“Give up defining yourself ~ to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of Conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.” ~ Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth)
The Transitions Blog has been teaching this point from the very beginning and this is a good time to re-emphasize the relationship we have to identity.
“We are all on a journey to discover who we are. In the process of thinking and doing, we see who we are not. Along the way many personas emerge, and with each step you are closer to who you really are. In the end we discover that there is really only one, and that is GOD.” (Unity in Gender Diversity)
Eckhart Tolle introduces an interesting concept which I had to really think about to comprehend what it means. What I share here is open to interpretation as always. What exactly is “the field of Conscious Presence”? How does one be this?
At times we have all been connected to Source in such a way that we are aware of being aware. It is a combination of being both a separate ego and a connected soul. The feeling is one of knowing that you are not your body, or even your identity, but the consciousness that is aware that you are aware.
The reality is that God is all there is, and we are one individuation of this one infinite, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent being. Since we are made in the image of this being and the expressions are infinite it matters not what this expression is, there is no way for you to not be who you are, “you cannot lose something that you are”.
No matter how you change the exterior it is the inner core which holds the essence of who you are. Sometimes we need to test this and so this is where the need to dress up, wear costumes, and present in various ways emerges. We are simply expressing the infinite! This is not to presume that gender identity is not real, for this is a life path chosen for the express purpose of testing reality. I can assure you that the inner drive to transition is profound and unavoidable. This goes for most any and all transitions, as sure as a rock falls when dropped. The goal is to see this field of Conscious Presence that each person holds and understand that the package is simply that. Love the person inside!
🙂 Sequoia Elisabeth
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