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If someone told you that all you really were was just pure awareness and that this was your true self would you think they were completely mad? Just before you totally leave this post please take a few moments to consider something freakily new.

The only thing we truly experience is here right now, that is the present moment. We may think of the past but it’s not really the past is it, why??, because i’m thinking of it right now aren’t I. There is the illusion that it’s in the past but it isn’t. It’s only here right now. What am i saying?. I’m saying that the present moment is our one and only true reality of what we are experiencing.

Yes, we can argue quite successfully that ‘now’ is reality and as we experiencing the ‘now’ moment we are experiencing that experience. So in effect we are an experiencer of experiences. What is it that allows us to experience this present moment? Our awareness, we must have a n awareness of what is mustn’t we? Therefore what is our real self?

It is simply pure awareness that is only aware of the ‘now’ moment, the present moment you might say. This is why we say things like “I have a body” and not ” I am a body”. We often talk in ‘I’ terms but this mysterious ‘I’ is simply pure awareness operating.

What I am trying to make explicit is that we are all just awareness, pure timeless awareness that just is.

In fact allow me to go one step further if I dare and make the outrageous suggestion that this awareness is our true identity, it’s our true self. You don’t have to agree with me but i ask you to contemplate it for a few minutes.

I say again that all we are is pure awareness simply witnessing the changing moment and this is you essential identity.

Therefore we may be safe to assume that as everyone has the same essential awareness, even though personality characteristics may be different, that we are all one. Thats pretty heavy isn’t it?

Therefore we may live lives of paradox where we believe ourselves to be separate individuals living in time whereas we may actually be all connected awarenesses witnessing an ever changing flow.

Waking up to your essential identity as awareness does not negate your individuality though. In fact this realization allows you to be truly empowered as a person and therefore feel your individuality even more as a result.

Sounds crazy huh?. I’m just asking you to think about it for a few moments. Thats all

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