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114 Twelve Facets of Reality cate with all without fear or inhibition. This is what I call separating out “I” from “we.”
When “I” is mixed up with "we,” it is drowned in a big ocean. How will you find your true “I” unless you stop comparing yourself with others? There are so many styles, languages, customs. Will you try to copy “we” all over the world? You may be able to succeed in one place, but there are so many other places. Where will it stop? Where will there be the variety of human life?
It is better to feel, “Wherever I go, I go with myself. I go with my uniqueness. Everywhere I will add my light, my fresh color, my new approach.” It is a process of accepting your "I.” This “I” has come alone and this “I” goes alone; ultimately, you love to be with yourself. At the same time, you communicate with all.
When you drop the outer coverings, you become creative. During the process, if you break down one shell and find still another one underneath, then you know that something is still left over. The time comes when you find nothing more to break. That is you.
When you find yourself, you realize, “The Self is not breakable. The essence is not going to break.” You break only that which is breakable—the addictions and dependencies, the outside shells. In finding your real “I,” you also find your uniqueness.
Discovering your “I” is not a form of selfishness. Rather, it is self-reverence. Finding yourself, you experience and revere the same pure “I” in all. In your aloneness, you are expanding your awareness of all-oneness. Now you know that in hurting others, you are hurting yourself, and that in helping others, you are helping yourself. Now what you see in you, you see in all living beings. When this state of “I” emerges, it becomes for you at the same time a merging-into the ocean of universal love and reverence for all life.
