Shifting Into the Self You’ve Always Been

Cerished Friend, dear Reader,

In this week's Soul-Letter, I want to explore a question that sits at the very center of the spiritual journey: Who are you, really?

Not the surface identity, not the story you tell, not the roles you play, but the deeper presence that moves through all of it.

We often think of ourselves as a single, fixed self, a defined personality with a limited set of abilities and qualities. Yet if we look closely, we begin to notice something far more mysterious: it is the same "you" who walks, who listens, who speaks, who observes.

The same silent presence behind every movement, behind every thought, behind every moment of awareness.

The One-Mind expresses itself through your steps, through your voice, through your seeing. 

You are not doing these things, you are the field in which they appear.

You are the listener and the listening, the seer and the seeing, the walker and the walk.

"The real question is not who you think you are, but who is the one thinking."

We spend so much time learning information that does not nourish the soul: facts, assumptions, and opinions that clutter the inner space. Yet the deeper work is not about collecting more knowledge; it is about clearing the noise so the essential can reveal itself.

When you become devoted to inner truth, The Great Spirit offers you only what you need, never what your ego wants.

Wanting comes from insecurity, from comparison, from fear.

Needing comes from alignment, from the natural intelligence of life guiding you toward what already belongs to you.

That is why surrender is so essential. Surrender is not giving up, it is giving in to your own vastness. It is loosening the grip on the small, fearful identity that insists,  "I am only this." But the truth is far more extraordinary.

There are countless versions of you already alive in the great expanse of existence, the painter, the healer, the scientist, the teacher, the poet, the mystic. These aspects of you are not distant futures; they are present potentialities.

"The present moment contains all that you have ever been and all you could ever become."

We believe talent requires years of training because we think in a straight line: past, present, future. But linear time is only a habit of the mind.

The One-Mind does not move in years; it moves in presence. And in presence, every potential of your being already exists.

What blocks these possibilities is not time, it is attachment. Attachment to one narrow definition of yourself. Attachment to an identity shaped by comparison, fear, or pride. The small self says, "I am just this," either out of inferiority or superiority.

But the deeper truth is simple:

You are not the identity, you are the field of infinite identities.

You are not the role, you are the consciousness playing every role.

You are not a single self, you are an unfolding of countless potentials, all accessible now.

So ask yourself gently:

Where have I restricted who I am?

Which version of myself is waiting for my permission to emerge?

What possibilities have I placed outside my reach simply because my mind thinks in years instead of presence?

Sit with these questions.

Let The Great Spirit show you not who you were told to be, but who you actually are. You might be surprised by the vastness that has been quietly waiting within you.

With love and spacious presence, 

Bear Saorin

The One Mind Sanctum

Until next time, may you walk gently into all the selves that are already yours.