The balanced view

When we are aware we realize that we are not just a mind and a body, our attention takes us into places where feelings are needed to navigate the domain of the silence within us. We realize that a silent language of feelings is at the foundation of our being. The little life that we thought we had is not so little after all.

When we are in the Now or aware, we can look out into world of mind and ideas, but we are also conscious of a knowing presence within us. This knowing is the real us at the core of existence. We begin to see that the “you”, which you have identified with is made-up of ideas, thoughts, images and opinions outside the core of the real you. They have been added onto us.

To identify with the totality of existence we must abide in the now and function with the mind and awareness. Our center of consciousness must look out from the moment of NOW into the mind and our awareness simultaneously. It is a shifting of the attention from thought to feeling within.

Presently most of us are half alive and half aware. We occasionally see with our knowing hearts and awareness. We are peeking within, but still holding on to that which is familiar to the ego. We will never in the body loose the need for the ego, but as our awareness grows it will move off the throne and assume it rightful place with the mind, as a servant to our knowing self.