Many people have the feeling that deep down within themselves is an undiscovered greatness. They sense that an individuality of superhuman grandeur is struggling to be released from the limitations of human-hood. They have the nagging conviction that if only they could grasp this underlying identity—"the real me," as they sometimes call it—and bring it to light, they would understand the truth of themselves and gain a released sense of joy and satisfaction beyond anything they have ever known before.
This is no fantasy, no illusion of grandeur without foundation. The teachings of Christ Jesus support this conviction by declaring that the mortal selfhood we perceive with the physical senses is not all there is to man. Rather does mortal selfhood merely hint the existence of the sublime spiritual being who is the reflection and likeness of God, the great I am, and the actual reality of a person. Like the tip of the iceberg that indicates the presence of a mass eight times as great below the ocean's surface, the human evidence of good in a man or woman serves to alert us to the presence of a magnificent individual expression of God that exists and is the real, though humanly invisible, identity of that person.
And what is the nature of this sublime individuality underlying the human belief of man? Can we understand it here? Can we become acquainted with our true, spiritual selfhood and enjoy its unfettered glory and harmony in present experience? Can we know the real identity of our friends and the deep grandeur of their being?
