Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

felt that that an essential characteristic of the ‘I Am,’
of consciousness, was love; a great love far beyond
what humans feel towards each other. Along with this,
he felt compassion for all sentient beings, for
everything that is alive, as well as a great sense of
humility.
Then he returned to normal consciousness, but
with the belief and conviction that he was
consciousness itself, and the basic nature of that
consciousness was love, compassion and humility, and
a total acceptance of the world as it was.
At the same time, the recognition that he was
consciousness itself, the totality, relieved him of the
illusion that he was bound by an individual body and
mind.
Then Robert proposed one more step and suggests
a method.
First, he suggests practicing self-inquiry into the
sense of ‘I’, looking ever more deeply into one's own
sense of ‘I’, or ‘I Am’. This is the classic self-inquiry
process which is the mainstay of both the Ramana
tradition of which Robert is a part of, and also of
Nisargadatta Maharaj.
Then he states, the feeling that never left him
subsequent to his awakening experience, was his deep