I Am the ‘I Am’ That I Am

You know me as Rupert, but I know myself as ‘I’. Two different perspectives: my intrinsic, or subjective, experience; and your extrinsic, or objective experience of me. From our second-person point of view, we call infinite being ‘infinite being’. But infinite being does not know itself as such. ‘Being’ is our name for our objective experience of it. But, to really have an objective experience of being, we would have to stand apart from it just as we do to know any object. People, things, the world, God, Infinite Being – all names from a second-person, objective point of view – they are not a thing’s experience of itself, which can be the only real experience. Everyone’s and everything’s knowledge of itself is only ‘I am’. Unmixed with content, there is only one experience, ‘I am’. I am that ‘I am’. I am the ‘I am’ that I am. This self-knowledge of is the only absolute truth.

You know me as Rupert, but I know myself as ‘I’. Two different perspectives: my intrinsic, or subjective, experience; and your extrinsic, or objective experience of me. From our second-person point of view, we call infinite being ‘infinite being’. But infinite being does not know itself as such. ‘Being’ is our name for our objective experience of it. But, to really have an objective experience of being, we would have to stand apart from it just as we do to know any object. People, things, the world, God, Infinite Being – all names from a second-person, objective point of view – they are not a thing’s experience of itself, which can be the only real experience. Everyone’s and everything’s knowledge of itself is only ‘I am’. Unmixed with content, there is only one experience, ‘I am’. I am that ‘I am’. I am the ‘I am’ that I am. This self-knowledge of is the only absolute truth.