Awareness is the nature of Being. It is the core of all experience. All that is experienced appears within Awareness. I use the word Consciousness synonymously, or sometimes say Pure Consciousness to give an understanding of its unchanging nature. The words Spirit and God can also apply to Awareness. Awareness is our timeless, formless nature, in which the appearance of space, time, individuality and separation are experienced. Awareness is the core shared nature at the heart of all seemingly separate beings.

Well, from the human perspective it seems that Awareness is at the heart, the core, the centre. From the human perspective Awareness is the still centre around which the world seems to move. Yet there is nothing other than Awareness. The world appears in Awareness, made of Awareness, perceived by Awareness. Awareness really has no inside or outside, no separation of opposites. Awareness has the qualities of a singularity: unlimited, unseen, undivided, unmoving, uncreated, unchanging, complete, formless, flawless, spaceless, timeless.

By contrast the world appears to be a World of Opposites. Awareness perceives form and change, limitation and division, creation and destruction, birth and death, waking and sleeping, individuality and multiplicity, gain and loss. The World of Opposites appears within the Singularity of Awareness like a reflection of Awareness's own imperceptible nature. The world shows what cannot be seen. Forms appear to express the formless.

In the world there seems to be a separation between the subject and the object, the observer and the observed. This is like a stretching of Awareness into 'one being aware of another'. When attention is focused on an object there seems to be a narrowing and limiting of Awareness. This is similar to what the human experience does. It seems to narrow Awareness to a point of individuality aware of many. But it's only a play. Awareness does not become human. Awareness remains as it is, whilst the human form appears as a focus of Awareness observing itself.

All apparently separate limited human beings are Awareness perceiving itself as the world, seemingly as something other than itself. It is like the archetypal sacrifice of God, giving up immortality to experience the mortal world, giving up infinity to experience limitation. But truly God doesn't give up immortality, freedom and infinity. Awareness is unharmed and unchanged by the world, just as conflict in a dream doesn't cause the body to be harmed.

This World of Opposites we experience is only a play of separation within the undivided limitlessness of Awareness. Nothing is near or far from Awareness. Nothing is before or after Awareness. Awareness does not sleep or wake just because the body shuts down for the night. Formless timeless Awareness is not born, nor does it die. The World of Opposites is all a play in Awareness, made of Awareness, known by Awareness.