There is an aspect of your being that is…

Page 128 There is an aspect of your being that is always there and never changes. This is your sense of awareness, your consciousness. It is this awareness that is aware of your thoughts, experiences the ebb and flow of your emotions, and receives your physical senses. This is the root of self. You are not your thoughts; you are aware of your thoughts. You are not your emotions; you feel your emotions. You are the conscious being who is aware that you are aware of all those inner and outer things. Consciousness is a dynamic field of awareness that has the ability to either narrowly focus or broadly expand. When consciousness concentrates narrowly enough, it loses its broader sense of self. It no longer experiences itself as a field of pure consciousness; it begins to relate itself more to the objects it's focused upon. This is what happens when you get so absorbed in a movie that you completely lose the broader sense of sitting in a cold dark theater.

— from The Instruments (Awareness/Perception/Expectations)

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