Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

We become infinitely pliable, sometimes being the
witness or host, sometimes identifying with the
feelings, sometimes both simultaneously, becoming
oneness, and sometimes we identify with none of the
phenomena, taking the position of the Absolute, as
pure, untouched witness.
In essence, we accept everything as ‘me’, which is
the first stage; meaning we can pass easily from room
to room, state to state, engage in any activity or rest,
while equally enjoying everything. This is the first
stage, learning everything is me.
For example, we look around us; we look at the
walls of our room that we are in at this moment, or
the trees and sky if we are outside. It feels external to
us, that we are separate from it as the “outside.”
But there is something you have to realize, without
you, as the subject, there is no object, there is no
external world. People in that external world can tell
you there is an external world, but they are telling
‘you’ the subject. They are just objects too. But you
“precede” any of them. If you did not exist, there
would be no “external world” from the viewpoint of
where your body is in that particular, apparent space-
time of that external world.
That is, there may be an external world that is
objective to all, but without you being present as