What is your real identity? (Walking Through Illusion, Thompson)

    "Names, titles, and places lose their validity as soon as you leave the human plane.  The emotion behind them lasts forever."  Betsy Otter Thompson

     Vrotskuv was a soldier who delivered prisoners to the sites of their crucifixion.  He led Jesus in the Bible, Thompson, begins to explain in Walking Through Illusion.  As Vrotskuv is escorting Jesus, their eyes meet and he receives a special message, "We are all in charge of ourselves in the love of God forever."  The feeling was infinite and full of love.  He was expecting hatred and anger from the man he was leading to his death.  This encounter changed Vrotskuv's life forever.  He continued to search for this feeling because in it he felt he found himself.  Thompson points out that this was the theme that kept recurring, "We always find ourselves in the people we face."  He learned that day to continue to look for the love in people, the godliness in everyone in order to feel the connection he had that day with Jesus, with God.
      I was just telling Nate, my boyfriend, that I can see we have the same flaws in many different areas of life.  It's almost awkward.  It really is true that we can see ourselves in other people; the love, the hate, the good and the bad.  Nate was sharing with me that I am a pessimist about our relationship while I shared with him that he is a pessimist of other people.  It was ironic.  We could both see the pessimism in each other and we both didn't like it yet we both are that way.  Interesting...