Written by David Hall

Category: The Human Experience

Published: 18 September 2026

Restriction, boundaries and limitation seem to be common aspects of this world. They refer to the same thing, of course. Limitation, boundaries, restriction, separation and division, are the same sense of beginnings and ends in the world, where one thing ends, has a limit or boundary, and another thing begins. And where these beginnings and endings seem to appear they form a distinction between one thing and another.

Let's consider some examples. A vehicle may be restricted from driving over a certain speed limit. It reaches that point and cannot go beyond it. A kitchen will have its boundaries, and where we walk through a doorway out of the kitchen another room or hallway begins. We all know about life and death. It seems we, or these human bodies, are born, live for a time then die. There appear to be limits on the life of the human body and there appear to be boundaries of each human body. The human body is restricted in what it can achieve. For example, there are boundaries to what the eye can see and limits to how fast the body can run.

But none of these boundaries or restrictions are true limits. There is no clear divide between a kitchen and the next room. We can say there is a doorway, but there is only a vague definition of where the kitchen ends and where the next room begins. These ideas of 'kitchen', 'hallway', 'living room', 'bedroom' and so on are human made definitions without any clearly defined edges. It is the same with the human body. We can't really say where the hand ends and the arm begins. There isn't really a divide.

We can't say at what point life starts in a human body, because life is there before the body developed. It is life that develops the body throughout, and life continues when the body 'dies'. When the mental activity ceases and the body can no longer function, it doesn't suddenly lose life. It is life that continues through the body's decomposition. But even aside from that, our idea of who we are based on the limits of the human body are flawed. There are no true limits, only vague ideas of limits. There is no boundary to the body that separates it from the world. The body is a flowing, interactive quality of the planet. It may seem that air separates one person from another, but the different humans and animals and the air they breathe are the planet. They never truly become limited and separate from the planet. Our ideas about boundaries are flawed.

The human body may be restricted when locked within a room of solid walls. The body can't get through the walls because of its relative density compared to the wall. But the wall and the body are not wholly truly restricted or impervious. Restrictions can only appear relatively. A 'body' that was made of a less dense form may well be able to glide through walls, just as radio waves can travel through brick walls.

The point here is that restriction, boundaries and limitations are not as real as they are generally presumed to be. They are not real. There are truly no limitations to Life. Restrictions in the world are only relative. Boundaries and limitations do not really exist. The world is infinite and indivisible. You are not limited. You are not a human body, because there is no clear boundary to any human body. You are all that is. It is the activity of the mind that thinks and believes that it is restricted and limited as a human body.

There is never really a divide between you and the world. You don't have any limits or restrictions. There is only the Whole. There is only That which seems to appear as many by aid of restriction and limitation. But it is never truly divided or restricted.

Written by David Hall

Category: The Human Experience

Published: 28 August 2026

What is identity? It's the sense of who I am. It's the mind's sense of what the mind thinks I am. How accurate is the mind? Well, it might think it's accurate. Some minds think they are always right. Some minds don't know. Some minds are more open to the possibility of being wrong. The truth is that the mind can never accurately know anything. Knowledge is never as accurate as the thing itself.

For example, let's consider knowledge of a square shape. We may have knowledge about its dimensions, and we can work out its perimeter and area from that. We have a name for the square and it may be a certain colour. We can know a lot about the square, but none of that knowledge is the square itself. Knowledge is only relative. The measurements and ideas of colours and shapes are all relative: they are human-made and relate to other ideas of dimensions, shapes and colours. Knowledge is like a language of description for 'things' as we perceive them. Knowledge can be close to truth or far from truth. If we describe the square as having sides of unequal length then that would be inaccurate according to the human accepted idea of what a square is. It would be relatively far from truth.

What does this all mean in relation to identity? It means that the human idea of identity may be close to or far from truth, and at best it is a relative description of something, not reality. The idea of who we are can be close to accurate or far from accurate, but the idea can never be wholly accurate. The idea or knowledge cannot be the thing. Knowledge of who I am cannot really be who I am.

It should also be noted that this idea of identity, the sense or notion of being someone, is observed. We observe the mind thinking. The mind thinks that we think thoughts, but we see this idea too. We see the mind thinking that I am thinking. The truth is we cannot perceive ourself. The eye cannot see the eye. We can perceive the mind's idea of who I am. But this is not who we are.

If we trace back who we really are we come to the root of experience, the heart of where we are perceiving and knowing from. Who is it that knows knowledge? It is the one that perceives the knowledge ideas. It is the same one that perceives the identity. Every breath you take, every move you make, every thought you think, it's not you. You perceive breathing, moving and thinking. You are not these.

This identity idea is what we call the ego. We perceive the ego. It is not who we are. We are deeper than that. We are that in which the ego appears and disappears. We are that which remains still whilst witnessing change. We are that which remains present throughout all apparent movement. We are not this or that, something that can be perceived. We are that which ultimately perceives all. We are the Consciousness in which all perception takes place.

The identity idea or ego must be discarded as an inaccurate sense of self. But the seemingly hardened or strongly defined ego does not want to let go. It holds on, refusing to believe it is wrong. It has developed out of a defence mechanism for survival in a world of competing forces. It seeks to keep itself alive. It hardens its defences and repels anything that may harm it. Then along comes reality, smashing down its defences, telling it that it is wrong. Telling it that it's not what it thinks it is. This is the wakeup call to the new freedom. The true freedom.

We are not what the mind thinks we are. We are that in which the human mind is evolving and moving towards an open clarity of Infinite Consciousness. We are That.