How Do I Find Conviction When I Can’t Find the ‘I’?

You’ve helped me connect with being, but there’s something I don’t quite get. You say, if you look for the ‘I’, you can’t find it. But I can find thoughts that judge the body and world, and an ‘I’ that has a narrative. How can I have conviction in this when my mind seems strong? Rupert says: ‘When you feel “I am lonely, I am hurt, I am upset, I am agitated”, don’t be interested in the loneliness, the hurt, the upset, the agitation. Be interested in the “I” on whose behalf these feelings arise. Try to find that “I”. It is the attempt that you make to find that self that takes you to the true and only self of infinite being. Don’t worry about the narratives and the feelings, just be interested in the “I”.’

From event 07 - 14 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 7–14 September 2025 – ‘Meister Eckhart and the Love of God’

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