Does your inner Self actually exist?

Everyone has had experiences with his inner Self, only you may not have considered as yet to make any distinction when describing your total of experiences between your personality and your Self. This is quite natural, especially since it is likely that most of your attention is presently focused on the personality aspect, and your inner Self experiences can be easily labeled as exception or used for his own good. This surely creates heavy clouds over the two irreconcilable elements which you have taught yourself to call 'you'. When you do not make the distinction as mentioned, you can uphold the thought that there is only one 'you'. However, by naming the differences between these aspects, it becomes more and more clear which part is unchangeable 'you' (which then needs a label, here it is called your inner Self) and those things you create as temporary experiences (which you could name personality). So it is nothing new, it serves you to increase your insight what 'you' are made of, which in return offers you many opportunities for personal growth: e.g. you might want to change the amount of attention you focus on one of these aspects, you become familiar with the underlying mechanisms and find out that there is a choice you can make, you can use it to review your experiences from a new perspective, etc.

An important key in this story can be found in the fact that you use the same abilities that you can use for remembering your Self, with equal ambition for forgetting your Self. So the intensity with which you 'forget', does not qualify for the truth about the forgetting process, it only shows that you have used your mental abilities mainly for this purpose at the moment.

Should you stop, even for a brief moment, with all personality issues, there would not be 'nothing' (even though your personality does not like this perspective). You will find there is still a perception of bodies and situations and mental capacity, only you no longer use these for actively creating a personality world and uphold it. What you experience in that moment is your Self. The fact alone that it is possible to create such a moment, should have you doubt your identification with the personality as 'you' instantly. However, your personality ingeniously turns things around by stating: I have made myself forget who I really am and I am very good at that, 'so' I am a personality.