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61 " In other words, in reality, there are not two things—one, the screen and two, the document or image. There is just the screen. "
― Rupert Spira , Presence, Volume I: The Art of Peace and Happiness
62 " It is prior to all thinking, feeling or perceiving. "
63 " There is just knowing. And what is it that knows that there is knowing? Only that which knows can know knowing. Therefore, only knowing knows knowing. "
― Rupert Spira , The Nature of Consciousness: Essays on the Unity of Mind and Matter
64 " The apparent separation of experience into two essential parts is similar to imagining that a screen is divided in two when two images appear on it side by side. If thinking imagines that the screen is only contained in only one of the images, then thinking will also have to imagine a substance that is ‘not the screen’, out of which the second image is made. "
65 " The known always changes; knowing never changes. "
― Rupert Spira , Being Aware of Being Aware
66 " I’ve been operating according to the idea that it is almost impossible to let go of mental patterns that operate unconsciously and that I have to know such a pattern of thinking first in order to let go of it and abide in my true nature. Leave all those mental habits and patterns alone. The self that is apparently operating, that seems to know these patterns and that would ‘let go of them’ is itself simply one such pattern. "
― Rupert Spira , Presence, Volume II: The Intimacy of All Experience
67 " Awareness is inherently whole, complete and fulfilled in itself. Thus its nature is happiness itself--not a happiness that depends upon the condition of the mind, body or world, but a causeless joy that is prior to and independent of all states, circumstances, and conditions. "
68 " There is no knower of this experience and nothing that is known. There is just the knowing of it, "
69 " Love is the experience of our shared being. When we love another person we feel, to a greater or lesser extent, that the separation between us dissolves. "
― Rupert Spira , Being Myself
70 " Just as the screen does not share the qualities, characteristics, or limitations of any of the objects or characters in a movie, although it is their sole reality, so the knowing with which all knowledge and experience are known does not share the qualities, characteristics, or limitations of whatever is known or experienced. Thus, it is unlimited or infinite. "
71 " we do not really see trees, fields, hills and the sky; we always see only the screen. The screen is their reality. "
72 " Awareness takes the shape of thinking and appears as the mind; it takes the shape of sensing and appears as the body; "
73 " That is, it knows itself as the totality of experience. This could be formulated as, ‘I, Awareness, am everything’, "
74 " Knowing or being aware is never modified by experience. It never moves or fluctuates. It is the only "
75 " Just as the space of a room cannot be agitated by any of the people or objects within it, so our being cannot be disturbed by anything that takes place in experience. "
76 " Deep sleep is not the absence of awareness; it is the awareness of absence. "
77 " Even in the presence of thinking, there may be the belief in time but never the actual experience of time. There is just the current experience, appearing now. Age is never an experience; it is always a concept. "
78 " One of the hardest things for the apparently separate self to understand is that there is no real ignorance. "
79 " happiness is the nature of our being, and we share our being "
― Rupert Spira , You Are the Happiness You Seek: Uncovering the Awareness of Being
80 " Creativity is freedom from the past. "
― Rupert Spira
