Where Are You?

A therapist asks her client a simple question: “Where are you right now?”

“I’m here,” he responds, confused by the obviousness.

“No—where are you?”

He tries again. “I’m sitting in this chair, in your office...”

She smiles. “That’s where your body is. I asked where you are.”

This seemingly simple inquiry reveals something startling. We spend our entire lives utterly convinced we are this mind-body entity. Every thought centers around “me”—my problems, my feelings, my story, my relationships, my life. We’re so thoroughly identified with this name and form that the question “where are you?” seems absurd.

Yet look closely at this moment. Right now, there’s an awareness present that knows you’re reading these words. This awareness isn’t located anywhere. It has no boundaries, no position in space. It simply... is.

So where did “you” go? The one so certain about being this specific person with this particular life?

As A Course in Miracles asks: “Who is the ‘you’ who are living in this world?” The answer to that question—and what we discover when we start looking for the “me” we’re so sure exists—changes everything.

Join me in Thursday’s class where we’ll explore this investigation into the nature of self and discover what happens when we can’t find what we’ve been hiding. I look forward to seeing you then.