I Am Not My Roles

I Am Not My Roles

I have an identity behind the roles that I play in my life, a me that is constant, unchanging and connected to universal oneness or soul. Today I will allow myself to breathe deeply, detach from whatever role I am playing and rest in an eternal sense of self.

I am more than my roles.

The relative reality of these various identities (are) "real" only in relation to the situation which calls them forth. But if all of our identities are only relatively real, coming and going as circumstance warrants, is there any part of us that remains steady and stable behind all our roles? If we observe our own minds at work, we see that behind all these identities is a state of awareness that incorporates them all and yet is still able to rest behind them. As we loosen the hold of each identity so that we don't get completely lost in it, we are able to remain light and loose - able to play among these various aspects of being without identifying exclusively with any. We don't have to be anybody in particular. We don't have to be "this" or "that." We are free simply to be.
Ram Dass and Paul Gorman