"You know the moment you wake up, have you ever noticed, by the way, that you don't know who you are, and you wake up and you don't know who you are. Have you noticed how you look around the room to orient yourself, and what is really surprising is when you see the person next to you and for that split moment you don't know who they are? I think you should contemplate that a lot. We spend the next moments before you ever get out of bed reorienting, rebonding with an identity that for a moment we didn't even have, and the identity is that (thing) we start to form when we take a look at the person next to us. And then we get up and we start scratching our bodies...and then we get up and we go to the latrine and on the way we look at ourselves. Why do you do that? Why do you stare at yourself? Because you are trying to remember who you are. It is still a mystery."
"But if you have to remember who you are and remember the parameters of your acceptance and the fence of your doubt, if you have to go through the ritual every single day to remember who you are, what are the chances that your day is going to turn out unique?...Very slim indeed. But what if...before you tried to remember who you were that you remembered what you wanted to be, and maybe that came first before you saw your mate, before you clawed yourself, before you staggered out of bed, scared the cat and saw yourself in the mirror. Before you did all of that you remembered something: "Before I bond to the ritual of my neuronet, I am going to create a day that is astounding, that will add to my neuronet, that will add to the experience of my life," and you create your day--create your day. In that moment that you are not yet who you are is the most sublime moment in which in that moment you see the extraordinary, you can expect and accept the unordinary, you can accept a pay raise today. If you become yourself, your expectation of a pay raise greatly diminishes. You and I both know that. But in this one state of nonconclusiveness about your identity, you can create anyway."
"So I tell my students, before you get up and remember who you are, create your day. Then after you create your day, your routine will change. You will be a slightly diffeent person staring at the urinal, looking in the mirror. There will be something different about you and that will be a wonderful thing."
- Ramtha (channeled through J. Z. Knight) from What the Bleep Do We Know?.
"But if you have to remember who you are and remember the parameters of your acceptance and the fence of your doubt, if you have to go through the ritual every single day to remember who you are, what are the chances that your day is going to turn out unique?...Very slim indeed. But what if...before you tried to remember who you were that you remembered what you wanted to be, and maybe that came first before you saw your mate, before you clawed yourself, before you staggered out of bed, scared the cat and saw yourself in the mirror. Before you did all of that you remembered something: "Before I bond to the ritual of my neuronet, I am going to create a day that is astounding, that will add to my neuronet, that will add to the experience of my life," and you create your day--create your day. In that moment that you are not yet who you are is the most sublime moment in which in that moment you see the extraordinary, you can expect and accept the unordinary, you can accept a pay raise today. If you become yourself, your expectation of a pay raise greatly diminishes. You and I both know that. But in this one state of nonconclusiveness about your identity, you can create anyway."
"So I tell my students, before you get up and remember who you are, create your day. Then after you create your day, your routine will change. You will be a slightly diffeent person staring at the urinal, looking in the mirror. There will be something different about you and that will be a wonderful thing."
- Ramtha (channeled through J. Z. Knight) from What the Bleep Do We Know?.