When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Experience is not something we observe but something we embody; awareness is our core identity.
- In plain terms
- You are not separate from your experiences; you are the awareness itself.
- What can you take from it?
- Identify with awareness rather than external events.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Who are you when you stop identifying with thoughts?
- Can you separate yourself from your experience?
Another view
This view may conflict with beliefs in a separate self.
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