The World Shines with Being

Whatever we are experiencing, we are. Whatever I am experiencing, I am. The feeling of simply being is the constant factor in all changing experience. It is not necessary to turn away from the content of experience in order to access the being that we essentially are, just as it isn’t necessary to turn away from a movie in order to see the screen. Our being is always knowing itself, although its knowing itself sometimes seems to be obscured when we lose ourself in the content of experience. If anything is required, it is to soften or relax the focus of attention. As a result, our being emerges. Being has no limits, no division within itself. The common name for this utterly intimate, indivisible impersonal being is ‘I’. The religious name for it is God. The world, which once seemed to conceal its reality, now shines with it.

Whatever we are experiencing, we are. Whatever I am experiencing, I am. The feeling of simply being is the constant factor in all changing experience. It is not necessary to turn away from the content of experience in order to access the being that we essentially are, just as it isn’t necessary to turn away from a movie in order to see the screen. Our being is always knowing itself, although its knowing itself sometimes seems to be obscured when we lose ourself in the content of experience. If anything is required, it is to soften or relax the focus of attention. As a result, our being emerges. Being has no limits, no division within itself. The common name for this utterly intimate, indivisible impersonal being is ‘I’. The religious name for it is God. The world, which once seemed to conceal its reality, now shines with it.