Awareness or the Focusing of Attention

In your book The Shining of Being, you say we’re always aware of our breathing, but I’m not always aware of it. What’s the difference between awareness and attention? Rupert says: ‘You can’t experience something that you’re not aware of. Attention is like the focusing of a beam of light. You were always experiencing this space, but it was not in the focus of your attention. Awareness is aware of everything, all 8 billion of us. Your finite mind is a narrowing of the field of awareness. Awareness is, by definition, always aware of itself. It cannot not be aware of itself.’

From event 07 - 14 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 7–14 September 2025 – ‘Meister Eckhart and the Love of God’

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