Being Aware of Being Aware

by Rupert Spira

Paul Cézanne said that art gives us the ‘taste of nature’s eternity’.

known shines with knowing.

Our love for God is God’s love for us.

Only the infinite can know the infinite; only the finite can know the finite.

mind is awareness in motion; awareness is mind at rest.

Meditation is the disentangling of awareness from its own activity.

Mind is the self-colouring activity of awareness.

Ashtavakra meant when he said, ‘For the sage, even blinking is too much trouble.’

In the Direct Path, awareness is simultaneously the origin, the path and the goal.

That is, only gradually, in most cases, will it become clear that meditation is what we are, not what we do, and that the separate self or finite mind is what we do, not what we are.

Meister Eckhart was referring to when he said, ‘The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.’

The returning of attention to its source is the essence of meditation;