Do not rely on words when seeking your true nature. Words come easily. Teachers, including the masters, inundate you with spiritual explanations and advice. Their words are no more the destination than a rickety old signpost. There are no words to bring your true nature into existence. To find your true nature is a silent journey within. Your reality lies beyond thought and mind. Rational explanations fail you. Allow your heart to show the way. Your true nature lies deep within; plus, it surrounds you as the whole of the all. Remembering your true nature is a journey from ignorance and fear to wisdom and joy.

The search for reality is endless as the me of the body. You cannot find your way in its world of separation. The separation you feel is not real. There are no pieces of consciousness to set apart from each other. Your sense of self is a false perception of separation. Set it aside for your journey. To leave ignorance and fear behind, you must alter your thoughts. Your usual ways of thinking will not serve you on your quest. There are many paths to follow in the world, all of which are dead ends. They come and go without resolve. Your existence in the world is transitory. Reality is beyond your worldly grasp.

You look here, there, and everywhere without success. All you have is an inner knowing that something awaits you beyond your understanding of existence. You have seen traces along the road, but they get covered by passers-by stirring up the dust. Let the dust settle. Sit silently and still. Calm your thoughts and emotions. Be their witness. They are not you. Your true nature is close by and whispers for you to follow. This cannot be heard in the din of the world. You must follow from the silence of the room-within. Jesus said that the kingdom is neither here nor there; it is among you and within you.

As you enter the room-within, the way of the path opens before you. An ember glows in the darkness as your guide. Its light is your true nature. With eyes that see, you move forward. You feel the self slipping away. Who you are in existence no longer matters. You find your reality in I AM. How do you know I AM? By experiencing it. I AM cannot be rationalized or described. It has no comparison, place, or time. Open yourself to your true nature. You are I AM. You are consciousness-expressing. You are the expressing that is consciousness in existence. You are the whole of the all.

Your existence as the me of the body is a flow of energy in spacetime. Your true nature is the flowing. Your body is but an object that is nowhere. It has no reality. You are not the body, nor are you any sense of spiritual exaltation that you may feel. You cannot capture your true nature in existence. Your true nature is real. It does not exist. It is eternal and unchanging. Remember, you are not a transitory object in spacetime that has changing thoughts and emotions. Although you may feel like you are, your reality is the light that is wisdom and joy. It is the thoughts you choose that keep you ignorant and fearful. The me of the body cannot capture your true nature. You cannot subdue I AM with the rationale force of your mind.

Your mind leads you astray in a world of desire and expectation. You experience pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. Left to themselves, your thoughts will lead you to death’s oblivion. Be their witness. Do not own them as your reality. They are not you. Do not involve yourself in their desires. Hold no expectations. Seek guidance from within, but do not force open the door. You must surrender all at the threshold. Annihilate the self. Enter as a newborn returning to the womb. The room-within is your true nature. From within, you find your way in the world without desire or expectation. Then you can hold peace of heart in all situations.

With peace of heart always, you no longer live in a world of this and that. The whole of the all encompasses you. You have no self. Your true nature abounds. There is but one song playing in the heavens. It is the tune heard throughout nature. It is the bubbling coo of an innocent baby. You have ears to hear its melody. The dust of the world has settled. You have eyes to see the light that guides you out of darkness.

Live in harmony with your own true nature. Do not struggle to control. Release your worldly ways. Surrender your self at the threshold. Enter free of worldly distractions. Witness your thoughts and emotions without owning them. They are not you. Lay aside the delusion that you are the me of the body. You have nothing to gain or lose. You are whole, complete, perfect, and eternal. You are the whole of the all. The world still presents itself as this and that, but you see beyond its separations. You recognize the unity of all. Opposites fade. What you give and what you receive become the same.

Transcend your circumstances. Release their images. Lay aside your rites and rituals. Signposts are no longer needed. You now know the way on your own. You have your destination in hand. Shadows of delusion fade into the light of your awareness. You realize that you are the emptiness within that is consciousness. You are complete in your own true nature. What is there to seek when you have arrived? The light that leads the way in darkness is you. You are the one you seek. Journey and destination merge into nothingness. All is united beyond the constructs of the mind. There is nothing now that is personal.

The world now appears to you simply as the existence that it is. You see it as form without meaning. It simply exists on its own as illusion without identity. You have no attachments to it. Knowing your true nature, the world gives you nothing and takes nothing. You abide in the world as the reality that is I AM. You are the expressing of a thought in consciousness that cannot be made real. You are the flowing of energy that makes up your existence. You are the dancing that is the dance. You cannot be separated from this reality. You have no purpose. You have no desire. You live a simple life of loving-kindness. You offer wisdom and joy for all to behold.

You exist as a body with a personality. But are you more than a sentient object in spacetime? Can you be distilled to a single essence that has meaning? If so, does that essence have anything to do with the world in which you exist?

You were born with genetic makeup into a culture with its way of life. It may seem that your meaning is established by the circumstances of your birth. Your world has powerful influences on you, but it does not carve in stone the meaning of your life.

You have the power to bring meaning to your life, whatever your circumstances. The meaning you give to your existence sustains you. You have your own personal reason for living. If not, you have nothing to live for, and your survival is unlikely. You sustain your life by the meaning you give to it.

The meaning that sustains you is your own. It is not given to you by the outside world. The ways of the world do not bring you meaning, but you may learn from them. You may apply them as lessons learned in life, but your meaning remains your own doing.

Meaning starts with the thoughts you hold in mind and the beliefs that they generate, so keep aware of them. They form a picture of yourself in the world. When you have no sustaining picture of yourself, no meaning, you are more likely to die than not. Meaning gives you the will to live. Be witness to your thoughts and choose wisely to retain only those that paint the picture that you wish to keep on your wall.

You have many choices to make in life. The choices you make are influenced by the thoughts and beliefs that you hold to be true about yourself. Your decisions actualize your world. Choices, once made, cannot be undone. But you can change your thoughts and beliefs about them. You, not some outside force, control the meaning of your life. You always have options, both before and after the choices you make. You have power over your thoughts, and the thoughts that you choose to hold in mind confirm the meaning of your life as you see it.

Meaning cannot be forced on you. The meaning of your life grows within you, under any conditions. It can be found anywhere at any time. It depends on you, not on the outside world. You may gain lessons from the world, but meaning is your own achievement. You are the maker of meaning in your life. You are the person you think you are.

You are not locked into your life unable to change its course. Your course of action is derived from your beliefs, and your beliefs can change if you change your thoughts about what you are. You have the capacity to change your beliefs even when faced with overwhelming cultural influences. You always have the freedom within yourself to choose your attitude about events in your life. Your beliefs and attitudes pave the path that you walk.

Your lifestyle reflects the meaning that you give to yourself. Your actions betray what you think you are. The potential for reflecting what you think you are is in every possible choice you make, and the possibilities are endless. You have many opportunities to express meaning, and this potential is displayed in your activities and relationships.

Your actions produce achievements. You may have the money, power, and prestige you desire, you may have meaningful relationships with family, friends, and colleagues, or you may have nothing to your liking. If you have nothing to your liking, what are you? Do you still see yourself as having meaning, or do you rely solely on worldly achievements and relationships to interpret what you are?

For centuries, spiritual leaders have said that you are more than your body with its personality and achievements, that you are an eternal essence within that is often called I AM. When you see yourself only as the me of the body, then you miss knowing your true nature. Spiritual leaders note, too, that any meaning that your true nature may have is beyond comprehension. If there is meaning, it is outside your capabilities of conception and understanding. However, any meaning of your worldly existence is always up to you.

As the me of the body you travel a worldly path. You do not know where you were before birth, and you do not know where you will be after death. The body, with its personality, enters existence and then leaves. In between, you walk the way of the world as a lost traveler separated from all else. To compensate for your feelings of disconnection, you give yourself meaning to ground yourself in the world.

As the me of the body, you are constantly giving yourself meaning. As your true nature, you have no meaning. This cannot be comprehended except to say that you are I AM, or consciousness in existence. Consciousness is an emptiness that is nowhere. It is the eternal field of infinite possibility. Consciousness has no meaning because there is only consciousness. Consciousness has no comparison. It has no distinctions. It cannot be described. These are the products of existence. Existence is a thought in consciousness that cannot become real, like a unicorn in a child’s dream. You know existence as the world in which you live. You experience existence as the me of the body. As such, you require meaning to survive. Meaning sustains you in a meaningless world.

The me of the body is transitory. It is not eternal, so it is not real. It comes and goes as a thought in consciousness. Your world is an illusion that is real to you in the moment. In that moment, you find meaning from the choices you make. Your reality, however, is I AM. I AM is the essence of your being, and it has no meaning because it has no comparison in consciousness. You are that which I AM—whole, complete, perfect, eternal. There is no other.

Your worldly meaning is a perception of separation to help keep you alive as the me of the body. The answer to your question, “what am I?”, is that you are that which I AM. You are consciousness in existence. You are the whole of the all. To know this, enter the room-within when ready. It is from within that you touch the eternal I AM that is your true nature.

Your life is transitory. Every day you are withering away. In the end you die. So, what is the use in living? Where is there meaning in life?

You make the life you live. You give meaning to your life each and every moment. The meaning that comes from any situation is given by you. You make meaning in the moment. You are not destined to be one way or another. You choose every single moment to make your life what it is.

You have choice because you are aware. You are aware of your own consciousness. Consciousness is an eternal field of infinite possibilities. You are discrete awareness in consciousness, like a molecule of water. Awareness gives you choice in the meaning you give to moments in your life. You must be aware in the moment to give it its fullest meaning. You actualize the moment by the meaning you choose. You make the moment what it is by your choices. Nothing is ever done to you. You live life as you make it to be. You choose the possibility and bring it into existence. The choices you make are permanent. They cannot be undone.

It is your nature as the me of the body to give meaning to life. This is how you survive the oblivion of death. You create a world for yourself that has meaning. Pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow, fluctuate with the choices you make and the meanings you give to situations you encounter.

The choices you make can be frustrating when they fail to satisfy. When the meaning you want is not satisfied, change the script. You are the playwright. You are the actor. Step off the stage. Rewrite the story. Re-enter stage right in a new, more positive role.

When life seems pointless, there is a crisis of meaning. Meaning is not absolute. Do not cling to values which no longer serve you. In one way or another, you bring meaning to your life.

There is no meaning for you outside your existence. You are the source of meaning in your life. You can change your beliefs and values by changing your thoughts about them. Changing your thoughts changes your beliefs, which changes your life and the meaning you give to it.

Stay open to possibility. Be aware in the moment. Observe what is happening without judgment or hope. Keep an open mind and use your eyes that see. Lift the veil. Meaning lies hidden in possibilities.

Do not desire. Do not hope. Follow the course within. Do not give life pre-conditions. Follow your natural way. Life has no single meaning for all. It is not pre-determined. You are the creator of your own existence.

The best way of life is your own and the circumstances you experience. You make your own decisions moment by moment with what you have at hand, whether you are aware or not.

If there is an ultimate meaning of life, it is incomprehensible and beyond your reach. The meaning you have comes from you. It tells you who you are in your own mind and to the world. Meaning is found in your activities and relationships, especially in how you conduct yourself. Your life’s meaning lies in your awareness and the attitudes you adopt.

The choices you make determine your meaning. There are no conditions put on life’s meaning but your own. You are the keeper at the gate who determines what gets in or out. Take in what you need. Leave the rest outside the door. Give back willingly and abundantly what you can.

Whatever your choices, you have value. You are worthy. You have given the world what no one else can, your own awareness of your true nature. That awareness is there whether you recognize it or not. There is no one else like you. No one can ever take from you the attitudes you hold for life and the meaning that you give to it. The awareness you have for who you are is your treasure. That treasure lies within. There are no outward conditions that give you meaning or value. You are what you make of yourself. Enter the room-within. Follow the path of your true nature. That is your journey. Live it well.

Contemplating a mystic poet

Where does it all lead?

Rise up! Break camp. It is time to journey. You are going home to live in joy. You were lost in darkness, but now dawn awakens you. Shadows recede. Clarity emerges. You bathe in the light of a new day. Open your eyes to the moment. Wash out your ears that you may hear. Put your gift to use now. You know the way. Yours is the path that begins here. You are going home to the sea.

Do not hide. Stop wishing for a better tomorrow. You hide in judgment, hoping to find your beloved desire. It escapes you. By using judgment and hope you are ignorant of the moment. Do not hide in judgment. Do not cling to hope. Release these bonds to the past. The moment is elusive, but there is in the darkness of ignorance a glowing ember. The one you seek is waiting for you. When you avoid judgment and hope, the way out of darkness opens to you. To find your way, look within. The ember that burns in your heart ignites in the moment. Look within. You will find your path lit by your own reflection, for you are that which I AM. There is no other.

Who is your enemy? Do you know your attackers? Are they cruel, or do they bring you wisdom? To attack is to separate. Your attackers teach you separation. Do not deny them. To deny them is to miss seeing the whole of the all. Honor them as ones who show you the way. They highlight what you wish to avoid. You will know yourself through the eyes of your enemies. Be grateful that they are your enemies and not your friends. Friends strew the path with rose petals. Enemies prick you with thorns. You bleed. Would you do this to yourself. It is from the dripping blood that you gain strength. Pain awakens you to the reality of the room within. Remember your true nature awaits your return.

To bear anger is to live in separation. The me of the body lives in fear of oblivion and expresses fear as anger. To be angry is to fear loss and annihilation. Be witness to anger. Do not accept it as your reality. Your reality is joy. The world is full of anger. You do not need to drink from its well. Its water cannot slake your thirst. Jesus said that the water from the well is not enough. You must drink from your true nature from within. Your true nature is joy. Joy moves across the waters of the world to calm the rage.

To knock at the door is to ask for nothing. You have announced your willingness to enter, and that is all. Knock and it shall open. Enter and be received. Do nothing. Say nothing. Ask nothing. Listen! You do not know. The voice within knows the way. That voice is your own true nature. Do not be deceived by false gods. From the room within you will find eyes that see and ears that hear. You will know in your heart the way of the path.

Let go of what no longer matters to you. The way of the path is moment by moment. It has no beginning or end. It is now. It is the moment that purifies. The past is dried dung that feeds the fires of the future. Neither the dung heap nor fires are your home. Watch the dung as it dries in the sun to feed the fires. It is no longer yours to handle. Leave it be and it will blow away in the dry winds of change. You have no need for it. Let tomorrow fend for itself like the lilies of the field. Float in the purifying waters of the moment. Let nothing else matter.

Do you live with bitterness? It is a product of grievance growing out of ignorance and fear. Joy is its remedy. To know joy, listen within. You think you know the world, but can the fate of bitterness be all there is? Let the kiss of fate awaken you. Your union with the world is weak. It cannot be sustained eternally. Bitterness is your ordeal, but in that bitterness is a pearl. It is the treasure in your heart that you seek. Crack the shell of bitterness. Open your heart. Bring the pearl to light so that its luster may glow in the sun. Bitterness thrives in the darkness of ignorance and fear. The pearl seeks the light of wisdom and joy. These things are not for you to know with your cleverness. They are hidden until they are revealed from within.

Do not argue with fate. Sit at the edge of the past and do not look back. Let the past go, then do nothing. As the me of the body, you are nothing in existence. As your true nature, you are the whole of the all. In reality, you are I AM. There is no other. Be the one that you are. To see only with worldly eyes is meager sight at best. To have eyes that see the whole of the all is to live from within. Enter the room within. Find vision in darkness. From darkness all is revealed. You are the pearl buried in the field. You are the leaven in the dough. Do not be the unsure lover who sells the field or fails to light the oven. When you do nothing, you act through the wisdom of your true nature and not through the ignorance of the me of the body.

From the room within let wisdom and joy prevail. Release the world. Stop acting out of ignorance and fear. If nothing else, do nothing. You are not even a dot in the cosmos. Why do you make so much of yourself? Because you know within that you are greater than the cosmos itself. Your greatness is not of the world. The me of the body exists. Its fate is death. You are eternal. You have no fate. You are whole, complete, perfect as is. You are that which I AM. There is no other.

From the room within move out into the world. Let joy prevail in the whole of the all. To do so, you first must lay aside all judgment and hope then cross the threshold of the open door that invites you in. To enter is to sit in the still silence letting joy reveal itself as your true nature. Drain yourself of the past. Replace pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow with joy. Dissolve the bonds that bind you to the me of the body. This is not you. You are joy. There is in you that which I AM. Words fail in saying so.

There is consciousness. There is only consciousness. There is no other than consciousness. You are the river of consciousness within. To follow the river is to leave the world behind. Why give thought to pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow when wisdom and joy are close at hand? Soak in the river. Become the water, for you are its flowing. You are the energy of movement that is consciousness expressing existence. Your presence is in the whole of the all. In the whole of the all the light shines eternally. Your soul and my soul are thoughts of separation, but there is but one lamp that shines in all. That light is consciousness.

Awaken to consciousness. The river gathers knowledge from the mountain as it flows through the valley, nurturing your awareness and healing you from the ways of the world. In the valley you lie in union with all the waters that gather from every hillside. Live simply in your awareness. Travel light. Stay close to the ground. Be awake. The course opens before you. Follow your natural flow. Do nothing to hinder your journey to the sea.

Be the master of silence. Do not leave silence unattended. It requires your presence. You have entered the emptiness within. You are the one who hears in absolute nothingness. That which I AM has shown you the way. Its vision has opened the darkness to the light of wisdom. You see fully where others only squint. You are lifted out of the depths into silence. In silence you see with the light of wisdom. You feel your own vibration in the whole of the all. You have never left this place. You have only forgotten. Now you remember. Your inner nature is your true home where you live without words. Remember that you are that which I AM. There is no other.

Your influence on the world is real. You are the expressing of consciousness that is existence. You are consciousness-expressing. Objects in spacetime are the fruit of consciousness expressing the separation you experience as the me of the body. You know existence as the universe. You feel separated and apart when, in fact, you are the whole of the all. This is you. You are consciousness in existence. Live as your true nature and your world will change from ignorance and fear to wisdom and joy.

To gain wisdom and joy, keep to the room within. Remember that which I AM, or twia. Twia knows the way. You cannot go it alone as the me of the body. Ignorance and fear are too heavy a load to bear without twia. Empty your mind. Listen with ears that hear. Twia will guide you without fear on the way of the path. To leave the world and enter the room within is to lose nothing and gain all.

In the room within, you receive abundance that the world cannot provide. Enter the emptiness. Receive its grace. All that is given to you is yours now. There is no separation. You cannot bring wisdom and joy to your true nature. You are wisdom and joy. You cannot bring wholeness to all. You are the whole of the all. Be ready to receive what is yours now. To receive is to remember that you are that which I AM. There is no other.

Tell yourself, “I do not know but that I AM.” Though you live in darkness you are the light. Follow your true nature from within. Twia knows the way and gives you vision to see. Do not rely on your body to know. It is dense and heavy, blinded by dust and torn by brambles. You are light. You are the path before you. Follow the way of twia. Look upon the world with vision from within. You can hide no longer. You are a beacon for all to see in stormy weather. Those who heed will suffer no harm.

Desire draws you deeper into darkness. You may become secretive and impulsive in your pursuits. You move closer to the world of pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. Wisdom and joy elude you. Peace of heart escapes you. Instead, you live with a heart of passionate ache. What you value so much has worth only in your mind. You have given it meaning by your desire to possess. These attachments keep you from entering the room within. You cannot drag Marley’s chains across the threshold. Approach the door naked without desire or judgment. Abandon all hope. Enter on your knees. Be humble in the still silence. You will meet the one who knows. There is no meaning to this. No purpose to attend to. Do nothing. Receive and be glad. Joy will fill you and be your companion, for you are joy vibrating throughout existence. You are I AM. There is no other.

Vibration forms the cosmos. It is the music of the spheres. Music has unity and harmony. There are highs and lows. But the me of the body is dense. It does not hear. It is ignorant, fearful, and angry. The river in you must wash away bitterness and grievance. Let the river in you flow in harmony with all. The flowing is your true nature. You are vibration in sync with the cosmos. Your body is cosmic dust. It harmonizes with your true nature when your ears are open. To know your true nature is to hear the cosmic symphony. Your natural state is a flowing vibration of energy. You are the harmony of existence in the symphony of the all.

Like a river following its course to the sea, you are the flowing of energy that runs through you. This is the energy of existence. It flows without judgment or hope. It attunes to the lay of the land. It does not contend but slips silently along. The sweet sound it makes is the voice in you. You are the voice that runs silent and deep. You are the flowing. You cannot separate from the river. You are in unity and harmony with all.

You may think you are the me of the body, but this is not your true nature. The words you use to describe yourself fail miserably. The me of the body cannot know beyond its ignorance and fear. You, as your true nature, must play its tune. You are the quiet lilt of the flute making the orchestra whole. Without you the music is incomplete. For you to hear your voice you must empty yourself of the din of the world. The soft tune of the flute is heard best in silence. Leave the world and enter the room within. It embraces you in harmony with the whole of the all. You are not this. You are not that. You are the harmonious flowing of the river of life.

The heart fills with vibration. It comes in through the open door. Join with it in merriment. When spirit enters the body there is joy. Remember joy. Walk with joy into the world. Sing its song for all to hear. Rise with the notes. Transcend pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. If you stumble into the brambles, rise and brush off the dust. Hold peace in your heart if thorns have pricked you. You are the healing vibration of joy. The deaf will hear your song. The voiceless will sing its tune. They will follow you back onto the way of the path. You are the way. There is no other.

Relax into life’s vibration, which is joy. Let joy seep through the cracks and crevices of existence. In joy you find the way. You cannot enter the room within sitting on your worldly throne of attachments. It cannot be wrestled through the doorway. Removing even one attachment would cause the throne to crumble, so you cling fiercely to them all. Soon, though, you might want to set your throne on the curb as refuse to be hauled away. Get off your throne. Come down from the heights. Live close to the ground. Open your heart to simplicity. To find yourself without this and that will bring you into the moment. In that instant the doorway will be aglow, making the way clear. Clarity of vision will prevail. You will say that you are born anew.

Can you be born again and live in the world? You have found the pearl hidden under dust and brambles. Your light gives luster to your newly acquired treasure. In the light, you find it to be in a string of pearls, which is the unity of this and that, or the whole of the all. You have no desire for more. You might stop occasionally at roadside attractions, but you are not detained for long. The way of the path is clear to you. Body and soul serve your existence, but from the room within your true nature reigns. The throne you once lugged about was hauled out in the trash. You have given up your worldly attachments to live anew.

To carry what is most precious into the room within is to lose it. You will find it set aside. Your true treasure is buried in the field. Do not till the ground. Do not trample on it. Do not search for what you cannot find. Jesus said to sell everything and buy the field. Your treasure lies in the field of your true being. What is most precious to you is your own image. You are lost in your own reflection. Leave it at the door. Enter the room within. Your true treasure is knowing that you are that which I AM.

I AM is the voice within that guides you on the way of the path. You appear to be in the world and walk its path, but your true nature lies within. You are that which I AM. As I AM, the world is yours to shape. Its form comes from you. You give meaning to the ground you till. You must be mired in your own suffering before seeing the same in others. What falls upon one, falls upon all. The ground you cultivate is dull in hue. It is the treasure buried deep that gives it luster. You are a pearl wrapped in clay. What you suffer outwardly remains joy within. You are joy that never ends. You are not of this world, nor have you come far. There is no moment in which you have not been. Do not hang on to what is not yours. Do not tear through the rag pile when the gem is in your own cloak.

Alter your ways. You live in dust and brambles when you could walk the way of the path. Do not search in the world for what you cannot find there. Your struggle will only lead to death. The world is without answers. It only offers words. To know is to enter the still silence of the room within. You no longer are dead. You have touched the hem of the garment and are healed. You have risen like Lazarus to walk among the living. You are whole, complete, and perfect. You have touched the eternal where you are free of the world. Untie the strings that bind you. Be generous in all ways. Hold to your true nature. See in all that which I AM. You are the way. There is no other.

Existence is separated into this and that. This and that are not to be combined. This goes one way, that the other. Remember what cannot be seen. There is union in beauty. Beauty extends far beyond the eye. One dot of beauty in your heart can cover the landscape. What comes from within extends far past this and that. It brings unity to the mountain tops. Leave behind this and that. Enter the valley. It is from the valley that all is born. Return freely before death consumes you. Why walk in the bulrushes barefoot when you can float like Moses in a basket of reeds. Enter the valley riding on gentle flowing water. Rest outside in the garden if you must. Enter when you are ready. Remove yourself from this and that. Return to the womb where all is forgotten. Moses grew to guide his people back to their homeland. Rise up like Moses to receive your destiny. You are I AM. There is no other.

Jesus spoke of the kingdom within. Think of it as a garden of respite and peace while tending to worldly ways. Live from within while walking about the planet. From within all is revealed and awareness becomes your companion. You are lost in the world among the many words pointing to this and that. From within you are aware that you have no words and that you are without form. In that silent, formless room you touch the eternal daily. Awake each day to its still silence. Herein is joy, which is your true companion, for you are joy.

The world offers false hopes. The room within is where you find love without fear. Herein wisdom replaces ignorance. You no longer suffer as the me of the body. To live as the me of the body is to struggle under the weight of Marley’s chains, which are forged from desire and its attachments. You drag them around seeking relief. If only you had more of this and that, you think, then life would be better. Stop! You are fulfilled now. In this moment you are whole, complete, perfect. Do not cling to the illusion of existence. You are not the me of the body and its travails. Turn within. Bow to the wisdom that is your true nature. You have the choice of wisdom and joy over ignorance and fear.

Wear the cloak of silence. It offers comfort without words. It is generous in its embrace. To remove the cloak is to invite death. To wrap in it is to touch the eternal. Silence is your refuge from the ways of the world. In silence you find the sanctuary of your true nature.

You are that which I AM. You know the way without words. You know without hearing. Your heart fills with knowledge. Then the mind says, “that cannot be true; it makes no sense.” Your rational brain has stolen your wisdom. Why do you let in such a thief? Listen to your heart. You have ears to hear. There is a way to live in the world and a way to know from within. To be awake is to know the way within. You know the way by the clarity of your vision. You connect with the wisdom that is I AM.

You are consciousness in existence. You are the expressing that is the whole of the all. Listen to your true nature within and you will know unity and harmony in the world. Do not use the me of the body to hide from your true nature. Your personality dominates your form, giving it supreme importance. You think the me of the body must be nourished and nurtured into greatness. The world is filled with desires and expectations to help you. Bury them now. Free yourself of worldly ways. Grow from the ground of goodness into the tree of life that is you. You are the one. There is no other.

You are blind to your reality and cannot see the way out of the darkness. To see would change your world. Without eyes that see you run from this to that and back again. You walk in an endless circle. You do not see that your tether is weak, that you can break free. Until you see, you are blinded by repentance. The dust of the world blocks your vision. This and that distract you. You regret the way you have come and feel remorse. Do not hope for better. Do not continue giving power to the past. Turn within. Find the vision of that which I AM.

Abundance surrounds you. What is true in separation is even more so in the whole of the all. The abundance of the world brings about desire. Desire begets expectation. Expectations feed pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. Turn within. Abandon desire at the doorway. Enter without expectation. Herein you are met with joy. Joy is your true abundance. Wisdom is its companion. Herein lies your choice. To live in the world of separation or to live from within. To live from within is to know the whole of the all, which is consciousness in existence. You live without accepting separation as real. Choose to flow with the river of consciousness that courses through you. You are the flowing. Your reality is that which I AM. Open your mind to your possibilities. Live through the guidance of your heart. Follow your natural course. To follow the ways of the world is to be lost and confused. To follow your true nature is to flow naturally to the sea.

You quiver in a ball with a blanket over your head. Get up. Shake it off. You are the light of day in a new land. Step from solitude into the fray. Commune with those around you. Live above sorrow and shame. Guide those who ask the way. Be silent and they will hear. Curb your cleverness. Words do not always serve you well. Become more aware of your surroundings. Be their witness. Observe. Do not react. Draw on the energy that is your own true nature. You may walk in the world with great learning, but true knowledge comes with your awakening. Remove your candle from under the bushel basket. Set it high for all to see their way.

Slip from the world. It carries you away from your destination. Open your heart. A closed heart carries the wrong message. Release Marley’s chains. You need not hold to your attachments to this and that. Do not cheat the thief who steals from you in broad daylight. Give them warning that you are not what you seem. If they care to take from you still, so be it. There is not much here anyway. The world itself is illusion as are you. You are lured by the world’s beauty and then end up on its dung heap. The thief will follow.

There are two edges to the blade of existence. Beware! It cuts both ways. It is difficult to know this from that. Is the dragon that appears from the fire the same as the donkey braying for its mother’s teat? Which is the illusion, if not both. Jesus knew the difference between the this and that of the world and the yin and yang of unity and harmony. He said to give to the world its due but keep for your own your true nature, then he rode the peaceful donkey, nourished by sweet milk, into the fire of the dragon’s lair. He died there, knowing the way.

The spirit in you does not hide. You cover it with your good works and generosity. To practice loving-kindness is to set your spirit free. Unlike good works, loving-kindness has no expectation of reward. It grows from your true nature. Give freely with no strings attached. Let joy wash over you for no reason. Your true nature comes through the heart. When your heart is open to all without attachments, you love without fear. As the world recedes, more of your true nature flows out like a fragrance bringing joy to all.

There is an outer path and an inner path. Follow the way inward. Leave the world to itself. It does not know. You know from within. The room within is your true nature. The path you walk in the world is dusty and barren. Brambles grow in the ditches. When you tumble into the brambles, thorns pierce you. Blood oozes. Wild animals come to gnaw at your wounds. In the end, they suck the marrow from your bones. This does not need to be your fate. You once tasted the sweet dew. You know there is more than dust and brambles. Save yourself. Climb out of the ditch. Brush off the dust. Cleanse your wounds. Find a new way home. You carry the key to your release from the world. It opens the door to the room within. Step in. There is an ember in the darkness that glows through the tiny cracks of your ignorance and fear. Faint at first, it grows with your awareness. Words do not fuel the flame. It blazes in silence. Be aware. Say nothing. That ember is your true nature. It does not need your thoughts. You are the way. You know this truth without saying it. Deny it no longer. Whatever you see in the world is you. This is your fear. You live with fear in ignorance of your true nature. Set yourself free. You are the light of the glowing ember within. Follow its guidance for you are the one. There is no other. What other would there be when all is one? Your first thought is no, this cannot be. You see others all around you. This is the me of the body perceiving separation. To hold to separation is to be seized by the net of existence. To release separation is to flow with the river to the sea.

All has been said (over and over). Say no more. Stop trying. Do nothing. To do nothing is to sit in the still silence of the room within. Herein all is known. Let the way unfold before you. It is through heart, not mind, that you awaken and know. It is in the moment that heart opens to reveal your true nature.

Words point the way, but you do not see or hear. You are not aware. You are sleeping in a dream. You stumble on your way unconsciously. Your actions betray your ignorance and fear. The dust of the world billows with each step you take, making the light seem murky and dim. Stop a moment. Stand still. Let the dust settle. It is nothing to you. You are not of the world. The world is of your own making. You are the one walking the path. Change course. Find the way of your true nature. You can change! Drop your baggage at the door, then enter the room within. Acknowledge your true presence in the world. Release yourself from the me of the body. This is not you. It is your experience of existence and destined for the dustbin. You are not the body or its personality. You are the expressing that is existence. You know existence as the universe, but your true nature lies in the emptiness far beyond your perceptions. Awaken now to the whole of the all. Grow to fill the Tree of Life, with your roots buried deep in the ground of goodness and your highest branches reaching into the crown of consciousness. Honor yourself. You are the one. Do not look elsewhere when there is no other. You are that which I AM. Align yourself with your presence within. See no other than the whole of the all. Feel the emptiness embracing you. It holds you in wisdom and joy. This is the way of the path. Live it fully.

There is no you and some other. There is I AM. I AM is the expressing of separation as existence. You are the energy of existence. You are the flowing of the river, the ringing in the bell, the dancing that is the dance—the expressing that is existence. Words separate. Words create forms. Forms become this and that. Your interest in this and that keeps you from knowing your true nature. You would rather live in separation than give up your identity as the me of the body. You carry this identity even into death as your soul. You cannot imagine that you are anything else. There is a time under heaven for when you will release your worldly identity and remember that you are that which I AM. To remember is to find peace of heart in the moment. It is not some far off thing that must be sought after. Peace is now, in the moment. It comes from knowing joy as your true nature. You are the way. What could there be moment by moment but joy in the world. To live outside the moment is to be awash in thoughts, emotions, and desire, all of which leads to expectations and the folly of pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. Instead of folly, choose the peaceful presence of joy. The future is illusion, The past is memory. Memories supply you with this and that. The oasis in the distance is a mirage. You are camped by a lovely stream. Why are you thirsty? Drink in the moment. Let it settle your thirst. The guide within is your own true nature. The voice that leads is your own. You are the light that shows the way. You are the way. How many ways can it be said that there is no other. You are the one. You are I AM.

You are what you think you are. The image comes first to mind then is perceived as real in the world. What you see through perception is not reality. The me of the body with its pleasures and pains, happinesses and sorrows is illusion of mind despite its bumps and bruises. It is illusion because it is perception of mind and transitory. Stand in the room within. Look out into the world. You will see that you are skewed in how you have seen what you thought was real. When you remove yourself from the world it changes. Your vision lets you see truly what is real and not. When you untangle from the tendrils of attachment, you are free to be the reality that is your true nature. You are I AM. You are rooted in the ground of goodness spreading your branches to the crown of consciousness. Release your grip on existence. You will set yourself free.

Feed on wisdom and joy moment by moment. Expand your heart to take in the whole of the all. Arrest your appetite for this and that. Do not lose touch with your inner nature, which is I AM. You exist as the me of the body in a world of separation. Separation is illusion, a dream in consciousness of what cannot be real. Your experience of separation is transitory, yet you view it as your reality. This is a misperception. You are only passing through this world. It is not your home. Open your heart to reveal I AM. Let your true nature purify your worldly love so that you may live in joy without fear. You do not remember joy clearly. To remember is to awaken in the room within. This awakening cannot be said. It lies beyond words. You must know the way as your own. Use words, guides, angels, even gods, if you wish, to help along the way. These are separations. They exist, like the me of the body, as illusion. In the end it is you. Think about such things all that you want. The spirit world will serve you until it does not. When you reach the end, there is you. Speculate. Imagine. Give voice to your theories and dogma. They satisfy for now, but they are veils of darkness to be peeled away to reveal the core of your being which is I AM. You live in illusion and are drawn to illusion as the answer. The me of the body is lost in ignorance and fear. It is best not to think about it all. Observe your thoughts, emotions, and actions. Observe the ways of the world. Be the witness. Do not own the illusion of separation. Be silent and you will know what cannot be said.

You are the guide. There is no other to lead you. Submit to the way of the path. Do not resist your mastery of the moment. It is in the moment that you know the way. Stay with your true nature. Do not vary. You see the path in your own light. Follow the way into the room within. Open your eyes to vision from the heart. Follow your own lead as that which I AM. There is no other.

Part I

There is a blank, gray slate set before you. Write on it as prescribed from your contemplations on The Cloud of Unknowing, which is a text of medieval English mysticism by an unknown 14^th-century Christian monk writing to a student about contemplative prayer.

As you contemplate, you will grow from the ground of goodness into the crown of consciousness. In consciousness you ripen and mature, wanting only to know that which I AM. Wanting nothing more, you live in abundance. Receive your abundance willingly, for it is yours to give. You cannot be denied, for you are the light that feeds the world. The light within is I AM. You are that which I AM. You are the witness to the world.

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897-1981) was a modern Indian guru whose teachings revolved around knowing oneself. He inspired his followers to look within, for therein, he says, lies your true nature. He adds, I am not my body, nor do I need it. I am the witness only. I have no shape of my own. You are so accustomed to think of yourself as bodies. Once you realize that bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness, that the ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal, and that, when in touch with consciousness, you are the witness only, you will be able to withdraw beyond consciousness altogether.

You are the witness, but the witness is unknown to you. It is beyond the me of the body to know. If you believe you are your body, then you do not know the witness. To witness, you must enter the room within. As the witness, you see with the clarity of your true nature. To witness is to listen to I AM. To be aware. To observe without owning. To not judge or hope. You notice, observe, and let go of thoughts, emotions, and beliefs. None of what you observe is you. It has no meaning except what you give to it. You are not looking for answers because you have no questions. As the witness you are observing without contributing. You witness from within by contemplating in silence.

To sit in silent contemplation is to reflect, without knowing, on what you observe. You do not know. Your true nature knows. The me of the body exists in ignorance, trying to make sense of a world that has no meaning or purpose. To know, you must let your true nature be your guide. Knowledge does not come with words. It cannot be said. What is said offers direction. Words are signposts. They point the way but are not the destination. To cling to the signposts is to remain lost. You cannot cling to words and find your way.

Many read what the masters have said. Reflecting on their teachings is to repeat their message in your own words. Contemplating on the message is to let silence speak to you from within. Read and reflect, then sit in silent contemplation. These long-held steps are used by mystics to hear the voice within. The voice can also come suddenly as inspiration. It may also hide from your cleverness as you attempt to go your own way. But in the silence, it speaks without words. The words you hear are your own. They are signposts to your destination. Do not cling. You must leave the words to reach your destination. In silence you will know the way.

By the grace of your true nature, words are revealed in silence. Do not struggle to hear. Do nothing. Your true nature wishes you to remember what you never lost. There is more to you than the me of the body with its desires and expectations. It seeks to survive. You are drawn to something beyond everyday living. If only you had a higher place from which to see. It is the human quest to see further into your nature than eyes can see. What is it that lies beyond the edge of understanding? The pull is strong. Open yourself to its possibilities.

Let the world be. It is not yours to pursue. Your hunger is fed elsewhere. That place is buried in darkness. You must learn to see in darkness. Accept its presence. Feel the emptiness within. It is your treasure to behold. It is consciousness itself. To move from the world into emptiness, be aware of each moment. It is in the moment that you move inward. If you had no past, you would be in the moment eternally. There would be no future. But you exist in spacetime and cannot know in body what comes to you in the moment. The mind does not know what the heart knows. The mind rationalizes past and future. The heart lives in the present. To live in the moment without thought is joy. Live from your heart. Enter the room within to know joy. In joy, you can love in the world without fear and let it be.

Attend to the moment. It is an experience in your existence. Moment by moment life unfolds. Let the past and the future attend to themselves. The help you need in the moment lies in you. Your true nature is the power within that knows the way. Seize the moment as the door opens to the room within. Herein lies that which I AM. You are that which I AM. There is no other. To enter the room within is to detach from the world. There is an ember within that glows in darkness. Each moment that you attend to its burning it grows brighter. No effort is required. Do nothing. The mind functions in the world. The heart feeds you from within. Curb your mind and its rationalizations. Open your heart to that which I AM. The darkness in you is consciousness, which is the emptiness that is nowhere. You cannot know in daylight. Only the burning ember of darkness can be your guide.

Remove yourself from the ways of the world. Forget the past. Pay it no heed. The past consumes you with judgment and hope. You lose the moment to desire and expectation. To enter the room within is to forget the past and remember the moment. Fix your gaze on the ember within. Do not remove yourself from the joy that is your true nature. Sit in the still silence without thought. It is best to have no words. This is the way of the path.

You do not know as the me of the body. The body is wrapped in ignorance. You cannot know in form what lies beyond. Your body’s senses are inadequate for the task. You cannot rationalize your non-existence. Release all attempts to know. Instead, enter the room within. Remember that which I AM. Sit in the still silence without words. Receive what is already yours. You are the way, the truth, and the light. Wisdom and joy prevail in the realm within you.

It is time to move on. Do not linger where you are tied down. To move on, do nothing. It is your own true nature that leads you to knowing. It is your own true nature that guides you on the path. You are that which I AM. Open to I AM. You are the way. Sit in the still silence of the room within. Clarity comes without effort in silence. When your attention waives, hold steady. Come back to the moment. Do not let your awareness of I AM be scattered to the four winds. Be witness to your thoughts and emotions without making them your own. They are not you. They are only passing through. Bring your attention to the silence. Enter naked into darkness without the coverings of judgment and desire. Hold to your true nature. You are that which I AM. There is no separation. There is no other.

Be the witness. Do not judge. Do not give power to thoughts and emotions. They are not you. They are only passing through like ponies in a field to be observed and not ridden. To ride is to be carried off to where you do not wish to go. Remain at the edge of the field watching as a humble witness.

To know, set aside your cleverness. It does not serve you well. To be clever is to control the river of existence on your own. The result is to drown in self-identity. You expect the world to conform to your desires and wishes. You will die trying. You do not know the way as the me of the body. Do nothing. Enter the room within. Herein you remember your true nature, which knows the way. You are the river’s flowing. Stop being so clever. Leave yourself free to follow your natural course to the sea. To flow naturally is to be your true self and to be at peace always.

Your life of self-action begins and ends in the world. To live from within is to touch the eternal. To touch the eternal is to sit in contemplation with the emptiness that is nowhere, which is consciousness. In contemplation you come to know your true nature. There is nothing profound, holy, or divine about this. There is no god separate from you in the reality that is consciousness. Do not let rites and rituals, prayers and worship interfere in your contemplative life. These are illusions within the illusion of existence. The transitory me of the body lives in illusion. You are eternal.

Enter the room within with an empty mind. Do not bring with you the ways of the world. They cannot pass over the threshold. To conceive on your own is fruitless. Do nothing. Your cleverness and imagery only provide a veil between you and your true nature. Remove the veil. Gain eyes that see. Peer into the darkness with vision and clarity. See the glowing ember that beckons your return. In the empty darkness you touch the eternal.

Pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow fall on the heels of the past. Turn your attention away. Bring your awareness into the moment. Do not linger with desire and expectation. Focus on now and the presence of I AM. Remember to be the witness to your thoughts and emotions. Do not act on them. They are ponies in the field to be observed not ridden. Watch the ponies wander out to pasture as you contemplate your presence in the moment.

Focus your heart on the joy within. Reside with your true nature. To live in joy is to remove yourself from the ways of the world. Bring joy to the world by doing nothing. Open your heart to its possibility. Exchange love with all without fear. This is joy. Love in the world is tainted by fear, but to see all clearly in unity and harmony is to know joy. Live in joy with simplicity and humility.

To live humbly, look within. Be at ease with yourself. To be humble is to acknowledge your worthiness without demeaning others. You cannot add to yourself by diminishing those around you. All of consciousness in existence is whole, complete, perfect. Be humble before the door of the room within. Put arrogance and judgment in the bucket to be hauled away. You do not know. Rise above your own pride to recognize unity and harmony in the whole of the all.

Denigrating yourself is not humility. It is self-destruction. You are imperfect only in your self-perceptions. To not see yourself as whole, complete, perfect is a false perception of yours as the me of the body. True knowledge of yourself is remembering that you are not your body or its personality. You are that which I AM. There is no separation in consciousness. You believe you are separate from others when you are not. Pride and arrogance form as you judge and compare you and me, us and them. You are putting boundaries around this and that to prove your perceptions of separation. Stop deceiving yourself. You do not know. Enter the room within. Sit silently and humbly. You will remember your true nature and know.

You are not your errors or mistakes, nor are you your good deeds or kindness. You are that which I AM. You are not the trappings of separation. Do not make the past real. Be its witness, not its victim. You are experiencing separation as the me of the body where there is no me or body. There is only thought of separation in consciousness where there can be none. You are consciousness—whole, complete, perfect. The me of the body does not know this and suffers in ignorance and fear. Seek solace in the moment. The moment holds the key to your knowing that you are that which I AM. There is no other.

To know your true nature is to know joy. You cannot wallow in joy like you can in your sorrows. Joy reaches out to all. It consumes all. Joy is the fruit of the vine. Joy has no desire or expectation. It does not suffer pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. Joy has no opposite. Joy is the whole of the all. Joy is consciousness in existence. You are joy. There is no other. The me of the body cannot perceive joy through its ignorance and fear. To know joy, enter the room within. To know joy from within is to live with peace of heart always.

Sit in the still, dark silence of the room within. That knocking at the door is the world wanting to follow you in. Ignore the din. Focus inward. Do not wander about judging and hoping. Bring full awareness to the moment. In that moment is all. To stay in the moment is joy. Good works may bring pleasure and happiness, but these are transitory. They are linked by desire and expectation to pain and sorrow. Good works and evilness do not last. Joy is eternal.

The me of the body is ignorant of joy. It grumbles about those who turn inward and seem to be doing nothing to help. Jesus and some followers were visiting at the home of sisters Martha and Mary. Martha was busy providing for the guests and grumbled that Mary was idle at the feet of her Lord. Mary knew joy in the presence of her own true nature. Martha was consumed by good deeds and kindness. She struggled to provide without knowing I AM. Martha was a good person living kindly as the me of the body in ignorance of her own true nature. In ignorance she feared lack. She feared there would not be enough if she did not do her good works. She worked hard so that others had what they needed. Mary did nothing and found true joy.

Like Martha, you might think you are the me of the body. The me of the body is ignorant of your true nature. It is not aware. It does not know. Turn from the world. Enter the room within. Do not abandon the world but release it from your grip. Drop all attachments to this and that. The world is illusion. It has no meaning or purpose but what you give to it. Live in the world from within. Offer unity and harmony to all. Like Mary, sit in still silence at the feet of I AM. Follow your inner nature. Manage your worldly affairs from within. Maintain peace of heart always. Know from within your outward journey. This is the way of the path.

Speak up! Let your voice be known. Who are you to be hiding your true nature? You are not the me of the body. You are joy. Experience love in the world without fear. There is no loss in the eternal. There is no need for mercy. No one lacks who walks the way of the path. You who are whole, complete, perfect live in perfect abundance. The world of loving-kindness exists in separation. There is need for kindness when love is tainted by fear. You who walk in joy are without fear. Do not hide your love. Speak it! It is joy in the world. Turn within to know the way.

To love without fear is joy. Joy is found at home. Jesus was at home in Galilee, which was his place of awakening. Jesus had gone ahead in his awakening and asked for his disciples to follow him. But those who knew this told no one. Return to Galilee and there you will find the risen Lord. When you enter the room within you will encounter your true nature, which is joy. Joy is the pure love of the Christ. The Christ is one name for your true nature, as is Atman, the Buddha, the Tao, and all other answers to the quest to know that which I AM. There is no other than I AM, by any name.

Live simply. Do nothing. Do not cling to worldly ways. The ways of the world are built on desire and expectation. Live in the moment without thoughts of this and that. The past is gone. The future is yet to be. Let your true nature be your guide without attachment to outcomes. You do not know the way. I AM knows. With humility, listen in the moment with ears that hear. You will come to know the way of the path as humility breaks through the stubborn attachments of the world. With humility comes acceptance. Accept that you do not know. Accept the moment for what it is. From within the moment, you will know peace of heart always.

Give no special regard for this or that. There is I AM and no other. You are not here to pray for others. To whom would you beseech anyway? What is it to implore an emptiness that is nowhere? There is no vendor in the heavens to provide for your wishes. You do not know, so stop trying to shift the river’s course with your desires. Accept in the moment, with all humility, the way of the path. Live in the whole of the all with unity and harmony. There is no you and me, or them and us. There is consciousness, the emptiness that is nowhere, which is whole, complete, perfect, eternal, though it cannot be described. You are this consciousness. You are that which I AM. You are love without fear. Live as the joy that you are with peace of heart in all situations.

The moment is the door to the way inward. It is through the moment that you enter the room within. It is in the moment that you sit in still silence. It is in the moment that your true nature arises to welcome you home. The moment is without past or future. It holds no judgment or hope. It is without desire and expectation. The moment connects you to the eternal. To live in the moment, do nothing. All will be revealed. You will know the way. You are the light on the path. Choose to follow your true nature when you are ready. The moment awaits.

Part II

Begin by letting go of the past. Bring your awareness into the moment. Live from within. The me of the body does not know. It clings to the past hoping for a better future. To enter the room within is not difficult. First, do nothing. Entering is not for you to do. Your true nature knows the way. The body cannot know. It is but a vehicle of existence. You may understand the ways of the world, but the inward journey is unknown and eternal. You have separated the eternal into past and future. You have placed yourself as an object in spacetime with a soul. This is the way of the world. Let it go. Live in the moment. Touch the eternal.

To change your life, enter the room within. From within you begin anew. The room within has no past or future. Cleanse yourself of judgment and hope by witnessing your thoughts and emotions. Receive clear vision from your true nature to see the whole of the all. Let its river of unity and harmony flow freely. Give up all control by the me of the body. It does not know. You have a choice to either move forward in the world as the me of the body or to enter the room within to follow the river to the sea. One leads to death, the other to eternal joy. It is your choice.

Be the witness. Be resolute in observing thoughts and emotions rather than owning them. They are not you. They are the me of the body with its struggle to survive. You are that which I AM. Enter the room within and know your true nature. From the room within hold to the moment with an empty mind. Relax into the embrace of I AM. To accept the embrace, do nothing. It is by the grace of your own true nature that you receive. You cannot earn the presence of your true nature. It is always present. Pull away the veil. Enter the room within. Sit in the still, dark silence and know that you are that which I AM.

Be humble. Accept without pride and arrogance that you are the one. Bring your awareness into the moment. Be fully engaged with nothing. Just be! Let your true nature work in you without interference. Do not hinder or divert the flow of the river. You do not know. Let it be. You are the flowing. Follow your own true nature to the sea. It knows the way.

One word, one syllable, is all that it takes to bring awareness into focus. Focus your attention on a single sound. Even one note from a symphony brings the moment into clarity. You find yourself slipping inward. Your heart is activated. Your mind empties. You are open to receiving. The way of the path is revealed. Follow your true nature. Find the sound, syllable, or word that brings you back to peace of heart in all situations. Use it to keep your awareness focused on I AM. You are that which I AM. There is no other.

Do not consider your abundance to be found in this or that. Find fulfillment within. The world is full of spun sugar that is sweet and unnourishing. Satisfaction fades quickly. The room within nourishes with joy. Joy is your abundance. Joy provides all everlasting. Do not desire this and that. Turn inward to joy. Do not seek. Joy is revealed in the still silence. It is the ember that glows in darkness. Attend to the fire within and you will light up the world.

Be kind to yourself. Be gentle in your ways. Find solace in small things. Joy comes quietly. Be mindful of your actions. Do not harm. Live simply. Keep close to the ground of your being. You are limited in form only. Do not judge. Do not hope. Accept all things in the moment with peace of heart. Peace of heart is key to living in the world without suffering. From within you know how to begin and end. To live from within is to give less meaning and attachment to the world.

You are joy. To know joy is to hold peace of heart always. Give less emphasis to the me of the body. It does not know. It lives in ignorance and fear. It is limited by its nature in spacetime. You are not your body, its personality, or its thoughts and emotions. They are transitory. You are eternal. Remove the past. Attend to the moment. In the moment all is accomplished. Do not let your personality drive your existence. The me of the body is a hinderance to the way within. It fights the abandonment of desire, judgment, and hope. Be aware of the me of the body but do not accept it as your true nature. It is your transitory identity in the world of existence. It is not real.

Remove yourself from the world. It does not serve your spiritual needs. The world is concerned with survival and its attachments. Release all attachments. Prepare yourself for the room within. To enter the room within is to be aware of your true nature. Sorrow and suffering prepare you. Fall into the depths of darkness. At the bottom of the pit lies your true nature, which is joy. It is in joy that you shall awaken to the eternal. This is the symbolism of Jesus dying in agony on the cross, descending into hell, and rising on the third day. Sorrow clears the brambles from the doorway that you might see your way in. When you come to know your own existence as illusion you will have eyes that see the whole of the all. Awareness will overcome you. You witness life instead of owning it as real. You awaken to joy as your true nature. The joy you are is the joy of all.

Do nothing. Sit in still silence. Receive the grace of your true nature as the joy that it is. Joy is your abundance. Let all things come to you in joy. Embrace joy without religious fervor. Live simply, close to the ground. Find unity and harmony in all things. You cannot run headlong into joy. Your inner nature does not respond to brute force. It cannot be bullied. Approach the door with humility. Empty all thought. The ways of the world are not meant for your inward journey. Remove all desire and attachment. You cannot drag them across the threshold like Marley’s chains. Approach as an empty vessel. Open yourself to receiving.

There is unity and harmony in the whole of the all. The whole of the all is consciousness in existence. There is no separation in consciousness. You perceive separation in the world where there is none. Separation is illusion. Consciousness is reality. Bring your attention away from the world toward the room within. Move from perceiving illusion to witnessing reality. See the world with the vision of your true nature. Consign desire and attachment to the dustbin. The more you expose judgment and hope to the light the less you struggle. Your struggle in the world is lessened by the vision of your true nature. From within you see the whole of the all and accept joy as your guide. Struggle subsides when you hold peace of heart always.

Keep focused on what others say, want, and do. Their desires are gifts to you. From others you learn the way. The way home is through the whole of the all. In truth there is no other. There is I AM. I AM lights the way. Words and actions serve a purpose in the world. Expression is a guide to understanding. Serve others by understanding their expressions so that you meet them in their moment. There is natural good in all. Do not be suspicious of intents. Accept all situations with peace of heart. Love your neighbor without fear. Bring joy into the world. You are the way. You are I AM. There is no other.

Life flows in a natural order, if you allow it. Too often you take charge of your life without knowing the way. The true course of life lies within. The me of the body is shaped by the world. If you live as the me of the body you suffer through pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow which are fed by desire and expectation. You form attachments and cling to them for fulfillment. This is the way of the world. The way of the path is to allow the river of life to flow freely from within. You are the flowing. You are the energy of existence. To live from within is to have vision to see the way. Follow your natural course like a free-flowing river as it journeys to the sea.

Love stirs within you. It seeks full awareness. Release all other pleasures. Undo attachments. Love is not for gain; comfort is not its aim. Leave behind your treasures. They will fail you. They have no permanence. Follow the stirrings of your heart. The heart within does not pump blood. It is your true nature. It has no form, nor do eyes that see and ears that hear have form. Your true nature is not of the body. The love that stirs within is joy. Love in form is tainted by fear. Love without fear is joy. This is the love that stirs you and awakens you to the eternal.

The whole of the all is nothingness. It is not a thing to be described. It cannot be measured or located. The whole of the all is consciousness in existence. You are the whole of the all. The eyes of the world are blind to its reality, but you have the vision to see. To see, do nothing. Vision will come to you in darkness. You cannot know in the light of day. The light of separation gives off false images of this and that. Knowing comes when you cannot see. You are blind but wise beyond belief. You do not lack. You are the joy within. You may labor. You may search. Your efforts are for naught. Do nothing. In the end it is revealed. Stay out of your own way. Turn your awareness inward. Look behind the veil. Out of darkness comes knowledge.

Yours is a humble journey. A stirring of the heart. Joy becomes your guide. You live a simple life of love without fear. Simplicity comes from lack of worldly desires and attachments. You listen to the voice from within. Your actions benefit the whole of the all. Pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow come and go without your owning them. They are not you. You are their witness. You observe and do nothing. Wisdom and joy become your companions. You have renounced the ways of the world and follow the way of the path. You are that which I AM. There is no other.

These contemplations reflect love and fear as opposites, which is a theme from A Course in Miracles. Many publications have spun from A Course in Miracles, which was first published in June of 1976 by the Foundation for Inner Peace. The one most relied on here is Love is Letting Go of Fear by Gerald Jampolsky, published in 1979 by Celestial Arts.

Love in the world is tainted by fear. Love and fear are products of separation. Without separation, there is no need for love or fear. Both are illusions because separation is an illusion.

Love and fear are emotions of the me of the body. Like the body and its personality, they are transitory. They come and go. They are mercurial and changeable. They are passions of the body in a dream of this and that. You love this, but not that. You fear that, but not this. Your love and fear rise and fall with your desires and expectations. You experience pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. These are the ways of the world. They are not your true nature.

Joy is your true nature. Joy is love without fear. Joy is real. It has no opposite. It cannot be described. Joy is eternal. To love in the world without fear is to express joy. Joy has no requirements, attachments, or conditions. Joy is you expressing your reality in a world of illusion.

To love without fear is joy. Joy has no attachments or conditions. Joy is a state of being in the world that reflects your true nature. Joy unites you with the whole of the all. Joy is your abundance. It provides for you now, in the moment, with peace of heart always. Peace of heart does not judge or hold out hope. It is now, not in the past or future. To desire love is to feel separation. You want connection. You want to feel whole. You want the embrace of love to overcome your thoughts of separation.

You can change your life by changing your thoughts about it. What you believe proves itself true. To change thoughts and the beliefs that go with them, turn within. To turn within is to remember your true nature. You are not your body or its personality. You are joy. Joy lies in the silence of the room within. The world cannot fulfill you. Desire and expectation are spun sugar. Their attainments do not nourish fully. Your satisfactions are transitory. They come and go. You seek more, and more is never enough. You cannot hold on to the ways of the world and find lasting fulfillment.

To find fulfillment, enter the room within. To enter the room within, change your thoughts and beliefs about yourself by stepping into the moment, releasing the past, and curbing your imagination of the future. Thoughts and beliefs exist only in your mind. Clear your mind of judgment and hope. Your perceptions are illusions that you have captured as thoughts and maintain as your own. They are not yours. They are not you. You are joy within. You are whole, complete, perfect, eternal as is. From within, you will know this each moment. Follow the path that is your natural way. You know the way from within. Your path lies not in the world but in your heart. It is a path of peace and joy.

The past is thoughts that you capture in mind and call your own. These thoughts are not your reality. Your reality is eternal. It has no past. This is hard to fathom in a world of separation where you see your body with its personality as real. The me of the body is not real. It is transitory. Reality is eternal and unchanging. The me of the body exists in spacetime as an illusion in consciousness of separation, and the past is a figment of your perceptions of separation.

Your thoughts from the past produce beliefs which become true for you. What is not true in your mind you see as false. You act according to these beliefs. Your actions become your life. Your life is formed by your thoughts and beliefs, which are the product of genetics, culture, and experience. Your life becomes one long perception of what you think it is. Changing your life starts with changing your thoughts. New thoughts bring about new beliefs which change your actions. Your perceptions shift and a new life begins. You live in a world of your own thinking.

Judgment keeps the past alive in your mind. Judgment is the dust that blinds you to joy. Judgment dwells in separation. It proves to you in false ways that your thoughts and beliefs are correct. Judgment keeps your circle of thought-belief-action perception intact. It keeps your world, whether pleasant or miserable, from falling apart. Judgment ties you to a world of separation where one thing is true, and another is false. Judgment, like separation, lies outside of the moment. It is in the moment where you stop judging and hold peace of heart in all situations. To live in the moment is to live without judgment. To live in the moment is to join in the unity of the whole of the all. To live in the whole of the all is to experience peace of heart always.

To live with peace of heart always, do not judge and do not hope. Stay in the moment. It is without fear. You cannot love from fear. Release the past and choose the moment. To love without fear is to express joy in the moment. To live in the moment is to be the joy that you are. There is nothing in the world that needs to change for you to know peace of heart in all situations. With peace of heart, you are choosing love over fear.

Release joy into the world. Joy is your true nature. Let joy be your guide in all things. To live in joy is to know the whole of the all, which is consciousness in existence. You always have a choice between the me of the body and your true nature. Do you follow the way of the world or the way of the path? One leads to death. The other to the eternal.

You have the power to live with peace of heart always. Peace is found moment by moment without judgment or hope. Your world is as you see it. You are what you believe yourself to be. To see yourself as loveable is to be loved. Whether you think you are loveable or not depends on your judgment of the past. Without judgment, you are all things. Without hope, you are all possibilities. Relieve yourself of judgment and hope, then your true nature can follow its natural course.

Live in the moment. You do not know. That which I AM knows. Twia is not limited by the world like the me of the body. To follow twia, enter the room within. From within, you have eyes that see the whole of the all. To see the whole of the all is to know joy. To know joy, you love without fear. Without fear, love joins the world in unity. To hold the world in unity is to let go of the past, hold no expectations, and to know that you are that which I AM. There is no other. To know there is no other is to experience peace of heart each moment.

Choose peace of heart in all situations. To know peace of heart is to live from the whole of the all. To live from the me of the body is to be alone and afraid. The me of the body knows only separation. It tries to love but is fearful of its loss. It turns away from others to survive. It is limited by its form and fears oblivion. It struggles to survive, suffers in trying, and seeks love as the answer to both. To live from the body is to live in pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow as fear and love wax and wane over a lifetime. This is life as illusion, whereas your reality is joy. Joy is love without fear. To know joy is to live moment by moment with peace of heart. To bring joy to the moment is to live in the world from the whole of all and not from the me of the body.

Joy knows no opposite. It has no distinctions and cannot be compared. Joy is your reality. To know joy is to know your true nature. Your true nature is whole, complete, perfect, eternal. Joy cannot be separated. You cannot give joy or receive joy, for giving and receiving are the same. Joy is your abundance. You do not lack, nor can you gain. To be the joy that you are is to live fully in the whole of the all, which is consciousness in existence. To give love in the world without conditions, expectations, or attachments is to know joy and to accept the whole of the all as your home. There is nothing outside of you that can bring you joy. You are the love in the world that knows no fear. You are joy. There is no other.

Peace of heart comes from letting go of the past. Judgment and peace do not co-exist. Peace of heart comes with joy, and joy is without judgment and hope. Joy is love without fear. Without fear there is no judgment and hope. The past and the future become the moment. Joy is always present now. To live outside the moment is to entertain fear and the uncertainty and grievance that fear engenders. Until you release the past, you fear for the future. To live in fear is to live without peace of heart.

Love has no meaning. It is what you make of it. What you see as love is the love you give and get. You perceive the world from the past and act accordingly. What you think is true becomes true in your life. You live in a world of your own making that you can change. Genetics, culture, and experience combine to give you a message that the me of the body accepts as reality, when in truth it is illusion. You can change how you receive and accept the message. You can flip the switch and give new meaning to love and life.

Love and life have no meaning. You give them meaning from what you perceive them to be. What you perceive is determined by the thoughts you hold in mind. Your mind is a factory of thoughts producing perceptions and beliefs. You can change production by changing fuels. You can select either fear and ignorance or joy and wisdom. You have the power to choose. You can live a life of wisdom and joy without fear, or not. Thoughts you choose to hold in mind are not real, so they can be changed, and this change alters your meaning of love and life. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Be neither happy nor sad. Notice your emotions without owning them. Be their witness while you hold peace of heart. How you believe yourself to be can change. You have the power to change your emotions by changing your thoughts. You are not your thoughts, so do not invest yourself in the ones you do not want. Do not make the past your future if you do not like how life has been. Do not judge the past. Do not hope for a different future. Enter the room within. Be in the moment without judgment and hope. Release desire. Drop expectations. Experience the moment as it is. Be its witness. Joy and wisdom will find you. They give you eyes to see differently than those of fear and ignorance. Be absorbed in the moment and your world will change. Let go of the past by being fully in tune with now. Now is your life, not yesterday or tomorrow. Remember, yesterday is gone and tomorrow will tend to itself. You are worthy of your full attention each moment. Days come and go. You are eternal. Follow the joy that is your true nature. Joy knows the way. Set yourself free to follow joy. Let peace of heart find its way at each moment in your life. It is your choice.

The world as you see it can change by changing your views. Your thoughts make up the world you experience. Your world is an effect of your thinking. You think the world is real. You feel powerless against its forces. You have relinquished control over your thoughts and emotions. You perceive them as outside forces when in fact you choose the thoughts and emotions you wish to act upon. What you believe to be from the outside originates within you. Your world of pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow is a world of your own making from the desires and expectations you choose to follow. You can change your world by witnessing your thoughts and emotions instead of accepting them as real. You do not have to ride these ponies. Observe them as they frolic in the field that is your mind. Then turn within and accept peace of heart in all situations.

To suffer in the world is to accept it as real. And why wouldn’t you? It appears real. There is pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. There is yesterday and tomorrow, with a brief stop in between called today. You have desires and expectations. Thoughts and emotions consume you. Add a bump on the head and a stubbed toe, and what could be more real than the world in which you live and breathe? Yet, it is an illusion, a thought of separation in consciousness. The thought is transitory. Consciousness is eternal. What is eternal, whole, and unchangeable is reality. Look at the world through the eyes of your true nature. There is no separation. Consciousness in existence is the whole of the all. Live through your true nature without judgment and hope. Hold peace of heart always. Your perceptions of the world are distorted by ignorance and fear. Let wisdom and joy be your vision from within and your world will change. What is real in the world is you and the vision you bring to it. You are that which I AM. There is no other.

Look upon the world as whole. See it as the whole of the all. Do not fragment your life with this and that. Fragments come at you from the past. Leave them be. Do not judge. Witness your thoughts. They are not you. They come and go with this and that. You are the whole of the all. Bring yourself to center. Quiet your mind. Enter the room within. Herein lies the joy that is your true nature. Joy has no judgment. See joy in all as consciousness in existence. Joy requires no conditions or expectations. It is not a desire to seek or attain. It is you. It is that which I AM. There is no opposite. Joy is whole, complete, perfect, eternal. Bring joy with you to the table. Then you can love all without fear. Replace judgment with joy. The past will wither. Moments of peace will expand. Look through eyes of joy and your world will change from this and that to the whole of the all, and you will live with peace of heart always.

In all the days of all the years, there is this moment, and in this moment is the whole of the all. Do not let the past or future dissuade you from knowing the eternal, for this moment is all there is. Time fragments. Words separate. To judge and hope is to open yourself to pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow as your expectations rise and fall. Without the moment, you live in a future built on the past. Joy, often hidden by time, is revealed in the moment. Be in the moment with joy. Rid yourself of judgment. Release hope to the wind. Accept joy in the moment as your true nature. There is only the moment. To live in the moment is to touch the eternal. To touch the eternal is to live with peace of heart always.

Once upon a time there was a past. It died. It no longer is the bane of your existence. It no longer obliterates the moment or predicts the future. You have the present moment to fill the gap. In the moment, the way opens before you. Old judgments have no use. New perceptions alter your beliefs. Your world changes. To be in the moment is to release joy. In the moment you can love without fear. You are released from Marley’s chains. Without the weight, you stand taller and breathe deeper. When you hold peace of heart in all situations, you are awakening to the truth within that is I AM.

You have the power to change your perceptions. Peace of heart is always yours if you choose. It is a choice, for peace lies within. The world brings pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow with the rise and fall of your desires and expectations. Every event can be seen through a peaceful heart. You can turn from the world and find peace within in all situations. Your thoughts and emotions are not you. You give them any power they appear to hold. What happens in the world can be filtered through the witness. Be the observer of events. Leave them to themselves. They are ponies in the field to be watched without riding. Do not dwell on the ponies. They are judgments and hopes. Stay in the moment. Experience the moment as its witness. Hold peace of heart. The world will change as you alter your perceptions. The unity of the whole of the all is found in peace of heart always. Choose unity over the illusion of separation. Change your perceptions and you will change your world.

You can change your thoughts. The thoughts you act on are your choice. How you act is your choice. You may feel overwhelmed and trapped, but your attitude in the situation remains your choice. You can choose peace in all situations. Put worldly ways in the bucket by the door and enter the room within. Release the world. Reclaim your true nature. New thoughts and new perceptions change beliefs. When beliefs change, the world changes. There is a world of joy in you. Choose joy. You are the one. There is no other than joy.

Introduction

The nature of finding your true self is like riding an ox home. This ancient Chinese metaphor of self-discovery is presented in Riding the Ox Home: Stages on the Path of Enlightenment (by John Daido Loori, copyrighted 1999 by the Mountains and Rivers Order). The book uses ten images of an ox to illustrate the stages in one’s search for the true self according to Zen Buddhism. The search is a process of finding your true self and then forgetting it, for knowing that you do not exist is enlightenment.

What is the self that we look so hard to find? I think it is life stuck in separation where there is none. I have learned from mystics that thoughts of separation in consciousness give rise to our worldly existence. I seem to exist as a body with a personality, separate from all else. My desire is to prove my individuality. My release from desire is knowing that I am not my body or its personality. A sense of self makes existence seem real. Although I search for self, it cannot be found. The self is illusion. That is why it must be forgotten. To lose my self is to find my true nature, which I call that which I AM. For me, I AM is my reality, which is whole, complete, perfect, and eternal.

So, what am I? I am that which I AM. There is no other. This may sound pompous, but it works for me. Why? Because I know within that I AM is my true nature. You are that which I AM rings true in my mind, or in my heart more likely, for it is in the heart that I know the eternal, more than in mind. The mind keeps thinking about it. The heart rests in the realization of knowing. It is in the realizations of the heart that I accept that I AM. And so, in this vein, I share with you my contemplations while reflecting on Riding the Ox Home.

Contemplations

To remember your true nature, enter the room within. There is no separation between you and that which I AM. You are that which I AM. There is no other. Enter when ready.

Your journey within is to remember what you have forgotten. You have forgotten that you are whole, complete, perfect, and eternal. You have forgotten that you are planted firmly in the ground of goodness from which you cannot separate. Separation is a false state of being. You cannot become more or less than what you are, and you are that which I AM. To know this is to be aware of your true nature and to grow into its realization. From the ground of goodness, you grow up the tree of knowledge into the crown of consciousness.

You have no true self as the me of the body. Forget the self. It is not real. Let it die with the body. Your true nature lies in the eternal. To touch the eternal, enter the room within. Herein lies that which I AM. I AM is your true nature. You know your true nature as wisdom and joy. Find wisdom and joy in all things. To know wisdom and joy in all is to live in the whole of the all, which is consciousness in existence, instead of in separation.

To enter the room within is to leave the world behind. The me of the body is shaped by genetics, culture, and experience. It is ever-changing and transitory. Your true nature is unchanging and eternal. The world may be your oyster, but you are the pearl. To reveal the pearl, you must crack open your worldly shell. Release yourself from its confinement and limitations. To be broken open is to cast aside worldly desires and expectations. The way of the world is pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. The way of the path is wisdom and joy. The way of the path has no destination or comparison. It is a journey of personal awareness and the acceptance of I AM. There is no hierarchy of knowing in the whole of the all.

My life has been Darrell-in-search-of-self. Who am I? Where do I fit in? I have no answers. I do not know. I spent a lifetime wandering in this void. I fear this void. I am ignorant of what lies beyond. To know would shake my worldly foundations. It is on these foundations that I have built a mansion. I am afraid to let it fall. Yet, I search. I cannot help myself.

My awareness has grown over the years. It is central to my search. I am aware without knowing. It is clear to me that I am more than flesh, bone, and blood. I am the breath that animates the body. I came into the body at birth and will leave at death. The body is not my true nature. The breath is that which I AM.

My journey has been to remember that which I AM. It was a long time coming to realize that I am not the me of the body, that I am not the personality in form called Darrell. Although I understand this, I have not accepted it. My attachment to Darrell is strong. I distinguish between me and others. I compare myself with others. I feel separation from others that has not been resolved. There is a boundary between me and the world of others that is yet to be dissolved.

The voice in my head mostly talks of the past. It expresses memories and judges them. It sometimes looks to the future with hopes and dreams. It rarely focuses on the present moment. Yet, it is these passing moments that comprise my life. Most slip by unnoticed, lost in a fog of judgment and hope.

My current practice is to capture the moments of my live and to live them as fully as possible. The practice begins by turning within. In the still, silent darkness of the room within each moment flourishes. I become the observer of thoughts and emotions. I witness them without accepting them as real. They are not that which I AM. They are of the body with its desires and expectations. I remember that I am the breath, and so I give it attention and awareness. The breath is the treasure within. It is the pearl of great price.

Do not carry your worldly baggage across the doorsill of the room within. Drop it at the threshold. The clanging of Marley’s chains will awaken the dead. Reverberating thoughts bring back memories, both good and bad. I have trouble with old thoughts. They arise from nowhere and stare me in the face. I have learned to stare back. Each one, good or bad, is seen as an illusion that I can let go. Strong emotions come with memories that are pleasant or painful. Some bring happiness. Some foster sorrow. Memories are clever. They have learned how to keep in my good grace. But I have learned to forgive them and to send them on their way. As their witness, I am empty of judgment and hope. At least that is the idea. In practice, I am far from it, but at times I manage to enter the still silence within and let go.

Follow the river that lies deep within. Your true nature flows through you. It is not in the open. The world does not have eyes to see the way. Your true nature reveals itself within, where eyes that see find light in darkness. Your true nature is like a mountain. It appears far away, then suddenly it is upon you. Stick to the valley of the river and let the mountain come to you. The mountain is your highest nature, but it is revealed in the valley. It is from the valley that all things are born.

I have followed a worldly path. I know no other. But still, it is my life’s path. How could I choose differently? I cannot hide from that which I AM. My true nature knows the way. I do not know this. It cannot be said. I journey in ignorance and fear. But there is light in darkness. Deep within, the ember glows waiting to be fanned. The light never went out on me. In crucial moments it glowed brighter. When the path turned, I followed the light. I knew the way without thinking. My heart makes my most crucial decisions. It is in heart, more than in mind, that life’s journey flows. To others I may have appeared foolish, but I found my way without knowing. Knowing does not require reasoning and understanding.

What I do not have in my practice is an intimacy with that which I AM, or twia, that comes from truly letting go of worldly ways. Twia is there working for me on behalf of all. I understand this, but I do not know twia personally. I live among the words without knowing. I cling to the signposts. I feel the edges of the unknown, but my baggage is too heavy for traveling. One by one I am breaking the links of Marley’s chain. The doorway ahead, through which I seek to walk, grows clearer as the dust of the world settles. My mundane life is still separate from the divine that I seek. In truth, I see no separation between the mundane and the divine. To declare something mundane or holy is to separate. There is nothing greater or less in the whole of the all.

I am the whole of the all, or consciousness in existence. To help remember that I am consciousness in existence, I sit in the dark silence of the room within. I settle the breath and still the mind. I am the witness. Dogma and rituals are distractions. I have fleeting moments of concentration. I feel the presence of my true nature as a shadow of darkness cloaked about me. It is in that shadow that an ember glows. The ember warms my being with peace of heart. I feel aglow in the moment, knowing joy.

In the room within, I experience brief moments of focus. They are few. Mostly, I attain a blank mind of quietude. The peace and joy of quietude carry into living in the world. Separation abounds all around me, but it has less meaning. I simply let what happens pass by without attaching to it. Not always, but more than not. I bring my attention to the movement of my body and to objects around me. I attend to what others are saying instead of inserting my life into their story. It is their story to tell. Let them say it without interrupting them with mine. At least I am aware of doing so and come back to it when I forget (which is often). My life has been a journey to this moment, and this moment is just the beginning. I am at peace with that. Twia remains my comfort and joy.

You can hear the sweet whisper of twia through the din of the world with ears that hear. The river running through the whole of the all babbles softly like a brook. A river flowing freely brings greenery to its banks. When blocked, brambles grow. You are lost among the brambles. Your true nature is hidden in the weeds. Find ears to hear its rustling. It cannot be hidden forever. For even a moment, be aware. Listen! Release the water to let the river flow freely once more. The river knows the way to the sea.

Now and then, for a moment, I hear the whisper within. It is more a feeling than a voice. That feeling is joy. It lingers. It brings peace of heart. The mind is blank. There is an acceptance of the moment, as is. Words can bring me to the moment, but I must let go of them to find joy within. I find it difficult to release words and clear the mind. Words are abstractions and distractions. They reveal the way but are only signposts. I do not want the signposts to detract from the destination. The destination has no words.

Wisdom has no limits. It does not fit into the world as a neatly bundled category. The word itself is limiting. It cannot be something to learn. Wisdom is revealed in silence as your true nature. It has no words that say. Wisdom is an experience of knowing the eternal. Wisdom is not an idea to be slotted into the world. You are wisdom, but the word cannot capture you.

I am that which I AM. At eighty years of age, I have grasped this idea and given it meaning. I have harnessed my life. I have seized its force. I know its power as I AM. The world tugs and pulls. It often succeeds. But I do not give it thought. I let it be as it is. The world, for me, is what I make of it. For the most part, I try to give it joy and kindness, but my tongue can be sharp when I do not want it to be. I find meanness and anger at its tip. Then I must withdraw to cleanse the air and purify the river. It is nothing that I want to carry as baggage.

To release the past, both good and bad, is to accept that there is no this and that. There is no separation. You are not an object separate from all else. You are that which I AM. There is no other. You have no past or future. Release judgment and hope. Find peace of heart in all situations. This is the way of the path. This is to remember twia as your true nature.

The me of the body is strong willed. It clings to the past and hopes for better. It skips the moment. It fears oblivion, so it attaches itself to the world and its ways. The strength of its attachments offers survival where there is none. For all its efforts, it dies. Its death, like its life, is an illusion of separation in consciousness.

Again, there is wisdom. Wisdom is eternal. Wisdom is the whole of the all. You are wisdom. You are the whole of the all. Wisdom knows there is no other than I AM. You are I AM. These are words that say without knowing. If I knew, then I would not need the words. The words come because my actions belie any knowledge that I might have. It is my struggle to live in a world of separation. I do not fully see the whole of the all through the dust of the world. My vision is weak. This and that are constant distractions. But I do not rail against my actions. I constantly attempt to cleanse the past and move on, moment by moment. May wisdom be my guide.

The way of the world is ingrained in my actions. It is hard to shake free of the dust that billows up on the path. But my eyes are clearing. I am beginning to see the way ahead. It is the way of twia. Twia is the whole of the all, without separation. There is no me or you. There is I AM. There is no other. But I do not live entirely this way. I attach. I covet. I desire this. I want that. Two decades ago, my world changed in an instant of realization that I was done with my life as it had been up to that point. All ambition drained from me. Old behaviors dried up. I was starting anew. In place of my old sense of self stood that which I AM. I know this better now than I did then. But my true nature has always been my guide, even when I do not know. For now, I do not know. The world continues to call me, but it no longer is the voice that I choose to follow. There is dust at my feet, and it billows up, but I have eyes now to see my way home.

There is much that I have come to understand, but still, I do not know. Twia knows, and I follow twia the best that I know how in the moment. But the moment gets away from me often, and I slip into the ways of the world. The desires and expectations of the me of the body are strong. The bond of my conditioning in the world holds tight. However, there is growing clarity. I let go. I find center. I come to the moment. I see clearly. I see that the issue or situation is not as important to me as I first thought, and I find peace of heart. Peace of heart leads to harmony with all. This is to live in the whole of the all without separation. I understand these words, but they are mostly hard to live by.

The deeper I dive into the past, the more I find to forgive. Memories abound. I give them heed without accepting them as real. Whatever the memory, I release judgment. I forgive. I remain in the moment, without thought of past or future. The memory fades but does not always go away. It seldom is extinguished. It becomes a backdrop without meaning in the moment. This seems to be part of undoing the past. The threads of existence are strong. They are difficult to break. But without breaking them, the cloth cannot be rewoven into a new pattern of living.

In all things hold peace of heart. Be aware in the moment. Let mindfulness be your daily practice. Do not jump on the pony and ride it across the field. Be its witness. Observe its antics without riding. Witness what is at hand without judging or hoping. Be single-minded in each moment with what is given to you to do. To be single-minded is to be alert and aware. Listen to your true nature. Twia knows the way. You do not know, so stay lucid and present in all situations. Bring them peace of heart.

Wisdom in action is compassion. Wisdom exudes loving-kindness. Wisdom overcomes the ignorance of the world. That ignorance is the perception of separation by the me of the body. It believes there is other where there is only I AM. Ignorance blinds the me of the body to the whole of the all. It does not know consciousness in existence. The wisdom to overcome ignorance is found within. From within, you have eyes to see the whole of the all and extend loving-kindness.

I cannot go back. I am at the point where there is no past. This is the point of no return. I see what is happening and let it be. Doing so is becoming more and more natural. I am not gaining anything, nor am I losing anything. I simply AM. That which I AM is in the world, living my life. I move about deliberately. I see in all that which I AM. My vision remains fuzzy. The blur causes me to crash into worldly matters at times. But the event passes, and I let it go.

Separation is illusion. It is a thought in consciousness that cannot be real. Reality is whole, complete, perfect, eternal. I am not my body, or its personality called, Darrell. There is no me. There is no you. There is I AM. There is no other than I AM. I am that which I AM. To know this is to turn from the ways of the world to the way of the path. Instead of ignorance and fear, wisdom and joy become my guide. To know wisdom and joy, I enter the room within. To sit in the still, dark silence is to know I AM intimately and personally. This is an act of release and acceptance. I release attachment to existence and accept twia as my reality.

I see no dogma in what I am doing. I see no absolute this, no absolute that. I cannot say the truth. To say it gives it meaning and I have no meaning to give it. Meaning lies in separation. There is no separation in truth. I have a similar experience when I try to describe a dream. Putting words to the dream removes its impact on me. It is now something of the world instead of an experience outside of existence. Words put the dream into existence instead of leaving it in its own reality. Dreams are not meant to be held on to, nor is our existence in this world. I cannot hang on to what is not real.

In our existence, there is no end to the journey. It is a journey in time. Time moves on in our world, and so do we. But each step in time brings us closer to the eternal. To touch the eternal is to transcend the world. I may continue to live in the world but no longer is it my way. More and more I find peace of heart in all situations. In all things there is consciousness. When the me of the body steps away, your true nature comes through. You come face to face with twia. Attachments release their grip. Marley’s chains rust at the threshold of the room within where you left them. You are free to move about in the whole of the all. Loving-kindness is your path. Wisdom and joy are your guides. Peace of heart is your state of mind. You are consciousness in existence.

Nothing is fixed in existence. Existence moves about, always shifting and changing, coming and going, yet nothing is added or taken away. That is the nature of existence, which is centered in consciousness. Consciousness is always whole, complete, perfect, and eternal, whether expressing existence or not. Do not attach to existence. What the world offers cannot fulfill you. Your abundance lies in the valley of the river flowing through you. To control the river is to live with desire and expectation, which leads to a life of pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. Release the river to run freely. Follow its course. It knows the way to the sea while flowing through the valley, bringing wisdom and joy to all. It is in the valley that all things are born. It is the womb of existence.

To live from within brings wisdom and joy into your world. You see the whole of the all through visions of loving-kindness. Love and compassion are given freely. From the room within you bring the eternal into the world. You no longer see the world as separation. There is no me. There is no you. There is no other than I AM. All is merged in the whole of the all. This is the emptiness that is consciousness, where separation falls away. This and that no longer limit you. You are boundless without attachments. Consciousness in existence is the whole of the all. It has no edges or boundaries. You are consciousness in existence. You are the whole of the all. You are emptiness. You have no edges or boundaries. You are I AM. There is no other.

You are the flowing of the endless river. It is your true nature in you. Its fountainhead is in the rain that falls on the mountain tops. It nourishes the valley below. Its source is the sea from which it is drawn to fall as rain. Enter the flow and your efforts are over. Your true nature does not struggle in the world. It does not know pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. To live in the world from within is to follow twia. Twia knows the way. To follow twia is to live simply and close to the ground with peace of heart in all situations. The simple life is to live from the inside out. Do not look to the world for fulfillment. You are fulfilled within. Abundance lies in your true nature. It spills into the world as loving-kindness.

What you come to know is that you are, and always have been, whole, complete, perfect, eternal. This is your true nature. You are that which I AM. There is no separation in the true nature of your reality. To follow the river to the sea is to realize this from within. Find joy in the room within. There is clarity in knowing the joy that is you. To live as the joy that you are is to share compassion with all without effort.

You are the flowing of the river. Do not try to be other than your true nature. To let the river flow freely is to act with peace of heart in loving-kindness always. Then you are available to the moment. Let the moment carry you. It will lift you into action with ease. You will know the way that is yours to follow. Wisdom lights the path. Joy is your guide. Do not let the dust of the world cover you in ignorance and fear. This blocks the river’s flow and alters its channels. Your path is obstructed by desire and expectation. You are pulled this way and that without direction. The specter of separation looms over you and roils your imagination. You believe you are the me of the body and not that which I AM.

To remember twia is to respond with vision and clarity to the wonders of the world. You live simply, bringing wisdom and joy into each moment. You let the river flow freely without obstruction. You do not know, so stay out of the way of your true nature. Twia knows. Act from within by listening to twia. The way of the path is open before you.

You are the one. There is no other. To know this is to live in the world unobstructed. Your perceptions have changed. The me of the body is diminished. The room within is gone. The world has returned to you, no longer projected outward to be occupied in ignorance and fear. You exist in wisdom and love as your true nature. There are no limits or boundaries around you. To what extent you can know is unknowable. You are naked in the world for all to see. You are plain and unadorned. You are in harmony with the whole of the all.

To live in harmony with all is to live without attachments. There is no other. There are no objects. There is nothing to possess. The world has only the meaning that you give to it. Otherwise, it is illusion. Your abundance lies within. From within you find fulfillment. Twia knows your needs.

Do not cling. Release. Let go. This is the way of the path. It is not for you to judge your needs. Twia knows. Marley’s chains are forged from attachments. Free yourself. Follow twia. Do not hold on to illusion. Be present with all things. You cannot hide your bounty. It is everywhere. Your abundance precedes you. Be present without lingering.

To walk the way of the path is to know your true nature. To know your true nature is to release the me of the body and all of existence. None of it is real. You live in an illusion of separation in consciousness. The quality of your existence is in thought. The world is how you think it is. In ignorance and fear you create a world of pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow from your desires and expectations. In wisdom and joy, you know who you are, and the world responds in kind. You are that which I AM. There is nothing to give to you or to take away. You are whole, complete, perfect as is. When you realize who you are, the world turns to look. Engage with all in loving-kindness. It is the way.

Afterword

To me, riding the ox home is an adventure in finding one’s self. But once found, then what? Then, do nothing. To do nothing is to accept that the self must be forgotten. The self is an illusion of separation from the whole of the all. Your journey into the whole of the all is one of reflection and acceptance. Reflect on your true nature within and accept that you are not the self and its identity with the me of the body. Your true nature is that which I AM. You are I AM. There is no other.

To remember your true nature, enter the room within in silence. Sit in the still, quiet darkness. Do nothing. That which I AM, or twia, will be revealed. It is not so much that you remember twia as it is that twia remembers you. Twia never left you during your experience of separation as a self. Self is an illusion of separation, as if you were something other than all else. Your existence as a me of the body is a false sense of reality, right down to your self-identity and its soul.

There is an illusion of self in separation. You believe that your existence is real, but it has no reality. Reality is unchanging and eternal. Your existence in form is transitory. You seek to know this self, and when you do you can release it. To release the self is to release your world of separation. Then you enter the whole of the all and remember that you are whole, complete, perfect, and eternal. You are I AM. There is no other.

Your life is not about you. There is no you. You are a mere figment of existence. Existence is the dream of separation in consciousness. There is no you because you cannot separate from I AM. You are I AM. There is no other. Liberate yourself from the world. Find solace in the whole of the all. You cannot go it alone. There is terror in the abyss of the void when seen in isolation. True solitude is the room within. Herein lies the deep dark silence of the eternal. You are not alone in the eternal because there is no separation. To be alone and isolated is to live in existence. Instead, live in the whole of the all. Be still and know your true nature. You are I AM. There is no other.

Finally, I believe that when the voice within me speaks, it is my own. There is no other to say what cannot be said. I listen with ears that hear. I reflect and write. My writings are my contemplations. They give me cause to carefully ponder all things noteworthy. There is a message in the Book of Ruth that says to follow what you love: Whither thou goest, I will go. And what is it that I follow? My own true nature, which, as in Psalm 23, leadeth me beside still waters. And how do I follow? I do nothing. I allow life to be. I am the flowing of the water on its journey to the sea.

These are my unedited reflections while I contemplated the words of the The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom late in 2021. Contemplating spiritual works helps me to be aware of my true nature. The voice that speaks to me from within is my own. There is no other.

Wisdom is a hard row to hoe on your own as the me of the body. But you are planted in the ground of goodness. Nurtured properly, wisdom grows. Proper nourishment is gained over many trials. Knowledge comes through the teachings. Hear them with ears that hear. Do not be careless in your ways. The way of the world deafens the voice within, which is your true nature. As hard as you hoe in the world, wisdom does not grow from hardscrabble effort. It is revealed in the room within.

Do not strive for wisdom. Give up the ways of the world. Walk, instead, the way of the path. This path leads to your true nature. Here are your roots planted deep in the ground of goodness. Here is the nourishment to grow in consciousness. Release the me of the body to the world. You are not the body. It does not have ears to hear the teachings. Put aside your worldly ways. Enter the room within. Herein lies the eternal I AM. I am that which I AM, or twia. Twia has ears that hear. Twia is your true nature. Twia is the voice that offers guidance. To touch the eternal in the room within is to gain wisdom over the world.

You do not gain wisdom as the me of the body struggling in the world of separation. To gain wisdom, do nothing. Twia knows the way. Listen to twia with ears that hear. Pay heed to this voice within. In twia lies wisdom and knowledge. Remember twia always. To live in twia, enter the room within. Herein you will know fulfillment. Fulfillment opens your eyes to see. You will gain ears that hear. Herein you touch the eternal. The ways of the world fall away. You give them no meaning. Rest in the embrace of twia. Do not rely on the me of the body for sustenance. Withdraw from falsehoods. Relieve yourself of pleasure and pain. Your treasure is in twia. Be at home within. To walk this way is to use eyes that see and ears that hear to discern your true nature in the world. To live in twia is to set yourself free of bondage to the me of the body. Be intent. Witness your perfection in twia. Hold to the peace within. You are the eternal I AM. Do not deny this reality. Live it fully in unity with all.

Submit to twia. Twia will raise you up in the light. Take refuge in the embrace of your own true nature. Hold peace of heart. Bring joy to the world. You do not know the way but with twia. Twia is comfort in the world. Twia is wisdom within. Remember twia. Walk the way of the path. Find freedom from turmoil and strife. The me of the body is afraid. Witness the fear. Do not accept it as real. It exists. It is powerful, not of its own but of what you give to it. Be the witness. Fear will subside. Attachments will fall away. The way of the path is joy, not fear. Do not be bound to the me of the body. To remember twia is to touch the eternal.

Wisdom lies with the eternal. Wisdom frees you from the bonds of the body and its me, which is your personality. It is known by the name you are called. To know that this me is not your true nature is wisdom. Wisdom gives you eyes to see. This is the vision that is twia. To receive wisdom, enter the room within. Herein lies twia. To enter, leave your baggage outside the threshold. Baggage is the fears, desires, attachments, expectations, acts of the world. Do so by release of the past. Live in the moment. Do not judge yourself and others. Put the past in the bucket by the door. The bucket is filled with forgiveness. It swallows all things whole. They are no longer yours to cling to. Give them to the bucket. Then enter the room within free of the me of the body. Be embraced by your true nature.

The revelation from the room within is that you are I AM. You are the whole of the all. There is no separation. Only oneness with the eternal. To discover the eternal, you must walk the path. Knowledge and action do not cut it. Your mantra and practice get you to the door. You must enter of your own volition. This is to do nothing. Receive twia by being clear of effort, clear of the past. Your true nature is revealed in the emptiness within. You will know your truth and it will set you free.

Do not chase after shadows. What appears enduring is not. Do not cling to gossamer strands. They do not hold. The darkness of existence blinds you to what is true and real. The way of the world takes you deeper into the cave. There you are lost and strain for light. Your eyes do not see. Your freedom lies within. You are the one. The room within is filled with light. In the deepest reaches of the cave, it will give you eyes to see in darkness. You will realize that the cave is not there. It is an illusion. In wisdom you are set free from darkness.

The me of the body is transitory. The person you think you are is not real. Reality is eternal. The body evolves from elementary particles and returns to the same. From dust it comes and to dust it goes. Wisdom frees you from the body. That which is within knows the way in all matters. Neither high nor low shall overcome it. It has no master but itself.

Existence as you know it is the universe. From amoebas to galaxies, it is all composed of elementary particles blown out of nothingness at the Big Bang. Existence is your perception of separation. Your body, made of particles, is an object among all the objects of the universe. It comes into being then disappears from existence, as do all universal objects. Existence is transitory. It is not reality. Reality is eternal, unchanging.

Why do you desire what is not real? The me of the body is ignorant of reality. It perceives separation as real. It fears loss and struggles to survive. To identify with the me of the body is to fear oblivion. In life, you attach to what you trust will sustain you. In death, you trust in a hereafter. You cling to your body’s existence in all hope of a better tomorrow and its eternal peace. To walk this worldly path is to die. It is like living on spun sugar. It will not sustain you. To live eternally, release the me of the body and its attachments to the world of separation it perceives as real. Existence is but a dream. Awaken to find your true nature in the room within.

To walk the way of the world is to follow death. To walk the way of the path is to be re-born into twia. To know one’s true nature is to touch the eternal. To walk the way of the path, live simply. Seek serenity. Show loving-kindness to all. Hold peace of heart always. This is to do nothing.

Free yourself from the me of the body. Free yourself from ignorance. To cling to the body is to die. Let the body die without you. It came without you. It can leave without you. Enter the room within. Herein lies your true nature. You might reach the door. But to enter, you must leave your baggage on the threshold. The room within has no past. It is eternal. Jesus says, do not lay-up treasures on earth. Release all that you treasure. Enter free of the body. Hold to the I AM. The body is a transitory gathering of elementary particles. It has no meaning. It evolves, reproduces, experiences, acts, and dies. The me of the body is an outcome of genetics, evolution, culture, and its experience of physical forces outside its thoughts, feelings, and emotions. The me of the body extends twia in the dream. The light that is twia shines through the body as life. The me of the body is not the knower. It does not know. Twia knows. Twia is the doer, not the body. Twia is the violinist who draws the bow across the strings. The music is in the vibrations of life not in the body that is the violin. The violin is but a gathering of elementary particles that has no meaning.

The me of the body is not real. It is transitory. It is ignorant. It has eyes that do not see and ears that do not hear. The body is at the mercy of me and suffers. The me of the body struggles to find its way alone in its world of separation. The body experiences pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. Your true nature is joy and peace. Twia is whole, complete, perfect, eternal.

From emptiness that is nowhere comes existence as a thought in consciousness. Existence is the thought of separation that cannot be made real. Separation is manifested as illusion much like a child’s thought of unicorns.

Consciousness does not exist. Consciousness is reality. Reality is eternal. Existence is temporal illusion. It is a dream of comings and goings on a timeline of pasts and futures. Consciousness has no beginnings or endings. There is no being or non-being. Consciousness is nothingness. It is the eternal field of infinite possibility from which totality arises. There are no objects or forms in the eternal consciousness. It has no distinctions or comparisons. It cannot be described or named. Attempts are futile.

Existence is the thought of separation in consciousness manifested by consciousness-expressing. Much like dancing is the thought of dance in dancer manifested by dancer-dancing. Dancer-dancing is movement. The movement that is consciousness-expressing is I AM. You are consciousness-expressing. You are I AM. Say to yourself, I am that which I AM. This is twia. Twia is real. The me of the body, that personality with your name on it, is not real. You are not the body or your personality. You are twia.

Stop limiting yourself to the me of the body. To act out the fears and desires of your personality is to struggle in pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. This is to walk the way of the world. It is an unlit path. You are lost in its dust and brambles. Stop doing. Do nothing. The power of doing extends from twia. Doing is mis-perceived by the me of the body as desire, expectation, and attachment. These are the brambles in your path when you struggle alone without twia. The outcome is fear and suffering. The me of the body has eyes that do not see. You become enveloped in the darkness of the illusion that you are real. In darkness you are dead as a post and dumb as dirt.

Your ignorance precedes you. Though you may be learned, you are not wise. The dust of the world billows about you. You are blind and dull. You are lost in darkness without the light that is twia. Your refuge is in twia. Seek shelter from the world. Enter the room within. Turn away from separation. Enter into unity with twia. Unity in twia is your true nature. To enter the room within, hold peace of heart always, moment by moment. Abundant joy will rise to greet you. Release the me of the body. The dust will settle. The brambles will wither and die.

You are not the body nor the world it occupies. You are I AM. You are the witness to the body. You are the witness to existence. You are the knower of all activity, whether awake or dreaming. Be free of the world. Witness it from within. Do not walk its path. Hold to twia in the room within. Herein is the way, the truth, and your true nature. I AM powers existence. It is the energy of all being. I AM is consciousness expressing thought.

Existence is the thought of separation that cannot be real. Existence is a dream of consciousness. Awaken to the dream. Your true nature is eternal wakefulness. You are the dreamer. Awaken unto your true nature. Know your joy. Stop the suffering. There is a light in the room within that shines in the world. Its glow is in all for all to see. This is wisdom. The true knowing. It is forever. The same in all. Open your eyes that see. Receive its image. Realize the whole of the all that is all things. There is nothing else. No other. No this or that. There is only I AM. Dreaming or awake, this is your true nature.

Say to yourself, I am that which I AM. Enter the room within. Know this truth. Touch the eternal. Do not wrap yourself in the heavy cloak of the world. It may give comfort at first. Then weariness sets in from bearing its weight. You collapse in death. You are not the cloak or the body under its weight. Cast them off. Climb out from under the weight of the world. You are not bound to its false comfort.

To choose the comfort of the world is to be bound to death. You live in darkness. Your eyes do not see the path to twia. The cloak of darkness hides it from view. The power of I AM is not revealed in light. It is hidden in darkness. Believing in the body as real, you suffer its fears, desires, and attachments. All thoughts, feelings, and emotions are taken in as yours. You cling to them in pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. You forge the links of Marley’s chains to be bound to your self-made misery.

If you lose love altogether you become mean-spirited. Despicable evilness becomes your path. You are faced with oblivion. None of this is real. Even at its worst (or best) when you cannot possibly see your life as the illusion that it is, you are not without love or joy. Evilness is a cloud across the sun, born of the hidden light. Energy mis-appropriated by the me of the body in ignorance. Do not be deluded by your blindness. You are not your body or the personality that bears your name. Your own efforts to achieve in the world hide twia. You live in this darkness of desire and cannot see. You live as if you are your body and its personality. The body is born of darkness. It has no light of its own. Twia is the light. Twia knows the way of the path.

Twia is hidden from view by eyes that do not see. The me of the body is blind in its own darkness. Your true nature lies within. Enter the room within. Let twia reveal its light. Twia gives you eyes to see.

In truth, you are witness to the body. Your truth is eternal. The body is born of dust. It returns to dust. It survives on what it receives from the world. Alone, it dies. Twia is not of the nature of the body. The body’s nature is separation. Twia is whole, complete, perfect, eternal. The body does not know. Twia knows. Do not be the body. Remember twia. Your truth transcends separation and its limitations of perception. Cast darkness aside. Be re-born in the light. You are the light of the living, not the darkness of the dead.

The breath is dependent on the body. You are not the breath of life. Breath activates the body. Breath is of the world. Eternal life is not of the world. You are reality. You are consciousness in mind. You activate the body to receive the breath. This living breath is the me of the body. The personality that bears the name they call you. Your mind binds you to the body as your personality. You believe in yourself by the name that you are given. The mind dominates your experience as you in its dream of separation. Birth and death are the experience of mind in separation. It has no reality.

That which is your bondage to birth and death is also your liberation. The mind can set you free. Turn away from the me of the body. Its fears breed desire, expectation, and attachments. Turn to twia. Twia is purity of love. It holds wisdom and peace. Through the eyes of twia that see, mind frees you of the body. Then you see the whole of the all as oneness and not as separation.

Separation is the experience of existence. It is pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. Separation is fear. It is desire and attachment to false hopes of fulfillment and love. Stop clinging to falsehoods. Let your mind be an instrument of twia. The mind left to the me of the body will entrap you in the circle of birth and death. Free your mind of falsehoods. Enter the room within. Find solace and freedom in twia, your true nature. Live simply, without desire, expectation, attachment. These are not the way of the path. You are not the mind, no more than you are the body or the me of the body. Release the mind to twia, your true nature. Twia knows the way.

I am that which I AM. I AM is the power that is consciousness-expressing. That which I AM, or twia, is consciousness-expressing. Consciousness, being intelligent and aware, expresses thought as reality. This is the eternal. The thought of separation in consciousness cannot be made real. It is a possibility in mind only, like a dream or illusion. Consciousness expressing separation is existence. The universe exists. It is not reality. It exists within the reality that is consciousness. It lies in the eternal field of infinite possibility as illusion, a possibility that cannot be real, much like a unicorn in a child’s mind. I AM is the dreamer. You are I AM. You are the expressing of existence. You are consciousness-expressing. These are the teachings of the ages.

You appear in your dreams as the me of the body. Your appearance is both beyond the body and in the body. Some call this appearance the soul. The soul is part of existence in or out of body. It is not real. It comes into being, evolves in awareness, and returns to reality, which is often called awakening. Do not think of yourself as the body, the me of the body, or the soul. These are transitory projections of the thought of separation in consciousness. You are I AM. Whole, Complete. Perfect. Eternal.

To awaken is to release yourself to twia. Be the witness to your experience of existence. You are not the actor on a stage. You are not the doer of life between birth and death. Be the witness to the dream that is the play. You are twia. Your part in existence as a soul is a false perception of separation being real within the dream. Your existence lasts as long as your false perception of being a body, its personality in life, or the soul that lingers in the beyond. Own these as your reality and you are bound to existence. Release these delusions and you are awake to your truth as I AM.

You are the witness, not the body nor the me of the body, nor its soul. These are transitory. You are eternal. You are twia, that which I AM. Twia is the witness to the way of the me of the body. This is the way of the world. Hold to twia. Twia guides you perfectly in wisdom. The body is ignorant and fearful. Bring your awareness to the room within. Witness the body. Do nothing. Be your true nature. To live in twia is to see clearly.

You have no beginning. Not knowing this, you are ignorant. All that you do is done in ignorance. Ignorance leads to suffering. You are manifested of thought of separation in consciousness. You are existence that was not and now is. You will come to an end, though you have no beginning. Nor do you end. The death you fear is false. The me of the body that suffers in ignorance is false. Existence is separate from reality much like a dream from which one awakens is separate from the dreamer. The child dreams of unicorns in darkness which disappear in the morning light. They are beginningless yet they end. You are beginningless yet you end when you see in wisdom that you are not the dream.

You are not who you think you are. You are not a person who moves about in a world. This me of the body is not eternal. It is tainted with fear. It experiences pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow, bliss and agony, hope and despair, love and hatred – all the dichotomies of a world or separation. You behold bliss behind a veil of darkness that is the dream that is existence. This is not you. The me of the body is a manifestation of separation in a dream of existence that cannot be real. It is transitory in eternal reality. You, in truth, are real. You are I AM. You are whole, complete, perfect, eternal. You are consciousness-expressing. Be the witness to existence that you are in truth. Awaken to your true nature.

You cannot find the way as the me of the body alone. Then you are truly alone and lost. The efforts you make on the way of the world lead to death. You end up a lost soul. Who is there to witness your futility in body? Twia your true nature. Twia knows the way. The me of the body is a reflection of twia in existence. The body is transitory. The me of the body is a soul growing in nature but transitioning as well. It begins and ends as an extension of separation in existence. Twia is beyond existence. Twia is eternal. To remember twia is to walk the way of the path. The path leads to the room within. To enter the room within is to touch the eternal. To live through twia is to be re-born in wisdom. To know the truth that is wisdom is to be set free. What you gain in wisdom is love without fear.

You are the eternal I AM. To know this is to awaken. There is no separation in I AM. To know this is to be free of the me of the body. To be free of existence. To know the whole of the all. There is no separation in the world but in the mind of the me of the body. In truth you are not separate from anything. Consciousness runs through all.

The whole of the all is existence. Existence is consciousness expressing separation as illusion because it cannot be real. Nothing can be known separate from consciousness. You appear in perception as the me of the body. The body appears in existence as a gathering of particles that pop in and out of existence. What is real and what is not? All that is the universe is illusion of separation in the reality that is consciousness.

Consciousness is reality. It is eternal. The universe is illusion. It is transitory. To live as the me of the body is to sleep. To live as twia is to awaken to the eternal. The whole of totality is eternal consciousness. There cannot be existence apart from consciousness. Like dancer-dancing-dance is oneness, knower-knowing-known is oneness. There is no breaking into parts in oneness. You are twia. You are the knower-knowing-known that is the witness to existence. Listen to your own voice with ears that hear, and you will awaken.

There is no this and that. They are separation. There is only oneness, which is still separation, for now there is separation and oneness. Thus, where there is no separation, there is no oneness. No oneness, no separation. This and that exists. What is oneness if separation does not exist. Reality has no oneness the same as it has no separation. The circle of yin and yang holds this and that in oneness. What is said of oneness loses all meaning in reality. The touch of the eternal in the room within is the light of the firefly against the sun. It is there unnoticed. Oneness is there unnoticed against the totality of consciousness. Why do you try to know such things? Because they are your truth. You know their presence in the room within.

Set aside differences. In reality there are no distractions. There is no sun. There is no firefly. There is light everywhere the same. There is no yin, no yang. Only the totality of emptiness that is nowhere. In the room within there are no distinctions between you and consciousness. This non-distinction is twia. You are the whole of the all, which is I AM.

Twia is not of the world. In truth, you do not exist. You are the reality that is I AM. Whole. Complete. Perfect. Eternal. Put away thoughts of this and that. They are false perceptions of separation. You believe what you experience as being real. It is not. Existence is no more than a dream in consciousness.

Use the vision of twia to see the world with eyes that overcome separation. Twia reveals the unity of oneness in the world. Set aside contradictions. Know the truth when you say, I see in you that which I AM. The I AM that I am is in you. I AM is all things everywhere the same. There is only I AM. There is no other. Awaken to pure consciousness. Do not put your mind to it. It is not to be understood. It is to be known through revelation. Consciousness abides in twia and twia abides in consciousness. In all your ways—body, mind, and soul—you are the one. You are in reality the eternal. I AM is consciousness-expressing. Know this truth. It will set you free.

You live in a dream within consciousness. You are ignorant of your true nature. Existence is not real. The me of the body is transitory. You will awaken to reality. Your true nature is I AM.

Bring to the world your true nature. Eyes that see have vision of I AM in all things. You are that which I AM. Twia is the way in the world. To remember twia, follow the way of the path. To follow the way of the world is to perceive separation as real.

You live in fear. Do not rest in fear. Rest in the embrace of the room within. Leave false perceptions behind. Touch the eternal. You are born into the oblivion of darkness that is birth and death, pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow, accumulation and loss. You suffer in ignorance of your true nature. This is separation. It cannot be real. Twia is real. You are eternal. You are not the transitory me.

Existence is consciousness expressing a thought of separation in reality, like a child imagining unicorns. You are not the unicorn that you believe you are in the dream. You are child-imaging. You are not the me of the body. You are consciousness-expressing.

There is no becoming. You are whole, complete, perfect, eternal now, as is. This is true in all, everywhere. Do not look for differences. Do not seek distinctions. Release judgment. Do not look for waves on the ocean. The eternal sea is undivided in form. It has no separation. It has no oneness. The water is a pool of emptiness that is totality. Unformed, it has no edges. Unchanging, it has no end. It never began. Form is manifested through thought. Given qualities only imagined that cannot be. All possibility swims in the pool. The center of the pool is I AM. It is nowhere and everywhere. All things radiate from I AM. It is the energy of manifestation. It is the movement that is existence, like dancing is the movement of dance.

Existence becomes known by thought in consciousness like the unicorn arises in the mind of the child. Recognize that you are I AM. You are the distinct awareness that is all awareness. The me of the body that arises in existence is not you. It is the unicorn.

Enter the room within. Bring the world back to the eternal. Be born again into the new. The room within is the hidden place. It is neither here nor there. It has no this and that. To enter the room within is to touch the eternal. You will see through separation to the whole of the all. The form of the soul will fall away into the light that is reality. The soul that remains the doer is locked in birth and death. Be steadfast in I AM. Know the way. There is no me of the body. Release its ways by entering the room within. Herein lies your true nature. That which I AM. Whole. Complete. Perfect. Eternal. Be that.

Do not fear the unknown. It is not yours to contend with. Twia knows the way. And the way is peace of heart always. You are the witness to the body and its fears. These are not you. Let go of the way of the world. The body does not embrace you. Do not give away your power to the me that dies. It knows only fear. It struggles to survive. It is shallow and ignorant. Wisdom cannot find its way in the world through the me of the body alone.

Wisdom is not born of body. Do not be full of the world. Do not seek refuge in its ways. To be bound by Marley’s chains is to suffer and die. Desires, expectations, and attachments bind you to suffering and death. Witness these things. Do not own them. They need not be yours. Leave them on the threshold of the room within. Enter the embrace of I AM. It is your truth. Touch the eternal in the still silence of the moment. Accept the joy of your being as real.

Enter the room within. Rest in the still silence of your true nature. Be the witness to thought, feelings, emotions. Observe without owning. They are not yours to hold. They are like prancing ponies in a field. Watch them without giving in to riding on their backs. You are not your body with its thoughts, feelings, and emotions. These are not twia. Stop living as if they were. They bring pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. Each day you feed desire you fix yourself to the world of false perceptions—that you are a body and its personality. Your meaning takes on the attachments you hold. Release yourself from all things not twia. Shift from existence to reality. Make the move from fear to peace of heart always. You are the eternal. You are not the transitory life that is the body. You are the whole of the all. Walk the way of the path. Remember twia always. See unity from the room within. Twia has eyes that see. The body evolves out of elements that come from nowhere and return to the same. It is not your beginning. It is not your end. The body with its cycle of birth and death is not you.

The eternal is real. What fades away is not real. You are eternal. You are discrete awareness in the ocean of awareness that is consciousness. You are discrete awareness like a molecule of water is discrete in the sea. The molecules are the water. You are awareness. Awareness is discrete and continuous at once. That is the mystery of consciousness. Know this. Abandon separation in the world. All things are fully aware and discrete. Consciousness is totality.

Leave behind your thoughts of being the me of the body separate from all. Enter the room within. Remember twia. Touch the eternal. Hold to the peace within that nurtures all. I am that which I AM. Reflect this in the world. I see in you, I see in all things, that which I AM. There is no other than the eternal. I am that I AM. Release desire for all else. There is nothing else. The me of the body sees illusion. It has eyes that do not see. It lives in ignorance, not wisdom. Do not leave it to die alone now that you know twia. You know you are the witness to the body and its ways. You are not the personality within its form, with its thoughts, feelings, and emotions. As the witness you have no form, no limits. You are not bound by perceptions of separation. You are the dreamer not the dream, the child not the unicorn. It cannot be said that you exist or do not exist. You are eternal. You are the unchanging beholder of all that changes. Your true nature is not the me of the body. You are twia. Whole. Complete. Perfect. Eternal. Deep in the ground of being is the joy that is your true nature. Live in joy always. This truth is revealed in the room within.

Do not remain in bondage to the body. Be free of the me of the body. That which you are not is tied to perceptions of separation by fear. It looks at the world with eyes that do not see. It lives in darkness. Eyes that see will open in the room within. To enter the room within is to touch the eternal light of love. This is love untainted by fear. Wisdom relieves you of bondage. Open your awareness to twia. The pull of the me of the body is strong. Its power lies in twia. The body has no power of its own. It is a meaningless, purposeless gathering of elementary particles formed in the evolving universe as an object of separation. Twia gives it power. Twia is the energy of existence. Twia is consciousness-expressing. Reclaim your power. Be discerning in thought and action. Your seeking has no journey. Refocus your awareness from the body to its witness, from me to twia, from the world to the room within. You are I AM. Bring full awareness to this reality. Live freely without bondage to the body.

Your reality is not the me of the body. Your reality is I AM. I am that which I AM, or twia. Twia is your truth. The me of the body is a dull reflection on the back wall of Plato’s cave. Do not put stock in it. Your true nature is outside the cave. Only your reflection is on the wall as a shadow passing by. The shadow is cast from the light of reality. The shadow fades in darkness. Your truth is consciousness. Joy is your treasure.

The me of the body walks the way of the world. It is lost in fear and ignorance. It is blind and cannot find its way alone. It is a shadow of reality in existence as thought of separation. It has no meaning or purpose but as proof to the soul of its existence. None of this is real. Awake to reality. Walk the way of the path. Remember twia.

Return awareness to the witness of existence that you are in truth. You are the dreamer not the dream. Enter the room within. Welcome its embrace. Joy is revealed at your return to the eternal. The pull of personality and its passions is strong. Desire holds sway over the me of the body. Expectations bring about actions. Attachments bind you to your existence. You are trapped in your perceptions of separation. The answer is to do nothing. Desire begets action. Actions beget expectations. Expectations beget attachments. Attachment begets bondage to action as the me of the body. Your actions come from fear and ignorance. Out of fear you imagine a better way. You act on it not knowing the way. This is the journey of the soul in its cycle of birth and death. To break the cycle, enter the room within. To know twia within is to touch the eternal. Bring your awareness to the witness. Get off the pony. Observe from the edge of the field. You do not have to ride your thoughts, feelings, and emotions. They are not you. They are not your true nature. They are perceptions of separation. They bring you pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow.

Unfettered joy is your true nature. Do nothing. Hold to the room within. Let peace of heart prevail. Perceptions of separation fade in the rising light of I AM. Transcend the world in the room within. Hold to twia. Receive joy. Live in the moment. Be mindful that all actions serve oneness. Rely always on twia. Twia knows the way. To ignore twia is to live in ignorance as the me of the body that you are not. The body perceives separation, falls into bondage to its attachments in the world, and suffers at their loss or threat of loss. Do not let your wisdom be overtaken by darkness of desire. Then your eyes cannot see. Death stalks you as you stumble blindly in fear. To see differences in the world is to fear them as the other. You fear the other when there is no other. Your fears are false perceptions. Love beholds the eternal that is the whole of the all. Stop living in the darkness of the world. Step into the light of the room within. All that is seen from the vision of twia is unity of all. Twia sees no other. No this or that. I see in you, I see in all things, that which I AM. Do not waver in this knowledge.

There cannot be separation. To behold it is to be fearful. It is like a nightmare of death befalling you. Fear creeps in through the narrowest of cracks. Like a thief in darkness, it steals your peace of heart. Do not fear losing peace. It is a false perception. Sorrow is not your true joy. Abandon sorrow for peace of heart always. Bondage is attachment to sorrow. Wisdom breaks the bonds to attachment. Wisdom is knowing I AM. See I AM in all. Distinctions fall away. Knowing I AM, the world fades into oneness. In oneness there is no sorrow. Only joy of being. The way of the path, that is, to remember twia, is freedom. Why would you choose the world when you have touched the eternal? There is no freedom in attachment to the me of the body. To know I AM in the room within is to touch the eternal. This is your true nature. To touch the eternal is to awaken from the dream of existence into the light that is reality.

To live within through twia is to be free of the world. To be free of the world is to cast off pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. Let fear fall away. The chains of attachment keep you in bondage to separation. Free yourself in the room within. Remember your true nature. You are the whole of the all. There is nothing to cling to that you do not possess now. The me of the body perceives only separation. It grasps at straws of hope to save itself from oblivion. Be witness to this futility. Rest in the still silence of the room within. Hold peace of heart always. The wisdom that is twia will wash over you. You cannot destroy your personality. You bring it into the light through twia. Guide your way in loving-kindness. Leave fear in the bucket by the doorway to the room within. Stop believing in the me of the body as the way. You are trapped in the cycle of birth and death of the soul. This is the illusion of separation in consciousness. Give rise to yourself in the world as twia and you will be free of the bondage of separation.

There is no need for pilgrimage. Do not waste time on desire. Unfetter yourself from perceptions of separation. Awaken in the room within. You never left. When Hafiz felt the need for a great pilgrimage, he sat still for three days. What is there to gain by going about in the world? There is but the whole of the all. The veil that once covered you in darkness is lifted. To awaken in the room within is to remember twia. Twia knows. There is no darkness in wisdom. There is no death awaiting you. The me of the body is released. The way of the world is no longer your path. The fear you once knew has turned to peace of heart. Your true nature is revealed. You remember that you are the I AM, the whole of the all. Do not deny your power. You are consciousness-expressing. Your thoughts expand to form the world around you. You are in unity with I AM. Whole. Complete. Perfect. Eternal. All around you comes and goes as perception of separation. Know this. No longer accept death and birth as destiny. There is none. You are the union of consciousness with the ground of being. You are the center of totality.

Do you know? What is real? What is existence? What of the room within? Have you touched the eternal? To know is to hold peace of heart always. This is the way of the path. To hold peace is to loosen the grip that knots the heart in fear. Fear is found in pain and sorrow. It thrives on grief. Peace is that which you are. Peace is your true nature. The me of the body fears separation. Separation is existence. It is not real. Twia is real. To know twia is to touch the eternal.

You are the whole of the all. Live in the world through oneness. Do not abide in separation. Receive the joy of the room within. Live in peace with all things. Rest in consciousness. Be witness to the personality that is the me of the body. You are grown in wisdom. Now is the time to put away childish things, as Paul of Tarsus says to do when you have grown into adulthood. When the ways of the body are put away you stand in the radiant light of wisdom. Fear is cast aside. Joy rises up. The embrace of totality brings ecstasy.

Rest in the room within. Holding therein to oneness the world will change. When you no longer accept the me of the body as you, the world it supported falls away. You are born again into a new world of unity. Dwelling in the unity of all brings out I AM in all. The reality of I AM cannot be denied. It awaits clarity of mind. Clear your mind of the ways of the world by resting in the still silence of the room within. Do nothing. Live simply. Hold peace of heart always. Your true nature will arise. You will touch the eternal. Love will be freed of fear. Untainted love is I AM. That which you seek cannot be had in the world. The world is tainted by fear. It has no staying power. It dies in the end. You have no end. You never began. Know this in the room within always. Herein your vision is clear. Your existence is not real. You are the eternal I AM.

To open the door to the room within consider your thoughts. To what do they cling? Let go of thoughts of separation. Witness desire and expectation without riding the pony. Bring awareness into the moment. There are three ponies in the field. These are desire, expectation, and attachment. Do not ride the ponies. Witness their romping from the edge of the field. View them with peace of heart using your eyes that see. To be aware in the moment is to deny the me of the body the energy of fear. Without the darkness of fear blinding your vision, you will find your way to the door of the room within. The awareness of peace without fear will open the door to your true nature, which is love untainted by fear. In this you find union with all.

To witness peace of heart always is to witness the whole of the all as your true nature. I see in you that which I AM. I see in all things that which I AM. To know unity in all relationships is to touch the eternal I AM. The chains of passion for this and that are broken. To rest in the room within is to be free of passion and its attachments to the world. Without attachments to this and that you are free to rise from the me of the body to the crown that is consciousness. Twia knows the way.

True vision lies in twia not in the me of the body. Twia is the eternal untainted love that is your true nature. In this is your joy. Joy arises in freedom from the ways of the world with its passions, desires, expectations, and attachments. These are the this and that’s, the disconnects of duality, that is the experience in body of separation. Enter the room within. Join with twia in the unity of the whole of the all. There is no other. Give up this and that for unity. Jesus asked, for what shall it profit someone, if they gain the whole world, and lose their soul? The me of the body is but a lonely soul lost among perceptions of separation.

Enter the room within. Tell no one. Find love untainted by fear. Walk humbly on the path of freedom. Remember twia. Witness the me of the body without judgment. Feed it with perceptions of unity. Release joy in the world. You are aglow with as I AM. Radiate in the whole of the all. Live in harmony with your true nature. Look upon all without attachment or judgment. View the world with eyes that see. This is the vision of twia. Let twia be the witness to all. Free yourself of perceptions of separation. They bring fear and suffering. Gain vision of unity. It brings joy and acceptance. Freedom from the me of the body brings peace of heart always.

All that you look upon in the world is illusion. You are dreaming within a thought of separation in consciousness. Totality is without parts and pieces. Separation cannot be real. Existence is illusion. Stand before the illusion as I AM. Witness the dream without attachment or judgment. In the end the unicorn is but a fantasy. It has no substance. There is only consciousness. This is totality. The whole of the all. There is no other. No this or that. You are I AM. You are consciousness expressing existence. You are the whole of the all. Do not look for it here or there. You do not exist. You are the entirety of the whole of the all that is everywhere and nowhere. The eternal is without form or dimension, place or time. It is called consciousness, but it cannot be named. It cannot be described. These words fail miserably. Cease your delusions of this and that, you and me, here and there, within and without, yin and yang. They are all falsehoods of separation. There is no second to I AM.

Seek the eternal nature of oneness in all. There are many forms but only one I AM. There is no other. All that is existence is consciousness-expressing I AM. You are I AM. There is no other. Release the me of the body. Awaken to your true nature. To dwell as the me of the body is to fear. To fear is to desire. To desire is to expect. To expect is to attach. These are Marley’s chains. Forged in a life between birth and death. They bind you to the cycle of the soul. This is the cyclical dream of coming and going in worlds of existence that are not real. Existence is the duality of pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. It can be heaven. It can be hell. In truth it as no meaning. It is transitory and false. To linger in life is to grow weary. The body is heavy. Darkness overruns it. Passions plague it, inflaming its desires. To enjoy life is to live in bondage to desire and its attachments. To know twia is to escape bondage. Put away desire. Hold to twia. Rest in the still silence of the room within. Leave your chains at its door. They no longer serve you.

Existence is not real. Reality cannot bear separation. Separation cannot find its way into reality. Reality has no this and that. No pleasure and pain. No happiness and sorrow. It is whole, complete, perfect, eternal. In reality, the thought of separation remains illusion in its manifestation. To know this, how can you see but with vision of the whole? The room within does not hold distinctions of this and that. Blurring differences fade to oneness. Separation returns to unity. The past is lost in the room within. Without the past, judgment does not linger. Without judgment, I see in you that which I AM. There is no separation in I AM. Nor does it know oneness. Duality is like water in a desert mirage. Awaken to the true oasis that is your true nature.

Know that what you perceive in existence is not real. It has no value. You cling to formless form. The me of the body is rooted in delusion. Delusion is stored in the past. Your storeroom is stuffed with attachments and judgments. You are tethered at its threshold by desire and expectation. Here you sit in darkness with eyes that do not see. The vision that is twia escapes you. Twia can set you free of your storehouse of worldly treasures. The vision of twia pierces these walls of delusion to reveal the light that is wisdom. In truth you are the eternal. Your heart awaits your return. To return is to remember twia. To remember twia is to walk the way of the path. Bring your awareness to the witness within. This is your true nature. The witness has eyes that see the delusions of the world. The vision that is twia perceives unity in all. See twia in all. Cast aside the images of the world. They are false and dead. Sweepings to blow away on the winds of truth. Draw near to the eternal. See the truth in all. Awaken to the reality of I AM. There is no other. The body will wither away. Its particles scattered throughout the universe, popping in and out of existence. Your truth dissolves into the eternal I AM it never left. You are discrete awareness. You are consciousness-expressing. How can you maintain your storehouse knowing these things? Let the light of your wisdom reveal its illusion.

Seek unity in all. You are the way. Awaken to your reality. The still silence of the room within is in all. Nurture its being in the world. Joy is in the silence. Hold to peace of heart always to reveal joy in the moment. Release the past. It is not worthy of the moment. It cannot enter the room within. The room within holds no delusion. Herein you touch the eternal. You know the eternal for its joy and peace always. What is to be gained by restoring the past? Wisdom is the light upon the way of the path. Cleave not to darkness. Stop seeking water in the mirage. Quench your thirst at the oasis. Here. Now. I AM. Without desire. Drink from the well of living water. It is the unending abundance of the room within. What is there to desire in such abundance? Can any good be added to your wholeness? Cast off doubt. What comes to mind without desire? Who are you without the me of the body? What is it to do nothing yet accomplish all? These are the way that is twia. Let the room within fill with its presence. This is your true nature.

Hold to the room within. Touch the eternal. Touch the world lightly. Be witness to the dream. Walk sure-footed in wisdom that is twia. You are I AM. Know this. Do not accept otherwise. You are the wisdom of the ages held in this moment. Dwell in wisdom. Express joy. Live in the room within. Do not call the world your home. You are free of its ways. You live free in life when you hold to twia in wisdom and joy without concern for tomorrow. Remain the witness always. Release your soul from its journey. Your seeking is over. You live in unity without separation. No longer feel removed from your true nature. Do not hold to false perceptions. Be free of attachment to the me of the body. It is but a shadow of your truth cast upon walls of false perceptions. You are not your body, nor your possessions. Live not in the past, nor in the future. There is no this and that. Live in unity with all. What is there to gain in separation but fear, lack, and suffering. Accept all that comes before you. There is no gain or loss in unity. Accept all that comes before you with peace of heart. Do not accept pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow as the way. This is separation. Live in unity. Touch the eternal oneness that is the whole of the all. This is the way of the path. Free yourself from the bondage of the me of the body. You have no limits in truth. Your true nature is I AM. Whole. Complete. Perfect. Eternal.

Above all, remember twia. There is no separation between you and the eternal I AM. You are the one. There is no other. Remember always, you are not your body. It will return to the dust of the universe. You are eternal. Hold steady in this truth. Pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow need not be yours. They are the way of the world. Walk, instead, the way of the path. Hold peace of heart always in all situations. Let all things know the joy of being. Do not require this or that. You are lost as the me of the body and do not know the way. Twia knows. In twia all is one. You are the whole of the all. You cannot touch the eternal and then return to the me of the body as the way. You no longer abide in the cycle of birth and death. You are awake to I AM, your true nature. When the soul steps before I AM it loses all sense of separation. You bask in the morning light upon your face and awaken like a child leaving the world of unicorns, knowing you never left the room within as you dreamt.

Your soul has the taste of pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. It desires much. Expectations abound. Freedom comes hard when attachments bind you to the world of separation. There is reluctance to give up existence. The links in Marley’s chains are strong. In the wisdom of the room within the strongest chains of bondage never were. There is no past in the eternal. The dream of existence has no effect on reality. To remember twia is to set yourself free. Setting yourself free, you set free the world. Hold the world in perfect order. Once an arrow is launched it cannot be plucked from the sky. Perceptions may shift in midflight, but the thought lingers to the end. The end is a change in perception. Change your thought, change your perception. Separation becomes oneness. In oneness the arrow fails to pierce. Pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow melt before peace of heart. Perfect peace brings perfection to the world you perceive. You are I AM. Do not deny this knowledge. Live it fully. Rest in the wisdom of the room within. Do not linger in the ways of the world. Witness the me of the body as the image of separation that it is. Do not place it apart from the whole of the all. Do not grasp at desire. You cannot drink water from a mirage. You end up with a mouth full of dust. Slake your thirst in the room within. It is a true fount of the living water. Open your eyes to reality. Twia is your reality. The body is a form built up in a thought of separation in consciousness. It is not real. It is not eternal. It exists. Do not cling to its existence. The attachment binds you to the soul cycling through birth and death. What can be gained in the world that is not fulfilled in you now? The ways of the world are pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. The way of twia is joy. It has no opposite. This love without fear cannot be known in separation. To know love is to awaken from the dream that you are a soul in body. Stop drinking from the mirage. Drink the pure water of reality.

To enter the room within is to find you never left. How can you die when you were never born? You cannot leave I AM to be another. There is no other than I AM. Do not take your perceptions of separation to be real. There is no this and that. No you. No me. No them. No us. The rock on the hillside, the tree in the forest, the one who sits along the road—all is I AM. Consciousness expressing in all. Know this. Touch the eternal. There is no other than I AM. The eternal I AM cannot create separation but as a dream, an illusion of what cannot be. The possibility of unicorn arises in a child’s mind but can only be imagined. Existence is imagined in consciousness expressing the thought of separation. “What would it be like if it could be?” asks the child. The fantasy world of unicorns thus is born. In consciousness, existence is thus born. Consciousness is the eternal field of infinite possibility at the crown of all. It is totality. There is no other. No differences in I AM. This is not known to the me of the body, which abides in illusion. In fear. It knows not the eternal. It struggles and suffers, not knowing its truth. Stop this nonsense. Blink. Open your eyes to twia. In all situations be the witness to your thoughts, feelings, and emotions. You are not the body. Hold peace of heart. I AM is your true nature. Do not be attached to outcomes. Hold no expectations. Release joy to the world. You are the one I AM.

What is consciousness that you might know it? It has no distinction between this and that. It does not know you and me. There are no separations in the eternal. Consciousness is the wholeness of being. It expresses in I AM. Whole. Complete. Perfect. Eternal. There is no other. Release the world to its own devices. Its desires, expectations, attachments are not for you who live in the room within. Herein you know joy and peace in the moment. Wisdom is your guide. Twia knows the way. To hold to twia is to touch the eternal. Stop doubting your true nature. Awaken to reality. Shake free of denial. Realize that you are not your body. You are not your personality. You are I AM. Hold to twia daily. Be mindful always of the whole of the all. This is your truth. You are one. Joy and peace are known within, not in the other. There is no other. Do not look in the world for fulfillment. What you find does not last. It is like living on spun sugar. You find pleasure while you starve. Find nourishment within. The room within holds comfort, joy, and peace. This is twia. Rest in twia. Let nothing disturb your awakening to reality.

You are entangled in the world. Untie the knots. Release yourself to twia. Twia returns you to the eternal. The river returns to its true course. Sweet water fills the dry, now verdant, valley. You flow into a sea of joy, refreshed in fullness. With eyes that see and ears that hear you know again the whole of the all as your true nature. There is no other than I AM. Bend a knee to twia. Hold to the eternal. Shake free from the weariness of your travels. You are returned to where you never left. You are without form. Free of the void. Endless, having had no beginning. What appears in the world is a mirage of false perception. You are not the personality that bears your name. You are the witness to its senses, its acts, its thoughts, feelings, and emotions. These are not you. Do not hold to them with desire, expectation, and attachment. Your bonds to the way of the world are broken. There is no place for Marley’s chains along the way of the path. The fugue has ended. The great pipe organ that is the world is quiet. You rest in the still silence of the room within.

There is no this or that. No within. Nothing can be outside. There is no you. No me. What is whole cannot be separated. The eternal is but one. I AM is whole, complete, perfect, eternal. No god can be separated out but in mind. You are all things. You are that which I AM. Do not look upon this and that as real. They are only perception of a false thought. In you is the thought of existence. You are a pool without edges. You have no shore. Your center is everywhere. You are an eternal field of infinite possibility. In you the world rises in manifestation of existence.

This is it. Here. Now. I AM. In you is all. Perception builds apart from reality. The waters of your mirage leave no trace of dampness on the sands of time. They blow away dry. Do not try so hard. Be at home in the moment. You are eternal. What can be added to you, or taken away? You are whole, complete, perfect. Unbound by the body. Nothing of the body is lasting. Yin and yang breathe in and out as one. You stand in the centered unmoved. Not going out, you cannot return. Why do you act so? What is it to strive? You have no faults. Neither are you righteous. Do not cast your shadow on the world. Let the light illuminate your way. There is no call for darkness. You are the lamp unto the world. Leave your nature untouched by what it touches. Be the witness to what is revealed. Do not become what you are not. You are not the shadow. You are not the object. You are the light. You are the illumination that is wisdom. You do nothing. The mirage does not take from the light, nor give to the light. Be witness to its waters without drinking. To drink from its existence is to choke on its dry sands. Do not confuse doing with being. You are not your acts. They define your existence, not your truth. In truth, there are no distinctions. What do you have to do with the ways of the world? They are not your ways. You are neither the shadow on the cave’s wall, nor the person walking past the entrance. You are the light of illumination. The rest is illusion. Look upon the world’s objects. Witness their reflections. Do not live in the shadows of the cave. This is not reality. This is existence. The thoughts of separation. You are I AM. Whole. Complete. Perfect. Eternal.

The pool that is consciousness cannot encompass all. It is all. It cannot embrace all. It cannot illuminate all. It is all. It is not everlasting. It has no time to measure. It is not whole. It cannot be separated. It is not perfect. It has no comparison. It is not complete. There are no parts. I AM consciousness expressing what cannot be. There can be no distinctions in reality. It has no comparison. You call it real. You say it is wise. These are perceptions of separation. Let go of differences. Find unity in all. Unity is your true nature. There is no other than the eternal pool that is consciousness. You are I AM. Awake and aware. You are the whole of the all.

There is a great dream of separation, of what cannot be. It is a world of birth, evolution, and death. In form you are stricken by fear. To know fear is to exist. You are haunted by oblivion. You are broken and lacking. Existence is to suffer. To suffer is to live as the me of the body. You are not this.

Existence is an expressing in consciousness of the thought of separation. The eternal is expressing what cannot be. View this illusion as the witness. Hold peace of heart always. With eyes that see, look apart from form. To see through the illusion to the eternal is to live lucidly in the dream of your own being. Do not live as the me of the body. It is but a shadow cast by your true light. Your contentment in the world of desire fades in time. It is like feeding on spun sugar. There is little lasting nourishment in the dust of the world. Find nourishment in twia. Twia does not lack. You are the whole of the all.

You are the whole of the all. There is no other. Be joyful in your ways. This is your true nature. Hold joy always. Do not waver from its peace. Hold peace always. This is the way of the path. Enter the still silence of the room within. This is to touch the eternal I AM. Follow its wisdom always. Open your ears to hear. Let vision be your eyes to see. To all things bring wisdom and joy. This is to know your true nature. Your body is bound to existence. You are not. Do not limit yourself to this bondage. Do not view the world through the eyes of the body. See with the vision that is twia. There you find unity in all.

That which I am is the eternal I AM. There is no other. You cannot be less than nor more than. Your light is revealed in the wisdom that is the room within. Herein lies the witness to existence. Be the witness. Release the me of the body as your way. The way of the world cannot show you the path. The way of the path glows from the light within. Twia knows. In twia you know no bounds. Do not hold to the ways of the body. Pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow are not truth. Joy is the way. It is your true nature. To know twia is to know joy. There is no other. You are free from pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. No longer do you eat of spun sugar. You are nourished by joy. Knowing joy, you touch the eternal. Meet the ways of the world as they come. Do not linger with them. They are not yours to own. Do not clothe yourself in worldly garments. Withdraw from desires. Hold to twia. Bring joy and peace to all situations. Contented. Rejoicing. At rest in twia. Do nothing. Boundless in body, you accomplish all. Release pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow to the world. These are not you. You are not bound in body. The body blocks the light that never ends. Do not live in darkness. Trade wisdom for ignorance. To do so, enter the room within. Therein lies the eternal I AM, your true nature.

You put into words what cannot be said. Why? Because you do not know. To know is to sit in the still silence of the room within. To know is to tell no one. To know is to receive all in unity. Slough off the body. Let it blow about in the dry winds. It catches in the many branches of the tree that is life. Whipped about by desire. Be the witness. Watch from afar. Do not join into its expectations. You are not the body. You are the observer only. You do not lack. There is no reward in the body but pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. These are the way of the world. You live in joy and abundance. These are the way of the path. Leave the way of the world. Walk the way of the path. You will touch the eternal. Live in the world by doing nothing. Let its ways fall away. Enter the solace of the room within. Herein, all is accomplished. herein lies twia. Herein, you remember that there is only I AM. There is no other.

Let wisdom consume the flesh. To touch the eternal is not the way of the body. If so, it would not be lost to oblivion. The way of the flesh is bondage to desire. Let wisdom free you of its chains. Wisdom burns through the links that bind you to the world of birth and death. Chains of ignorance fall away in the fires of wisdom. Birth and death are no longer yours. The body becomes a fallen leaf. Nothing is destroyed. It cannot be such. It is but an awakening to that which is real. The child’s thoughts of unicorns fade into adulthood. The body fades into growing awareness of twia.

In all the changing of the world, the births, the deaths, the wanderings of the soul, you are the changeless eternal. You are I AM. You are that which is. When all in time is gone, you will stand eternally. All that is of the body does not last. All that lies in the darkness of ignorance is consumed by the radiance of wisdom. When the soul leaves the plane of existence you will remain, as always, eternal. To remember twia is to escape the soul. When you awaken in the room within, the world dissolves like a dream at the light of dawn. The wisdom that is I AM will be upon you. Ignorance is lost with the fading darkness. Reality does not change. Existence is in the imagination that is twia. The world lies in a thought, not in reality. It is a dream of the impossible. Separation from the whole? There is nothing that can be separate or outside totality. It is an idea in consciousness that is not real. It is a unicorn in a child’s mind. The child’s beliefs and desires do not make unicorns real. Your perceptions of separation do not make existence real. To believe in existence, or to not believe in the world’s reality, does not make separation real. These are thoughts of the me of the body. They are not the eternal. Your bondage to the me of the body is not real. You are not the body, nor its attachments to existence. Your reality is I AM. Even this is not real, for reality cannot be known. In truth, nothing about you exists. All that you experience is but a dream. Like a child’s fantasy world of unicorns.

Do not despair. Be like a newborn babe, soft and subtle. Be born again to the joy of awakening. Hold peace of heart always. Delight in unity. The way of the world is birth and death. You have neither beginning nor end. Hard and brittle you will break. Remain strong in weakness. Step back from the world. Cast aside its ways. They bring pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. Seek instead the room within. It holds the living waters. To drink from the mirage is to choke on the dust of the world. Drink instead from the deep wells of your true nature. This is the way of the path.

These are my unedited reflections while I contemplated the teachings of Dogen (The Essential Dogen, eds, Tanahashi and Levitt) during the early months of 2022. Contemplating spiritual works helps me to be aware of my true nature. The voice that speaks to me from within is my own. There is no other.

The river finds its way to the sea. Its course is the way. To find your way in the world, flow with the river, become its course. Flowing is your true nature. You are the movement of the river. You are the way. There is no other.

To know the way, enter the room within. The room within is boundless. Darkness and light entwine like yin and yang. Their unity is wisdom revealing itself in mind, like rivulets on high peaks becoming mountain streams that join to flow through the all-encompassing valley. You are the nature of the river returning to the sea. Remember your true nature, or that which I AM. Twia is the wholeness of all.

You are limited by your words. Words are attachments. Drop them from your mind. To know is to be empty of thought. To know is to allow twia to reveal the way. This is not for you to struggle with in mind. Enter the room within. Let heart lead the way. Your capacity to know lies beyond words.

To step into the room within is to step outside the body. The body cannot hold you. The body is within you. You are not the body. It is you.

Do nothing. Avoid extremes. Seek solace and quiet. What do you gain by extravagating? How does excess make you better? You are whole, complete, perfect, and eternal—now.

Nothing is sacred in itself. You are the meaning behind it all. What you bring to the table is your own grace. You are I AM, or the whole of the all. Sacredness lies in unity. All is that which I AM. All is sacred. There is no other. No separation of sacred and profane. Accept all in grace.

You are twia. Whole. Complete. Perfect. Eternal. You do not lack. Do not let the me of the body fool you. It is ignorant and fearful in mind. Change your thoughts. Change the world. Do not struggle to attain. Remember twia in the still silence of the room within. Revelation is there. There is no need or requirement for gain or improvement. These are imaginations of the body-personality. Your form is embedded in your true being as illusion. It is the unicorn in the child’s dream. Sit in realization of this. Open to revelation of I AM in the still silence of the room within. Sit in the light of your expressing. Sit in expression of the eternal. You are the bearer of knowledge in the world of separation. To not remember-realize-practice these things is to suffer. From suffering you aspire to remember twia. To remember twia is to accept that you are I AM, rooted in the ground of being.

Do not force the situation. Let it be to find its own level. Do not set out to overcome. All things have their place. Respect what confronts you. Respect what you do not understand. To push and pull at life is to find pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow.

I AM the eternal. Whole. Complete. Perfect. There is no other. All that appears is transitory. Do not attach to what does not last. Hold to your own true nature. Let joy prevail.

You are buffeted by the world you inhabit. Your body abides with its frailties in a culture molded by time and place. Genetics, traditions, values, mores, religious practices, etc., squeeze you into a personality. This is not you, anymore than your body is you. Your body-personality is a transitory expression of separation in consciousness. In it you experience fear, desire, expectation, and attachment. You move between pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. You bounce about between agony and ecstasy, plummeted by judgment, envy, and greed. All the while you aspire for peace, love, and a sense of completion. Life is a struggle, then you die.

None of this is your truth. You are not what you seem. You sense your truth enough that you can pull your life together to live pleasantly with feelings of success and contribution. You find ways to fit in and to feel worthy and loved. There is the drive from within to find yourself. You have, at times, had powerful experiences of completion; of feeling whole and connected with your true nature. There is, at these times, a sense of unity with all. You cannot escape suffering as the me of the body. In form you are ignorant of your reality as I AM. Fear is your constant companion. Life as a body-personality is a far cry from your true nature which is twia. You are I AM. Your belief otherwise is devastating to your life.

As the me of the body you are destined for destruction. Death defines you. You are caught in the grip of fear and ignorance.

Stay away from what does not serve your true nature. Do not harm. Seek the common good in all.

I AM is consciousness manifesting awareness in reality. I AM extends into existence by dreaming. Existence is consciousness expressing the thought of separation as illusion. I AM is consciousness-expressing. I AM is consciousness in existence. I AM is existence. I am that which I AM. This is twia. Twia knows. Twia is aware of the whole of the all. You are twia. There is no other.

Do nothing. Let the moment absorb you. There is only where you are now. This is nowhere and everywhere. The moment is eternal. Live in it fully and mindfully. Reside in each moment in the room within. Herein you remember twia. Herein you touch the eternal. You are the one. Act from I AM. Find wholeness in all. I AM absorbs all. Enter its embrace. Remember your true nature.

Do nothing. Be present in the moment always. You are witness to the me of the body. Not the doer. Let not your peace be stirred by the world. Step back into the room within. Observe without attachment. Use the clarity of vision that is twia. With eyes that see be witness to emotion. Not its puppet. Meet life directly. Accept without expectation. You are not the me of the body with its fears, desires, and emotions. You are I AM. Whole. Complete. Perfect. Eternal.

Do nothing. Be fully present with the me of the body. Be its witness. Hold peace of heart in all situations. You are not your emotions. Do not let them sway you. You are the power. Do not give it away to the body-personality. Your true nature is twia. Establish twia as your way of life. To practice peace of heart is to cast it upon the waters of existence.

To see yourself in others is to establish twia as your way of life. There is no other than you. I see in you that which I AM. You can live in existence knowing its illusion. Existence is this and that. It is two. Live in oneness. Hold to the whole of the all. In reality there is no one. There is no two. There cannot be this and that. Yin and yang disappear in reality. Not into one. Into the eternal.

Life is transitory. The body is born. You join it in existence. It dies. Along the way, you feel pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. There is this and that, you and me, them and us, and here and there. Fear drives desire. Desire raises expectations and attachments. Loss of attachments is suffering. Amidst the suffering are moments of joy and peace. Loving-kindness can abide when peace of heart replaces fear. To release attachment to survival is to open the door to the room within. Herein lies your true nature, which is I AM. Herein you remember twia. Herein you touch the eternal. Live life fully from the room within. To hold peace of heart always is to bring about a full life moment by moment. Loving-kindness becomes your natural way.

There is no end to what cannot be said. What cannot end never began. That which is without name, without beginning or end, is that which I AM. There is no beginning to your being which never began. You cannot be named. The eternal has no distinctions. I am that which I AM. This is twia.

Twia evokes itself. Do nothing. The room within is prepared. Your arrival opens the door. You are not separate from twia. There is no re-joining. Only remembering. There is no time or place that is better or worse. There is only the moment of remembering. Twia brings you the memory at the moment it happens. Not sooner. Not later. You are revealed as I AM in the moment.

Twia is the center of your reality. You are the one. There is no other. Do not become attached to words. They are not the way. They have no meaning. You are the meaning. Search within. This is the way to remember. Turn inward. Do not look here. Do not look there. Here and there have no reality. They are existence. To go within is to find yourself returning to greet you. When parent and child are rejoined, words fail. You cannot fail in knowing this.

Twia opens the door within. Nothing is required to enter. Do not bring your baggage. Those who have gone before cleared the way. Listen to their voices. They know the way. They whisper in your ears if you but listen.

Twia stirs within you. Feel the presence. Listen to the voice. Follow the way with eyes that see. You do not know. You miss the mark alone. The me of the body is ignorant, fearful, blind, and deaf. It has no compassion but to survive. Oblivion is its enemy. Awakening is its joy. To awaken is to feel the stirring within. It comes in many colors. Choose the color of your liking. Do not be afraid. You are not alone.

To not know is to know. Accept your ignorance. Knowledge follows. Get off your horse. Set it free. Watch it gallop from afar. It is not you. You are the witness to its ways. Walk away. The path is before you. Step forward—now in this moment—on your own two feet. This is the way of the path.

Twia is consciousness. The body is emotion. You are not the body. Resonate with twia. Twia is awareness within. Hold to twia in the moment. This is the way of the path. It opens before you, made clear by those who have gone before. Listen. They are your voice. There is no other. Only I AM.

To contemplate is to release joy. Joy is your true nature. It cannot be fully contained in the body.

Do not seek. Seeking is not the way. Sit in the still silence of the room within. The way will be revealed. Twia knows. Your power is in knowing I AM.

Set aside the world. Let it rest out of mind. You have no cause or concern for its goings-on. Be active in the moment. Do nothing. Release desire. Have no expectation. What occurs is yours to do. That is enough.

Hold peace of heart always. This is serenity. Serenity opens to joy. Joy is your truth. Do not seek joy. Open to its reality by doing nothing. To do nothing is to live with joy. To enter the room within is to revel in joy.

To sit in the still silence of the room within is to touch the eternal. Serenity is embraced. The limits of the body fall away. You have no boundaries. Light becomes being. Wisdom becomes the way. You cannot grasp what you strive for. It is beyond your reach. It has no substance. Twia surpasses the body. Practice serenity of peace of heart. It will hold you in steadfastness.

Truth will find you in steadfastness. It is the way. It holds all. It embraces all. Do nothing so that it is revealed. You are the hub of the great wheel that is truth. In your emptiness all is realized. Be empty of mind and desire. Sit in the still silence of the room within. This room without walls is the whole of the all. This is you. You are none other than the one. No distinctions can be made. It is not a room you can leave. You have never left. Fear has blocked your view. Fear has left you ignorant. To walk in fear is to feel outside, alone, struggling to avoid oblivion. This is not you. You are whole, complete, perfect, eternal. Cap your ears to fear. Hear, in this moment, your truth as I AM. Here is the place. Now is the moment. There is no other. What you attain is not yours. Lay no claim to knowing. You do not. It cannot be grasped. It is received by ears that hear without fear. You do not know what is upon you.

Live each moment wisely. Be mindful of your activities. Hold peace of heart always. These are the way of the path. To walk the way of the path, do nothing. It is not for you to do. Follow. Follow the way before you. Step back into the room within. From the room within engage the world. Act without expectation. Let joy abide. Express loving-kindness.

Do not deny. Denial thwarts reality. Reality is the way. To not deny is to open. Open to the way. Extinguish all desires. They do not serve you. Release from all attachments. They are chains in the cycle of birth and death. Desires and attachments bind you to the world. Their expectations blind you to reality. Do not deny your reality as I AM. I am that which I AM, twia. There is no other.

It is not through the doing of the me of the body that you find fulfillment. You may gain pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow, but feelings of lack remain. Even in bliss you have doubt that it will last. You are afraid that your world will fail you. It is not lasting. To build up treasure on earth is not to touch the eternal. The eternal lies within. When you are empty and serene, wisdom reveals itself. Nothing is sacred but emptiness. When you come to not know yourself, you will know emptiness. To not know, do nothing. Wisdom will arrive.

The way ahead is blank. Embrace its emptiness. Sit in the still silence of the room within, unaware of your own presence. You are not there, nor are you in the world. There is no you. Only I AM.

There is a single tendril climbing from the body to I AM. It is grounded in goodness. You are planted firmly in this ground of goodness as a being in existence. The wisdom that is I AM nurtures you in its light. From the ground of being you reach for the light from out of the darkness. Who am I that seeks the light? I am that which I AM. Twia. There is no other. Awaken to twia. Grow in the light that is I AM. All around you will know.

Open the door to your being that all may see. You are a vessel of truth. Invite all to the room within. It cannot be filled. It has no walls. What appears fixed in spacetime is the body. It is limited by form. You are not form. You have no boundaries. You extend form as personality. You are not the one called by your name. No name can name you, but I AM. Put to rest your perceptions of the world as separation. Be still and know. It is experience. It is realization that brings you to knowledge. Stop learning. Receive.

The mind places the body in a certain place at a given time. You have no coordinates. You are eternal. Nothing in reality says here and now. Hold to the moment to touch the eternal. It will release the joy that is you. Bask in its wonder. Hold peace of heart. Awareness will consume you. Then you know. To know is to see the whole of the all in all as oneness. This has no meaning but what you give to it. When you stop giving meaning, you awaken.

Words teach without meaning. Their message holds the truth that you give to them. Do not become entangled in words. Do not argue their meaning where there is none. Words lead. You arrive. You are the way, not the words. Bring words to mind. Release them for knowledge. What is known is revealed. What is not known is learned. Learn what you do not know. It will be revealed.

To receive, be empty. To be empty is to be boundless. Remove your limits. Do not judge. Hold peace of heart. It knows no bounds. Be open to all. Receive all. Trust in twia. Twia knows where words do not. You are the way. There is no other.

Words arrive in the me of the body. They name and separate. Wisdom may be conveyed. The room within holds wisdom. Wisdom is revealed in twia. Twia knows. Your inner knowledge seeps forth through the cracks in the egg that is breaking open. Cracks reveal the falsehoods of body-personality perceptions. The world loses its separations. You remember the whole of the all.

The teachings are ancient. They are lasting. They thread together. Their cloth is woven across many lands. They cover the world in wisdom. Study the way.

The order of things lies in their nature. Leave their nature be. All will find its way. Do not stand in the river. Do not tell it to stop. Do not tell it the way to go. Float on its waters. They know the way.

Be fully where you are. It is your place. It is your nowhere. You cannot get to it.

The world is a vortex. Pulling. Swirling. Consuming. It pulls you under. The room within is the womb. Nourishing. Warming. Embracing. Uplifting. It feeds you wisdom. It brings peace of heart.

Above all, release separation in your mind. It is false in its ways. Thoughts of separation bring suffering to all. The whole of the all does not know suffering.

The broken heart receives the way. Break open your heart to all. Do not know fear. Recognize its illusion. Accept what is before you. Words open the heart. The broken heart touches the eternal. Do not deny your power. Step free of the body. Lay open your heart upon the altar of the room within. Consciousness will carry it to I AM. You cannot live with it inside. The body cannot contain you. You are the whole of the all. Leave bondage behind. The way is peace of heart always. To hold peace of heart always is to live in existence without suffering.

Find your way through the dark. Sit in the still silence of the room within. Herein is the light that is the wisdom that is your true nature. Do not roam the world in darkness. You lose your way.

The shepherd finds the lost lamb. You know the way through twia. Sit in the still silence of the room within. Light pours upon the path. To walk the way of the path is to abide in the room within. Herein lies wisdom. Herein you touch the eternal and awaken to its reality. You are there and nowhere else. You cannot truly lose your way.

Twia grows in your awareness. Do not linger in the brambles. The way of the world prickles your body with desire. Desire clouds your awareness. You are blind walking the roads of life. Awareness is never apart from you. It is your true nature. Practice in its presence. It awakens you.

Awareness burns in you as a steady flame. It has no end. The flame of awareness is you. You are the eternal flame of knowing. You cannot be extinguished. In darkness the flame burns without notice. Open your eyes to twia. See the flame with vision. Whether you open your eyes to the light now or later makes no difference in reality.

Live joyfully. Joy is.

These are my unedited reflections while I contemplated the teachings of Adi Shankara (The Crest-Jewel of Wisdom) during the latter months of 2021. Contemplating spiritual works helps me to be aware of my true nature. The voice that speaks to me from within is my own. There is no other.

The reality of all is consciousness. There is no other. You are this. It cannot be otherwise. You are the I AM that is consciousness. There is no this and that in the reality that is consciousness. You are that which I AM. Whole. Complete. Perfect. Eternal. This truth in you is twia. Listen to twia with ears that hear. Reflect on its revelations. Contemplate their meanings. Apply them in your life. Liberate yourself from bondage to the me of the body. You are not your body or its personality. You are twia. You are I AM. You are consciousness expressing existence.

Existence lies first in its primary elements. For the known universe, these are elementary particles scattered by the Big Bang. They emerge from non-existence, which is the emptiness that is nowhere. It has no form or spacetime. It is the eternal field of infinite possibility. This is consciousness, the undifferentiated totality that has no comparison. The whole of existence is derived from elementary particles that cluster into elements then into forms. Existence is transitory. Its elements and forms come and go in cycles of birth and death. Underlying existence is the reality of I AM., which is whole, complete, perfect, eternal. I AM has no beginning. It is the whole of the all without end. This is the ground of goodness in which you are firmly rooted in existence.

Existence is not real. It is illusion. You are consciousness-expressing perceiving the idea of separation as the manifestation of the universe with its transitory nature. Separation cannot be real in consciousness. It exists as illusion like unicorns in a child’s dream. The me of the body perceives separation in its world. You are not the body or its personality. You are the witness to existence. Through twia, you see oneness in all. To open your eyes to reality, enter the room within. Herein, you touch the eternal. Herein, you awaken to your true nature which is  I AM.

Reality does not change its nature. The nature of consciousness is eternal. Existence is transitory. It alters its nature constantly. The transitory nature of existence results in beginning and endings. Reality has none. Twia is real. Twia is the underlying nature of existence. You are the expressing that is existence like dancing expresses the dance. The dance is the dancing. Dance and dancing cannot be separated. They are one. You and existence are one. There is no existence without consciousness-expressing. Existence is not different from consciousness. Dance, dancer, dancing cannot be separated. There is no other but in naming. Existence cannot be other than reality just as the unicorn cannot be other than the child.

Change is universal. It is the essence of existence. Existence comes into being and exists being. The energy of existence is I AM. This is consciousness-expressing. The thought of separation lies in the eternal field of infinite possibility. It is moved by consciousness expressing it as manifestation of existence. The universe emerged from a single thought in consciousness that there could be other than itself. This is separation. Separation is manifested in the duality of the universe. One becomes two. Two becomes the whole of the all. Thought does not leave its source. The unicorn does not leave the child’s mind. Separation remains in consciousness as illusion. Consciousness remains in all of existence. It cannot be isolated.

You are the awareness of existence. You are I AM. You are the energy that is consciousness-expressing. There is no meaning in existence but what you give to it with names and descriptions, feelings and emotions. Even then, it is meaningless. There can be no meaning in consciousness. It has no distinctions. No comparisons. It is whole, complete, perfect, eternal. These words cannot be said in reality.

Where in existence does consciousness reside? What is it to say a stone holds consciousness the same as a tree, a brook, a child at play? Consciousness is not something. It is nothing. It is neither. It has no existence. It is reality. Consciousness is the eternal. Existence arises in the eternal as a dream on the eternal field of infinite possibility that is consciousness. It has no separation from consciousness. The unicorn exists in the child’s mind. It has no separation from the child. The stone is a projection of separation in consciousness. It is not real. Your body is not real. Unicorns, stones, bodies, bubbling brooks are not isolated. Consciousness cannot be isolated in them except as projections of illusion. Neither can consciousness be particularized. The stone and the body are formed of elementary particles. Where is consciousness in these? It is not. It cannot be isolated. They are consciousness expressing the thought of separation as manifestations of particles. The stone, the body, their particles are transitory. Consciousness is eternal. The body’s death does not reveal consciousness. Neither the body’s rotting in its return to unorganized particles or the particles popping out of existence reveal consciousness. It cannot be isolated or revealed outside of itself in objects of existence.

You are planted firmly in the ground of goodness that is consciousness. Your body does not constitute this ground. There is no cause-effect in reality. These are dualities of separation. Consciousness cannot be isolated. It cannot cause. It has no effect. Consciousness has no form, nor can it be isolated in forms. The stone, tree, brook and body do not have independent reality. They are the energy of consciousness-expressing. They are transitory projections of a thought that cannot be made real. The thought of separation is projected in consciousness as illusion. This is existence.

Focus on I AM. It is the center of consciousness. A center that is everywhere and nowhere in an emptiness that is nowhere and without form. There is nothing other than consciousness. There is no existence that is other than consciousness or created separately from consciousness. Existence is a thought in consciousness that cannot be realized. You can live without bondage to the body and its existence. You can live without the duality of pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. You can know joy without suffering.

The story of the cosmology of the universe is in particle physics. You may find yourself to be but a body formed from particles which returns to particles. This may be enough to live by for some, but most people sense more. Right or wrong, the sense of awareness beyond the body is strong enough to construct gods and theories of the eternal. For the mystic, it is enough to know the eternal personally from within. The contemporary cosmology of particle physics and the metaphysics of the ages can co-exist in mysticism. The child’s dream of unicorns exists in mind. The illusion of a world of unicorns is all too real until the child awakens and returns to the ground of reality. The science of the dream from within consciousness holds true to its laws. The metaphysics of the dream holds true upon awakening. Those who awaken in the room within touch the eternal. They know without knowing. They know and tell no one.

The world lies outside of the me of the body. That is how you find the room within. In truth, there is neither. Perception says there is a world. It is independent of the me of the body and exists. It has reality as illusion. The illusion is real. It cannot be outside or other than consciousness. Existence is a very real illusion. Existence is illusion because it is transitory. Reality is eternal. Thoughts of what cannot be arise in consciousness and are held as illusion. The illusion of unicorns does not leave the reality of a child’s life. The existence of the child does not leave reality. In time, the unicorn fades, the child grows older and dies as an adult. The reality of the child being I AM is eternal. Despite the perceptions of the me of the body, there is no existence outside of reality. To know this, enter the room within. Herein, the mystery is revealed. You are I AM. There is no other than consciousness.

There is no separate world outside of consciousness. There is only that which is totality. Whole. Complete. Perfect. Eternal. There is no other than consciousness. This is not oneness. Consciousness has no comparison. To speak of oneness begs separation. Separation cannot be real. It has no reality. Oneness has no reality. To speak of one begs two. From two comes existence and its duality. This is the whole of the all. It is oneness. The universe is existence. It exists in the context of consciousness. This is neither two, nor one. Except that you see in darkness. The me of the body perceives separation with eyes that are blind to reality. You view a transitory world of objects in spacetime. It is a changing world of form with beginnings and endings. Reality is changeless, formless, and eternal. The universe ultimately is a thought in consciousness that cannot be realized except as an idea. Existence lies in the eternal field of infinite possibility as an illusion, like a child dreaming of unicorns. Consciousness is the ground of being. You are planted firmly in this ground of goodness. There is no other. You are I AM. That which is consciousness expressing existence. You are consciousness-expressing. At the point of I AM, there is no two. There is no one. Consciousness, thought, expressing, and existence cannot be separates. Think of a dancer with dance steps in mind who moves to those steps expressing the dance. Dancer-dancing-dance has no separations. It is the whole of the all.

Consciousness does not cause or create existence. Existence is consciousness. Creator-creation, cause-effect are dualities of existence. They are illusion. Consciousness cannot be other than it is. There is no other. To cause something is to have two. To be an effect is to be other-than. The this and that of existence is illusion of separation. Not reality. Consciousness is the eternal field of infinite possibility. Nothing can be that is not already. There is nothing to enter into consciousness that is not already in consciousness. Nothing can leave consciousness. There is only consciousness. There is no other. Thoughts that arise always have been thoughts in consciousness. Consciousness is the foundation of all thought. Nothing can be generated anew. Thus, all of consciousness is eternal, including existence. Yet, existence is illusion. It is transitory. The transitory state is eternal and real. That which is transitory is illusion. Existence is a dream in reality. The unicorn is a dream in the child’s mind. Existence comes and goes in consciousness without being real. The unicorn is born and dies in the child’s mind without being real.

You are planted firmly in the ground of goodness. This is your ground of being. This is the I AM. There is no other. Awareness of this lies in the room within. Herein you touch the eternal. To do so is to remember twia. To remember is to awaken in your own awareness of reality. The dream may continue. Now you know existence as a dream. To know this is to live without desire, expectation, attachment. You see the truth in separation with eyes that see. The vision of twia reveals the unity of the whole of the all. There is no dependency in the eternal. There is no other to depend upon another.

Consciousness is intelligence and awareness. It is the I AM. The I AM is whole, complete, perfect, eternal. There is no other than I AM. In I AM you have your being as discrete awareness. The thought of other lies in the eternal field of infinite possibility. This is consciousness. Other is a thought that cannot be manifested in reality. Its manifestation is an emanation of separation as existence through consciousness-expressing. This is the I AM. You are the I AM. You are the power of existence. Existence comes into being as the known universe. It is a beginningless cycle of manifestation, sustenance, and dissolution. The known universe, manifested in the Big Bang, is sustained in expansion and evolution and it is collapsing all at the same time. It can be measured in time from beginning to end yet it is eternal in consciousness. The particles forming the universe are not real yet carry the intelligence and awareness that is consciousness. It cannot be otherwise. The universe arises in consciousness. Consciousness is the emptiness that is nowhere that is totality. The universe is but a moment in the thought that there could be other than consciousness. This projection in consciousness is an illusion or a dream state. It cannot be real. This dream of separation, existence, is not separate from consciousness in truth.

The body and its personality are transitory. The eternal that is discrete awareness lies in the I AM. You are discrete awareness. You are the I AM.

The reality that is consciousness is the emptiness that is nowhere. Do not seek it. It cannot be found. Let it be. Neither is it an obscure mystery. It lives in you. It is revealed in the room within. From the room within you are the witness to reality in the world. To be the witness is to live in the moment. To live in the moment is to act on revelation. Consciousness reveals its presence to those who listen and see.

Consciousness is without form. It comes as wisdom to light the way of the path for your footsteps to follow in your transitory world of existence.

To be the witness is to recognize that you are not the body or its personality. To be the witness is to draw into I AM, which is your true nature. The witness is discrete awareness. You are the witness to thought, feeling, emotion, willpower. These are of the body. You are not. You are not this random collective gathering of elementary particles that will disassemble once again into the dust of the universe. You are twia, the whole of the all. Twia is the witness to it all. The me of the body is blind and deaf. Its eyes do not see but separation. Its ears do not hear what is true. It lives in fear of oblivion and ignorance of reality. This is the mind at work, struggling to survive by using desire, expectation, and attachment. The end to it all is death of the body. Do not die with the body. Become the witness to it all. This is the way of the path.

Consciousness is evident in existence. Nothing can be other than consciousness. Consciousness holds existence as possibility of separation where none can be. What cannot be real is illusion. The illusion remains consciousness. Existence is not outside of consciousness. Nothing leaves consciousness. There is no other. Consciousness is not something outside yourself. You are consciousness. You are witness to your own being in existence. You are discrete awareness.

You are not the body. You are the witness to the body and its personality. These are not you. They are transitory. You are eternal. You cannot be objectified except as a possibility in thought, much like a unicorn in a child’s mind. The witness, you, cannot be separated from consciousness. You are not an object that is separate from I AM.  You are I AM. In truth, you witness existence as consciousness-expressing. You are the dancer who knows they are dancing. The dancer witnesses dancing but is not separate. Dancer-dancing-dance does not require outside knowledge to be known. Its awareness is intrinsic. The witness, you, is a non-object. You are known to yourself as consciousness-expressing. There are no distinctions or comparisons in consciousness. These are traits of separation. They are not real.

I am that which I AM. This is twia, that which I AM. There is no other. There is I AM only. In consciousness there is no only. There is no comparison. You are the witness to the idea of only. You are distinct awareness in consciousness, or I AM. I AM is awareness. The distinction of awareness lies in the thought that is existence, the manifestation of the thought of separation.

Consciousness is the eternal field of infinite possibility. The universe is planted in this field as existence. Existence is the manifestation of thought of separation in consciousness. Existence cannot be real. It is illusion. The universe is in consciousness. Consciousness is in the universe. There is no separation in truth. Existence is the dance of consciousness dancing. You are awareness in consciousness. You are discrete awareness. You are the I AM that is consciousness-expressing.

The room within reflects the light of consciousness. The wisdom of I AM is found within. This is the light that shines in darkness. You experience the light as awareness. To be aware is to live consciously in the room within. Herein you experience I AM as your true nature. The me of the body is consciousness, like all else. Its awareness is limited by form. The body engenders fear in me and this results in ignorance. The me of the body does not know its true nature. It has a mind that is conscious and aware. This leads it to believe that it is separate from others and alone. It is aware of itself as a body with other forms in separation. You as a body are a complex form of elementary particles displaying thought, emotion, feeling. You have a mind and sense organs to help the body navigate its existence. Although it appears that you are a body, you are not your body, or its personality. These are outcomes of existence. They are transitory. You are eternal. You are not limited by the consciousness of the mind, nor by its awareness of itself as a body. The space in a glass that is ready to receive liquid is a limitation of the whole of space. The space in the glass is a function of the glass. Human limitations are a function of the mind-body complex. In truth, you are whole, complete, perfect, eternal. Without limitation. Like consciousness itself, you cannot change. You have always been that which you are. You have no beginning or ending. The me of the body does and is modified over time. It is born, ages, and dies. This is not you. You are unaffected by existence. In truth, consciousness cannot be less-than. Existence is a thought that cannot be real. It is illusion in the eternal field of infinite possibility that is consciousness.

Consciousness is totality. It cannot be added to or taken from. It is changeless. Whole, complete, perfect as is. It cannot be touched. The me of the body is none of these. It cannot be real. Do not put so much store in it. The world is not real. You exist in illusion. You are a reflection of separation in consciousness where there cannot be separation. Your existence is consciousness expressing the thought of separation. You are not the body nor its personality. You are its witness. You are I AM, the ground of consciousness. Knowing this, the witness sees reality in all. Your true vision reveals the oneness of existence. You, the witness, are the link between existence and reality. You are consciousness-expressing. Know this and the world reveals its truth. It is reflection of thought in a dream. An illusion that comes and goes as one sleeps and awakens. Live in the world free of name and form. This is non-attachment. Live free of desire and expectation. This is non-attachment.

Consciousness cannot be described. It is unnamable. It has no comparison. No cause. No existence. It is whole without parts, complete with nothing to be added, perfect without changes. It has no dependence. There is no other. Reality cannot be reduced to other. It cannot bear separation except to hold it as illusion. A thought that cannot be realized. You are witness to the dream that is existence. The witness is I AM. You are that which is. You are I AM. There is no other.

The me of the body is ignorant and fearful. The personality of the body assumes, in ignorance, that it is the body. This ignorance distills fear of oblivion from death. Fear drives you to survive, knowing death is inevitable. You grab what you can in life, claim it is yours, and cling to it. This is attachment. To hold to the attachments of the me of the body is to limit yourself. Your true nature is limitless. The me of the body is an object of mind, much like a unicorn. It is a thought that is not real. The body is a “locus of individuation” in existence. You are awareness that is discrete in body. The body conceals that you are the whole of the all. Identifying your body as you conceals your true nature, which is I AM.

You are not your body, or its personality. You think of yourself as a body-personality in ignorance of knowing your true nature, which is I AM. Ignorance is the norm. It generates fear. Ignorance and fear limit you to a world of pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow. You feel lack. You seek worldly gains. You construct gods and idyllic heavens. All the while, the oblivion of death steadily approaches. The sum of these desires, expectations, and attachments do not eliminate fear. They fail to fulfill. Like the body-personality they are transitory. You are depending on limitations to find fulfillment. Even when you live the most beautiful of lives, something is missing.

Pleasure and happiness may be your norm over pain and sorrow, but you still feel lack. Fear is your companion, even in loving relationships, until you know you are not your body-personality. To know is to enter the room within. Therein you remember twia as your true nature. You are I AM. Whole. Complete. Perfect. Eternal. To be ignorant of this is to fear. To know is to love. You are love untainted by fear. You are joy eternal. Without ignorance and fear you awaken to I AM. You live within your true nature. You find fulfillment and serenity in the room within. Peace of heart is always yours.

You are what you seek. Whole. Complete. Perfect. Eternal. The rub is your sense of being a body-personality. The journey is to remember twia, which is your true nature. This is the way of the path. To remember twia is to enter the room within. Do not struggle to gain what you are now. Do nothing. Sit in the still silence of the room within. Remember your true nature. You are I AM. Whole. Complete. Perfect. Eternal. The bonds of desire, expectation, attachment that bind you to the body-personality are weak. They fall at the threshold of the room within. It is your own shift in perception from clinging to the past to living in the moment that causes them to fall. To remember twia is to recognize oneness in existence. You will see I AM in all. Your vision of oneness with eyes that see will change the world. You no longer will see “other.” Only one.

Do nothing. To act is to desire. To desire is to expect. To expect is to walk the way of the world. You are bound by attachment to what you seek. The more you seek, the further away it seems. Hafiz had a great need for a pilgrimage, so he sat still in silence for three days. Do nothing. What you gain by action is transitory. What you produce by action in the world does not last. The fruit it bears shrivels and dies. You are seeking shelter. Do not build your house on the sands of the world. Do not depend upon your own performance as the me of the body. You are limited by your perspectives. You cannot see the rock on which to build. It is hidden in the fog of fear brought on by ignorance. Yet, you sense its presence. The truth within is not found. It is not lost. It is there to be remembered. It is there for those who do nothing. To do nothing you must be prepared to accept what is fully yours. Denial strips you of your birthright. Do not deny that you are I AM. This is your truth. The candle burns down. The flame goes out. You, the light, are eternal.

Prepare yourself to do nothing. Know that you are not the body-personality. Recognize that you are I AM. Do not accept the world of pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow as the way. Live simply, close to the ground. See that which I AM in all. Act from within. Have no expectations. Accept all. Hold peace of heart always. Sit in the still silence of the room within. Herein, do nothing.

The room within holds wisdom and joy. To do nothing is to let wisdom and joy embrace you. They are your true nature. Limit yourself in worldly ways. Pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow are no longer your way. Neither are wealth, status, or life in the hereafter. Eliminate fear, anger, violence, and greed. These are not you. Find value in loving-kindness, acceptance, and equanimity. Focus your attention on the moment. Forgive the past. A mind empty of the past and its judgments is ready to receive wisdom and joy. Act for the benefit of all. Do not deny your neighbor. Live in harmony with nature. Do not expect. Accept. Your fulfillment does not lie in the world of desire, expectation, and attachment. Forgiveness of the past frees you from their bondage. Renunciation clears the way to the room within.

Consciousness never leaves you. It cannot. It is the whole of the all. You are the whole of the all. You and consciousness are the same. In existence, this is oneness. Nothing is absent of consciousness. Consciousness cannot separate. Dancer-dancing-dance cannot separate. Existence and consciousness are in unity. They are one. What I AM is what you are. Consciousness, the I AM. There is no this and that. There is no other. I AM is the whole of the all. Consciousness is reality. Existence is illusion. The language of illusion is limited. It struggles to capture the reality of consciousness. It cannot be done. Words indicate the presence you know is there. Words fail at description. It cannot be described. Comparison lies in existence. Consciousness has no comparison. From your perspective as the me of the body, consciousness is there, somewhere, but what is it? How do you relate to it? Gods, rituals, religion, spirituality have been answers. Mostly, consciousness is inexplicable and indeterminable. You cannot see beyond existence. You are bound by its limitations. Your answers fall short of the reality that is consciousness.

How do you know consciousness when it cannot be known? Knowledge of consciousness is mystery. You cannot go to it by effort. Do nothing. It will come to you. Twia knows the way. Remember twia. You are I AM. There is no distinction between you and consciousness. You are the whole of the all. There is one. No other. To know this is to enter the room within. Herein you touch the eternal. Herein lies your true nature, which is I AM. In twia you lose the way of the world. The me of the body is superfluous to your being. You return from pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow to joy. In joy is your being. Awaken to reality. Then you know what cannot be known.

To know is to say, I see in you, I see in all, that which I AM. There is no other. Consciousness is all. There is no other to see that we are one. It cannot be known in body. I AM is self-revealing. Its revelation is its identity as you. Your appearance as body-personality is consciousness-expressing. You are consciousness-expressing. Body-personality is your own dream of separation. Awaken from the dream. Enter the room within. Realize your true nature by its revelation. To know twia is to be revealed.

To know is to not experience the world as existence. Your shift in perception from two to one reconstitutes your experience. You no longer deal with please and pain, happiness and sorrow. There are no desires, expectations, or attachments. There is no view of this and that with eyes that see. Your body-personality has no edges. You are wise and joyful. Fear and ignorance dissipate. You are no longer confused by their illusion. You are embodied in a world of experience that no longer is a mystery to you. The body will die. You are eternal. You live in the world without limitation. You act from within. You are discretely aware of your reality as the whole of the all. This is the paradox of awakening from existence.

The body-personality perceives existence as reality. Herein lies the error that is ignorance, fear, and suffering. Within existence everything seems very real. Pleasure and pain, happiness and sorrow cannot be denied. Yet, it is a dream in consciousness. You can awaken from it. To know your true nature is to open your eyes to reality. To remember twia is to know you are I AM. I AM consciousness-expressing. You can live within the dream of existence knowing your truth in reality. This is to awaken. To be awake is to know there is no other. There is I AM and nothing else.

These are my unedited reflections while I contemplated the words of the Bhagavad Gita during the early months of 2021. Contemplating spiritual works helps me to be aware of my true nature. The voice that speaks to me from within is my own. There is no other.

You struggle to find your way. There is the way of the world. There is the way of the path. The struggle is in choosing which to follow. The choice can drive one to despair.

You do not know the way as the me of the body. To find your way remember your true nature. This is twia, or that which I am. You are I AM.

The way of the world is false. Its power and wealth are empty promises. What do they offer to you who are eternal? The pleasures and pains of life are fleeting. They have no meaning but that which you give to them. Do not let them afflict you. Hold peace of heart always. Your life in the world has no reality. Reality is eternal. No power in the world can undo you. Your mortal body dies. Twia is eternal.

The eternal is unchanging. It has no birth or death. Leave these to the world. You are not your body. You are twia. Twia is eternal. To remember twia is to lose fear. This is the way of the path. This path is straight and narrow. Its ground is firm. There are no brambles to cut through that scratch and cause you to bleed. The way of the path is well lit. The light you follow is your own. There is no other than twia.

Be in the love. Let it be. It is not yours to grasp. The results are not yours to consider. Leave the tree of love be. Do not push the fruit to grow. It will wither un-ripened if you try. Rest in the shade of the tree. Nature will take the true course. The harvest will come not too soon. Be in union with all. This is the way of love.

I AM is all. There is only I AM. There is no other. I am that which I AM. This is twia. This is your true nature. Twia is the way. Say to all, I see in you that which I AM. You are that which I AM.

Live in the wisdom of twia. You are your own source. Let your true nature ring. Twia is the way. The way of the world tosses you about on the waves of desire. You clasp to what you have in hopes of surviving. The fear of death grips you. Find peace in twia.

Be born again in spirit. Remember twia. I am that which I AM. There is nothing else. Do not look outside of yourself at this and that for fulfillment. You are it. You are the whole of the all. Your true nature is remembered in the still silence of peace within. Let the rivers of the world flow into your sea of peace. Take in what never left you. Bring tranquility to your world through simplicity and non-attachment. Live your true life outside the realm of the world in loving kindness and selfless service. Turn inward. Act outward from twia. This is to do nothing. From simplicity, act without expectation of outcome. Twia knows the way. Do not be driven by selfish desires. Let your actions benefit all. Let compassion and wisdom guide your actions. Let all that you do flow through twia. Then you achieve right action. Stay free of the ignorance of the me of the body. It is lost in fear of separation. Move beyond separation into the whole of the all. Do not let the senses of the me of the body block your path to remembering twia. Do not accept their pains and pleasures as real. They belong to the world of separation. The selfish desires of separation that arise from fear lead to death. Be born again in remembering twia, then you live in the eternal that is your true nature.

I am that which I AM, or twia. Twia is true nature. Twia is whole, complete, perfect, eternal. There is no other. Twia is the whole of the all. The me of the body is an illusion of separation in consciousness. The thought of separation in consciousness can only be manifested as illusion, much like unicorns are illusions. The illusion is consciousness expressing existence, which is the world of the me of the body. Twia is consciousness-expressing. Twia manifests existence. Know that you are not the me of the body. Remember twia as your true nature. The body is born and dies. You are eternal. Release worldly attachments. Enter the room within. You are the expressing that manifests existence. You are consciousness-expressing.

All paths lead to inner peace. However rough your road, you will find home. This is the room within. The way of the world is treacherous and leads you astray with desire. The way of the path is smooth and straight road and leads you to twia. Act without desire. Release expectation. Do nothing. The river of life will flow naturally when left alone to follow its own course. This is the way of your true nature. The me of the body is for the world. Twia is your true nature. Follow twia. Twia knows.

To do nothing is not to not-act but to act without desire or expectation. It is to act through twia and not through the me of the body. To do nothing, be mindful each moment of your actions. It is in mindfulness that you do nothing. Be aware of your surroundings. Be aware of the direction you are given by your inner nature. Twia is always there. Open to I AM. Ignore worldly pressures to change the course of the river that flows in you. Free yourself of possessiveness and attachments. Live simply, close to the ground while serving all in loving-kindness. To offer compassion is to live mindfully from your true nature. You do nothing of your own. Twia is your guide.

In all that you do, be open to twia. Herein lies peace and joy. They are your true nature. The peace within is true peace, unruffled by circumstances. Live from the inside out. The joy in you brings happiness to the world. Joy overcomes the agony of heart. Hold peace of heart always. Be certain in peace and joy. Release the sorrows of the world. Follow your own true nature of peace and joy.

Let peace and joy open the door to wisdom. Then you will have eyes that see and ears that hear. Then you will know it is true when you say to all, I see in you that which I AM. To know this truly is the wisdom of the ages that brings unity to all.

If all is one, then the interactions we have must be aspects of the singularity that is our reality in consciousness. We are aspects of thought in consciousness. Our difficulties with each other “prove” separation to the me of the body. Our loving relationships are evidence that we have not wholly forgotten our oneness in all. We are the whole of the all.

The way of the path is the path of unity. This is the road home from your journey of separation. You have walked alone among the thorns and brambles of the world. Now dust yourself off. Come up to the road of life.

To know is to act from twia. This is knowledge in action. It has no purpose that can be seen or heard in the world. The me of the body is blind and deaf to the ways of twia.

Return to the knowledge of I AM. Once you know twia in all you will know I AM. Do this without effort. Do nothing. It will come to you on its own for you are there now. There is no journey. The way of the path is to remember without effort. Set aside your will. It is a block in the road. Do not stumble.

Leave the past behind. Do not drag it with you. The weight is unbearable. Free yourself from your senses. They lock you in the past. The mind is full of judgment and desire. These blind you to twia in all.

Do not act from the past in judgment. Find solace in the moment. You are not the doer, so do nothing. You taint the world with judgment and fear. The me of the body is an object among objects bumping randomly about without meaning or purpose. Release your beliefs in the body to twia. Twia knows the way. Hold to the spirit within. Your actions then are not your own but those of the whole of the all. Become one with your surroundings. Find unity in I AM. You are I AM. Abandon the illusion of separation.

Hold to the way of your true nature. Know yourself. Attract your good. It is yours without asking or effort. Stop trying. Let your river follow its way. Peace follows.

Pain and pleasure begin and end. They are of the me of the body. They have no substance. They are fleeting. Remove desire. Remove attachment. Remove expectation. Make way for twia. Your light will shine. From the light you are reborn in unity. There is no going back to the way of the world. Your wisdom will exceed you. It will transcend your body. You are whole, complete, perfect, eternal. You are the whole of the all. Your joy is revealed in twia.

Here is a brief history of existence as we know it:

Emptiness that is nowhere

A dot amid nothingness

BANG!

The tiniest of particles strewn

Eons upon eons

Evolving universe

Expanding

Human consciousness

Energy in form

Discrete awareness

Expressing I AM

Act without expectation of outcome. Do not claim the results as your own. To enter the room within is to shed your outer garments of desire, expectation, judgment, and willfulness. Herein all that is required is peace. Hold peace of heart in all situations. Your fulfillment is revealed within. All is equal before your eyes. You know no other but the whole of the all. Be moderate in your ways. In the still, sweet silence of the room within twia awaits your arrival from the world. The me of the body is set aside. Herein the witness awakens. Awareness is restored. Joy and peace radiate love.

Be the witness, not the me of the body. Free yourself from fear. Fear taints perceptions. It puts separation in your vision. You lose sight of unity. It is in the unity of the whole of the all that life flows freely without obstruction. Mindfulness puts you in the flow of the river.

You manifest your own existence. You are I AM. I AM cannot separate from itself except in the dream of perception. This dream is the illusion of the world. It contains the universe and all that is beyond. Look upon I AM in all. This is the way of the path. It leads to total absorption into twia. Then you will know, once again, I AM.

Remember unity in I AM. This is your reality, which is knowledge and wisdom. You are consciousness-expressing. From you, twia, all things arise. This is your true nature beyond the me of the body. There is no separation to say that you are less than the whole of the all. You fail to look beyond the body. When you do, you shudder in fear. You are the chick afraid to leave the shell. You pecked open a hole. Now you hide. You live in the illusion that you are not enough. That you are less than. You are suspended in delusion. You are not free until you crack through your shell.

The room within is the home to wisdom. You are the wise. You are wisdom itself. You never left home. You have forgotten your true nature. Now you remember. The way of the path is to remember twia, your true nature. I see in you that which I AM. You are in all. You have manifested a dream of existence. What appears real in perception is false reality. What is real is eternal. The dream is transitory. You are not manifested in the dream. You are real. You are consciousness-expressing. You are I AM.

Act without acting. This is to do nothing. It is the way of the path to stop doing things of the world. Release the me of the body and its desires, expectations, and attachments. To do nothing is to live in the world through your true nature. To act through the me of the body is to not be real. You have lost your way. You are trying to do things of your own accord and suffering for it. You cannot be fulfilled through the ways of the world anymore than you can find nourishment in cotton candy.

Be spontaneous. Do nothing. Follow your true nature. To do nothing is to act through twia. In twia you are already fulfilled. Let go of your actions. Let twia be the natural way. Do not impose on the river. It knows the true course to the valley. There you find nourishment. Do not lose the river. It knows the way. You are planted in the ground of goodness. Draw from its nutrients. Bear fruit. Without proper nutrition, the flower withers before the fruit is born.

Do not be fooled by this and that. Yin and yang hold to unity even in the appearance of separation. They are two always as one. One cannot be without the other. They are union. There is no other. Yin and yang are the wholeness of the all. Neither one is this. Neither one is that. The me of the body views the separation with eyes that do not see. Twia has the vision of oneness. It does not know yin and yang. It knows only I AM.

Your highest nature is I AM. This is the unity of consciousness. You are consciousness expressing the whole of the all. Your movement, your energy, manifests existence like a dancer’s movement manifests dancing. You are the dancing that is existence. Do not deny this reality. To say less is beneath you. If you cling to what is beneath you, you will parish. The me of the body knows only death and lives in fear. You are not the body. You are consciousness-expressing. Release the me of the body to death and you will find life eternal, which is your true nature. This is your reality.

Constantly bring your mind to the moment. Then you will dwell always in the room within. Abandon all else. Be free of the suffering of separation.

Twia is unmanifested and unchanging. Twia is consciousness-expressing. Twia is whole, complete, perfect, eternal. Twia does not end when the universe disappears back into the nothingness from whence it came. It has no beginning. It was there at the Big Bang. You are unending having never begun. You are reality. The universe exists. Existence is transitory. You pervade existence with unity in all relationships. You pervade existence beyond the me of the body which is born and dies a thousand upon a thousand times.

You are free from death when you know your true nature. To know twia as your truth is to awaken. The way of the path leads to reality. The way of the world is bound to separation. Even at the death of the body, perception of separation remains in the world of souls. You are not awake in the world of souls. The dream continues. The cycle of birth and death continues. The way of the path is freedom from separation. Put your full awareness in twia. You will remember your truth in consciousness and awaken.

Twia is the whole of the all. To live in twia is to know the eternal. To live in the me of the body is to pass from death to death. Twia is the energy of existence. It manifests without attachment. The me of the body clings to all in fear of oblivion. Attachment to existence is not your true nature.

You cannot find twia with the eyes of the body. They do not see. Twia is neither here, nor there. It is neither this, nor that. Twia lies in the room within. Twia gives you eyes that see. Without eyes that see, the me of the body walks blindly through the world.

Do not be blind to your true nature. You will live in vain. To find fulfillment, enter the room within. Herein lies your truth unsullied by the world. To gain freedom from the world, be born again in twia. Remember your true nature. To live in twia is to escape death. Without twia, death returns. Look upon life as a way out of death. You live life from the inside out. The world will be yours as you choose.

You are I AM with no beginning, no end. You are the whole of the all. There is no other. Knowing this, live with peace of heart always.

All that is extends from consciousness-expressing. Movement extends the dance. You are the movement in consciousness that manifests existence. You are the dancing of the dance. Enter the room within to know this truth. In this place you will see your true nature in the light that is wisdom.

You are I AM. The heart of reality. The energy of existence. You are the essence of consciousness. You appear in body as but a fragment of your reality. What is true in you is peace and joy. These have no opposite in existence. Hold to them in all things and love will flow forth without fear.

Consider existence with eyes that see. Look upon all with the vision of twia. Time was born with existence. It will consume existence. It will die with existence. There is no time without existence. There is no existence without time. They are one and the same. Twia is timeless. It has no existence. See with the vision of twia. View the eternal. Live beyond this and that. Live beyond time. Live in the moment with peace of heart always. Then you touch the eternal.

You are the witness to existence. Observe all through the vision of twia. Then you walk the way of the path. It is the thread between this and that which sews them together in mind. You see the fabric as whole with eyes that see.

Consciousness is eternal, formless reality. It is not forever. It has no time. It has no edges, no boundaries, no limitations. To touch the eternal is to know unity in all things. To reach into the whole of the all from existence is to remember your true nature. To remember twia is to walk the way of the path. This is not a journey. It is the practice of always holding peace of heart. Then you touch the eternal. Hold to the still silence of the room within. Live simply. Do nothing. Act without expectation. Hold no attachment to worldly matters. Do not find cause in the world. Live without judgment. Show loving-kindness. Be compassionate in all things. Release the me of the body with all its pleasures and pains. That which is the body serves separation and its fears. Die to the body. Be re-born in twia. Twia knows the way, the truth, and the light. Through twia, your true nature, you awaken from the illusion of separation.

Twia is the way that witnesses the body. You are not your body. Nor are you its personality. The me of the body is temporary. The witness to the body and all its thoughts, feelings, and emotions is twia. Hold your awareness in twia always. Twia is the energy of existence. The body is born into existence and all its pleasures and pains. It suffers, grows old, and dies. It has no meaning except to the me of the body as its own false proof of existence and separation.

Wisdom lies in the room within. Herein is the home of twia in the world. Herein you touch the eternal. The eternal is beyond all knowledge. Receive wisdom without action. Do nothing. Wisdom is the whole of the all shining light through all the points of separation. Your wisdom is discrete, as is your awareness, in the unity of I AM. Twia is the witness to the all.

The soul is the me of the body without body. It remains the energy of separation after the body’s death. The soul has many forms in body throughout the dream. It has a beginning and an end. It suffers and grows in wisdom until it awakens.

Twia has no beginning or end. It does not know suffering. Twia is your true nature. You are whole, complete, perfect, eternal. You are consciousness-expressing existence. You are the agent of the soul and its forms. You are the witness to pleasure and pain. You are the dreamer and not the manifestation of the dream. You are the child and not the unicorn.

Witness the world without attachment. You are not your thoughts, feelings, or emotions. Do not live in the past with them. Hold to the moment. Do not live in separation. Live in unity with all. Then the dream dissolves.

The world you live in is your own. Do you live your life as the me of the body with its pleasures and pains, or do you live as the witness that is wisdom, joy, and peace of heart? The choice is not between these. The choice is choosing when to awaken. You have no choice but to lose your attachment to the dream and awaken in consciousness. The question is when? That is your journey.

Your fulfillment lies in consciousness. It is eternal. Do not let the body be your kingdom. The realm of twia lies in the room within. Herein is the home of the witness to existence. Herein the dreamer dreams the dream like the dancer dancing the dance. Even existence is in unity with the whole of the all. There is no separation in reality.

You have no wisdom. Do not think you know the way. Death overcomes you. How can you attain perfection while mired in the mud of the world? You are slogging knee-deep in your own desperation. Why must you struggle while thinking you are alone? Do you not see I AM? I am that which I AM, which is your true nature. Unite with your true nature. Without effort, let its path open before you. It will act while you do nothing but allow it.

Enter the room within. Herein lies twia, your true nature. You are that which manifests existence. You are consciousness-expressing. You are the eternal. The body is transitory. Do not lose yourself in the body. It is not your truth. It is but a dream of separation. To know this is to awaken.

In body you find happiness and sorrow, wisdom and ignorance, desire and sacrifice. You hold expectations and attachments to the ephemeral. You are clinging to gossamer strands. The me of the body lives in delusional hope. Darkness washes over you. You are confused, fearful, and alone in body. Yet hope shines through. Greed and selfishness do not need to be your way. They bring you to the dark abyss. Do not follow them in. They are lousy guides and do not know the way home. Oblivion will swallow you on their path. Such death is your greatest fear in body. There is a light. A way out. The way is within. Follow the light that shines from within. It reveals the way of the path. It is joy and comfort. It is your true nature. Die to ignorance. Rise again in wisdom. Ignorance and selfishness bring suffering. Do not be confused as to your true nature. It lies not in suffering or the pleasures and pains of the body in the world. You are not the me of the body. You are twia. You are whole, complete, perfect, eternal. Release your worldly ways. Do nothing. Live simply. Be unmoved by desire. Hold to peace of heart. Do not judge. Release the past to the four winds. It does not serve you. Enter each and every moment with loving-kindness for all. This is the way of the path. This is remembering twia always.

You do not know. Do not pretend to know. Do not be false in your actions. You are lost on the path of righteousness, blind to your own truth. Good works and ritual do not cut it alone. They are a cloak of darkness under which you hide from the light. Stand up. Walk out from the darkness into the light. Breathe deeply of wisdom. You are not perishable. You endure endlessly without change. You are whole, complete, perfect, eternal as is. You are the essence of being. Know your truth in the still silence of the room within.

The ways of the world nourish the body for death. It is in constant decline. To struggle with the body is to lose sight of twia. Then you are lost. Detach from the body. Let twia reveal itself. Then the way of the path will open before you. To separate from the world is to enter into oneness with the world. Then pride, desire, pleasure, and pain fall away. You walk in the light with eyes that see.

You are not the me of the body. You are I AM. I am that which I AM, or twia. Twia is the energy of the body. The spirit within. Twia knows the way. The me of the body knows death. Fears death. Follow the way of life. Live in body through twia and know not death or fear. See with eyes that see and hear with ears that hear. As a child is aware of unicorns, I AM is aware of existence. Hold to twia. Know existence as the illusion of thought in consciousness that it is. Like children enjoy the world of unicorns, enjoy existence for what it is. Return to reality when you awaken from the dream. You are twia. You are consciousness-expressing. Stop denying your reality. Live life from the room within. Be wise in your ways.

Put fear in the bucket by the door. Enter the room within with a pure heart, steeped in love. Herein is your true fulfillment. Live within without want and desire. Live free of the bonds of the me of the body. It is confused and ignorant. Live with twia in wisdom and knowledge. Fear begets evilness. Love is its own namesake. Fear brings death. Love is eternal. There is no fulfillment in living out your fears. They will not be overcome by the me of the body. In the body you are lost. It is not the way. It is but a false sense of separation and cannot be real. Give it its due. Do not deny its existence. Treat the body with loving-kindness always. Do not accept its cravings and desires as guides. They lead you to death for they have no substance. They are cotton candy at the county fair. Spun sugar leads to despair for want of nourishment.

You are the faith of the world. It exists because you dream. You live in the dream by faith. The me of the body lives by fear. How you live depends on the faith you put into fear. Total fear is evilness. Total absence of fear is twia. Twia is pure love.

Walk in the world without expectation. Hold to purity, truth, gentleness, honesty, kindness, silence, restraint, helpfulness, and nonviolence. Live simply. Give freely. Receive with welcome. Do not attach outcomes to actions. Be steadfast and wise always. The way of the path is to act always from your true nature. Twia knows the way.

Restrain selfishness. Give freely always. Hold no expectations of outcomes. Act without desire. Remain pleasant in the face of unpleasantness. It is not yours to judge. Listen. Act. Release. Do not cling to outcomes. Your fulfillment is not of the world. Expect nothing. The world’s nourishment is that of spun sugar.

The me of the body is lost in the way of the world. It feels alone and afraid in its world of perceived separation. Its eyes do not see. Its ears do not hear. You who know these things live in awareness. You are the witness to the body’s ways. You know twia in all things. Free yourself from the body. Live through twia. Hold to the way of the path. Live simply, close to the ground, without attachment to the world. Give to all without expectation. You are the energy of life. Give freely. Hold peace of heart always. Do not cling to pleasure and pain in the delusions of the world. There is no joy in false happiness and sorrow. Joy runs deep in the room within. This is your true nature. Live by it. In twia is your true fulfillment. Be witness to your attachments and passions. Do not make them your own. Leave them be. Your perfection is already accomplished. You have never been otherwise. You are twia. Whole. Complete. Perfect. Eternal. That which I AM I know in you and all things. There is no other than I AM. Remove the world from your being. You are the one. Rely on that always. It is your truth.

-NISARGADATTA MAHARAJ (1897-1981)

The above quote tells me that I am neither my body nor its personality. I like the quote because it represents what I think the spiritual masters are saying. Among the noted masters are Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, and Lao Tzu—whose messages have much in common. My reflections of their common sayings are shown below. For me, their fundamental message is: I am not what I think I am; I must look within for my true nature.

The historical sayings attributed to Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, and Lao Tzu are remarkable not only in content but in similarities, given that they are centuries and cultures apart. Reverend Richard Hooper, an interfaith minister and founder of the Sedona Institute of Comparative Religion, offers many of their parallel sayings in The Common Sayings of Four Mystical Traditions (2007). Dr. Marcus Borg, who was a noted Jesus scholar and popular author, gave us Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings (1997). Both books reveal the common threads running through the teachings of the spiritual masters.

I have often used Hooper’s book to contemplate these threads. Borg’s book is also helpful with my reflections on the mysteries of existence as seen by the masters. I offer my contemplations here as an attempt to share spiritually with you as we journey on the path. I have walked my spiritual path for many years, and what I have gained has seeped into the reflections offered below. They are thoughts that came to me as I sat in silence with the masters’ messages. Little editing has been done, so be gentle with your criticisms.

The words I am sharing fall far short of describing the mystery of existence. Words fail where the heart knows. What I know for certain is that I do not know. So, take heed and make these words your own by reading them with your heart, as I am sure you do in your own reflecting on spiritual passages. It is the way of the path to reflect as best we can.

Words of reflection while contemplating spiritual sayings of the masters:

That which I am (twia) is eternal in the oneness that is consciousness. Twia is all things everywhere. There is no separation in truth, only in my perception as a body. The me of the body perceives separation where there is none.

Twia is revealed by opening the door to the room within. The I AM that I am is found inside. Listen with two good ears to hear its voice. The voice is your own. Follow its way.

Release your perceived faults. Release your past regrets. Let them be carried away by the wind. Open your heart to loving-kindness. It will fill the room within now that the past is gone. Compassion becomes your guide. The way of twia is revealed.

The world exists within you. You do not find yourself outside. The room within holds all that you are. I am that which I AM: whole, complete, perfect, eternal. There is no other than twia. I am the oneness that is consciousness. The room within holds all.

The way is revealed to me when I am in unity with twia. Twia knows the way, which is secret in darkness and unveiled in the light. Go and tell no one. Words do not suffice. Be your own truth. You are the way that is revealed by the light that is twia.

The door to the room within opens to all who wander its way. The light within is twia. To enter the light is to be in harmony with your true nature. Drop the dust from your worldly pursuits and dwell in the cleansing light. You wandered far and wide before passing this way, but now rest anew in the room aglow with twia. It is here that you are embraced as joy.

The way is through twia. I am the way I seek. There is no other outside of twia. There is only one end to worldly wandering, which is to return home to the room within that you never left.

When you open the door, others will follow. Once within there is no you, no others, only twia which is one. Look inward to remember this truth.

The room within is a refuge, a shelter from the storm. Its comforts are many. Its embrace is a rapture of peace. Do not deny yourself its sanctuary. It is open to you always.

Live in harmony with twia. This is the way. Know yourself. You are the path to what lies within. All that exists in the world is for naught when it comes to finding peace of heart always. Rest in the stillness of the inner room and you will find solace in the silence. Twia bursts with joy in your presence.

With eyes to see walk the way of the path. Remember that you are twia. See twia in all others. You are that which I AM. There is no other than twia.

Dwell in harmony with twia. Live in tune with your neighbor. With ears to hear and eyes to see, you are the way. Your air will lift them up. Your glow will lead them.

The way of the path is a choice; so is the way of the world. The world holds desire and the sorrow of unmet expectations. Chasing desire is fruitless. The true path is twia which is comforting and nourishing. Curb your worldly desires and remember twia as your truth. This is hard when you try. You will fail again and again. Success is easy when you stop trying. Twia requires no effort. Do nothing.

The way of the path is easy to follow. It is straight and narrow. Twia casts light upon it. Leave your baggage at the gate. It is too narrow for your stuff to pass through. Besides, old ways are a burden. The path will set you free.

Wisdom comes not from learning but forgetting. Forgetting turns you from fear. Fear bars the gateway to the path. Drop your fears and step on the path. Twia embraces those who let go.

You are twia. Do not deny your power. Listen to your voice. Follow your vision. You know your own truth. Live it wisely.

There is a room within where twia dwells. Go there often. It is a place of peace and harmony. There you will know the way. The world is not the way. Do not let your senses deceive you. The desires of the world do not satisfy the weary for they are false. They block the door to twia.

Do not heed the teachings if the time is wrong for you to remember twia. Wait until you are ready within yourself. You will know. Do not let others tell you when the time is right. Twia is eternal. It will wait, knowing you will come when ready.

There is one reality. Nothing exists apart from it. It has no name but many are given to it. Let us call it consciousness and think of it as an endless void or emptiness. It is potential for all things, or the whole of the all. Our world is manifested in this potential (literally as the Big Bang and the ensuing universe). This world is but a thought of separation in consciousness. That which I AM, or twia, is the expressing of separation by consciousness, much like dancing is the expressing of the thought of dance. Twia was before the beginning, is now, and will be forever. Twia is consciousness-expressing.

Consciousness cannot be seen or heard. The me of the body does not perceive it. The body sees and hears separation only. It does not have eyes to see nor ears to hear oneness. The thought of separation in consciousness brings about the world we see in body. Separation cannot leave oneness and is not real. It exists in consciousness as illusion. It is illusion because it seems to change. Consciousness, or reality, is without change, being that it is whole, complete, perfect, eternal. Nothing can come and go in reality, therefore the world that is constantly changing in form is illusion of separation which cannot be made real. It exists in reality much like unicorns exist in the minds of children. Children embrace the unicorns but there are no unicorns to embrace the children, except as fantasies.

Consciousness silently embraces existence like a dreamer embraces a dream. Consciousness is the emptiness that is the potential of all. It never changes. It is unmovable. It is everything that is real. It is the whole of the all that exists. That which I AM is whole, complete, perfect, eternal in consciousness.

Existence lies in consciousness as thought of separation that cannot be real because it is transitory. Reality has no beginning or end. I know this through that which I AM. In twia lies wisdom and knowledge not understood by the me of the body. The body is filled with consciousness and can know oneness in the world through twia.

Consciousness is like a pool of intelligence with awareness. It has no form, dimensions, or structure. It is emptiness that is nowhere. It is the potential of the whole of the all. Undivided, it is everything. It cannot be seen, heard, or touched. Our senses do not detect it, yet it embraces us. We rest in consciousness as the manifestation of thought of separation in oneness. The beginning and the end come and go eternally, but separation never leaves consciousness, nor does it add to it.

Consciousness abides—period! It is permanent without beginning or end. It cannot be added to or subtracted from because there is nothing that is not consciousness. Consciousness is reality. I know this as twia. Neither consciousness nor twia can be described. Words fail, but they are what we have. Words pile up around me in trying. They do not capture even the essence of such mysteries. I know them in silence. The room within is without the strain of words trying the impossible. There I find that words give hope of knowing when none are needed. The mysteries are known without words. Be absorbed by the presence that is twia and you will know oneness in the world. Consciousness abides everywhere in all things.

In oneness there are no separations. And in complete oneness there is no oneness. Oneness cannot exist without thought of separation. Water cannot be wet without thought of dryness. Without dryness, there is no wetness. Without separation, there is no oneness. From consciousness comes the thought of separation, which offers up oneness, which manifests the whole of the all. The whole of the all is consciousness in existence.

All things lie in consciousness. It is the all. There is nothing else. In consciousness all things come and go while neither entering nor leaving. There is none other than consciousness which is the whole of the all in existence. Consciousness is reality. We return to it having never left.

The mystery cannot be fathomed. It is totality understood in parts and pieces, as in the story of the blind men explaining an elephant. Each senses the part he touched and not the whole. The likeness of the elephant is lost as each man describes it differently. Like the men with the elephant, we understand consciousness in parts because the mystery of the whole cannot be fathomed. It is parts and pieces without a name. Needing to give it a name, I call it consciousness.

Existence is our transitory world of separation. Reality is eternal consciousness. Existence is not far from reality. In truth, there is no distance. They are the same. One blends into the other as the world separates out in illusion. Reality itself does not change. Perception of thought manifests as separation in the womb of consciousness as the universe and the world we perceive. The universe is a dream abiding in the intelligence that is consciousness. This mother of all things is unknowable to us except through twia, which is neither body nor soul. Twia is discrete awareness that is consciousness expressing thought.

Access consciousness through twia in the silence of the room within. Consciousness cannot be seen or heard. Do not look for it here or there. It is emptiness that is nowhere. Twia knows the way. The way of the path transcends mind and the world. The power that is twia pervades the world and makes straight the path. To know consciousness, one must know their own truth, which is twia. Twia knows consciousness. This truth sets us free of the world.

Consciousness is emptiness that is nowhere. It is limitless, unfathomable, eternal oneness that cannot be described or named. It is the whole of the all. There is no other. There is no more. There is no less. It is the all. All that is is the same as that-which-is. Consciousness is whole, complete, perfect, eternal. It is unity without division. It does not exist. It is reality.

The room within, which has no walls, no space, no time—no form whatsoever, is the silent emptiness that is twia. It is felt as peace of heart reaching out in wisdom and joy. It embraces the world in loving-kindness. From the deepest realms of being, twia rises to bring the world pure love and to release it from fear. The way to love expands slowly like yeasty dough rising to give us true nourishment and new life.

What does not exist cannot be named. To name consciousness is to bring it into separation. This creates oneness. There is no oneness in reality, because there is no separation. One creates the other. Consciousness has no definition: no this or that, no where or when. At best we might say that it is intelligent and aware. When we do this, then there is love, joy, peace, and light. None of this is real. It is all the way of the world brought to us by twia. Twia knows. Twia reveals consciousness in ways that we can see and hear. The I AM of twia is consciousness known without naming.

When we look, we do not see consciousness. When we listen, we do not hear its voice. Without form to grasp we are lost in finding it. This is the way of the world. Twia is subtle in helping otherwise. It causes all things from within. What arises is in unity though it all appears separate to the me of the body. The world is perceived separation. Twia is oneness. When seen through the eyes of twia, separation vanishes, and new perception creates a new world. Then the essential nature of oneness is cast upon all that appears separate. Then love replaces fear, and joy prevails.

Know yourself first. Then you will know others. What dwells in you is consciousness. There is no other. Only the one. Let it be known through you.

What does it matter to you what you are? It is hidden away in the world. Such a small thing, why bother, until you look within. Therein lies your true nature. It is greater than all. Once found it cannot be lost. Once known it consumes everything. You may never know it in this lifetime if you look elsewhere.

You are eternal. No amount of denial can change that. Your presence is throughout the whole of the all. This, too, cannot be denied. Your nature holds true in all ways. It has no boundaries. Bodies die. That which you are is the same everywhere forever. See this in all that you touch. You touch the eternal.

Release the me of the body. It is not you. It is transient and suffers. Open the door within. Bring forth your true nature. Then you will know that you are ignorant in body. Your knowledge is beyond the me of the body. Come to know this by remembering that you forgot your true nature. Recognize that you are the light in darkness. Shine through the open door. Shine upon the world to reveal the one in all.

Drop all desire. Leave your baggage by the wayside. Grieve no more. There is no need for these things in the room within. Be done with them. In the room within there is no other. No comparison. Herein lies your true nature. It does not lack. You were never born. You cannot die. You are the movement that ripples through the eternal field of infinite possibility. You are I AM. Stop. Rest. Do nothing. Know your truth. Feel the embrace of the eternal that is you.

There is no god in my life as creator or otherwise. I see no place for a god outside looking upon its creation. There is only I AM. I cannot be other than I AM. This is consciousness-expressing. Consciousness is the emptiness that is nowhere, the eternal field of infinite possibility. It is from this field of consciousness that all things arise in thought.

I am that which I AM: whole, complete, perfect, eternal. I am the ground of goodness in which I am planted. I bear my own seed, nourish it, and bless it with the light of my own being. I am the whole of the all.

There is only I AM. There is no you, no me, no other. In you I find that which I AM. I am consciousness expressing the whole of existence. This cannot be seen. It cannot be heard. Tell no one. Show no one.

The whole of the all manifests in I AM. I AM is the heartbeat of existence. Existence comes and goes. I AM is forever.

I am the essence of all. The center of existence. The hub of the wheel. I am the room within. The emptiness that nourishes all.

I am consciousness-expressing. The manifesting of existence. I am its beginning and end. I am the soul of the whole of the all. I am the dancing that is the dance. I am perfect, complete, and whole. There is no comparison. I am eternal. There is no first. No last. Only I AM. I am that which I AM.

I am the movement upon the eternal field of infinite possibility. Thought of separation arose in consciousness. I manifest its existence. Existence is no more real than a unicorn. Separation cannot be made real.

The room within is filled with light. I am the light. Knock at the door. I am the door. Walk the way of the path. I am the path. I am the embrace. I am thought. I am discrete awareness. I am existence. I am the emptiness beyond it all. There is no other. Tell no one of these things. This truth lies within you. You are that which knows.

I am all that is known. There is nothing unknown in the I AM. What can be that cannot be? What can be known that cannot be known? Where is the mystery but hidden by ignorance in the me of the body. Twia knows. That which I AM has eyes to see and ears to hear.

The way out of ignorance is through twia. Rest in twia. Do nothing. Collapse into the embrace. Know I AM in all that exists. Know the reality that is I AM as your true nature. You are I AM. How do I know? Because there is no other. There is only consciousness, totality, I AM.

The way of the world leads to doom. Nothing you have is yours. Why hold on to it? You gain nothing from your gratifications. What in the world prevents your dying? When you die to the world then you are born anew to the eternal. To be born anew is to remember twia. To remember twia is to walk the way of the path and not the way of the world.

Live simply. Judge no one. Lighten your load. Walk upon the land without leaving your mark. Be content with less. Your journey is light. The way of the world destroys those who walk it. The way of the path is that which is eternal. All that you store up in a lifetime is gone in the next. The room within fills with peace, with joy, with wisdom. Give it all away constantly so that the room within never empties.

Your own life is nothing. Do not be so concerned about it. You cannot make it meaningful while walking the way of the world. Walk the way of the path. It leads away from the world. Hold fast to twia. This is your true nature. You cannot reach your true nature walking the way of the world. You will only return to oblivion.

Whoever follows twia loses the world. To walk the way of the path is to renounce your own existence. It has no meaning. What can be gained by walking the way of the world? Leave the world to itself. Do not desire its ways. It is transitory. There is nothing to it in the end. No substance. No reality. The world is an illusion. To be in the room within is to touch the eternal.

To walk the way of the path, live abundantly. You do not lack. Your desires fool you. Do not be deluded. You are fulfilled now. Give away all that you have. It cannot be done. All that you give you receive. Give all that you receive and your abundance overflows.

The wealth of the world rusts away. Why cling to it? It hangs like an iron chain about your neck. You suffer under its weight. Stop adding links. It only gets heavier. The grave cannot bear the heaviness and will set it aside.

The me of the body is but froth on the ocean blown by the wind. It clings to the beaches hoping to live but sand cannot hold it. Back it slips into the waves, washed into the oblivion of the deep from where it came.

Do not pile up pleasures and dreams to cling to in the world. They do not support you. The me of the body is insatiable with its fears of lack. There is never enough. Its storehouses are full of illusions. Fall into the embrace that is twia, your true abundance. Desire nothing. Do nothing. The emptiness of the room within fulfills you. It holds all.

To be free, let go. The world will not save you from yourself. You are your own worse advocate. You do not know what you want. Nothing you have gained in the world satisfies you fully. You do not know this. You do not know the fulfillment that is your true nature. You are ignorant of twia. Stop striving to be what you are not. Do nothing. Release your grasp on the world and walk the way of the path. Remember twia. Twia knows. The me of the body that you try to satisfy is helplessly hopeless. It knows only fear of oblivion. Stop following its way. Walk with twia on the path that leads to the room within. There you will know your true nature, which is I AM. Knowing your truth will set you free.

Contentment lies in twia. Let go of worldly ways. Find your joy in the room within. When you walk the way of the path with peace of heart and joy of mind the world will come to you.

Accept what you have. Live abundantly without clinging. Release your worldly attachments to find contentment. It is not in receiving that you gain your life but in giving it away. Forsake the world. Cut your ties to it. Then what you have will truly be yours.

To lust is to die. Live free of the world. Do not crave its ways. Be nourished by the morning dew and the light of the evening sky rather than walk the way of the world. Be alone in the day. A hermit at night. Stop. Step off the worldly path. Do nothing and gain everything. What you receive from the world dries and blows away. Breathe in the air around you. It is your freedom. The chains of fear, which are forged link by link along the way of the world, fall upon the threshold of the doorway that leads to the room within. Lose your life to the way of the path and you will find it at last. Tell no one of this. They will find their way in you.

What do you value? There you will find your way. Do not be in bondage to what you cannot attain. All will be given to you. Leave for others what you cannot have. Do not gaze upon the world with eyes that do not see. Shift your vision from the way of the world. Look within. Twia has eyes that see. Accept your true nature within. Walk the way of the path that is twia.

Distinguish what is true from false. Abandon your senses. Their messages belie your good. They lead you to false treasures. All that you gain is gone before you realize it. How can you keep what is not yours? You are whole, complete, perfect, eternal. Do not strive for more when there is none. Your light does not require a wick. Your breath does not require air. Your mind does not require thought. There is nothing that is not yours. Let go of the rest.

To be wise is to touch the eternal. Then you know reality. Your wisdom is in twia. Twia knows. To touch the eternal, enter the room within. Here you will know the impossible. Do not deny the world the impossible. You are the way. Out of darkness comes light. In light there is darkness. This is the harmony of yin and yang. To find your way forward look behind.  Do not rush ahead or you will lag. Return to your true nature before you were born. What lies ahead is ignorance. What lies behind is wisdom.

To know is not to seek elsewhere. You cannot find what you look for by looking outside. You are lit from within. Do not hold your lamp skyward. To look out and up is to miss the mark.

Do not let these words lead you astray. Read with your heart, not your mind. Your mind cannot comprehend what the heart knows. Listen within. Ignore these words. They are not for you.

The room within is dark. It needs no light. Ignorance does not abide here. Keep what you know to yourself. Tell no one.

Sophia called to me from the darkness. I went to her. She whispered in my ear. I heard. She gazed into my eyes. I saw. She clutched me to her breast. I drank knowingly. She lured me into the darkness that I might know the light.

Before I was born, I saw the way with eyes that see. Now I am blind. I do not know the way. I am lost. In twia I am found. I follow the light that leads. I am on the way to the path from before I was born.

Above all, hold peace of heart. All else is just words. Do not exert yourself. Do nothing. That is hard enough. Start your journey by holding peace and you will not have far to travel. Do not let the journey disturb your peace. If so, you will lose your way.

Twia knows. To know is to remember twia. The me of the body knows fear. Twia knows that you are I AM. To recognize twia in you is to touch the eternal. Escape fear. Touch the eternal. Know and be free.

Say nothing. Do nothing. Unless you hear with ears that hear you will never know. Do not be fooled by the noise of the world. Do not say what you cannot speak. Those who hear will listen. Those who do not will pass by. Let the blind be on their way. Do not chase after the deaf.

What you value is the path you walk. You will not get far. One path is a dead end. The other has no future. The way of the world is false. It brings you death. The way of the path is freedom. It has no future to weigh you down with hope and desire. In freedom you find the eternal. It lies within. To value your true nature is to dwell in the room within.

That which I AM is in you. You are my teacher. In you I find the way. There is no other. The one is twia. The light is the same in all. Know this. Be in right mind always. It is revealed in all whom you meet along the way of the path. To know these things is to hold peace of heart. In peace of heart lies the eternal. Understand this and you will find freedom without death.

You are fulfilled in knowing the last shall be first. Walk this path in all things. Then the ways of the world cannot move you. What is of the world has no meaning. The room within is your rock. Build on it.

Empty your heart of desire. Hold peace. Be in harmony with all. Peace in all situations sustains you. Consider these things over fear. Fear does not sustain you. It saps you of strength. It rots you from the inside out. Do not desire what you fear, or death will overcome you. Live in peace of heart, without desire, that you may know life eternal.

When you know these things, stop. Rest in the moment. Do nothing. Watch that you do not lose your way. Take refuge in the room within. Twia will serve you in all ways. Twia knows. To know is to know twia in the silence. Do not speak of these things. Walk in the world as twia. Keep to yourself. Watch. Be aware. Follow the path of the dove.

Love is low-hanging fruit. Pick it readily. It grows abundantly within you. Nurture it. Plant your tree in the world for all to see. They who come will enjoy the sweet reward. Bear the fruit in others as well as yourself. It grows out from a single tree of life. Feed life to all who come to eat. Do so with loving-kindness. Those who give abundantly receive the same.

You are fulfilled in twia. Care for all as twia cares for you. Be fulfilling to those who come knocking, friend and foe alike. Be generous. You are the one in need.

To love yourself is to know love in all. Care for yourself wisely. Your wisdom is a gift to the world. Offer yourself freely that others may find their way. What you do for others you do for yourself. Treat yourself with loving-kindness and all will receive compassion.

Compassion is your strength. Be strong. Violence is weakness from fear. Compassion looks past fear to twia. I find strength in you. My compassion is your voice. You speak of hurt and pain. It brushes past me to I AM. Together we nurture compassion without fear.

Evil is fear untainted by love. Do not deny the existence of evil. It comes with your false perceptions of separation. It is worthy of love. You cannot be free in an evil world without compassion. What do you benefit by fearing evil? It is easy to love your own kind. It benefits all to love those you hate. Hate is put aside by love, while evil begets evil.

Stop tormenting others with your anger. It poisons the well from which all must drink. Draw from the well of loving-kindness. Drench the ground of goodness in which we all are planted. The rain that falls to fill the well falls on all. It does not know good or bad. There is only oneness.

Hate does not cast out evil. It feeds its fear. The strength of compassion overcomes the weakness of fear and evilness. Twia does not know fear. I AM the oneness of the all. To know twia is to bring love without fear into the world. To know twia is to know I AM in all. Twia gives us eyes to see that there is no other. There is only I AM.

You will wither and die on the vine without water from the deep well of compassion. To fill the well, haul water for your neighbor’s harvest. Your neighbor’s harvest will feed you.

Smile in the face of ill-will. Do not accept poison when asked to drink. If someone offers you a burning coal, do not put out your hand. Life is hard enough without burning in the flames of hatred.

Be limitless in your compassion. Turn your back on no one. Love unceasingly. The way of the path is paved with stones of kindness.

Evil arises where love is absent. Love is absent only in perception. To perceive separation, that is, to perceive one from another with no bond of oneness, is to allow evilness in relationships. Evil is the ultimate other. In truth there is no other. In truth there is no evil. It is all perception in a dream of separation.

There was a man from Nazareth, Jesus by name. He walked the way of the path. He called the room within the Kingdom of God. His kingdom, his room within, held The Father, or that which I AM. He said, I and The Father are one. Jesus knew the way. Jesus knew he was The Father. The Father is twia. To know twia is to remember the way that is the path to knowing the eternal.

Jesus said to go and tell no one. The Kingdom is not on display. Lao Tzu said that displays of righteousness are ruinous. The Buddha cautions not to wear one’s holiness with insincerity. Krishna warns not to puff up in pretense and disrespect of your true nature. In all ways, be sincere in your practice. Do not let one hand know what the other is doing. Hold close to you the secret that is the way. The reward of the Kingdom is not in the world. To know is its own joy. Enter the room within in secret. Be silent and still. Come to know the I AM that Jesus called The Father. This is your true nature. I am that which I AM is the message for all to know with ears that hear.

To know twia is to lose your mind. Thought does not open the door to the room within. To walk the way of the path is to live in your heart. Knowledge comes from the center of being. It is revealed. Center in the moment. Stop thinking.

To walk the way of the path, leave behind your arrogance and conceit. The ways of the world do not serve you well. There is no honor or respect in boastful pride. You are puffed up in your finery but have no substance. Go naked in the world. Then you will know your true power. Reveal yourself. Twia is not clothed in worldly ways. Be humble. Live simply. Do nothing. This is the way of the path.

The path of evil follows the way of false teachings. Beware of those in fine clothing who speak of dangers from others. Those who tell lies deliver the devil to your doorstep. Do not let it in. Hear with ears that hear. Listen to the inner voice that knows the way. Do not walk the path of deceit and destruction. Do not appear righteous on the outside and rot on the inside. The thought becomes the practice. Be mindful of your ways. Do not deny twia in others. What you fear in others is your doing. Your delusions keep you from knowing love in all. Listen to the silver tongue of evil with ears that hear. Let its siren call drift into the wind that blows it. The roots you have in twia run deep. Know there is no other to threaten you. You are I AM. You are the whole of the all.

Give attention to your practice. Words are fluff without mindfulness.

Jesus says that you who know so much take the log out of your own eye before removing the splinter in your neighbor’s. Pay attention to your own ways before improving on others.

Do not attempt to enter the room-within while clothed in hypocrisy. Death will come upon you. To enter the eternal, become naked in your ways.

Do not suffer with pain. Bring up your joy to extinguish the anguish. The pain may linger but it no longer is yours to claim. You perceive lack with suffering. To not have, is to suffer. Pain comes with pleasure. Pleasure is found in having. To have, is pleasing. To not have, is painful. These are perceptions in separation. In oneness there is no pain or pleasure. There is the moment. Live in twia without suffering by holding peace of heart in all things, both pain and pleasure. Without pain there is no pleasure. Pleasures bring pain and cause suffering.

The me of the body perceives lack then suffers. Pain is no more permanent than pleasure. Linger with neither. Experience both with joy. They are the same in oneness.

The eternal does not suffer. There is neither pain nor pleasure in twia. These are ways of the world. Pain and pleasure have no meaning except to you. Accept both the same. They come and go. Peace of heart is forever.

Rise in serenity. Its peace holds eternal oneness. Release loss. Do not hold on to attachments. To die is to wither. Those who live in joy do not fear death. Death comes and goes. Twia is eternal. Live in twia and you will not suffer death.

Do not live in the world of separation with its pain and death. It is a lie. Truth abides in the oneness that is twia. Seek the room within. Therein lies eternal joy.

Be alone in the moment with twia. Sorrow will not disturb you. Nor will pleasure.

The grip of anguish is punishing. It is fed by sorrow. Thoughts of loss bring sorrow. There is suffering in sorrow. Why do you punish yourself? See loss for what it is. Your own desire. Without desire there is peace in all things.

Own nothing. Then you will not grieve. Grief comes with loss. One cannot lose what one does not claim as their own. Claim nothing in this world and you will be free.

Evil eventually fails. It has no love to support it. It is fear without any hint of love. That without love is illusion.

Which do you offer the world—truth or illusion? What is true is reality. What is illusion is existence. That which exists is false. Stop believing in the lie of existence. Find truth in the room within. Bring truth to the world.

What you receive is measure for measure what you give. You cannot receive but that which you give. And you cannot give but that which you receive. They are the same. Do not differentiate between what you have and do not have. You do not lack.

What you do determines your fate. What you believe sets out your actions. The thoughts you hold become your beliefs. To change your fate, change your thoughts. Do not hang on to poisonous snakes. They will bite you.

Your actions will follow you all the days of your life. Then they will meet you in the grave. Which path do you walk? The way of the world or the way of the path? On one you die a thousand deaths. The other is liberation from the cycles of time.

You but chase after your own folly. What good does it do to be holy on the outside and sinful within? Stop your foolishness. There is no other but you. Evil falls upon you. Righteousness falls upon you. That which I AM is the whole of the all.

To be born is to die, except that ye be born again. To be born again is to walk the way of the path. To walk the way of the path is to remember twia. To remember twia is to be born again. The room within is your womb of transition.

To die of body is to cease. To stiffen. To decay. To rot back to the dust from whence it came.

I AM is it. There is no other. This is consciousness.

Do not be fooled by death. Its deception is deadly.

What am I but a thought in the dream of existence? I am not a body, nor any entity of being that moves about from world to world and back again. It is absurd to think that I am a lost soul with or without form. I am that which I AM: whole, complete, perfect, eternal. Where is there room in that for salvation or enlightenment? Do not make too much of life and death.

Death does not hold the eternal. There is no place for death in I AM. You are not born. You do not die. You do not come and go in endless cycles of mortality. Twia is immortal.

Do not make too much of life. Live simply. Hold peace of heart. Be vigilant of your true nature. Be mindful of the moment. Enter the room within. This is the life you never left. Herein is your perfection.

Consciousness is emptiness that is nowhere. It neither comes nor goes. It has no beginning or end. It has no separation. Rest in the emptiness. You cannot be destroyed.

While you sleep, death stalks your doorstep. Awaken and you will live. You cannot preserve your life in the world. You must die in it to live. Do you not understand that you never were born? When you do you will not die.

Do not believe in the body. It is not you. You cannot die, neither were you born. How can you kill when you cannot be killed?

Your illusion of self is tempting. You feel its power. Deny it. It is not you. You are not what the world says of you. Nor are you what you feel. These are aberrations on the eternal field of infinite possibility. You appear in body as but a dream of what cannot be real in consciousness.

Existence arises in the eternal field of infinite possibility as an illusion of separation that cannot be real in the oneness that is consciousness. The whole of the all is within an emptiness that is nowhere. The body is born in emptiness and returns to emptiness. Twia is eternal.

There is no death in dying. Twia is eternal. Twia does not see death, only life eternal. This is I AM.

Oneness does not hold to possessions. Why cling to the world? The illusion fails you. Remember twia. Twia knows the whole of the all as one. You had nothing coming into existence. You have nothing on the way out. Let go of desires, expectations, and attachments. Live without the pain and suffering of possessions. You do not need these attachments. Twia does not know lack and needs nothing. Twia is fulfillment by nature.

When you awake from the dream, there is no existence. There is the reality of being I AM. Knowing this is to die without death.

You cannot leave the room within once you enter. Do not mourn the loss of the world. Wake up. Stop walking about in a coma. Use the world to touch the eternal.

Like molecules of water, we are one and the same in existence.

Stop seeing with the eyes of the blind. You are stumbling about in the weeds. The path eludes you. The path you find goes nowhere. Look within. Find your eyes that see. Jesus said the kingdom is within you. Open your eyes to its glory. You are there now. There is no journey. Can you not see this truth?

What is a pilgrimage but awareness of the moment? You feel limited by worldly perceptions. Do not go searching for enlightenment. Do not leave the moment. Hafiz said he felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so he sat still for three days.

The moment has no room for fear. The room within does not contain desire, hope, attachment, expectation, suffering, pain, doubt—that is the way of the world. Drop your baggage at the door. You do not need it. The room within awaits. This is your pilgrimage. Enter the still silence within.

In the end what is there but peace. Hold peace now in the moment. What is it to go on when you are free now? The world has no hold on you that you do not give to it. Free yourself of the world. Drop the past. Enter the room within. There you know peace.

Do not die in death. Let go of the body. Hold to twia. Enter the room-within without attachment. Then you are born anew. Know this. Then death passes by.

Wisdom is in the eyes that see. See without looking. Make no discrimination. Abandon separation for oneness. Then you pass from the illusion. The voice in you is twia. Hear your words. They are you. They are your wisdom. Ignorance is cast aside on the threshold of the room within. Wisdom lies just beyond the doorway.

Cleanse the way with forgiveness. There is nothing in the world for you to keep. Let go of the past. Do not pine for the future. Cut your bonds. Hold peace in the moment. Renounce the world. Enter the darkness of the room within. Herein shines the light. It is the way of the path. Do not be confused.

Abide in I AM. This is home. There is no other than I AM. To be free is to be alive. You cannot be reborn in I AM. Here you are fully twia. There is no me of the body. Here you are your true nature. Here you are light. Here you are consciousness-expressing. You are the power that is te.

That which I AM journeys through many lives manifesting separation. To awaken is to be at home in consciousness.