You think you are a limited individual experiencing swings between pain and pleasure, struggle and freedom, lack and abundance. Your real nature is peace without change, happiness without cause, love without conditions, and freedom without bounds.
You think you are a transient being confined by time and space. Your real nature is ever-present, timeless, and boundless.
Even though your real nature is already here, now, your present experience is still that of limitation and transience.
For this reason, it helps to undertake the transformative journey to being YOU.
These ten truths are helpful pointers to the wisdom that takes you and keeps you on your journey through self-care and healing, self-transformation, and eventual Self-Realization.
1. Great Power is Innate
There is a great power within you. Where is it? Your inner power is where inner peace is.
2. Healing is Innate
You have an innate ability to heal. The source of this healing ability is your own inner power. i.e., The power to heal is not external to you. Rather, healing emanates and flows from your inner power. (See: You can Heal)
3. Bliss is Innate
Your inner power is the reservoir of unchanging peace, unconditional love, and causeless happiness. Bliss isn't a fleeting, substance-induced or experience-induced experience. Your inner power is bliss. All experiences of peace, love, happiness, and freedom arise from that bliss within you.
4. Wisdom is Innate
Your inner power unfolds as clarity and wisdom, courage and strength, creativity and compassion. How so? Each of these traits are present where inner peace is. (See The Secrets of Inner Peace)
5. Fulfillment is Innate
Since wisdom and bliss are innate, everything you need for creative problem-solving, wise decision-making, and taking powerful actions, exists within you as your inner power. In turn, everything you need to succeed is within you, as is the fulfillment you want to experience in life.
6. Silence is the Key
Your inner power is ever-present, and it is in the silence of the heart. It rises in and as the overlooked experience of calmness. Cultivating silence is the foundational practice that grants access to your inner power. (See The Peace Practice)
7. Practice Unleashes Perfection
A steady practice of cultivating silence and adjunct practices such as cultivating gratitude help you connect with your inner power and unleash it as a steady life experience. Your inner power is already indescribably perfection. That perfection unfolds through steady practice.
8. Continuously Improve Heart-Mind
You can be a better form of yourself today than yesterday. The Japanese phrase, Shin Shin Kaizen, clearly expresses this notion of continuous improvement of heart-mind. In establishing yourself in your inner power, through the process of continuous self-transformation, it isn't that you add or gain more, it is that you steadily lose what is unnecessary and useless, and what veils your inner power.
9. Through Silence, Know Yourself
The consistent cultivation of focused silence serves as a powerful preparatory practice, opening the door to the experiential realization of your true nature. Self-inquiry, known as Atma Vichara in Sanskrit, precipitates and solidifies Self-Realization. (See Guidance for Self-Realization)
10. Enlightenment is Unavoidable
You already are the real YOU. How can you not be? This seeming journey to Being YOU is unavoidable - everyone gets to it sooner or later. Living as yourself, as your true self, is to be the One without a second. This is already what is, as it is. This is Enlightenment (a stateless state of No otherness, Nirvana aka Liberation). Enlightenment is unavoidable because you are already that Great Bright Light.
These ten truths are pointers to your inner essence, and how you can realize it and reclaim it in your journey to being YOU. Everyone's journey to being their authentic self is different. The starting points are different. So also is the path they follow. Common elements in most people's journey to their essence include: self-care and healing, continuous self-transformation, and eventual Self-Realization.
Don't treat this as a piece of knowledge or wisdom and be satisfied with it. These are pointers and work only when you follow them in your direct experience. i.e., Go where they are pointing you to, in your own experience.