You’ve heard it before, maybe dismissed it as spiritual fluff: “We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” But what if that’s not poetry—what if it’s the most practical truth you’ve been overlooking?
The Problem With Getting It Backwards
Most of us live as if we’re bodies that occasionally have spiritual moments. We identify completely with our thoughts, our pain, our stories, our roles. We think we are the anxiety, the anger, the fear. We think we are our mistakes, our achievements, our reputation.
But here’s what changes everything: you are the one observing all of that.
The Space Between
Right now, you’re reading these words. But who is doing the reading? Who is aware of your thoughts about these words?
There’s the thought, and then there’s the awareness of the thought. There’s the feeling, and then there’s the one noticing the feeling. That noticing—that awareness—never changes. It was there when you were five years old, and it’s here now. Your body has changed. Your beliefs have changed. Your entire personality may have shifted. But that quiet witness? Still here.
That’s what you actually are.
Why This Matters in Real Life
This isn’t about floating on clouds or denying your human experience. It’s about realizing you have a choice in how you relate to that experience.
When you know you’re the awareness—not the anxiety—the anxiety loses its grip. It’s still there, but you’re not drowning in it. You’re the sky, and the anxiety is weather passing through.
When you know you’re the light—not the body—physical pain doesn’t define you. It hurts, yes, but it’s not who you are.
When you know you’re consciousness temporarily wearing a human suit, the petty dramas start looking smaller. The grudges, the need to be right, the fear of what strangers think—it all loosens.
What You Can Do Right Now
You don’t need to believe anything. You just need to notice.
Notice the space. Between thoughts, there’s a gap. That gap is you.
Notice the observer. When you’re upset, pause and ask: “Who is aware that I’m upset?” That awareness is you.
Notice what doesn’t change. Your circumstances shift constantly, but the presence behind your eyes—the one looking out at the world—that’s steady. That’s you.
The Kindest Truth
Here’s why this matters most: if you’re light having a human experience, then so is everyone else. The person who hurt you? Light in a confused human suit. The person you envy? Light who forgot what they are. The person you dismissed? Light you didn’t recognize.
And you—with all your flaws and fears and failures—you’re light too. You always have been. You just forgot for a while.
The human experience is real. The pain is real. The joy is real. But you are not only that experience. You are the infinite awareness experiencing it all.
And once you start living from that place—even just a little bit—everything shifts.
Not because your problems disappear, but because you remember what you actually are. And that remembering? That’s the quietest, most profound mercy of all.
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