Who Am I?
- smcculley
- Mar 13
- 1 min read
Who Am I?
From 'A Question of Presence' by Sergio Antonio
I like this ancient work of art made from a shell.
It's delicate and graceful. The natural shape of the shell becomes a floating cloak, which has barely visible decorations inside. On the outside a face, indecipherable. This detail is enough to make us see the shell as a person.
On the inside, a void. Like an invisible wind that sustains it. A breath.
When I look inside myself, I find a similar landscape.
Anything I can observe is outside my true Self.
My body. My thoughts. My feelings, emotions. My opinions, my personal history. Looking deeper, I know there's something else watching all this. In some traditions, this something is called the Witness.
Self-remembering is the awareness of this active and radiant void, which observes all things and itself, recognizes itself in what it sees, and cannot be noticed and observed by anything else.
Image: "Carved Shell Cosmetic Vessel,” 630-580 B.C. Phoenician. British Museum, London.
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