Who Am I?

Cross Posted from www.RobMcNamara.com

The central inquiry we must all return to again and again is the perennial inquiry of selfhood, Who am I? 

This inquiry is central to those of us who are interested in investigating our Excellence as we make our way through life. When you stop asking yourself this core question you are intrinsically wedded to a fundamental misconception: you know who it is that you are. This seemingly innocent presumption to know yourself actually inhibits and stunts your overall development and thus caps your capacity to enact and articulate the Greatness that your life is demanding of you right now.

Your most fluid, efficient and effective self development depends upon your capacity to remain open. Falling into the assumption that you know yourself stagnates your self-system into a closed system. When you assume to know yourself you fall into your habituated conditioning and loop again and again playing out your central assumptions as to who you are and thus what you do in the world. While your conditioning is an important part of yourself, left to its own ends your conditioning will never step into the Excellence that your life requires.

Keeping the inquiry Who am I? alive connects you with your essential curiosity. By stepping into this fundamental question you step into your recognition that you fundamentally do not know who you are. Not-knowing connects you with the dimension of yourself that is open, unconditioned and deeply creative. The more frequently you ask yourself this question, the more deeply you can hold this inquiry alive in your heart the more open your self-system becomes. What results is the setting down of your presumptions and the picking up and inhabiting of your vital creative openness. 

Your life is demanding your Excellence or Greatness regardless of your awareness of this call. If you look around in your life you will see a life that is calling for more of you. Picking up this fundamental question as a part of your daily practice provides you with a simple yet highly effective strategy to cut through your assumptions and your habituated way of living your life. Feeling into the uncertainty and not-knowingness opens you to an alive seat of creative openness. 

Step into the creative novelty that your life and heart is calling for.

Cross Posted from www.RobMcNamara.com