Michael Beckwith

Our real identity is awareness.

Our real identity is not our body.

It's not what we own.

It's not experiences that we've had.

Our real identity is that we are pure consciousness and we could actually think independent of a condition or a circumstance and make new choices.

That's who we are.

And so as our awareness expands and becomes more and more purified, then we have a different relationship to the universal presence and the universal law that's matching who we think we are.

If I'm walking around saying, oh, I'm unworthy, I'm not good enough, no one likes me, then I'm identifying myself as someone who is less than.

I can do all kinds of things in the world to become successful and liked and all of that.

But if inwardly I'm thinking to myself, I'm unworthy, I'm not good enough, then the law matches that vibration and keeps feeding that back to you.

And you can try really, really, really hard, but you can never outrun the content in your consciousness that you haven't transcended.

So consciousness is primary.

You have to shift your awareness, expand it into coming to an awareness that you are a light being.

You're magnificent.

What the universe has created is so beautiful.

You know, going back to what you said earlier about this is all found in Scripture, I mean, the teacher said, who by taking thought can add one cubit to their stature?

You can't add anything to this perfect self.

All you're doing is eliminating the false beliefs.

So that the perfect self that's already been created can begin to shine unencumbered, you see.

So your mental attitude is important.