Eternally Shining Brightly

You, awareness, don’t fall asleep or wake up – you are always wide awake. Perception wakes up in you; when it subsides, the world subsides. Meditation is like falling asleep but remaining awake: thought and perception fall asleep in you. You never leave your being. You don’t pass through states; states pass through you. To be yourself means simply to be – not something you do or cease doing. Prior to thought, no agitation; your nature is peace. Prior to feeling, no sorrow; your nature is happiness. Prior to perception, no multiplicity; your nature is love. These are not emotions you have; they are what you eternally are – the blue sky always present behind the clouds. Before you know anything about yourself, you know that you are. There is no enlightenment – just the concealing and revealing of what you eternally are. From your own point of view, there is just yourself, eternally shining brightly.