Recognition That Only the One Exists

All spiritual paths fall into two categories: those founded on separation and those based on unity. While most paths start with the separate self and progress towards oneness, the Pathless Path makes no such concession – it begins and remains with the recognition that only the One exists. Using analogies of sight and the sun’s self-illumination, we explore why the infinite cannot know finite experience directly, as all objective experience requires subject-object relationship. Just as eyes cannot see themselves, the one cannot stand apart from itself to know itself objectively. The One’s knowledge of itself is expressed in the simple ‘I am’ – not a philosophical concept but our most intimate, ordinary experience. This ‘I am’ is absolute knowledge, beyond all relative mind-knowledge, the divine name that points to that which cannot be found in time or space.

All spiritual paths fall into two categories: those founded on separation and those based on unity. While most paths start with the separate self and progress towards oneness, the Pathless Path makes no such concession – it begins and remains with the recognition that only the One exists. Using analogies of sight and the sun’s self-illumination, we explore why the infinite cannot know finite experience directly, as all objective experience requires subject-object relationship. Just as eyes cannot see themselves, the one cannot stand apart from itself to know itself objectively. The One’s knowledge of itself is expressed in the simple ‘I am’ – not a philosophical concept but our most intimate, ordinary experience. This ‘I am’ is absolute knowledge, beyond all relative mind-knowledge, the divine name that points to that which cannot be found in time or space.