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A “Consciousness, the one that is experiencing, is not affected by any of the experience.  What looks like the content of experiencing may change, but the awareness of it does not.  It does not grow old or in any way change in time.   It does not resist anything.  It does not give preference to any particular thing”

A “Likewise the awareness of Consciousness illuminates what appear to be objects, and we become aware of them.  These objects are the reflective consciousness (chidabhasa) and objects of knowledge.  They are the sights, sounds, smells, and even thoughts and feelings.  But in the absence of objects Consciousness does not disappear, being does not seize, just like the sun does not disappear if an object it was illuminating disappears.  Consciousness is self-illuminating, or self-aware.  Being knowingly is, as it were, its intrinsic property.”

A “Furthermore, this “I” does not appear to change, although the experiences in it change.  The “I” of me as a four-year-old is the same “I” of me decades later.  It is never disturbed.  Disturbances appear in it but do not stick to it.  The “I” appears as an ever-present, unchanging consciousness”

A “One of the first steps in the direct path of non-duality is often to realize that this pure I is the real I.  Awakening to this realization is “the awakening.”

A “And in the realm of thought, attention, and time it will come through as peaceful awareness or consciousness.  Thought reaches its goal as understanding or Truth.  This happens when the object of our attention relaxes into its source, when we know we are the infinite I.

Greek philosophers see Good, Truth, and Beauty as equal virtues.  These are the representatives of Love, Consciousness, and Beauty.

These paths also correspond to different yogic paths that have been suggested for finding God.  The two best known are perhaps the path of devotion called Bhakti, and the path of knowledge called Jnana”

A “That thou art” or “You are that” from the Chandogya Upanishad 6.8.7.  It means that you are actually that which is aware of your experience.  It refers to your innermost nature, the one that is aware of everything but without any limitations and is God.”

A “The infinite I is pure Consciousness and “it” provides being and knowing.  The thought of it becomes an objectification and thus creates the apparently dual world.  The first I-thought is a reference to the process that we call the mind.  

A Yes, of course I exist.” When the answer to the first question is as clear as the answer to the second question, there is understanding. The realization is that both questions have in fact the same answer. That which is sure of its existence–the innermost certainty of I Am-is what you essentially are.”

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