Who are you anyway?
The very act of watching yourself in a mirror and also your ability to reflect on yourself means that there are two: the watcher and the watched. The first one being the Subject, the second one the object(s). The objects are: your face in the bathroom mirror, your name on your business card, a description of how you look like, what kind of person other people believe you are, what kind of body you (seem to) have, the story of your life, what kind of personality you think you have, and so on. These are a few examples of images passing by in your awareness when you think about yourself, when you look at yourself in the mirror or when you look at a passport photo.
The question is, are you one of those snapshots? Are you such an image? Really? Are you a concept that appears in your mind during a split second? Or are you That which is beyond time? Check it out. Are you what others have told you that you are? Are you Subject or a passing object? Which one do you really are?
If you allow the idea of not being one of the objects appearing but the Subject Itself, this means that the person you usually think you are is also an object passing by! The separate person you believe to be is just a character in a movie. It is just an image on the screen. Strange, isn't it? Although everyone told you that you are a person living inside that body, although memory puts all your characteristics together in one bag, although your senses confirm you through pain and pleasure that this body is your permanent home, although you have learned to identify yourself with that bag of flesh and thoughts, you may discover another possibility. And when you (who?) check it out right away you may see that you can't find this person inside of you. There is indeed nobody home!
So, you are not what others told you that you are, you are not the reflection you see in the mirror, you are not that person described by your friends and relatives, you are not what you think you are, you are That in which all these images and concepts arise. It is the Light in “your” movie. One Light shining through and as all.