By Manal Ghosain

Who am I? Do you remember the first time you asked yourself this question?

I was a teenager when I first asked the question at a depth unfamiliar to me. I was washing my hands and then looked in the mirror. In that instant I felt a separation, something I never felt before.  There was my reflection in the mirror and here I was standing in front of it. Another part of me was watching the whole thing. And that is when I asked myself: who are you?

I felt I wasn’t only my body and thoughts, there was something else. I couldn’t understand it … I freaked out. I tried as much as possible to avoid this experience.

Much later I realized that unknowingly I awakened to the part of me that is much deeper … it was the silent witness within—the observer.

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