Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

The ‘I’ and reality flow and change constantly, but
I, as a law-abiding member of society, taxpayer,
husband, or wife, is not destroyed, but I realize that I
am much, much more than this. I am without
boundaries or labels. I am beyond both body and mind.
I am the vastness of space and the light of
consciousness at the same time. I am also the
presence that pervades all of space, both inner and
outer, and through which ecstasy and bliss commonly
flow and then spill out into the world of men.
I am also human. I have a body. I have desires. I
have emotions. I seek love and give love as part of
everyday life, just as I dress each morning and sleep
each evening. I am everything, human and divine, and
nothing is to be despised or thrown away once you live
from the heart with the mind now functioning as an
obedient servant.
To me, the only truth to be found anywhere is
one’s own truth as found in one’s own uninterpreted
experiences left unexpressed, for as soon as you open
your mouth, you have lied. You have put the
underlying fluxing consciousness into fixed words and
concepts. You thereby tell a falsehood, which someone
else will interpret in their own way, and then tell their
version of that lie to someone else as a new truth.
Only when you are silent, with mind quieted,
living from one’s heart, only then will you live in truth.