Do you see yourself? Do I?
Look in the mirror. OK. Yeah. There you are, I am.
Now look inward. How?
Probably the toughest question. In our minds we exist in a verbal way, in a visual way, and no way.
So in actuality to look inward is much like meaning, a personal subjective point of view.
When I look inward I am aware of certainties.
Certainties of fact, feeling, thought and opinion.
Leads me to a my way or the highway type of mentality though I am really the most open minded person I know, too open minded.
So there you have it. Nothing.
The result of seeing yourself is that you can then know yourself. Sometimes some people find the facts about themselves to be surprising. Sometimes they are expected. I would say that most times most of us really don’t see ourselves. When we do, its a problem for the most part for then the ego slips away. . .
I know some who are always down on themselves. I think that is really a way to avoid an appearance of vanity, which results in revealing. . . vanity. This is not an ego free mode of being. On the contrary.
So why are they down on themselves? Michael Freemire suggests there is an unconscious element to free will.
Then there are those who are completely vain. As you may have supposed that is the same as being down on yourself. So we have inferiority complexes and superiority complexes, two sides of the same coin, and we have. . . . truth. That is the goal.
How can you see yourself, then, without subjectivity? The tough question referenced above, for our own awareness comes from the chemical dance going on in our physical bodies, a dance that must by definition filter all of our perceptions rendering them subjective, however, if we think of our awareness like a window, or camera, and we then point that view back on ourselves objectivity is obtainable.
So step on out and see yourself.
The truth will follow.