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Conscious and purposeful self-discovery is the only way to get deep enough to find this true inner identity as an unshakeable reality. It may be helpful that at times the glass reflections become clear enough to see inside the store of our being, but this vision isn't enough to convince us that the objects seen there are really our own treasures. The same is true for being able to accurately assess the outer world. We may observe results but frequently find motives and causes to be opaque to us.

Really recognizing one's wealth means to enter into the store, to fully concentrate one's attention there by moving around each thing, uncontested. It means to be able to use the treasures there as one sees fit.

The rewards are great because our deeper identity isn't subject to the fears and uncertainties we often experience in our reflected surface identity. Our inner being is a true third standpoint independent of both the outer world and the reflecting surface of outer personality. If we glimpse the truth of this then we're left with the question of means. How do we learn to turn our gaze from time to time to really know where we've come from as well as where we're headed?

Meditation provides the approach for freeing our isolated surface sense of self by liberating it from its ignorance of its deeper nature. In accomplishing this we realign our reflected sense of self with our deepest inner nature - eventually changing everything. From then on we play and work in the world with a renewed sense of direction and wonder based on our own purposeful discoveries of the deepest truths.