need that, if where you stand is your home?

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This change is significant.

This is what change the world needs from you and what you need from everybody.

If I ever want something to change in this world is: I don’t want the world to change the world but itself.

If every person finds out the truth. Who he is.

This world will be a better place to live.

Your distinct family member will stop poking your nose in your life. I think this reason is more than enough to inspire the self-inquiry.

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