By Gonny How many times a day do you say the word I?
Try counting.
I want coffee. I don’t get it. I’m cold. I think you should. I love you.
And most of the time, we say it without blinking, as if we know exactly who we’re talking about. But do we?
The entire world seems to revolve around this tiny word.
I feel, I think, I want, I am right.
It’s like there’s a little commander in the cockpit of our body, with access to all the buttons and screens. But wait… who’s watching the screen?
According to A Course in Miracles, the I that identifies with the body, with its aches, opinions, loves and fears, is actually a mistake. Not a sin, not something to feel guilty about, just a simple misunderstanding.
We are not who we think we are.
We believe I is the one who gets up in the morning, searches for the bathrobe, makes breakfast, gets annoyed in traffic, says something nice at a birthday party, and goes to bed at night with a head full of thoughts. But all of that is temporary. It comes and goes. And anything that
comes and goes… cannot be you.
Because you…the real I…were already here before thought even began.
And when you strip away all the temporary stuff, what remains is not emptiness. It is pure Being. A quiet, radiant Presence that has nowhere to go, nothing to prove, and no one to convince.
Rupert Spira calls it “I is the Divine Name.” It’s not the little me, but the Great I AM.
The Course puts it this way:
“You are as God created you. Not what you made of yourself.”
And the beauty is: this truth is already here. Always. It doesn’t need a course, or a holy book, or a spiritual retreat in Peru. It just needs a moment of stillness and the willingness to say: What if I don’t really know who I am… but I am willing to remember?
Then something shifts. A gentle kind of miracle. The I is no longer a separate character in a big world full of other characters, but a glimpse of One Awareness recognizing Itself in everyone and everything.
And suddenly, the word I has a whole new sound.
No longer “me against the world,” but:
I am Love.
I am One.
I am as God created me.
And so are you.
With love and light,
G.