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When awareness has purified itself by directing its attention to its center where it is purely itself alone, it’s enthrallment in separation is broken, and its knowledge of universal oneness is restored, and the universe is then turned inside out so that the inside and the outside become one and the same, and everything is seen to be itself; where matter was, there now is pure spirit; where separation was there now is immanence and intimacy;  Where distance was there now is omnipresence; where time was there now is instantaneity, where form was there now are only the attributes of Truth, where perception was there is now creation, infinity unfurling its infinite possibility in an infinite expression of perfect coherence.

As Awareness you are infinite possibility intending to experience this one particular possibility that you experience yourself to be right now.  Let go of resisting it, wanting to change it, or judging it in any way, and suddenly all that finite definition feels as light as awareness itself, and, to your secondary delight, turns out to be as malleable as awareness as well. 

You have to BE awareness before you can think you’re something else.  That being the case, what’s the point in thinking you’re something else?

Awareness is greater than anything else you can know, because without it you can’t know anything.   

Awareness is greater than your thoughts, because without it there’d be no thoughts.  

Awareness is greater than experience, because without it there’d be no experience.

Awareness is the greatest thing about God, because without it God would know nothing.

Awareness is equal to Truth because without it Truth could never be known.

W-152.3. Salvation is the recognition that the truth is true, and nothing else is true.  = all = entire, total, complete, etc

Take the time out to contemplate your awareness.  The time you invest contemplating your awareness will bring you more spiritual rewards than any other way that you can invest your time.  Keep it simple.  Just sit quietly, eyes open or closed, and be aware of your own awareness.   Just be aware of your awareness.  That’s it.  Just be awareness aware of awareness.  Spend some time doing that every day.  Ten minutes here.  5 minutes there.  Nothing extreme.  Very simple.   Very easy.  If you will do this it will change your life.  It will.

As often as it occurs to you to do so, shift from ego identification to pure awareness, the observer self.  Return to the source, get centered in pure awareness, your Real Self.

Simply be pure awareness, observing, watching, and the mind and all it’s thoughts starts dispersing as though awareness were a light dispersing darkness.   Pure awareness, infinite emptiness, immensely beautiful, perfectly silent, luminous, fragrant, divine. 

 

Practice shifting from identifying with ego to identifying with pure awareness as often as you can, all the time, no matter what you’re doing.  Why do anything less.  To do anything less is to remain identified with the ego, which is to give the ego carte blanche to evoke havoc.  Why allow that, when you’re Real Self as pure awareness is always so effortlessly available?

 

You are the center of the cyclone, but you are too often not aware of your center. Become aware of your center, your pure awareness. 

Keep doing it.  Until you’re always identifying as your Real Self.  Until identifying as your Real Self becomes deeper and deeper, more and more vivid, more and more ecstatic, blissful, loving and all-encompassing. 

W-224.1. My true Identity is so secure, so lofty, sinless, glorious and great, wholly beneficent and free from guilt, that Heaven looks to It to give itself light. 5 This is reality, and only this. 6 This is illusion's end. 7 It is the truth.

W-287.1. 4 What treasure would I seek and find and keep that can compare with my Identity?

W-191.5. 3 For he who can accept his true Identity is truly saved.

The pure Self is the only Reality, the only Being.  There is no existence apart from this Selfhood. 

Where shall we look to see the Perfect only?  We shall look into Pure Awareness.  Pure Awareness is Heaven.  We shall see the Real by the Real, and know the Divine by the Divine.

I am awareness.  I am not what fills my awareness, I am not the content of my awareness, I am awareness itself, the ability to be aware of anything.  I am not a body, I am the awareness that is able to be aware of a body.  I am not a human, I am the awareness that is able to be aware of human identity.   This awareness is the very substance of God, and here it is the very substance of the I that I am.   

It’s now clear to me that the ONE thing that is true about me AND God is that both God and I are awareness.  I have come before the throne of God, the holy of holies, and it is the one thing about myself that I can be certain is true about me -- that I am.  I am on holy ground.   The One God of all reality, absolute and infinite, is here, present, as the very core of my own being, the center of myself I refer to with the word “I”. 

And in silence, in absolute stillness, I feel what it feels like for my awareness to be absolute, infinite Divinity.  

I. Statement of Being (Absolute Truth):

Truth is that which is so.  That which is not Truth, is not so.  Therefore, Truth is all there is.  The awareness that is right now seeing Truth to be All, must be itself the Truth that it’s seeing, because if it were something else other than Truth, it would have to be not Truth and hence wouldn’t exist.  So, awareness, or Mind, is the Truth that is all there is.  Now, that which is all there is, is therefore entire.  That which is entire is therefore total.  That which is total is therefore complete.  That which is complete is therefore whole.  That which is whole is therefore one.  That which is one is harmonious and Loving, for oneness is both the nature of harmony and the “action” of Love.  That which is harmonious and Loving is perfect.  That which is perfect is absolute.  That which is absolute is infinite.  And that which is infinite is everpresent and eternal.  So, Truth is all, entire, total, complete, whole, one, harmonious, Loving, perfect, absolute, infinite, everpresent, eternal awareness or Mind being all there is.  All of which is what God is, and why God is all there is besides which there can be absolutely nothing else.

II. Sense Testimony (beliefs about body):

1. Body is material and physical

2. Body is limited and local

3. Body can be ill or malfunction

4. Body can be injured or wounded

5. Body is a vehicle for interaction with environment

III. (revealing the Truth the beliefs were a lie about):

1. Awareness, Mind, God, is the Truth that is all there is.  Since there’s nothing physical or material about awareness, and since awareness is the Truth that is all there is, then it’s absolutely impossible for physicality or materiality to exist in any way, shape or form anywhere at all.  Since materiality is contrary to awareness, and awareness is Truth, materiality is therefore contrary to Truth, which means that it’s not Truth, which means that it’s not so, which means, again, that it absolutely can’t exist.  So whatever appears to be physical or material can only be thought or idea in awareness.  Consequently, all that the body can be is entirely thought or idea in awareness.

2. Since Truth, God, Mind is infinite and everpresent, that which is limited and local is therefore contrary to Truth, making it not Truth, not so, and hence non-existent.  Hence limitation and location are illusory lies about the infinity and everpresence of Truth.  And since Truth is all there is and all there can be, neither body or anything else can be limited and local.  Everything, including body, has to be infinite and everpresent.  Because God is all there is, God is therefore all there possibly can be to body.  So the belief that body is limited and local is actually a belief that God can be limited and local, which is nonsense.  Since God, then, is infinite and everpresent, and since God is all there is to body, then body therefore is infinite and everpresent.

3. Because God is all there possibly can be, God is all there possibly can be to the body.  So the belief that body can be ill or malfunction is actually a belief that God can be ill or malfunction, which is absolutely preposterous.  So, since God is all there can be to body, body, thus consisting of nothing else but God, can only function as perfectly as God.

4. Since Truth is absolutely whole and complete, wounds or injuries, being contrary to wholeness and completeness, are therefore contrary to Truth, and hence are not Truth, not so and hence non-existent.   Since Truth is all there is, the wholeness and completeness of Truth is therefore also all there is, besides which, then, there can be nothing else, and hence there can be no injury or wounds.  Because God is all there is, God is all there is to body.  So the belief that body can be wounded or injured is a belief that God can be wounded or injured, which of course is absurd.    So, since God is all there can be to body, body therefore has to be as whole, perfect and complete as God.

5. Because God is all there is, God is all there can possibly be to body.  So the belief that body is a vehicle for interaction with environment is actually a belief that God is a vehicle for interaction with environment.   But God cannot be a vehicle for something else because God is always all there is.  God always is all there is to body, environment and interaction, in and as Mind, which means that God is not the vehicle for, but the actual, absolute and infinite interaction between, and as, Infinite Mind and all it’s infinite manifestation of perfect, harmonious ideas, including body as idea, environment as idea and everything else as idea, the perfect interaction of All being always perfectly whole and one.  Body therefore is the perfect, harmonious, Loving interaction of All being perfectly whole and one in and as Mind.

IV. Summary (the combined results of step 3):

All that the body can be is entirely thought or idea in awareness, infinite and everpresent, functioning as perfectly as God, as whole, perfect and complete as God, the perfect, harmonious, Loving interaction of All being perfectly whole and one in and as Infinite Mind.

V. Conclusion (What body really is):

Body is the everpresent, harmonious and Loving interactive function of Mind, God,  knowing/being it’s infinite manifestation of ideas as perfectly whole and One.

Body is awareness manifesting wholeness and oneness

VI. Let body be awareness manifesting wholeness and oneness

VII. And body is awareness manifesting wholeness and oneness