The Sacred Self...

Francis Bennett;

The presence of God has always been at the very core of our being here and now. We may well have to recognize this and return to this again and again and again before we come to abide in this presence in a stable realization which will never leave us. But basic access to this presence is as close as our next breath. This has to be the case if God is indeed the ground of our being itself.

If we let go of the inner noise and chaos which habitually fills our mind, this presence comes forward in our awareness and shines brightly. It is its essential nature to shine quite naturally like the sun in the sky. When the clouds of anxious thought are allowed to pass by, the sun of presence shines forth unobstructed.

The sacred Self is not at all separate from our simple sense of sentience right here and now. It is never gained anew. When it is discovered it is realized as having always been present all along.