Everything apart from awareness, that is, all objects of thought and perception, is known by something other than itself – a separate subject of experience – but awareness is known by itself alone. Therefore, awareness’s knowledge of itself is a unique kind of knowledge. It is the only form of knowledge that does not require the subject–object relationship. It is absolute knowledge. That is, it is the only knowledge or experience that is not relative to or dependent upon the finite mind, the apparently separate subject of experience.
