Ah, feeling lost and confused, old friend?
Tossed upon the waves of endless questions?
The great riddle—softly whispered through time—has always waited for you to remember.
Where can one find the authentic self?
Perhaps the real question is not where… but how.
Most search in all the wrong places—
Chasing reflections in the eyes of others,
Hunting shadows of the past,
Racing toward imagined futures.
But the Self you seek…
The true Self…
It is not found outside or inside the noisy corridors of the mind.
It dwells beneath the clamor—beneath the parade of thoughts, identities, and expectations.
It waits quietly behind the masks you’ve worn.
The faces you’ve stitched together to fit in,
The stories you’ve told yourself just to belong.
Peel them away—
The layers of conditioning,
The borrowed scripts from family, culture, glowing screens, and the passage of time itself.
And what remains, old friend?
A quiet presence.
A pause of stillness.
Pure.
Untouched by the world.
This is your original face—
The self you were before you ever arrived on this spinning sphere.
But take heed, dear friend—
You won’t find this self in the past—that’s just a museum of echoes.
Nor in the future—that’s imagination’s playground.
The authentic Self lives here—
Now.
In this very moment.
It breathes in the stillness between thoughts.
In the silent pause between the inhale and the exhale.
It is what remains when you simply… are.
So, if you genuinely wish to find yourself—
The peace, the contentment, the quiet wholeness you seek—
Stop searching out there.
Pause.
Breathe.
Be still.
Turn inward.
Let go of the endless parade of thoughts.
And you will find…
What you’ve been seeking has been quietly waiting here all along.
You can also discover it by gently peeling away everything you are not.
You are not this body.
You are not these fleeting thoughts.
You are not the roles you’ve been handed.
Nor the layers of conditioning wrapped around you like old garments.
Not the stories you’ve been told about who you should be,
Nor the tales you continue to tell yourself about the world.
Strip it all back.
Let it fall.
Be here.
Be now.
And when the layers fall away, you’ll see—
What remains has always been known:
You were never truly lost.
Only briefly forgotten.
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