The Self That Lives and the Self That Observes: the Birth of Inner Freedom

Within each of us, two movements coexist. One lives: it feels, desires, reacts, and interprets the stage of life through the body and personality. The other observes. It is quieter, more subtle, often forgotten. It is the part that sees what is happening without intervening, without judging, without identifying.

When these two levels coincide—when you live and, at the same time, watch yourself living—a new quality of awareness is born. You are no longer fused with what you feel, yet neither are you distant or absent. You are inside the experience and, at the same time, anchored in a stable point that holds it.

This distinction changes everything. As long as you are identified with emotions, thoughts, and roles, they govern you. They become who you are and determine what you do. But the moment the observing Self awakens, what once seemed like an inevitable impulse returns to being a possibility. Automatism loses its power.

Presence creates an inner distance that is not separation, but freedom. Body, emotions, and mind cease to be definitions and return to being instruments. The Self emerges as a conscious center, capable of orienting, choosing, and creating.

Many moments of crisis are not failures, but thresholds. They are cracks through which something more authentic tries to emerge. When old images of yourself no longer hold, when roles begin to crumble, when you can no longer lean outward, the possibility of leaning inward is born. And it is there that the center can be reborn.