The Three Questions

At any point, we can modify the reflection so that it will better reflect the truth. We can stop assuming we know better than anyone else and start to ask questions. We can stop insisting that we’re right. It’s not a sign of weakness to surrender the need to know. We can even question our own knowledge. We can disregard our own advice and trust life more. We alter the face of me. By adopting energy’s point of view, we let go of our small obsessions. By seeing beyond our own concerns, we can appreciate the infinite landscape

It’s simple enough to remind ourselves that we’re dreaming all the time, even as we go through an ordinary day. Other people are dreaming too, and their reality is based on what they think is true. It has nothing to do with us, unless we agree that it does

When we’re awake, our dream is typically based on real events, but we each interpret events differently. We see and hear things according to our particular beliefs and assumptions. As we’ve seen, everyone believes the “president” no matter what he or she is saying—and we all obey laws that exist within our personal reality

We look in a glass mirror to get an idea of how our bodies look. We depend on an accurate reflection, but we always get some degree of distortion. The mind reflects the truth in its particular way. It sees through the filter of existing ideas and opinions. It sees what it has been taught to expect.

Stop thinking—and you’re able to observe, listen, and feel. The truth is obvious in everything you see and experience. Be still for a moment. Can you hear the voice of me commenting on this moment? It might be explaining what you’re reading right now or planning what to do when you stop reading. It might be distracting itself, making comments about someone else—what she did, what he said. Maybe it’s enjoying conversations that haven’t happened and are unlikely ever to happen

The mind uses information received by the brain to create a picture of reality

Close your eyes, and you can feel energy moving through you. You can feel it running under your skin, making it warm. Notice your breath, your heartbeat, your flickering eyelids. Move your fingers, your legs, your head, and feel the power that commands every motion. That power is life, flowing into all the little universes of you. Every emotion is real. Every sensory perception is telling you the truth. The thoughts that manipulate your emotions are not real.

BY TRYING TO answer the question “Who am I?” you can begin to discern who you are not. You are not your body, but you are the guardian of its welfare and integrity. You are not the stories you tell about yourself. You are not the main character of those stories, but you believe you are—so completely that you are sometimes willing to defend its point of view with your life. You are not your mind, but you are responsible for the message it delivers to your body. You are also responsible for the message it delivers through your body to the rest of humanity

Reliable leaders take care of their country—their body—first. Aware leaders will not believe the lies they tell themselves. Effective leaders don’t submit to fear or intimidation. The mind leads because we allow it to lead. We believe in the character it created and allow it to speak on our behalf. We believe its opinions and its recollections, but me does not represent the truth.

We can become our own champion and best friend, refusing to suffer—whatever the circumstance