UNITY
The Big Island of Hawaii
I’m on the Big Island of Hawaii, at around three thousand feet. It’s a power place. Beneath me I see the island stretching out. I’m facing the direction of the volcano Mauna Kea. It’s obscured by a heavy cloud cover. Behind me is Mauna Loa — the twin peaks of the big island.
You’ve decided to look for power, to look for light, to look for truth.
What is power anyway? What is energy? What is light? What is the thing that we seek? It’s awareness. Awareness is everything. Our awareness shapes the world. And if you control awareness, you control the world. Awareness is not just the sense of seeing in time. Awareness is the very fabric that existence is made up of.
Our awareness is colored, of course, by moods, mood swings, emotions, feelings — feeling good, feeling bad emotionally. The body colors our awareness, the body awareness — pleasure, pain, sickness, health, fatigue, feeling energetic. Awareness, of course, is very, very influenced by our desires. We desire to become something, we desire to have something or we desire to avoid something. Awareness is modified by all these things. But what is awareness?
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As we progress through life, we move through different states of attention, different states of awareness. And we, in a sense, become those states of attention. When you were five or six or seven years old, you had a certain state of awareness or attention, and that for you was the whole world. That was your world. Everything that you experienced and felt was modified. Awareness is the screen on which the movie of life is projected. Awareness is also the viewer.