Awareness

Awakening is a shift in consciousness in which thinking and awareness separate. You are no longer lost in your thinking. Thinking no longer runs your life. Awareness takes over from thinking, and thinking becomes the servant of awareness.
Awareness is consciousness without thought. Awareness is conscious connection with universal intelligence, universal bliss, universal power, universal peace. Awareness is reality.

Awareness without thoughts, labels, words, imagery, concepts, judgments, limitations, and any other kind of perceptual filters is unlimited consciousness.
All thoughts are inherently limiting, restrictive, and misleading. Thinking manifests into finite form and we become attached to or resistant to such form. Ego is a narrative, a story, a fictional account of the finite forms we perceive. Ordinarily we do not see anything without attaching opinions and judgments to what we see.

“I think, therefore I am” was Descartes attempt to prove his existence. Thinking, however, does not prove anything more than the existence of ego. And to whom could our ego existence be proven? Ego is an opinionated story which registers itself in consciousness. Without consciousness, no thought could exist. So ego is a thought pattern in consciousness. Ego, therefore, is not final or absolute or independent.
Once consciousness is clear, there is no ego thought there, there is no limitation there.

All thoughts are limitations. Consciousness is not a thought. When thought disappears, so does ego and so does memory and pain. Awareness is painlessness. All pain resides in cellular memory and in the thoughts which produce cellular memory.
Step outside of thought and experience godliness. Outside of thought there is nothing but pure consciousness, unblemished godness, total potentiality, unlimited bliss, warless peace, and undivided oneness. Thoughts and the material forms they generate and our attachment to or resistance toward those forms, cause our symptoms and the pain from those symptoms.

You can step outside of your thinking and the world of form right now. Just take a few breaths and notice every thought as a thought. You either experience form from thought or from consciousness. If you experience form from thought, you will be anxious and feel limited. If you experience form from consciousness, you will not experience anxiety nor limitation. Thoughts and forms are things which are created by consciousness. You are consciousness; you are not a thought nor a thing. Thoughts and forms change; consciousness does not. Consciousness has no limitations and no form.

You can step out of your self-limiting memories, perceptions, thoughts and feelings. You can transcend and observe them. That observing process is consciousness. You can observe your ego way of thinking. You can let go of all thinking. All thinking in the final analysis is ego thinking. “I can observe my ego thoughts; therefore I am consciousness, not ego. ” Consciousness, not what I am conscious of, is who I am. Freedom is release from our identification with our thoughts. Become what you are, consciousness.

Ignorance is simply unawareness. Ignorance is the only death we shall ever know. Ignorance means ignoring consciousness.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance. --Reuben Blades