I am not born, I do not die<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The body is born, it has a birth day.
And some day this body will die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The sense of self I call \u201cme\u201d is born later.
As the young child I learned to differentiate myself from others and the rest of the world.
I developed a sense of a separate self that over a lifetime becomes identified with numerous experiences, perceptions, qualities, traits, and images.
Numerous ideas of who I think I am.
A multifaceted sense of identity running through my life.
It is being created and re-created continually.
And can die at any time \u2013 even while the body lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Awareness itself, the space within which this self appears, is not born. I am not born, I do not die The body is born, it has a birth day.And some day this body will die. The sense of self I call \u201cme\u201d is born later.As the young child I learned to differentiate myself from others and the rest of the world.I developed a sense of a separate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterrussell.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
It simply is.
It is that omnipresent beingness. Known simply as \u201cI am.\u201d
How that \u201cI am\u201d is for me, how it feels to me to be an aware being, is the same as it is for you \u2014 even though every experience we are aware of may be different.
Awareness is not born, it does not die.
It is outside of time, ex-ternis<\/em>, eternal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"