Whenever you are present

Having access to that formless realm is truly liberating. It frees you from bondage to form and identification with form. It is life in its undifferentiated state prior to its fragmentation into multiplicity. We may call it the Unmanifested, the invisible Source of all things, the Being within all beings. It is a realm of deep stillness and peace, but also of joy and intense aliveness. Whenever you are present, you become "transparent" to some extent to the light, the pure consciousness that emanates from this Source. You also realize that the light is not separate from who you are but constitutes your very essence.

- Eckhart Tolle

The fleeting "I", who is aware of it

The mind is incessantly looking not only for food for thought; it is looking for food for its identity, its sense of self. This is how the ego comes into existence and continuously re-creates itself.

When you think or speak about yourself, when you say, "I", what you usually refer to is "me and my story". This is the "I" of your likes and dislikes, fears and desires, the "I" that is never satisfied for long. It is a mind-made sense of who you are, conditioned by the past, and seeking to find its fulfillment in the future.

Can you see that this "I" is fleeting, a temporary formation, like a wave pattern on the surface of the water.

Who is it that sees this?

Who is it that is aware of the fleetingness of your physical and psychological form?

Cow Lakshmi Day - June 23, 2010

Stillness speaks

Your innermost sense of self, of who you are , is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.

Stillness is your essential nature.

-- Eckhart Tolle (link)

See also this post.

Dream of thought

Spiritual awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

-- Eckhart Tolle (book)

Please also see liberation and this.