I am Before My Experience Is
I Am is the primordial presence — the pure being that exists before any story, role, or experience is added. Long before we said, I am sleeping, I am anxious, or I am a father, there was simply I Am . I am NOT the furniture in a room, I am not the window in a room, I am not the walls in the room, I am not the space inside the room. I AM the space in which all these appear. Much after, the furniture and walls are removed, I the Space will always be there, as I was always there. This I Am is not an activity, not a state, not a relationship. It is the silent fact of existence itself — self-aware, formless, unconditioned. Experiences come and go - sleep passes into waking, anxiety fades into calm, roles change with time. Yet I Am remains, untouched by what is added to it. To remember this is to come home — to know that our essence is not in what we do, feel, or possess, but in the sheer presence of being. That is who we are. Before sleeping was, before waking was, ...
