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Changing to Who We Are Truly

We appear to be many things in life save what we truly are. We may view and identify ourselves in any number of ways: weak, strong, angry, ignorant, stupid, intelligent, important, better than others, etc. But is that really our true nature or illusory nature or perception society has imposed on us or an image we have acquired from society? Whether we like it or not, we’ve become what we think we are and have internalized some of what others say and think we are. These various perceptions have taken root in our psyche. They have colored our lens through which we view the world around us and how we view ourselves. Thus our vision has been affected to the extent that we no longer have clear perception of who and what we are as Divine beings.

That is the danger of embracing borrowed perceptions and internalizing negative associations and letting them define us as our true identity and reality. To know who we truly are, to reclaim our true nature, we must let go of all old superficial identity, revise our wrong thought processes, recant our outmoded erroneous old beliefs of who we are and in so doing we will begin to chart a new course toward self awareness. We will begin to gradually awaken to that which is our true nature—Soul.