In order to know something seemingly other than itself, such as a thought, feeling, sensation or perception, awareness must shine its attention, the light of its knowing, away from itself, towards that object, but in order to know itself it does not need to direct the light of its knowing away from itself. Awareness’s nature is pure knowing. It is self-illuminating, self-knowing, self-aware. There is no difference between our own being and the knowing of our own being, just as there is no difference between the sun and its shining.
