“Awareness is like a beam of light
that shines endlessly into space.
We only perceive that light when it is reflected
off some object and consciousness is produced...
Awareness is the light by which we see the world...
We mistake the clear light of pure awareness
for the shadows that it casts in consciousness...
We forget that we are the light itself
and imagine that we are the densities
that reflect the light back to us.”
-- Stephen Levine