What About The World We See?
May 29th, 2007 by Pete
All that we can know is what appears to us in immediate experience. And that which appears (whether it be a thought, feeling, perception or any other experience) has no separate and independent existence apart from the awareness which cognizes it.
Since awareness and objects always appear together, they must be the same in essence. How many thoughts, feelings or perceptions can you have outside of awareness? They are inseparable.
Everything that appears arises from, exists upon and returns into awareness. Even time, space and seeming external objects are present experiences contained in your knowing presence.
There is nothing separate and apart from this—ever. In fact, there is just this — only this inescapable presence-awareness. You are that.
From ‘You Were Never Born’ by John Wheeler
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