Behind the impression of who we are
is our true face.

Considering a global view of evloution through time...

Today, in this transitory time,
entering an era marked by the onset of a new consciousness,
many men and women feel that something esential is lacking in the life which they have been 'living'.

Indeed, what is missing is the formless.

Our attention has been almost exclusively focused on the world of form. As a part of the world of form, we may readily observe a material plane ( any thing, objects, life forms, events ) as well as an emotional and a mental plane. We may notice that everything which is felt or perceived is quickly interpreted by the intellect. A thought stating what has been experienced or perceived then emerges. This thought is also part of the world of form.

Thought is never without form. For a thought to carry meaning, it must be associated with some form of image or conceptual representation. It must be linked to some of memory. ( A memory is simply a form which has been stored in a memory bank - not unlike memory storage on a computer).
Another way to show that thought is never without form is the obsevation that thought is expressed, overtly or silently, through language. Just try to have a thought without any words appearing with it... not easy! That is because thought appears through language. We well know that language uses words, and these words are necessarily linked with some form - an object, an action, etc. All thought, then, is a fabrication within form.  
No form, no thought!

The world of form therefore includes thoughts. These thoughts reflect the perception of objects, of events, of emotions, or of any other abstract form... even thought itself!

So we find ourselves living mostly within thought. The thought contains form, and is a reflexion of it. Thought, then, is actually a thought-form, where the form is the image retained from the experience. We may notice that the tendency is to bypass the original perception, and instead, experience a reflexion of it, through thought. In other words, our 'life' has been mostly within a constrained impression of a felt or perceived situation.

From a young age, we have learned to focus our attention on this impression which suggests itself to us. This thought-form contains the interpretation of ourself, perceiving and feeling things, experiencing things.

But while our attention is constantly given to these thought forms, we have lost consciousness of the spirit we are, of the real ''self'' which is outside thought, outside form. 

We have lost touch with emotion in its true nature. We have lost touch with the thrust of life, the living force of the spirit behind the scenes. 
      

Every time we perceive, an almost immediate interpretation imposes itself. We are then instantly left with an underlying impression of ''I'' or ''me''  who is perceiving ''something''. Separation has already infiltrated the perception. 
there is no room for unity to exist in this perceived world of separation,
where there is always a subject, ''me'' , relative to ''something else'', which is the object of what is perceived.

This illusory impression of separation reflects itself even through language, where sentences are constructed from a subjetct, an action and an object. All of which are underlyingly interpreted, and then perceived as separate.

Our life, our accumulated knowledge is heavily connected to langage. 
An underlying impression of separation establishes itself through language (spoken or in thought) every time we say:
 
I, you, us, them, me, this, that ...

How often have we programmed and reinforced the impression of separation!

Language is a materialisation of the intellect, and therefore will have the same limitations as the intellect. This is why it is necesary to move beyond language.

It is necessary to regognize the limitations of language, to know that behind the ''I'' that is familiar to us, is another ''I'' which is not separate, not differenciated from anything. It is the life behind all the impressions that come and go.

The ''I'' which we are in reality is not tied to impressions. It comes from a space outside of form, outside of the impression of time. It is not subjected to time. It does not degenerate. It does not win, it does not lose.

This ''I'' is cannot be described or explained intellectually. Language and words, therefore, are used only as tools to express an approximation of that space, of the life that we are.

Words will not tell us who we truly are. But they can show us a window, an opening to our self, which we had not noticed.

Words may point towards the sacred space, where life is known. But to see through the window that opens to that space, it is necessary to feel the resonnance of what is being said through the words. It is necesary to feel the vibration behind the words. And to let the vibration carry us.

The vibration, which emanates through words, is the resonnance of the space where the spirit that we are lives, of the land which is our true ''home''.

The vibration becomes more and more familiar, as it settles within us.

Other articles on the same theme:

-  For a Time, Under the Impression of Being Lost