Awake: It's Your Turn

Realizing the Principles leads you to this natural meditative state. When you wake up to the fact of Thought, you stop being influenced by your personal thinking and you rest in the now.

We welcome all our experience, both that which is happening on the inside as well as that on the outside. When you welcome all of experience into your awareness, a certain type of stillness starts to emerge organically. I’m pointing to a stillness that is directly related to this capacity to open to all experiences, not just those that are pleasant

Having recognized how much of our lives have been lived in a state of heedlessness, our attention merely being drawn to this or that, or merely reacting to events, we can now recognize the possibility of assuming responsibility for the precious substance of our attention. When I can become attention itself, it feels as if attention is arising withi

you can simply observe whatever thoughts, feelings, or sensations come up, hang out for a couple of seconds, and then disappear, and acknowledge, “Oh, that’s what’s going on in my mind right now.” Wherever you are, whatever you do, it’s essential to acknowledge your experience as something ordinary, the natural expression of your true mind. If you