Aware Being is the fabric of the universe. There is no universe outside of consciousness. The universe appears in consciousness, made of consciousness, known by consciousness. All that you can ever know is consciousness knowing itself. That needs a bit of exploration and explanation.

What are you aware of right now? Maybe some warmth from the sun, rain on the window, a comfortable carpet underfoot, a soft bed or sofa, or a firm chair. Maybe you can see the inside of a room or the expansive outdoors. You may hear voices or distant sounds. You may feel the wind blowing on your face or body. It may feel hot or cold. And what of the mind? When reading this the thoughts appear in the mind. If you pause reading for a while, the mind considers other thoughts. They float along, from this to that, and disappear.

All this that you perceive is in consciousness. The thoughts, the sounds, the sights, the smells, the tastes, the feelings, the buildings, the cars, the animals, the people, the music. All of life. Everything that you've ever known has been in consciousness. It's not possible to get outside of consciousness, because you are consciousness. It is the root of all that is perceived. It is awareness or knowing. It doesn't mean there is a knower, a separate self that is aware of other things. The sense of identity is thought based, and this too is perceived. Who perceives the sense of who you are? Consciousness, or Aware Being.

The universe is the play of Consciousness or Aware Being. It's a play of opposites, of what is and what isn't, of this and that, of me and other. Yet there is no other. There is no this and that. There is no what is and isn't. What isn't cannot exist. The play of opposites and reflection is necessary for the universe to appear. It's the contrast of opposites that allows for manifestation to happen. It is the seeming separation of subject and object, the perceiver and the perceived. But it is all a play of separation into opposites. Remember, there is no other. There is One Infinite Aware Being. We are This. This is all there is, everything and nothing.

It helps to understand intellectually that nothing can ever be experienced outside of consciousness. Nothing can ever be proved to be outside of consciousness, and ultimately the whole of our experience is consciousness itself. The whole universe is a fluctuating, reverberating flow of consciousness within itself. There are no limits to consciousness. There are no limits to the universe. There is nothing outside the universe. There is truly no inside or outside. Opposites and limitation are the play 'within' Consciousness.

This Aware Being that is the universe plays at being and not being, being aware and not aware, alive and not alive. But Aware Being, or the Universal Being, is Life itself. Life plays at being alive and not alive. By this use of opposites within the singularity of Being, Consciousness expresses itself within itself.

We are One Universal Being, and this Being that we are expresses itself by nature of opposites, giving rise to a multiplicity of forms. The appearance of many beings arises from the play of opposites within the One Universal Formless Being: Consciousness.