A Ray Of Source

 To know yourself as consciousness is the most amazing liberation...not for the person, but a liberation from the person.

Eckhart Tolle

I love talks about consciousness, about what it is and what it is not...that is why I was drawn to the video linked below from Eckhart Tolle. 

This invisible realm, almost always distorted by religion and denied by scientists who are hooked on materiality, is invisible, yet so very, very real.   You cannot see consciousness, not even under a microscope.  It or its expression as thought, memory etc can not be found on dissection. You cannot touch it or taste it. Yet we know it is real. How? Because we are conscious. We are aware that we think, aware that we have memories.  Even when we sleep, consciousness does not go away.  We wake up knowing we were asleep, recalling, possibly, the dreams we had during the night.  In order to do that we had to be conscious right? Even when our senses were not picking up information. Consciousness, then,  is more than just a byproduct of our nervous system functioning. It is real but invisible. Even though it is invisible, and falls away from the natural laws of matter, we know consciousness exists because we are conscious. 

It goes beyond even that, though. We are not just conscious we are consciousness.  We are not just aware of what is happening around us or in us, we are awareness.

Say what, crazy lady?

Well like anything consciousness has to have a source, doesn't it? It has to come from somewhere.  Eckhart Tolle describes it this way: A ray of sun shines light on something so we can see it but it is simply an expression of, a part of, an emanation of the sun...its source. In the same way we are conscious, like that ray, because we are an emanation of consciousness, an expression of consciousness , a part of consciousness.  If we are a part of Something, are we not  that Something? The answer to that could be yes and no, right? If I have a pie in front of me and I cut you a piece...the piece I give you is still Pie, isn't it? It is pie but it isn't the whole pie. The Source from which that piece was taken, the whole pie,  is much greater and grander. Hmm! And unlike the piece of pie, the ray of sun does not make its source,  the Sun,  any lesser by extending from it , does it? Our being conscious does not make the Source any less because it is shining through us, does it? 

Consciousness and this invisible reality goes beyond duality. We are a just a part of consciousness and we are consciousness.  We are just a part of the universe, and we are the universe.

The greatest miracle is that the universe is conscious....I know that because I am conscious. 

The only thing in the way of us knowing that is this little dualistic sense of "me"...of 'self".  Knowing the truth of who we are can help this "me"  to get out of the way, so we can shine like the sun. 

All is well

Eckhart Tolle (August? , 2023) How to Get True Guidance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYCwYmk6248&t=549s