What we truly are is not describable as a thing or a limited entity – this is the truth that many of our awakened sages have shared, from Christ to Krishna. And yet, our identification with certain descriptions of ourselves and our personal histories seems unavoidable: I am a mixed (Black, perhaps Indigenous, and White) American male, currently residing in Ontario, Canada. But although we can speak this way, the heart of our teachers’ messages seems to point us back to our shared core of love and light. We are light because it is our open consciousness that perceives the world, dreams, and life, and we are love because our very nature accepts all as one with itself. However, we’ve lost these truths of ourselves by taking an entrenched stand with one in-group or another, finding that we feel separated from those outside of them and especially those who judge and reject them.