"One True You" Defined

OK- so what's with the name of this blog- 1trueyou.com? Well let me define what it means to me. "One True You" is how I choose to describe who we really and truly are at the fundamental level of Spirit, Mind and Body. To me our "true self" is a fully integrated, free-acting, awake and aware spiritual and physical human being that knows it is here by choice in time and body and place to be a joyful and beautiful part of eternal creation. That's a mouthful I know. Each part of that description could easily be the subject of a book, and even then it would not be a complete or even adequate description of our True Self. In truth our True Self cannot be confined to words. However, this is a blog and it's tools are primarily words- so I will have to be satisfied with the inherent limitations of words and hope that the deeper meaning underlying the words can somehow be felt and experienced by you the reader in a wonderful wordless way that helps you know for yourself the truth that is wrapped inside these words. The purpose of the blog is to explore in more detail the many facets of our True Selves- all so that we can become more of our True Selves and less of our conditioned or "believed" selves- more of who we really are and less of who we have come to think we are.

Here are a few elements of what I have come to understand for myself as our true nature.
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- At the level of spirit, we are immortal beings- pure spiritual intelligences that exist beyond time. Never born and therefore not capable of dying or ceasing to exist. We sometimes think of ourselves as mortal and believe that someday we will die. To me the truth is that we are already immortal beings that exist eternally (beyond time), but we are currently in mortal physical bodies that will someday "die." So it is only the temporary mortal body that dies, not us.

- Our immortal Spiritual selves are connected to and part of God and All That Is. We are connected to each other and to all creation. We already possess great wisdom and knowledge of eternal principles. We are both the created and the creator- the manifest flower and the life force that brings the flower into existence. We are both separate and individual and connected and unified. This paradox is only a paradox to the linearly constrained mind, and can only be understood through direct experience which is a big part of why we chose to come here, now.

- We came to this phase of existence by choice. Having existed in Spirit we reached a level of progression that could not be surpassed without willingly joining ourselves- our immortal spiritual selves to a physical/mortal body with all it's amazing strengths and weaknesses.

- Our physical bodies have built in to them an intelligence far beyond our mental abilities to comprehend. The intelligence that creates a new human body from the combination of male and female DNA, that grows into trillions of differentiated but integrated cells all working together to create this physical life we experience through our 5 senses, is something far beyond our powers of comprehension. That same intelligence grows and maintains the body without any conscious effort on our parts. It is a sort of auto-pilot that just goes about doing what it was programmed to do- maintaining and extending life while responding to continually changing circumstances.

- The immortal wisdom of our Spirits combined with the amazing physical wisdom of our bodies is what makes us Human- literally part heaven, part earth; part immortal, part mortal; part formless, part form; part changeless, part ever changing.

- All this power of Spirit and Body exists within us, but is not contained within us. It is the power of God, of all Creation that permeates all Life. We ourselves are like the fruit of the vine, that cannot live long without maintaining our connection to the Whole.

- The mortal nature of our bodies and the gullible nature of our minds- believing all sorts of things that just aren't true, create a sort of "web" or "matrix" of perception that is limiting. Over time we come to see ourselves as much much less than who we truly are, and believing that we live well below our potential.

-Poets and prophets alike have expressed as well as can be expressed in words this condition. You yourself have most likely experienced a feeling of living well below your potential and have also experienced brief glimpses of your true nature that left you hungering for more.

We'll go into this and much more as time goes on. Please stay tuned and contribute your thoughts as we go.

Gratefully yours,

John