Awareness makes experience possible...

All experience is born of imagination.

There is no such thing as the experience of the real. The real is beyond experience. All experience is in the mind. You know the real by being the real.

All experience is illusory, limited and temporal. Expect nothing from experience. Realization by itself is not an experience, though it may lead to a new dimension of experiences. Yet the new experiences, however interesting, are not more real than the old.

Definitely realization is not a new experience. It is the discovery of the timeless factor in every experience. It is awareness, which makes experience possible. Just like in all the colours light is the colourless factor, so in every experience awareness is present, yet it is not an experience.



Nisargadatta Maharaj from 'I Am That'