Transcript of Exercise: Who Am I?
Inner work Exercise. This gives you a taste of some of the inner work done regularly during the course
Rainer Maria Rilke in Letters to a young poet:
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given you now, because you would not be able to live them.
The point is to live everything. Live the questions now.
Perhaps then, someday fart in the future, you will without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
A Verse by Rudolf Steiner may be used for inspiration such as:
More radiant than the sun
Purer than the snow
More subtle than the ether
Is the Self
The spirit in my heart.
I am that Self
That Self am I.
Meditation
Who Am I
Sit upright with your spine straight. Feel the connection with the ground beneath you and the sky above you.
Notice your body in space. Feel the weight of your body on the chair, your feet on the floor.
Feel your body and think.
“I am my body but I am more than my body. Who am I?”
Then notice all the things you do, all the actions you take and think
”I am what I do but I am more than what I do . Who am I?”
Again notice what you feel, how you feel and all the myriad of different feelings that pass through you each day and say to yourself”
“I am what I feel, but I am more than my feelings.
Who am I?”
Again I am what I think. I have many thoughts constantly.
“I am what I think but I am ,more than my thinking .
Who am I?”
Hold the question, open yourself to the mystery of life and allow the question to live through your life.