What is the best way to make peace with I AM?

Honza · #1 11-01-2017, 01:10 PM

As many of you know I have real problems with I AM. I'm trying to make peace with it/myself. What do you think is the best way to make peace with I AM/myself?

I understand that I AM is holy, but I feel it is unholy. The "I" seems unholy to me. I'm so sorry that I am so negative about "I" all the time. How can I make peace?

Honza · #2 11-01-2017, 01:11 PM

The truth is I AM scares me!

Baile · #3 11-01-2017, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Honza

As many of you know I have real problems with I AM. I'm trying to make peace with it/myself. What do you think is the best way to make peace with I AM/myself?

I understand that I AM is holy, but I feel it is unholy. The "I" seems unholy to me. I'm so sorry that I am so negative about "I" all the time. How can I make peace?

The way I work with life is this: I recognize that all aspects of life are holy. But I know the difference between holy interaction with life, versus unholy thoughts, words, intentions and actions. So for me, it's not about the things themselves being holy or unholy. It's always about how I am interacting with things. I always try to interact with things in a holy way.

But only in the way I consider proper. Because everyone has their own ideas about the proper way to interact. So I try not to judge others' ideas of what proper is. And I expect they won't judge mine.

I'll give you an example of something very YouTube: I watched a Lady Gaga video last week. All the comments spoke about her maturity now, and how she's elevated her art. But to me, she was still slutting around in skimpy clothes and making sexual gestures. I guess my idea of holy is a little more decent than most peoples'. But that's the world we live in. In that case, my holy interaction is not getting upset with people who think that's art. But the art itself... no, I don't consider it at all holy.

Shivani Devi · #4 11-01-2017, 02:27 PM

The way I look at it is that I am only just a part of "I AM".

I needed to make peace with it too...it was really bugging me, how I could love God and be God simultaneously, until I realised that if this 'I AM' was all omnipotent and omnipresent, limiting it to just 'I AM' nullified the very existence of 'I AM' which only went to prove that "I AM...NOT".

If that was confusing, let's try this one. Let's equate "I AM' with "I am God" or "I am that I am" - I don't remember creating the universe and also there must be a source for all this groovy unconditional love I feel and that ain't me.

I think I explained it at my finest hour yesterday when I said "I am wholly inclusive in all there is, but it doesn't mean I AM all there is". I am a part of it, but I can also become it at times - both states exist, so I cannot fully be the I AM.

That's how I made peace with it - I may be the 'I AM' but there's something out there bigger than the love I feel for it.

Shivani Devi · #5 11-01-2017, 03:24 PM

Before I retire for the night, I was nodding off...

I AM is an introverted, internal focus of awareness. It confronts your ego directly, your sense of 'personal I' and you feel scared...afraid.

I could tell you there's nothing to fear, but that would only be me saying it.

The way I eventually made peace really, was to turn my whole awareness, my whole perspective from an internal outlook to an external one..

Instead of saying "I AM" I went "EVERYTHING IS"...and I mean EVERYTHING! there is nothing it is not.

This opened me right up to it, my heart, my soul, my everything.

Even talking about it brings feelings of happiness and joy for me.

Everything...everywhere...everytime...yep.

Goodnight SF.

Molearner · #6 11-01-2017, 04:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Honza

As many of you know I have real problems with I AM. I'm trying to make peace with it/myself. What do you think is the best way to make peace with I AM/myself?

I understand that I AM is holy, but I feel it is unholy. The "I" seems unholy to me. I'm so sorry that I am so negative about "I" all the time. How can I make peace?

Honza,

This is impossible to answer without having some consensus about what I AM really means. My concept will differ greatly from others. For my understanding I have examined all of the I AM statements of Jesus found in the Gospel of John. i.e. I am the bread of life, I am the Good Shepherd, I am the way...truth...life. With each of these statements I have taken the liberty of parenthetically inserting (the) which renders, for example, ..."The I AM is the bread of life.......etc." Understood in this way the I AM is seen as a dynamic force.....perhaps the birth and unveiling of the Spirit within us.....and subsequently gaining familiarity with it to the extent that we can employ it as a directing force.

In conjunction with this is understanding "I". 'I' denotes uniqueness. Only I can call myself 'I'. It is our unique signature. I cannot call you 'I'...that would be nonsensical. When we understand that I is unique(one of a kind) and when we understand the dynamic nature of "I AM" then we can realize God's love for us....we are simply the only model of us that God has ever made. Because of this uniqueness we can then ascertain that each of us has a specific purpose in the constitution of the whole. An exciting and fulfilling mission in life is discovering Self or "I" and then subjecting that to the force of the I AM.

Honza · #7 11-01-2017, 04:51 PM

Lovely answers! Thankyou.

TheGlow · #8 11-01-2017, 08:23 PM

Are you thinking from a Christian perspective or a spiritual perspective?

If I AM is to much for you how about starting with WE ARE.

All life/even the inanimate is of the creator energy/being what ever you want to call it. Of course I AM but for me it's more about seeing unity in this one creation of WE ARE.

Just a thought in case it helps

Edit: I see I've just reworded Necros post. I guess that is two of us saying it works :)

Honza · #9 12-01-2017, 07:41 AM

Haha....it is funny you should mention that. I'm already hooked on WE ARE. So much so that I do not want to let go and try I AM. It is like I have completely decentralised myself with WE ARE and now I find I have suppressed my I AM.

Think of Freud. If you deny the "I" too long it causes great problems.

Miss Hepburn · #10 12-01-2017, 12:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Honza

The truth is I AM scares me!

And where does fear come from...not from God, the Creator,
The Divine or any name you use.
So where are you focusing...what are you opening to?

Peace and clarity come from the Holy Spirit or the Father...the
Divine Mind...so many names to suit the individual's taste.
'That fear' is what I would look at - not the confusion...confusion begets more of the same...
look to what is clear and simple, what you know to be true.

You believe that God is Love, stay with the simplicity of what you know.

That is my advice from experience.
Focus on the heart and it's many ways it expressing itself...
thru kindness, generosity...a simple smile.
It is the devil's, aka the ego's trick to make you feel confused...
a spirit you were not born with.