We are Bigger Inside than we Realise

Posted on January 17, 2008
Filed Under Awareness, Spirituality, Consciousness |

Our Consciousness is Bigger Inside than we realise… Sometimes, I feel we are bigger inside than we give ourselves credit for. What do I mean by this? Well it’s one of those things that is difficult to put into words; but I am going to try. Most of the time in my day-to-day awareness, my mind has a central focus - that is, the place where our thoughts, feelings and emotions exist. It’s what most of us call ‘me’ or ‘I’.

When I sit quietly I can feel this part of me; the thoughts in my head, the mass of emotions which seem to permeate from my head through to the many different parts of my body, the information I receive from my senses - all of these things and more occur simultaneously within that place I call ‘inside’.

Sometimes all of that can feel overwhelming - I am sure many others feel like that from time to time. But at other times, I get a feeling which is very different. In those times, it is as though this ‘inside space’ which I call Me is but a tiny aspect floating on many different currents. In such moments the Me feels lost in a crowd of emptiness, or chaos, or other people. As though I am a fragment of self-conscious awareness lost in the turmoil of forever.

This is something that can be at once frightening and comforting. It is an unknown, and something which somehow suggests to me there is more to my mind, my consciousness, to me than I can fathom. We are bigger inside than we realize. We are more than just that mind and those thoughts, feelings and emotions. Those things swim on a vast ocean, and sub-consciously I think we are all aware of this sensation. It causes many people to be frightened of themselves; of that unknown which resides within. For others of us it is a curiosity, a wonder which can be a form of faith - we know there is more.

In the quiet depths of our mind exists that space which is more than the Me we all commonly associate with. Some people cling with desperation to that Me and call it their identity. Whilst others know it is just a single multifaceted aspect of us, with much more that is hidden.

For me that has always manifested as a struggle between associating myself with that so-called identity, or exploring the depths of that unknown. But that is merely the essence of a foolish conflict, it is the creation of two minds (Me and unknown) where in fact there is only a single mind - albeit one which is far vaster than we generally recognize.