Not You
Village principle #1 is "I am the One."
It is NOT "you are the one."
This simple misquotation is the first misunderstanding in a long line of misunderstandings which leads to the corruption of the truth of personal responsibility.
There is a sweetly efficient system in which I learn something new and then I look at the world to see where I can apply it.
I am the one! That means you are the one! Let me see where you can be the one more.
Then I skip over trying to BE what I just learned, and I go about trying to teach what I just learned.
My friend comes to me and shares her love quandry, and I say "you are the one! Here are the ways you can meet him open and devoted and curious!"
I go straight to teaching her how to be instead of being the one for her.
I am the one. My diagnosis is that this situation requires openness, devotion, curiosity, I know that because I judge that she should bring it. So when I apply "I am the one," I bring it.
How do I show what personally responsible love looks like on offer? How do I receive her openly, devotionally, with curiosity? How do I own doing whatever I think she should do so I can remember that I do not know what she should do? How do I offer her a platform so wide open that it's clear I trust her to know what she should do?
I am THE ONE.
I am the one to be what I know.
I am the one to be what I know for me.
I am the one to be what I know for them.
Even me personally, as I offer this teaching, I do not offer it to you as a way you can be. I offer it as the way I am being, and I show you what it's inspiring around me.
I am the one. I don't think you are the one. I think if you resonate with the idea "I am the one," you will pick it up, and the phrase will still be "I am the one."
I am the one. The first-person pronoun of this is essential. The first person verb form of TO BE. This is a matter of BEINGNESS.
I AM the one.
