How Long Is Now?

We're telling ourselves a story about who we are and what life is, and we're confusing this story with reality.

You can do this now by focusing on the feeling that there is much more to life than you understand.

We need a story to help us navigate our lives. But it's possible to also see beyond the story to the mystery. It's not either/or . it's both/and.

When I practice 'being conscious of being conscious', I don't just watch my experience, I find myself appreciating my experience.

Once we see that the goal of awakening is to be conscious of both our separate identity as a person and our essential identity as awareness, it becomes much easier to wake up to oneness.

But I've learned that it doesn't matter what state others are in; it matters what state I'm in. Just as when two people are pulling taut a piece of string, it only takes one person to let go for the tension to end.