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.

The mind believes that awareness resides within the body and thus shares its limitations and destiny.

The finite mind imagines that awareness disappears in deep sleep, but in awareness’s experience it is the finite mind that disappears in deep sleep, leaving awareness all alone.

If one knows oneself as pure awareness, or the simple experience of being aware, one is always in perfect health. Nothing ever happens to awareness.