I KNOW YOU NOW !!
Sometimes I’ve had the silliest, darnedest things to contend with –
issues of vanity
or total loss of self-confidence.
They weren’t ever pretty.
Why me? I was so committed. So … so …
So lost!
Thinking I could help untold millions!
I couldn’t even keep a consistent
spiritual conviction through breakfast!
Well, all that’s changed and changing!
I know you now.
Better than I ever used to.
You’re no more, nor less
than my-Self.

In order to understand Cynthia’s – and Vimala’s – intended meaning, it’s necessary to regard Self (capital ‘S’) as God or Consciousness that indwells us all. At first I resisted this, but that IS the INTENDED meaning. (I will admit that there is danger in assuming that ‘self’ (small ‘s’ or ego ) is intended where it is not. )

Cynthia Stebbins:
If one’s attention is turned away from external object’s of the sense’s, and focused on the Light of Self, that is the true Vision of Reality.
~Vimala Raj Menon