I Am: The Profoundest Experience

When awareness looks through a human mind, everything is filtered through the limitations of thought and perceptions and appears in accordance with them. Awareness’s knowledge of itself is the only absolutely true knowledge. We could say that the knowledge ‘God is’ is the pinnacle of the mind’s limited knowledge. The knowledge ‘I am’ is in a different, higher category. ‘I am’ is the profoundest experience one can ever have, and we are having it all the time. But for most, ‘I am’ is coloured and qualified by experience, so we do not know it as it essentially is. The pure experience ‘I am’, our innermost experience, is the alpha and omega – the origin of all knowledge and experience, and the culmination of all knowledge and experience, the alpha and the omega. When the mind understands what ‘I am’ truly means, it just surrenders, dies. It cannot bear that knowledge.