My position is unique.
I am the only one who can find what I am in my own first-person experience. I am the only one who can see what I am here at the center, as Douglas Harding says it.
I am the only one who can give the confused parts of me what they really want. I am the only one in the position to directly meet my experiences, and do so with respect, kindness, patience, and gentle curiosity.
I am my own final authority. I am the one who decides how to relate to what others say and do.
I am the only one who can be a good steward of my own life.
I am the only one who can live my life.
Similarly, I am the only one who can create suffering and delusion for myself.
I am the only one in the perfect position to do all of this.
And that’s how it is for each of us.