‘It Is’ and ‘I Am’ as Different Perspectives

I find comfort in ‘it is’ when the world feels chaotic, and now meditate on ‘I am’. How do these relate, and is there separation between the ‘it’ and the ‘I’? Rupert says: ‘The phrases “it is” and “I am” refer to exactly the same thing, but from two different perspectives. When you say about the glass, “it is”, and the glass says about itself, “I am”, they refer to exactly the same being. “It is” is the second-person point of view. “I am” is the first-person point of view. The knowledge “I am” is the highest truth because it states awareness’s experience of itself. Only awareness knows itself. So, only its first-person experience is true. In order to say “God is”, we have to set ourselves up as a second entity separate from God, as a second being, a second self. And that’s blasphemy because it denies God’s infinite being.’

From event 30 August - 06 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 30 August–6 September 2025

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