We use two words — awareness and consciousness — as though they were one. They are not. Consciousness is the weather of the mind: thoughts, moods and sensations, forever moving, forever about something. Awareness is the sky in which all that weath...
We use two words — awareness and consciousness — as though they were one. They are not. Consciousness is the weather of the mind: thoughts, moods and sensations, forever moving, forever about something. Awareness is the sky in which all that weather appears — open, silent, and untouched by anything that passes through it.Written in the unhurried voice of a conversation over coffee — high where the clouds come and go — it moves from the oldest contemplative traditions to the modern science of mind, and home to the one place the difference is truly found: your own experience, now.
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