The Body in the Mirror
Without question, the one “thing” to which we give the greatest value, out of all proportion, is the “thing” we see when we look in the mirror. The body in the mirror is not our Identity, any more than Macbeth is the identity of the actor playing that role.
The one and only Identity is That which is being the consciousness that perceives the body in the mirror. Awareness is the action-activity of That which is being the body in the mirror, the mirror itself, the door frame, the house, the world and the entire universe, every bit included in (as) the Awareness that looks in the mirror.
Identity, then, is infinitely more than a single outline in the consciousness of images and things. As a matter of fact, Identity has no more to do with a particular body-outline than the picture hanging on the wall. The Identity-being-I is being every object of perception.
It is well, we say again, that.the images in the mirror (and all other objects of perception) are neither real nor unreal; they are nothing in themselves. The “value,” the “something,” is That which is being images! The “That” is Reality, Supernal Isness, God.
From: A Guide to Awareness & Tranquillity, by William Samuel