Breaking Free from the Illusions of the Mind: Why Believing Your Thoughts Leads to Suffering and Disappointment

Thoughts are fleeting impressions, born out of the mind's endless engagement with memory, imagination, and interpretation. They are like clouds passing through the sky—transient, insubstantial, and often misleading. Yet, many of us grant them the power of truth, believing thought as though it holds some undeniable reality about ourselves, others, or the world.

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The Illusion of the Knower - The Silent Awareness Beyond Knowing - The Trap of Identifying with the Knower - Nondual Experience: Beyond Knowing and Not Knowing - Living Without the Knower - The Eternal Witness

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You are not the body, not the mind, not the roles you play. You are the awareness in which all these arise and fade. Have the firm conviction that you are pure Consciousness, and rest in the infinite peace that this understanding brings.

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Recognizing the "doer" as a mental invention opens the door to freedom. Without the weight of personal authorship, one becomes less burdened by guilt, pride, or regret. Actions are seen as part of the natural order, arising spontaneously from the conditions of the moment. This understanding fosters a profound sense of peace and a connection to the whole of existence.

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Only when life becomes the center — We will have a chance

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The practice of being the witness is ongoing. It is not a destination, but a way of being. Every moment provides an opportunity to step back and observe, to create space between ourselves and the mental and emotional dramas that arise.

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Life is a multidimensional happening—a dynamic event unfolding simultaneously on all levels and states, and this in no time.

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When you recognise yourself in one single breath, you got a glimpse of your true nature. But in the moment of making it ours, it is lost.

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The experience of transcendence connects us with the timeless essence of life, allowing us to move beyond the ordinary flow of time and into a state of eternal presence.

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Image Idries Shah

When we experience the love of life deeply in our hearts, doubt and confusion vanish like dew at dawn. This is the structure of reality: lower forms of existence have no power to withstand the higher ones.

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Image: Lahiri Mahasaya (1828-1895), Yogi and Guru from India - Public domain

Doubt in itself is fine, it is a form of questioning reality, and when used in a healthy way for a specific task, it is a good tool, but as a basic approach to life it kills aliveness. It makes us a shadow of what we could be.

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All nature is aware, not in the sense of “I am aware that I am aware”, but of being connected in an interconnected world. There is no such thing as unawareness because that would mean not being connected, and that is impossible by definition. There are no missing links. Awareness is at the beginning, during the journey, and at the end. Being aware of this is supreme knowledge.

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Image Dalai Lama — Photo by Luca Galuzzi — Public domain

All is interconnected, nothing exists by itself. By deepening our understanding of reality, we realize that life does not happen to us and that we are not separate.

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Images: Sri Aurobindo — Public domain

The spiritual journey is to remember. To come back to the simplest, to know that we exist in the vastness of the experience of the one existence.

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The I Am is omnipresent, thus life — All we have to do is nothing — Go into nature — The I Am is always there

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Is there a better way to create peace on earth than to know that WE ARE IT, that we are Oneness?

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Drawing by Karsten Ramser

I Am is all there is, and the reason why everything is, therefore, you are it. All content is ever-changing. Life never stands still, but the I Am is always the same. Pure presence. Pure beingness is I Am.

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The I Am is All — We Cannot Find What Always Is — I Amness Is Eternity — I Amness Is the End of Fear

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Trinity of Unity — Existence Loves Nature — I Am Existence Is Unconditional Love — Taking Ourselves Out of the Equation

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This text is a poem, an affirmation, a reminder, a friend, and a workshop to deepen the experience of self-knowledge

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