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The me of the body is an experience in separation. It senses limitations. It perceives lack. This perception engenders fear. Your greatest fear is that of death. You sense oblivion. Fearing oblivion, you attempt to maintain life by attaching to worldly things. In doing so, you struggle to have enough. Your experience can be harsh, depending on your degree of attachment to the world. The greater your attachment, the more you cling to worldly things for fulfillment. The more pain you experience with their loss. The less your attachment, the less you struggle. The more you find peace. Your greatest attachment is to the past. When free of the past, you can release the world. Then you open to your true nature within.
What is your true nature? Existence arises as consciousness expressing the thought of separation. This expressing is your true nature. Consciousness-expressing is I AM. I AM is the energy of movement from which existence flows. Consciousness in its silent, motionless potential brings forth existence from thought of separation through the energy that is I AM. Twia is the energy expressing the whole of the all. Twia is your true nature. You are consciousness-expressing.
Dance offers a metaphor for consciousness-expressing. The idea of dance arises in the dancer. The movement that becomes the dance energizes. That movement is the act of dancing. There is no dance without movement. No dancing, no dancer. No dancer, no dance. Only the potential. Similarly, there is no existence without I AM. Only its potential in the emptiness that is nowhere. You are I AM. You are the energy of existence. You are the movement that is dancing. You are not your body or the me of your body. You are consciousness-expressing.
There is no dancer without the idea of dance. When the idea of dance arises in mind, then dancer is revealed as possibility. Likewise, there is no existence without the thought of separation in consciousness. When the thought of separation arises in consciousness, then existence is revealed as possibility.