Stay with the 'I Am'

The first true statement we can make about our self, our primary experience, is ‘I am’. Every other statement we make about ourself – I am this or that – comes after our primary knowledge of our self – I am aware that I am; I am aware of being. Everything added to ‘I am’ is a superfluous, temporary qualification. Nothing ever actually happens to the ‘I am’. It is coloured by the awareness of experience, but still shines like the full moon in the midnight sky, shining brightly in the darkness of the night. The essence of meditation, the highest prayer, the ultimate surrender, is to stay with the ‘I am’, to be only the ‘I am’, to not allow oneself to be qualified by the content of experience. The ‘I am’ is never endarkened by the content of experience, so requires no enlightening. It is already the light of the soul, the light of infinite being.

From event 05 March, 2023 Webinar – Sunday 5th March

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