No intellect denies that you are,
but no one gives completely into that.
This is not a place where you are not,
yet not a place where you are seen.
If our intellect is utilised accordingly it initially turns into one of the most useful faculties in regards to our own possible inner evolution, as well as changing our state of being. But only initially.
As Rumi teaches, it is a matter of fact that the intellect can't deny that you are, yet there are hesitations in its ability of understanding to except this as an actual fact or the truth. It easily can rationalise that we are our physical body, or that we are our thoughts depending where we have placed our feeling of 'I', yet it is not in the potential of the intellect to be able to grasp and understand the sheer dimension of the idea that you are.
Only when we rise above our intellect and formative way of thinking, will we be able to start understanding what this means, i.e. we have to rise onto another level of consciousness that allows us to experience the greatness and simplicity of that you are. It is our intellect, which will be required to get us there initially. This takes place by means of exploring and studying all sorts of different influences, concepts and systems until we come across specific universal teachings that work with the idea of self-remembering as well as ideas of different states of consciousness.
After that conscious effort has to be implemented to try to remember to remember to self-remember. Once we have accumulated a sufficient amount of imprints of the state of self-remembering, we will realise that this is not a place where we are not, and we experience that we have become so much more than we had been before. We have risen above a great amount of inhibiting limitations.
Also we realise that this state of being is not the place where we will be seen, we finally have completely given into that.
Copyright © Alexander Filmer-Lorch May 2012 all rights reserved
On another note, the content of the article following this link highlights the increasing interest many people have in universal teachings. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17997163
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