I Know That I Am

‘I’ is the name we give to our being. ‘I know that I am’ is the primary knowledge of our self before we know anything else. That essential self is then qualified by the content of experience and seems to become a human being, a man or a woman of such-and-such an age and so on. Feeling our self to be a human being is not our essential nature but is our habitual condition. We trace our way back from this conditioning to our essential self, aware being. Happiness is the revelation of that pure being.

‘I’ is the name we give to our being. ‘I know that I am’ is the primary knowledge of our self before we know anything else. That essential self is then qualified by the content of experience and seems to become a human being, a man or a woman of such-and-such an age and so on. Feeling our self to be a human being is not our essential nature but is our habitual condition. We trace our way back from this conditioning to our essential self, aware being. Happiness is the revelation of that pure being.