Words Cannot Say What We Are
Las palabras no pueden decir lo que somos
A question about the impossibility of capturing who we are in language, and the effortless nature of falling into what we truly are.
Words Cannot Say What We Are
A question about the impossibility of capturing who we are in language, and the effortless nature of falling into what we truly are.
Something I find funny about this is that there is no real way to use words to say who we are or what we are.
We can use words, but we can either believe them and be confused, or know that it's a terrible approximation.
It's just striking to think how much time we spend telling people who we are, telling ourselves who we are. That's the first thing we do when we meet someone, right? "Who are you?"
Yes, and if you know that's not what you really are, you can still meet somebody at that level. There's a beauty to it.
The word "falling"
Another thing I found interesting in what you were sharing is the word "falling," as in falling into it. I never thought about it in that sense. It makes it more natural.
Yes, it's natural and it's also effortless. It's not something you do. It's not a doing.
If you are not resisting it, it happens naturally.
Exactly. What we do is always the resisting of that.