Awareness Delivers

1154 Chalet… The Enos Home… The Early Days

‘I am’ itself is God. The seeking itself is God. In seeking you discover that you are neither the body nor mind, and the love of the self in you is for the self in all. The two are one. The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.
-Nisargadatta Maharaj

Our conditioning, which we naturally accept as children but seldom, if ever, question as adults, creates all human difficulty.

From birth, we’re conditioned by parents, teachers, and culture to believe that we are not the wholeness of life itself, but an individual.

Once the idea of being an individual becomes firmly established, living becomes a struggle to preserve the false sense of identity.

And we all know how that works out.

Awareness delivers freedom, the freedom to change conditioned responses.

“With awareness there comes choice. And so you are able to say: ‘I allow this moment to be as it is’. And then, suddenly, where before there was irritation, there is now a sense of aliveness and peace. And out of that comes right action.”  -Eckhart Tolle

For the simple reason that awareness is free of conflict, the more you know you are aware, day after day, the happier you will be. 

Sit quietly for a bit. Your eyes are open but not focused on anything. Be silently aware of only your body.

Know you are aware. Feel the sense of knowing, of life itself, that is in the awareness.

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To know, without evaluating, is freedom.