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WHAT ARE SELF-REALIZATION, AWAKENING, LIBERATION, AND ENLIGHTENMENT?

One Light

The mind is the thinking process. It's the nature of mind to label, define, describe, categorize, separate and judge. Anything you see as separate is a projection of your mind. The appearance of separation arises with the appearance of thought. There is no actual separation. Separation is apparitional. The thought "my life" does not create a life fragmented from universal life. The thought "my consciousness" does not create a consciousness fragmented from universal consciousness. The thought "my body" does not create a body fragmented from the universal body. The universe is one. Thought does not fragment the universe; it merely creates the appearance of fragmentation.

When white light shines through a prism, the component colors of the spectrum appear. The component colors of the spectrum are not separate from white light. They appear separate due to the nature of the prism but the light is one.

When universal consciousness shines through the mind, the spectrum of the world appears. The world is not separate from universal consciousness. They appear separate due to the nature of the mind, but universal consciousness, your mind and your world are one.

You are universal consciousness shining through your mind creating the appearance of your world. It's all one, and it's all you.

THE AIR IS THICK with smells and sights and sounds. Rays of the hot, July sun are dancing on my cheeks as scores of bumble bees flow with the breeze from flower to flower.  The field of knee-high corn sways with the top of the sixty-foot pine trees along the edge of the shaded pond. The echo of bullfrogs croaking creates a symphony in quadraphonic sound. Two black crows are perched and cawing above. With each step along the muddy path I sink deeper into the heart of life. The clouds and the breeze, the sun and the trees, the birds and the bees are all one. The path and the pond, the frogs and their song, one last step and I’m gone—it’s all me!

 

 About Stephen Wingate


Stephen communicates the message of non-duality which is the essential revelation of mystics, and the ancient spiritual and religious traditions.

He points directly and clearly to the unicity of all life. His intention is to demystify the teachings of non-duality, and inspire the direct realization of oneness by all who are touched by them.

One Life One Heart One Love


From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things
  and makes us aware that we are nothingbut the light is all.
   Ralph Waldo Emerson