The precursor to any attempt to describe true identity is to be clear
and straight that it can't be described. Once you're clear and
straight it can't be described, then it can be shared. You can
be true identity (which is to say you can be
who you really
are)
and share yourself this way, and people will
get it
if they're listening intending to
get it.
But any attempt to describe it only reveals words themselves are
inadequate to the task and may even damage it.
Here's why:
True identity is the
source
of language. Language is the evidence of true identity at
play in the world. In language you can infer the
presence of true
identity
but you can no more describe true identity using language than you can
grasp your right hand with your right hand,
no more than you can see your eyes with your eyes (without a mirror).
You are true identity whence language springs, which is
why using language to describe true identity is a no op
like using your
hand to grasp itself.
This all too real yet frequently maddening state of
affairs leads to naïve bon mots like "Those who
know don't tell; those who tell don't know". It's closer to the
truth to say "Those who know do tell by being
and by sharing; their focus on what they know
is of critical yet only of secondary importance.".
At
the heart of the matter,
transformation is a
contextual
shift in my awareness of
Self
as the
source
of my life, rather than as the end result of it. At
the heart of the matter,
transformation is a
contextual
shift in my sense of
who I really
am
as the space in which the events of my life occur, rather than
as an ongoing reaction to the events of my past. At
the heart of the matter,
transformation is a
contextual
shift in coming from false identity to coming from true
true identity. At
the heart of the matter,
of transformation, is a
contextual
shift from blaming my circumstances for the quality of my life, to
taking responsibility for my life - for all
of it regardless of the circumstances. At
the heart of the matter,
transformation is all of the above ... AND ...
transformation is the
clearing
for Life to be lived based on creativity rather than on change, for
Life to be lived based on choice rather than on coercion, for Life to
be lived based on what's possible for being in the future
rather than based on what's already happened.
I want you to be crystal clear how I'm saying this. I'm saying
Werner Erhard
invented transformation by distingishing it then speaking
it in the same way as Sir Isaac Newton invented
gravity
by distinguishing it then speaking it in the same way as Professor
Albert Einstein invented relativity by distinguishing it then speaking
it in the same way as President John Fitzgerald Kennedy invented
landing a man on the
moon
by the end of the decade (then, by 1970) by distinguishing it like a
possibility then speaking it.