~*~ Before you can connect with your consciousness it is important to understand the nature of identity
and the difference between identity and consciousness. Our identity is the part of ourselves that we recognize and connect with every day. This part of us believes that our lives are all about responding to the demands of our immediate environment and the activities of our daily lives, such as going to work, getting sick or becoming well, organising and running our lives and raising our families. Nearly all the activities of our identity are routine and the skills developed by the identity are neither conscious nor unconsciousness, they are simply reactions to thoughts, feelings and events in our lives.
~*~ The identity believes that the difference between ourselves nd others is th eprimary quality of human beings. The consciousness, however, knows that in fact the primary quality is its connection, through the power of skilful thought energy. Whereas consciousness is permanent and unchanging, our identity changes all the time, because it is only the promoter of the conclusions that the mind has created. Yet the identity likes to believe that it is all-powerful, independent and in control.
~*~ The thought energy of identity is quite separate to the thought energy of consciousness. Conscious skilful thought energy enters the spiritual realm and illuminates all that we can be, while the identity is consumed with habitual thought patterns which belong to the everyday world and cannot enter the spiritual dimension.
~*~ The habitual thought patterns of the identity are not the essential us, yet most people believe that they are. And as long as we believe that habitual thinking embodies our utmost aptitude then we bind ourselves completely to the everyday world, for we cannot think our way into the spiritual reality using habitual thought.
~*~ Consciousness is complete in itself. The identity suspects that there is more than just itself, but is afraid to find out. Yet as we begin to see through the shortcomings of our identity and to feel dissatisfaction with the dominance of everyday thinking, we begin to long for something more.
~*~ Habitual thinking stops us from connecting with reality and presents us, instead, with diversions and dead-ends. The unskilful thought energies of the identity travel wherever they wish to go, taking us round in circles. Only when we transcend the identity and reach consciousness can we choose our journey. ~*~
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Taken from the Tibetan Art of Positive Thinking Namaste ~ Love
by Christopher Hansard ~
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