Being Aware of Being Aware

by Rupert Spira

Thus, our essential nature of knowing, being aware or awareness itself has no age. It is for this reason that as we get older, we feel that we are not really getting older. The older we get, the more we feel that we have always been the same person. The sameness in ourself is the sameness of awareness. Likewise, the awareness with which our most intelligent thoughts are known is the same as the awareness with which our most unintelligent thoughts are known. The awareness with which the sensation of pain, tension or agitation is known is the same awareness with which the sensation of pleasure, relaxation or warmth is known. The awareness with which the experience of anger, sorrow or grief is known is the same as the awareness with which the experience of gratitude, kindness or enjoyment is known.